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Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire, Special Reports - Friday, September 16, 2011 10:50 - 0 Comments
Special Report Northern Winds in Angola?
In a new exclusive report, Ceasefire's Angola correspondent, Jon Schubert, provides an overview of the events, and the wider context, that have marked the recent upheavals in the country.
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.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, August 25, 2011 13:43 - 2 Comments
Live Blog UK Riots 2011
Sunday 7th August saw young people in London violently resist police leading to widespread rioting. Our live blog has the latest images and videos from Ceasefire's reporters on the ground.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, August 10, 2011 1:58 - 45 Comments
Live Blog UK Riots 2011
On Sunday, the London street riots spread to other areas of the capital, notably Enfield and Brixton. Our live blog has the latest images and videos from Ceasefire's reporters on the ground.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, August 9, 2011 15:39 - 6 Comments
Hackney Riots: Eyewitness account
Ceasefire contributor Melanie Scagliarini, a Hackney resident, sends an eyewitness report from the area.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 24, 2011 21:14 - 0 Comments
Ceasefire editor discusses Noam Chomsky’s ‘Interventions’ on ‘Epilogue’ book show
Watch Ceasefire editor-in-chief, Hicham Yezza and writer and political commentator Daniel Renwick discuss Noam Chomsky’s book Interventions on Press TV’s book show epilogue. “In this collection of 50 remarkable essays, Chomsky examines US imperialism and the American foreign policy especially on Iraq and how it used September 11 attacks as a pretext for launching the […]
Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, July 23, 2011 20:58 - 4 Comments
Oslo Attacks: “Analyst” realises his prediction was wrong. Predicts again.
Did you publish the wrong "expert" prediction about the Oslo attacks being acts of "Islamic Terrorism"? Not to worry, the mainstream media has the solution: just delete your prediction and make a new one.
Ceasefire Bites, New in Ceasefire - Saturday, July 23, 2011 6:11 - 0 Comments
Suspicions About Former Editor in Battle Over Story Complicate Hacking Scandal – NYTimes.com
Fascinating piece in the New York Times about how a former Telegraph editor might have leaked the Vince Cable “war on murdoch” scoop to the BBC’s Robert Peston to spite his former employers and impress his new boss… Rupert Murdoch. The piece ends with a tentalising coda: Tom Watson, the labour MP who’s been leading […]Ceasefire Bites, Editor's Desk, New in Ceasefire - Wednesday, June 29, 2011 7:21 - 36 Comments
Media Johann Hari apologises, will the tweeting mob?
In the wake of the media "storm" over accusations of plagiarism against Johann Hari, Ceasefire's editor-in-chief, Hicham Yezza, argues the accusations are absurd, and the outrage largely disingenuous.
Ceasefire Bites - Tuesday, April 26, 2011 13:45 - 0 Comments
The ECGD: Rum business
An excellent piece by Lisa Nandy MP on the shady world of the Export Credits Guarantee Department (ECGD). Essentially, it’s little more than an official, tax-payer funded money laundering unit… Money quote: There is no more important time to reform this highly secretive and potentially damaging department. Currently the ECGD supports a handful of big […]
