Columns
New in Ceasefire, The Unveiled Truth - Thursday, November 11, 2010 0:05 - 15 Comments
The Unveiled Truth Naked prejudices?
A picture has been making the rounds on the internet this week titled "The Difference Between Eastern and Western Women." Depending on whom you ask, the picture is "provocative", "obscene", "funny", "clever", "stupid", "tame", "lame" or simply "boring". In this week's 'The Unveiled Truth', Shirin Sadeghi takes a look at the picture behind the "picture".
Devil's Advocate, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, November 11, 2010 0:00 - 1 Comment
Devil’s Advocate Ideology: another form of blindness?
Do you have a worldview? does it have a name? Is it socialism? Anarchism? Conservatism? Well, as Omer Ali argues, in a new 'Devil's Advocate' column, it's not that some ideologies are better than others, but that ideology itself, by definition, is a form of unreason.
Arts & Culture, New in Ceasefire, Passing for Normal - Tuesday, November 9, 2010 0:00 - 4 Comments
Passing for normal On the ethics of (not) planting onions
A few days ago, Dave Prescott found himself facing what seemed to be a critical decision: should he spend his weekend, as planned, planting onions, or should he fly across mainland Europe to represent a corporate client at a progressive big summit? In the first installment of his new column, Prescott recounts what happened next.
Features, New in Ceasefire, The Cutting Edge - Saturday, November 6, 2010 16:00 - 6 Comments
The Cutting Edge The next crisis: “business-as-usual” will kill us all
In an exclusive new essay, the second of a monthly series, political scientist Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed argues that, despite official assurances to the contrary, current economic trends illustrate that the worst is yet to come. How much crisis can we take before we wake up and realise that business-as-usual is killing us?
In Theory, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, November 5, 2010 0:00 - 2 Comments
In Theory Behind enemy (thought) lines
In a new essay, political theorist Andrew Robinson looks at the arguments of the 'other side', that of policy makers and military planners. In particular, Robinson examines the establishment approach to one central concept: asymetrical war.
New in Ceasefire, The Unveiled Truth - Wednesday, November 3, 2010 22:00 - 8 Comments
The Unveiled Truth">Slumdog Billionaires The Unveiled Truth
In the old town of Mumbai you can find the Dharavi slum, a place where one million people live in squalor, on less than a dollar a day. Yet just six miles from this tragedy, in a billion dollar house with twenty seven floors, lives the fourth richest man in the world, a man who’s spent years accumulating wealth whilst feuding bitterly with his only brother. This perverse proximity is a perfect lesson in the infinite paradoxes of human nature, and the moral bankruptcy of our capitalistic age, writes Shirin Sadeghi.
Diary of a Domestic Extremist, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 3, 2010 8:00 - 7 Comments
Diary of a Domestic Extremist One of the lads!
A few days ago, the UK activist movement was rocked by the revelation that one of its leading activists has been working, for over a decade, as an undercover police officer. As Mikhail Goldman highlights in his latest column, the case of Mark Stone/Kennedy has exposed some serious weak spots in activism. Lessons must be learnt, fast.
Modern Times, New in Ceasefire, Profiles - Tuesday, November 2, 2010 0:00 - 0 Comments
Modern Times: Playing to Win
In this week's Modern Times column, Corin Faife recounts his eye-opening meeting with Michael Albert, one of the world's greatest thinkers and activists, and how it got him wondering about the future, and our need to win the battle to shape it.
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".
