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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 […]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 - Wednesday, February 10, 2010 2:48 - 0 Comments
Politics 101
On Monday (Feb 7th) the New York Times (aka “The Paper of Record”) published an endearingly (if not intentionally) honest piece about Wall Street’s attempts to stop Obama’s “attacks” on Big Business (yes, dear reader, we too were left wondering “this is attacking???”). Money quote: … industry executives and lobbyists are warning Democrats that if […]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.
