by Charles Cameron | Aug 17, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — borders and distinctions from Trump to Revelation, plus one ] . Donald Trump‘s “three core principles of real immigration reform”: 1. A nation without borders is not a nation. ** G Spencer-Brown wrote of his book. Laws of...
by Julia Maloof | Aug 12, 2015 | Monitor
Today, the world’s largest recipient of refugees is Turkey, with over 1.5 million. The war in Syria has led to an estimated 9 million people fleeing the country. But Turkey’s borders are not only subject to the pressures of immigration. Hundreds of foreign fighters...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 13, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — as one headline put it, 20 Million Shia Muslims Brave Isis by Making Pilgrimage to Karbala ] . You may remember IS / Daesh bulldozing the berm separating Syria and Iraq (upper image, below) not so long ago: Putting that into perspective is...
by Jiayi Zhou | Feb 13, 2013 | Monitor
By: Jiayi Zhou The primacy of the state may be nowhere more pronounced than where terrestrial political borders have no relevance.