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New in Ceasefire - Thursday, August 1, 2013 14:39 - 3 Comments
Analysis | ‘You want your land back?’ The Geo-Politics of Military Bases, Empire and Independence
The Ministry of Defence's latest threat to keep Faslane as sovereign territory in the event of Scottish Independence should be seen in the context of Britain's imperial history of maintaining military bases against the wishes of local people across the world.
Africlimate, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, May 5, 2013 17:07 - 2 Comments
Africlimate | How the UK’s energy security panic affects the Sahel
As the British public panic about how energy prices will affect them during the recession, Luqman Onikosi investigates the impact of the West's pursuit of energy on people and environments across the Sahel.
New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Sunday, May 27, 2012 23:54 - 3 Comments
Special Report | NATO Summit Protests – Chicago 2012
Ceasefire's Ashok Kumar reports from Chicago on the city's anti-NATO protests, which took place last weekend.
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Tuesday, November 1, 2011 16:01 - 0 Comments
Analysis | Unveil and Conquer: Beyond the Melting Pot
In the second of his two-part essay on the relationship between feminism and imperialism, Sebastião Martins argues that Afghani women, far from being the much-vaunted beneficiaries of NATO's occupation of their country, are in fact its main victims.
Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, April 19, 2011 0:00 - 9 Comments
Essay Reflections on Libya and the Left
In an exclusive opinion piece, Syrian-British novelist and commentator Robin Yassin-Kassab offers his take on the Western Left's contradictions on Libya.
New in Ceasefire, North African Dispatches - Wednesday, March 23, 2011 0:00 - 9 Comments
North African Dispatches Between a rock and a hard place
As Western military intervention in Libya enters its second week, Imad Mesdoua takes a look at the reasons behind the unfolding tragedy, and its likely consequences.
Arts & Culture, Books, Features - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 23:23 - 0 Comments
Book review – Kosovo: The Path to Contested Statehood in the Balkans
Kosovo's quest for independence throughout a turbulent 20th century is the subject of a book that aims to disentangle myths from realities. Omayr Ghani, Ceasefire's Political Editor, is impressed at the scholarship but sceptical of the analysis.
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 […]More Ideas
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