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Ceasefire Shorts | Why BDS is working, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, May 15, 2012 0:00 - 1 Comment

Comment | Hind Awwad “Six Years of BDS: Success!”

British rock musician and Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters spray-paints the words "No thought control" on Israel's West Bank separation barrier in Bethlehem. (Photo: AP)

To mark Nakba Day, we publish two exclusive extracts from "The Case For Sanctions Against Israel," a landmark collection featuring a stellar cast of contributors. In the first of these, Hind Awwad, coordinator with the Palestinian BDS National Committee, provides an overview of the remarkable achievements of the BDS movement in its first six years.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, May 8, 2012 0:00 - 9 Comments

Comment | What if the Tottenham Court Road hostage-taker was a Muslim?

Michael Green is escorted by police officers following an hours-long stand-off (Source: Telegraph)

Last week, a middle-aged white man entered an office on one of London's busiest streets and threatened to blow himself and others up. Philip Miller and Taherali Gulamhussein argue the treatment of the incident by the police and the media tells us a lot about the politicised nature of counter-terrorism.

New in Ceasefire, Notes from the Margins, Olympics Watch - Wednesday, May 2, 2012 18:34 - 3 Comments

Notes from the Margins | Let the Games begin: London’s Dystopian Olympics

The official slogan of the London Olympics is to ‘inspire a generation’. But it is difficult to imagine who can be inspired by this dystopian marriage of corporate profiteering and a paranoid and overwheening national-security complex, argues Matt Carr in his latest column.

New in Ceasefire, Politics, Special Reports - Monday, April 23, 2012 17:32 - 9 Comments

Special Report | Selling the NHS: how parliament and the healthcare industry got cosy

In a hard-hitting investigative exposé, Andrew Robertson examines the network of vested interests that runs between Parliament and the private healthcare industry. This cosy, toxic relationship, he warns, threatens not only the future of the NHS but that of democracy in the UK.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, April 21, 2012 0:00 - 2 Comments

Comment | Saudi Arabia: yes to human rights, just not here

UK Prime Minister David Cameron (right) speaks with Saudi Arabia's Defence Minister Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz during their meeting inside 10 Downing Street in London on Tuesday April 3, 2012. (Photo Credit: Matt Dunham/PA Wire)

While staunchly denouncing the Assad regime, Saudi Arabia's rulers have stamped down hard on dissent at home, outlawing protests and imprisoning opponents, all with the tacit support of the West. Derek Oakley examines the case of detained poet Hamza Kashgari, currently facing execution over twitter comments.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Thursday, April 19, 2012 0:00 - 10 Comments

Comment | Lord Ahmed, the Media Circus and the Bounty That Never Was

This week, Labour peer Lord Ahmed was summarily suspended by his party for allegedly putting a bounty on the heads of Barack Obama and GW Bush. Despite these allegations being quickly shown to be false, they continued to be widely-propagated in the British media. Muddassar Ahmed says this case has worrying implications for political dissent and media ethics in the UK.

New in Ceasefire, Notes from the Margins - Monday, April 16, 2012 12:03 - 4 Comments

Notes from the Margins | The Madness of Anders Breivik

Anders Behring Breivik arrives for a detention hearing at a court in Oslo, Norway, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. (Photo: HEIKO JUNGE/AP)

In this month's column, Matt Carr looks at the case of Anders Breivik, perpetrator of the Oslo Massacres of last July, whose trial starts today.

Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Sunday, April 15, 2012 1:24 - 0 Comments

Blog | Wave of Protests over Palestine Solidarity Flytilla ban and Hunger Strike

Activists call for a protest on Sunday as an initiative to fly 1,500 people into Tel Aviv Airport, a solidarity 'Flytilla', is blocked at Manchester airport.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, April 13, 2012 0:00 - 0 Comments

Comment | Raed Salah’s victory raises awkward questions for UK government

On Saturday, Palestinian civil rights leader Raed Salah won a comprehensive victory against deportation from the UK. Ibrahim Hewitt, senior editor of Middle East Monitor, says the case raises serious questions about freedom of speech, political lobbies and Theresa May's future.

New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, April 9, 2012 18:36 - 7 Comments

Special Report | Mali: What is really happening

Malian security forces running a surveillance camp around the dunes outside Timbuktu, January 2012 (Photo: Oualid Khelifi)

In an exclusive report on the current upheavals in Mali, including on-the-ground interviews, Ceasefire's Oualid Khelifi provides an overview of the multi-dimensional complexities of the country's predicament, which have been largely ignored in mainstream coverage.