March, 2010

Ideas, Science - Thursday, March 18, 2010 4:28 - 4 Comments

Open Source: the future of science?

By Sebastian Meznaric The recent scientific crisis around climate research data leaks has greatly damaged the credibility and respect usually accorded the scientific community. The collected global temperature data was the subject of statistical analysis where the scientists in question used a “trick” to conceal certain decreases in the temperatures measured. The “trick” apparently went […]

Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, March 10, 2010 15:38 - 0 Comments

Chomsky: “First we rob and then destroy them, and then when they ask for a little bit of help, we kick them in the face.”

Chomsky on Haiti, Cuba, the G7 and democracy.

Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Monday, March 8, 2010 8:03 - 0 Comments

Carroll’s still in Wonderland

A year and a half ago, Red Pepper published a piece criticising the reporting of The Guardian’s Rory Carroll on Venezuela. They noted that: In less than two years of reporting on Venezuela, Carroll has written an astonishing 79 articles with Chavez’s name in the headline alone. It is predictable then that the allegations against […]

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:01 - 0 Comments

Week 59 – Leaving Through Rafah. Part II

By Jody Mcintyre “Where exactly in Cairo are you dropping us?” I asked the driver of “bus number six”. “The airport…” he replied. “Whaaaat!?!” They still hadn’t given me my passport back. I should have suspected this all along. I saw a guy standing at the front of the bus with all of the passports in […]

Ceasefire Bites - Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Leaving Through Rafah, Part II

Jody Mcintyre's Life on Wheels - Thursday, March 4, 2010 12:00 - 0 Comments

Week 58 – Leaving Through Rafah, Part I

By Jody Mcintyre The story starts early on Monday afternoon, standing on the Palestinian side of the Gaza-Egypt border at Rafah, after a two-hour servise ride from Gaza City, bag fully packed and in hand, ready to say goodbye [for now] after eight long months in Palestine. The Egyptian government had only agreed to open […]

Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 4:33 - 1 Comment

Shenanigans at Prospect Magazine…

This month’s Prospect Magazine contains a curious diary item (subscription only) entiteld “Shenanigans at the Islam Channel” (the title on the print edition is the rather less definitive “What’s going on at the Islam Channel?”). The piece enumerates what it considers “controversial” happenings at the station. On closer inspection (on cursory inspection too, for that […]

Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Wednesday, March 3, 2010 2:14 - 2 Comments

What the Dubai assassins did next…

So, you and a dozen “teamates” have just accomplished the olympian task of killing a lone man in his Dubai hotel room with a pillow and have escaped the country just in time to avoid capture. Where would you go next? more crucially, which country would you try to enter knowing your passports were on […]

Blogs, Ceasefire Bites, Politics - Tuesday, March 2, 2010 5:12 - 0 Comments

Media Punditry: where dishonesty lies…

An excellent investigative piece in the US magazine the Nation reports on the endemic phenomenon of TV pundits roaming the News Shows circuit disguised as neutral analysts when in fact many are out-and-out corporate lobbyists. The examples are compelling: people on the payroll of AIG praise its proposed bailout and defend its practices without their […]