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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 […]Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 17, 2011 0:00 - 3 Comments
Books ‘Chavs’ by Owen Jones
Ceasefire's Matthew Butcher reviews Owen Jones' "Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class".
Paul Guest's Musical Notes - Sunday, July 10, 2011 18:32 - 0 Comments
“Revs” – A revolution in the way of classical music
At first glance, this is somewhat mad -exciting, but totally mad. For someone like me who hates clubbing because of its intimate settings, claustrophobia and loud booming music normally of genres I dislike, this merges a love and a hate. Will I like it? I don’t know. From the way critic Igor Toronyi-Lalic describes it […]New in Ceasefire, Paul Guest's Musical Notes - Wednesday, June 29, 2011 20:09 - 1 Comment
The “Opera vs Youth” myth
James Rhodes’ latest blog on the Telegraph website entitled ‘Classical concerts are too sacred for their own good. Only the Proms always gets it right’, whilst arguably provocative, is certainly thought-provoking. When I started critiquing classical music and opera I had exactly the same views as Rhodes; however, being a music journalist and spending lots […]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.
Books, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Tuesday, June 21, 2011 0:00 - 1 Comment
Books How to aim your gun
In his new book, 'Third World Protest', Rahul Rao attempts to ground the sterile world of international normative theory in the practices and discourses of subaltern protest groups. Ceasefire's deputy editor, Musab Younis, reviews Rao's arguments.
Ideas, Interviews, New in Ceasefire - Friday, May 27, 2011 4:26 - 30 Comments
Exclusive Jody McIntyre interviews Lowkey
In an exclusive, candid new interview, Ceasefire contributor Jody McIntyre (writer for the Independent and author of the 'Life on Wheels' blog) asks Lowkey, one of the country's most respected MCs and political activists about his life, politics, art and more.
Books, Devil's Advocate, Ideas, New in Ceasefire - Thursday, May 26, 2011 9:51 - 0 Comments
Books Natural Experiments of History
Can you run experiments on the past? A groundbreaking book seems to suggest the answer might be yes. 'National Experiments of History", co-authored by celebrated thinker Jared Diamond, attempts to propose a radical new way of studying history and other social sciences. Ceasefire's Omer Ali gives his verdict.
