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New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, July 24, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Counterspin Can journalists blush?
In a disastrous/business-as-normal week for the British press, Musab Younis, Ceasefire's Deputy Editor, looks in the marginalia of the News of the World scandal, and wonders what if the Norway terror suspect had been named Jamal.
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 […]New in Ceasefire, Palestine is Still the Issue - Saturday, July 23, 2011 0:00 - 3 Comments
Palestine is Still the Issue Why Britain should thank Sheikh Raed Salah
By challenging the government’s attempt to deport him from Britain Sheikh Raed Salah is doing us a favour, argues Asa Winstanley
New in Ceasefire, Theatre - Friday, July 22, 2011 0:00 - 0 Comments
Theatre Fit for Purpose
Watching Royal Court young writer Catherine O'Shea's new play, Adam Elliott-Cooper is confronted with the most unsettling aspects of how the British state polices its borders.
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".
Events, New in Ceasefire, The Rebellious Media Conference 2011 - Sunday, July 10, 2011 21:05 - 0 Comments
The Rebellious Media Conference 2011
Ceasefire is proud to announce that world-renowned linguist and dissident Noam Chomsky will be giving the keynote address at this October’s Rebellious Media Conference, co-organised with Peace News, Red Pepper, undercurrents and visionOntV. A leading critic of the mainstream media, Chomsky is the author of “Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies” and (with Edward […]
New in Ceasefire - Sunday, July 10, 2011 20:45 - 0 Comments
Announcement: Rebellious Media Conference
New in Ceasefire, Politics - Sunday, July 10, 2011 16:59 - 9 Comments
Politics When Innocence is Not Enough: Talha Ahsan and the Rise of the (In)Security State
For the past half decade, Talha Ahsan, a bright young Muslim poet with Asperger's has been held in a maximum security prison, to be extradited to the US for offences that have never been clarified or proven. Author Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed charts Talha's tragic, ongoing plight and places it in the wider context of a rising (in)security state.
New in Ceasefire, Palestine is Still the Issue - Saturday, July 9, 2011 17:59 - 1 Comment
Palestine is Still the Issue The Freedom Flotilla, Raed Salah, and Israel’s myth of invincibility
Despite Israel's posing as the region's strongman, its attempts to crush simple acts of Palestinian civil resistance and international solidarity demonstrate how weak and morally bankrupt it really is, argues Asa Winstanley.
