by Charles Cameron | Aug 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an Ahmadinejad revival, and if so a reference to note? ] . It could be no more than an artifact of translation, but there’s a phrase in this account of a possible Mahmoud Ahmadinejad comeback that catches my attention: “God...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 11, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — who’s giving advice to the head of CENTCOM these days? — a “prophetic” thriller novelist whose latest book concerns nuclear weapons and Iran ] . Here’s the advice apocalyptic thriller writer and political...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 16, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on the difficulties that may be posed when “reading” graphics ] . ** The question I want to ask in this post is: how much can you safely read into a political cartoon? Here is the particular cartoon I have in mind: It was...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 1, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — uh-oh, it’s Mahdi time again.. giving a little wide-angle context, then passing along a hadith of possible current interest — also an aside about an end-times Shiite trinity ] . a ShiaChat map of one end times scenario: the...
by J.ScottShipman | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The Twilight War, The Secret History of America’s Thirty-year Conflict with Iran, by David Crist When President Obama made a heartfelt opening, a smug Iranian leadership viewed it as a ruse or the gesture of a weak leader. Iran spurned him....