Special Reports
New in Ceasefire, Olympics Watch, Special Reports - Thursday, April 12, 2012 12:00 - 76 Comments
Special Report">Want to cleanse your city of its poor? Host the Olympics Special Report
Hosting the Olympics is often presented to us as an ideologically neutral opportunity to boost tourism and sports. In a thought-provoking piece Ceasefire Magazine's Ashok Kumar outlines a clear and consistent, yet barely noticed, pattern of the Games being used to fundamentally restructure the host City to the purposeful exclusion of its working class and ethnic minority residents.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Wednesday, April 11, 2012 0:00 - 2 Comments
Politics">Al-Khawaja: Bahrain’s peaceful resistance, the world’s shameful silence Politics
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.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Monday, April 2, 2012 14:30 - 0 Comments
Special Report">Ireland: Abandon Ship! Special Report
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 Special Report
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 Special Report
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 Special Report
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.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, February 16, 2012 22:49 - 1 Comment
Special Report">Africa’s hidden hunger Special Report
As Save the Children release a new report on hunger Stefan Simanowitz assesses the impact of chronic malnutrition across the continent
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Tuesday, January 24, 2012 18:00 - 5 Comments
Special Report">Palestinian home demolitions: the ethnic cleansing that dare not speak its name Special Report
Livia Bergmeijer reports on the destruction by Israeli bulldozers earlier today of two Palestinian families' homes. This is the latest in a long-running pattern across the occupied territories, whose rate and methods, Bergmeijer argues, betray a policy of gradual ethnic cleansing at work.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, January 19, 2012 15:48 - 1 Comment
Special Report">Some thoughts on the The Fabian New Year Conference Special Report
Last weekend’s Fabian new year conference, entitled ‘The Economic Alternative,’ was an early chance to see what kind of opposition the Labour party would offer to the relentless coalition narrative of cuts and austerity in 2012. Ceasefire's Andrew Fleming reports.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Thursday, December 22, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments
Comment">Ireland: From capitalist binge to ‘austerity’ hangover Comment
Earlier this month, the Irish government announced a new set of harsh austerity plans as part of its 2012 budget. Lily Murphy argues that the country's current woes, and gloomy-looking future, can be traced directly to the folly of its 'boom years'.
