by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 10, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Last week, Montenegro, that tiny mountainous country, population of about 662,000 on the Adriatic Coast between Bosnia and Albania, was invited to join NATO. The invitation had been nine years in the making. (Montenegro map 2015 from...
by Koby Langley, Steve Parker | Aug 26, 2014 | Monitor
President Barack Obama delivers remarks at the American Legion’s 96th National Convention at the Charlotte Convention Center in Charlotte, N.C., Aug. 26, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza) President Obama traveled to Charlotte, NC today to address...
by zen | Jan 10, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Independent has a short, quasi-sensationalist, article featuring historian Margaret MacMillan discussing what is likely to become the first pop academic cottage industry of 2014….making historical analogies about...
by Megan Slack | Dec 3, 2012 | Monitor
Today, President Obama met with Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov. The President thanked Prime Minister Borissov for Bulgaria’s strong partnership in NATO, as well as the country’s support in Afghanistan and its cooperation on criminal...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 27, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the destruction of sacred spaces considered — réfléchissons ] . A church in Missouri is destroyed: because someone hated a black man becoming President. A mosque is destroyed in Massachusetts: because someone hated Islam. ** A...
