October, 2010
Deserter's Songs, Music & Dance, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, October 30, 2010 7:44 - 1 Comment
Deserter’s Songs A Funny Bird That Never Lands
In this week's Deserter's Songs column, David Bell revisits the album which gave his column its name: Mercury Rev's 1998 masterpiece 'Deserter's Songs', and explains how knowing the album for nine years has been like the "wonderful early stage of a relationship".
New in Ceasefire, Sabir on Security - Friday, October 29, 2010 22:22 - 4 Comments
Sabir on Security: A government that listens! (to your phone calls)
A few days ago, the coalition announced its plans to track every text, email and phone call we make. This is not only a spectacular U-turn, argues Rizwaan Sabir, but is a threat to our liberties, will reduce our safety and comes with a bill we can ill afford.Ideas, New in Ceasefire, Profiles - Thursday, October 28, 2010 0:00 - 13 Comments
Profile: Slavoj Žižek – The Dog’s Bollocks … at the Media Dinner Party
In an exclusive essay, Paul Taylor explains why Slavoj Žižek stands out so forcefully from the conventional commentariat and debunks two frequently voiced objections to his work – the obscene humour and his refusal to provide ready-made solutions for the problems he so readily identifies.
New in Ceasefire, The Unveiled Truth - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 19:32 - 5 Comments
The Unveiled Truth: The forgotten scapegoat
In the wake of Tariq Aziz's sentencing to death yesterday, Shirin Sadeghi revisits a case of striking similarities, that of Amir Abbas Hoveyda, the Shah of Iran's longest serving Prime Minister, who was executed by the Khomeini regime in 1979. As Sadeghi argues, Aziz's unwritten memoirs, like Hoveyda's, would have given us priceless insights into the history of the region, but are too inconvenient for the powers that be.
New in Ceasefire, The Ceasefire Sessions - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 12:00 - 1 Comment
Ceasefire Magazine presents: Michael Albert
Ceasefire is very pleased to be hosting the legendary Michael Albert’s 2-day visit to Nottingham. Albert is a writer, activist, author of ‘parecon: life after capitalism’ and co-founder of ZNET, one of the world's greatest alternative media organisations.
New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 1:50 - 1 Comment
Politics The US Army’s code of dishonour
As the Wikileaks war logs revealed last week, the US army routinely ignored and abetted the killing and torture of Iraqi civilians at the hands of the Maliki government. This is not without precedent. From West Beirut, Nussaibah Younis writes about the striking parallels between US policy in Iraq and its actions in Lebanon in the 1980s.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, October 27, 2010 0:00 - 6 Comments
North African Dispatches Africa’s Forgotten Colony
In a new column, 'North African Dispatches', Kateb Salim casts a light on the case of Western Sahara, Africa's last, forgotten colony. He traces the history of the region from Spanish colonialism to Moroccan occupation, and charts the tremendous obstacles in the path to freedom that the Saharawi people have faced over the past decades. Unless a just peace is found soon, Salim argues, the repercussions are bound to be disastrous for the region.
Modern Times, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, October 26, 2010 18:01 - 0 Comments
Modern Times: Is anybody (partly) there?
In this week's Modern Times column, Corin Faife looks at how our 21st century lives are turning into one long stream of continuous, disjointed, fleeting interactions. Technology was supposed to save us time, instead, everyone is too busy doing a thousand things at once except, of course, those that matter. Time to stop the madness?
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, October 25, 2010 0:00 - 0 Comments
South of the Border The view from Latin America
In the news this week in Latin America: Evo Morales visits Iran, Colombia offers sterilisation to anyone who wants it, Panama's failed attempt to escape and much more. Ceasefire correspondent Tom Kavanagh delivers his weekly round up of what's been going on south of the border.
Irish Times, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, October 24, 2010 16:31 - 4 Comments
Irish Times: A monthly round-up
In this month's edition of his 'Irish Times' column, our Political Editor, Omayr Ghani, provides a round-up of events including a bombing at Ulster Bank, McGuiness's failure of irony, and Stormont caught burying bad news.
