Features

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Wednesday, April 11, 2012 0:00 - 1 Comment

Politics | Al-Khawaja: Bahrain’s peaceful resistance, the world’s shameful silence

Picture (released by his family) of Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al Khawaja as he enters the 58th day of his hunger strike (5 April 2012)

As Bahraini human rights activist Abdulhadi Al-Khawaja nears the 70th day of his hunger strike. Fatema Abuidrees warns this could be our last opportunity to save his life, and Bahrain's future.

Features, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, April 7, 2012 0:00 - 5 Comments

Comment | In defence of Liam Stacey’s freedom of speech

Liam Stacey (Left) who was jailed in March 2012 for racist tweets about Bolton footballer Fabrice Muamba

The jailing last week of Liam Stacey for posting racist tweets about Fabrice Muamba was met with near universal approval. And yet, Musab Younis argues, criminalising hate speech is wrong, ineffective and counter-productive. Racist Tweets deserve our scorn, not prison.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Monday, April 2, 2012 14:30 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Ireland: Abandon Ship!

In the first of two special reports from Ireland, Ceasefire's Lily Murphy draws a sombre portrait of an accelerating mass exodus by the country's young people seeking better prospects abroad.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Saturday, March 24, 2012 6:15 - 2 Comments

Special Report | Portuguese strike and march against austerity plan

Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports exclusively from Lisbon on yesterday's general strike and popular marches against austerity measures, and the heavy crackdown by riot police that left protesters and journalists injured.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, March 16, 2012 22:11 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Bloody Sunday in Afghanistan

US Soldier Kills 16 Afghan Civilians (Photo AFP)

Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports on the events and aftermath of Sunday's deadly attack by a US soldier that resulted in the death of sixteen Afghan civilians.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 12:00 - 1 Comment

Special Report | ‘A shadow CIA’ – WikiLeaks, Lulzsec and the Stratfor emails

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange holds a document containing leaked information at a news conference in London on Feb. 27. The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a US-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. (Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters)

Last week's umveiling of the Stratfor/CIA emails by Wikileaks has been followed up almost immediately by the arrest of alleged hackers and claims Lulzsec's leader was an FBI informant. Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reports.

Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Monday, March 5, 2012 10:01 - 0 Comments

Music | Def Poet Mark Gonzales: Exclusive interview and performances

Mark Gonzales is a radical poet best known for his appearance on HBO's Def Poetry Jam. Ceasefire's Usayd Younis caught up with him to learn about the art of resistance and resilience.

New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, February 16, 2012 22:49 - 0 Comments

Special Report | Africa’s hidden hunger

A life free from hunger - Tackling child malnutrition

As Save the Children release a new report on hunger Stefan Simanowitz assesses the impact of chronic malnutrition across the continent

Interviews, New in Ceasefire, Palestine is Still the Issue - Friday, February 3, 2012 12:44 - 6 Comments

Palestine is Still the Issue | Interview – The Angry Arab on Zionism, Syria, and more

In an in-depth and candid interview, academic and political commentator As'ad Abukhalil - a.k.a "The Angry Arab" - talks to Ceasefire columnist Asa Winstanley about Zionism, Hamas, Syria, Al Jazeera, BDS and much more.

Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, January 26, 2012 19:13 - 0 Comments

Interview | Guy S. Goodwin-Gill: on terrorism, the ECHR, Palestinian statehood, and drones (Part 2)

We present the second installment of our interview with Professor Guy S. Goodwin-Gill, an international authority on refugee law, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and barrister for Blackstone Chambers in London.