Editor’s Desk

Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, December 6, 2011 19:38 - 8 Comments

Editorial | Frantz Fanon: Fifty Years On

Fifty years ago, Frantz Fanon, one of the major intellectual figures and revolutionary leaders of the decolonization struggle, passed away. Ceasefire editor-in-chief Hicham Yezza pays tribute to an extraordinary legacy.

Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Monday, November 28, 2011 14:01 - 7 Comments

Editorial | Can’t think of an alternative to the cuts? Think harder

The government's ongoing attacks on the poor and the vulnerable are always presented as our necessary and unavoidable path to recovery. Far from it, says Hicham Yezza, plenty of alternatives exist but those in power prefer to look the other way.

Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Friday, November 18, 2011 22:28 - 0 Comments

Blog | With or without an account, Facebook will be tracking you

Disturbing reports today reveal that Facebook keeps track of where millions go on the Web after visiting a Facebook web page, whether they are FB members or not.

Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Friday, November 18, 2011 20:57 - 0 Comments

Video Blog | Retired police chief arrested at OWS after calling fellow officers ‘obnoxious, arrogant and ignorant’

The rolling circus of perpetual own-goals that is the NYPD's crackdown on Occupy Wall Street is the gift that keeps on giving.

Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, November 9, 2011 6:29 - 2 Comments

Special Report | Did Zionist hackers bring down our Russell Tribunal website?

Last week, hacktivist outfit 'Anonymous' temporarily disabled the websites of the Israel Defence Force and Mossad, causing much embarrassment to Israel. A few days later, a cyber attack brought down the website of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. In an exclusive report, the website's designer, Harry Fear, says this was no amateur job but a highly sophisticated attack.

Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Friday, November 4, 2011 20:18 - 0 Comments

Video Blog | David Held, Saif-al-Islam Gaddafi and the LSE

The partnership between authoritarian regimes and celebrated academics is not unusual in British higher education; indeed it is encouraged as good business practice.

Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk - Tuesday, November 1, 2011 1:15 - 1 Comment

Blog - | Palestine joins UNESCO, US officials murder the English Language

Today's vote at UNESCO, granting full membership of the UN body to the Palestinians, marks a symbolic victory for one of the world's longest-suffering peoples, but also a new low (if such a thing can be imagined) in US diplomacy's always-creative relationship with the English language.

Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, October 25, 2011 2:37 - 3 Comments

Blog | On Herman Cain’s crazy campaign ad

US presidenial campaign adverts: we've seen silly, dull, OTT and even witty, but we've never seen THIS.

Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Monday, October 24, 2011 14:27 - 2 Comments

Blog | Ex-Israeli secret service boss: “Netanyahu is a coward and a liar”

This past weekend saw the publication of a rather strange interview with Jaccob Perry, former head of Israel's internal secret service, Shabak.

Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, October 9, 2011 10:34 - 2 Comments

Analysis | One More Disappointment at the United Nations: Richard Falk on the Palmer Report

The findings of the UN's Palmer report, published last month, on Israel's attack on the Gaza Flotilla, have triggered an unprecedented fallout between the Turkish and Israeli governments. In an exclusive new essay, the UN's special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, renowned academic and legal expert Richard Falk, gives his verdict on the report.