Politics
Politics - Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:30 - 0 Comments
How to protect civlians – The Nato Way
This morning, the BBC reports on the progress of the Nato offensive against the Taliban insurgents. One never stops being surprised at the straight-faced reporting of civilian deaths as mere “accidents”. If you got “accidentally” mugged every time you left your home for an entire month, you would start looking into the “accidental” nature of the phenomenon, just […]
Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Monday, February 15, 2010 9:59 - 0 Comments
Targeting Iran (an inch closer)
This morning, the US Secretary of State and hawk-in-residence Hilary Clinton has taken another step in the rhetorical circling around Iran, the argument now is: Iran has turned into a military dictatorship in all but name; the Revolutionary Guards are the de facto power brokers regardless of who’s in charge politically. All of which, for those of […]Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Friday, February 12, 2010 11:20 - 1 Comment
Fukuyama does it (wrong) again
Francis Fukuyama, him of “End of History” fame/infamy has a new essay published in, of all places, this week’s Spectator magazine. After suffering from two decades of sneering at/mocking of his grandiose early 90s predictions, Fukuyama jumps into the midst of it all with a new “paradigm”: democracy is not just about passion and ideas […]Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 23:46 - 0 Comments
On the importance of stating the obvious
The Appeals court has confirmed today that it rejected the UK government’s attempts to keep secret, information relating to the torture (or “alleged torture” as the BBC has it) of Binyam Mohamed whilst in US/Pakistani/British custody. What is really interesting is that this is hardly a debate over the facts, pretty much everyone agrees that […]Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 3:22 - 0 Comments
Lawson gets it wrong
Mark Lawson, TV critic and commentator on all things culture for both the BBC and the Guardian recently wrote a piece for the latter (published in the Saturday Review, Feb 6th) which anoints Philp Roth, the “greatest” american novelist alive “by default”. Indeed, Lawson says JD Salinger’s death on Jan 27th, following that of Bellow, […]Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:27 - 0 Comments
Ceasefire Blog Launched
Dear readers, We’re delighted to be starting a Ceasefire Blog, this will be our opportunity to provide a more frequent take on the news and events shaping our daily lives and also a way of keeping you informed about the very latest updates regarding the magazine itself. Please feel free to bookmark this page to […]Ceasefire Bites, Features, Politics, Profiles - Monday, December 7, 2009 12:14 - 0 Comments
Chomsky: London lectures and an 81st birthday
Today, Noam Chomsky is 81. A few weeks ago, at his London lecture series - widely anticipated to be his last in the UK - he addressed crowds numbering in their thousands. Musab Younis covered his talks for Ceasefire.
Editor's Desk, Features, Politics - Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:21 - 0 Comments
Invisible men: On the real cost of police incompetence
Of course, anyone serious enough about discussing the consequences of such police incompetence could easily point out the extreme damage it causes to the communities they affect, often exacerbating the very dangers allegedly been combated.
But again, this is too obvious a point for serious commentators to linger on.
Politics - Wednesday, August 12, 2009 23:46 - 9 Comments
The conspiracy conspiracy?
Why hasn't the footage of the planes hitting the Pentagon been released, more than eight years after 9/11? It's not because the conspiracy theories are true, argues Murray Goulden, but because many of those in the corridors of power are happy for us to believe in them.
Politics - Friday, January 9, 2009 5:04 - 3 Comments
The gun-maker next door
Not many people are aware of it, but Nottingham is home to a major multinational arms company.
