Center for Strategic Communication

JM Berger swiftly doubletweets Seamus Hughes

[ by Charles Cameron — coffee on the rocks with blarney ] . Seamus Hughes tweets: Dunkin donuts are hotspots of radicalization. Trust me, I have an anecdotal evidence. pic.twitter.com/pPyxRbVhqA — Seamus Hughes (@SeamusHughes) March 4, 2016 to which JM...

Red mercury as scam and symbol

[ by Charles Cameron — CJ Chivers, nuclear nonsense, faux chemistry, and the alchemical imagination, with hat-tip to Cheryl Rofer ] . CJ Chivers, conflict journalist extraordinaire and author of a book about the Kalashnikov assault rifle, The Gun, today posted a...

A glass darkly for princes…

[pre-acknowledged by Lynn C. Rees] Meet Edward Mandell House:   Mr. House has a reputation for being wise and inscrutable. He was also nicknamed “Colonel” House. We need not refer to him by that nickname here. While Mr. House did have a name, he never...

Tragedy of the geopolitical nerd

[defrosted into unnatural long life by Lynn C. Rees] Pity the American nerd. His brow furrows. The American nerd suffers from chronic contradiction. While he sees finely diced reality within his area of expertise in exquisite, even excruciating, detail, he sees the...