Features
Chess Corner, Features - Thursday, September 23, 2010 23:00 - 2 Comments
Chess Corner: The original beautiful game
In a new regular column, Chess Corner, Paul Lam, Ceasefire‘s very own chess guru, explores the enduring mystique of a quasi-magical realm. Lam brings us the latest news on the various intrigues, rivalries, political machinations and, of course, epic duels. In his first column, Lam looks at what makes chess such a powerful obsession for so many.
Ideas, Interviews - Thursday, September 23, 2010 9:41 - 12 Comments
Interview Noam Chomsky (2010)
In an exclusive major interview, Noam Chomsky, considered by many to be the world's greatest public intellectual, responds to questions posed by Ceasefire Editor Hicham Yezza on the Middle East, global warming, the financial crisis, the future of the left, Iran, and on why all states are unacceptable.
Photo Essays, Special Reports - Monday, September 20, 2010 0:16 - 14 Comments
Photo Essay – Kashmir: Bullets for Stones
More than 60 years after the partition, Kashmir continues to be a long-running yet hidden tragedy. In a powerful new photo essay, Ceasefire contributor Josh Strauss writes about the voices of resistance and defiance against Indian authority. The piece features first-hand accounts from the front line as well as remarkable photography by Imran Ali, Ashish Sharma and Sajad Raja.
Arts & Culture, Columns, Deserter's Songs, Features, Music & Dance - Saturday, September 18, 2010 17:46 - 6 Comments
Deserter’s Songs – Looking Backwards: In Defence of Nostalgia
When Dave Bell skims his ipod, the most common thing he looks out for is "the feeling of nostalgia". In this week's Deserter's Songs music column, he revisits the enduring spell of looking backwards. Through a tour of musical gems he shows us how "the past and the radical future may not be so hostile to one another" after all.
Arts & Culture, Features, Short Stories - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 18:25 - 1 Comment
Short Story: The Zoo
Ceasefire presents 'The Zoo', an exclusive short story by acclaimed writer Ben White. After a traumatic onslaught of unremitting violence, a community's children, adults and animals are thrust into a vortex of incomprehension and bewilderment.
Columns, Features, Modern Times - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 4:39 - 11 Comments
Modern Times: A voice from the Wilderness
In this week's 'Modern Times' column, Corin Faife discovers, through a mix of serendipity and curiosity, one of the most talked-about music videos of the past ten years: Arcade Fire's The Wilderness Downtown.
Features, Science - Thursday, September 9, 2010 19:02 - 12 Comments
Flying without wings in China: the future of train travel
In this week's Science & Technology update, Omayr Ghani looks into the future of train travel. In particular, he considers the quasi-futuristic technological advances currently being pioneered in China. As the article shows, we could be entering an age of 'space travel' on earth and, as Ghani argues, the sooner we do the better it would be for us, and for the planet.
Columns, Features, Modern Times - Tuesday, September 7, 2010 0:20 - 5 Comments
Modern Times: The Blackout
Our internet access is now so ubiquitous, our broadband so fast, cheap, consistent and always on, that losing it seems unthikable. Yet this is precisely what happened to Corin Faife. In this week's Modern Times, he discovers our most modern, most invisible addiction.
Columns, Devil's Advocate, Features - Thursday, September 2, 2010 22:17 - 7 Comments
Devil’s Advocate: In defence of Tesco
In yesterday's 'Domestic Extremist' column, Mikhail goldman launched a vigorous attack on the increasingly ubiquitous dominance of the Tesco "empire". In this week's Devil's Advocate column, Omer Ali offers a thoughtful and solid attempt at counter-argument. For all their charmlessness, he argues, Supermarkets are in fact better for (almost) everyone, including the environment.
Features, Ideas, Music & Dance - Sunday, August 29, 2010 23:54 - 7 Comments
Formed a band? Made a record? Now what?
Every starting band knows the situation: you record something, spend more than you can afford on getting a few hundred professionally-printed copies made, and then you spend ages wait for sales that never come. As someone who's seen it all before, Alex Andrews shares top 5 tips on how to sell your record the clever way.
