Politics
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, September 26, 2011 16:24 - 2 Comments
Analysis ‘Flat Earth News’ from Oslo
After reading Nick Davies' 'Flat Earth News', Ceasefire's Matthew Butcher finds that the book provides an illuminating context to why press coverage of the Oslo massacres was so dismal.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Saturday, September 24, 2011 14:33 - 3 Comments
Analysis">Palestine’s “bad peace” Analysis
Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins looks at the curious attempt, notably by Israel and the US, to label the Palestinian UN Statehood bid as a 'Bad Peace'. A look at the facts, he argues, shows the only peace they will ever consider "good" is one that keeps the Palestinians in their shackles.
Letters from Brussels, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, September 22, 2011 13:00 - 0 Comments
Letters from Brussels Welcome to Europe! (Go Away!)
In her latest column, Ceasefire's European correspondent, Emily Macintosh, reports on the desperate plight of migrants in Belgium, and argues this is yet another example of shameful, hypocritical EU immigration policies.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Monday, September 19, 2011 14:58 - 0 Comments
Politics">The ‘other’ 9/11 Politics
As the US marked the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Chileans commemorated their own similarly-dated tragedy: Pinochet's CIA-assisted 1973 coup against president Salvador Allende. Ceasefire's Sebastião Martins reflects on the meaning of the 'other' 9/11.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, September 18, 2011 12:00 - 0 Comments
Politics Bahrain’s healthcare system in crisis
In the aftermath of violent repression in recent months, Janet Salmon reports on the growingly desperate plight of many Bahraini doctors and patients.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Friday, September 9, 2011 12:36 - 2 Comments
Analysis">Ron Paul: consistent, popular, invisible Analysis
Over the past year, Ron Paul has emerged as a serious contender to be the Republican nominee for the US presidential election of 2012. And yet, as Sebastião Martins reports, he remains virtually ignored by most of the US mainstream media, despite consistently strong showings in polls and public positions highly in tune with popular opinion.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, September 7, 2011 19:07 - 6 Comments
North African Dispatches Libya and the Arab Spring: harsh lessons, bitter truths
In his latest column, Kateb Salim, surveying the latest developments in Libya, embarks on an impassioned attack on the widespread tendency of Arab governments, and populations, to use external threats as pretexts for decades-long political repression and economic stagnation.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, September 4, 2011 22:02 - 32 Comments
Special Report Ethnic Cleansing at Dale Farm
In an exclusive report, Director and activist Dean Puckett, who has spent four days living in the heart of the Traveller community at Dale Farm, gives a powerful and impassioned account of the grave act of injustice unfolding there, and what must be done to defeat it.Columns, Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels, Politics - Saturday, September 3, 2011 0:17 - 3 Comments
Life on Wheels Why I am condemning ‘Bars for Change’
Ceasefire contributor Jody Mcintyre has withdrawn from Channel 4 video series "Bars for Change". In his latest 'Life on Wheels' post, he explains why.New in Ceasefire, South of The Border - Wednesday, August 24, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
South of the Border The view from Latin America
In his latest column, Ceasefire's Tom Kavanagh contrasts the increasing poverty levels in Mexico with improving trends in Ecuador.
