by Tanya Somanader | Aug 18, 2014 | Monitor
Watch on YouTube This afternoon at the White House, President Obama delivered a statement on the latest developments in Iraq and in Ferguson, Missouri — two issues he has been following closely each day. First, the President relayed to the nation that the...
by zen | Aug 4, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] The Orientalist by Tom Reiss Some biographies are as much about the era or the milieu as the man. The Orientalist is one of them. This is not to say that Tom Reiss has written a bad book. On the contrary, it is an...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — responding to Steve Engel’s comment on my post Purim, or Israel vs Iran redux? ] . Steve picked up on the image of the Merkabah, Ezekiel‘s visionary chariot as five wheels with wings in his comment today: noting their...
by Joshua Miller | Oct 3, 2013 | Monitor
ASP In case you missed it…. 3rd October 2013 Italy boat sinking: Hundreds feared dead off Lampedusa BBC News At least 130 African migrants have died and many more are missing after a boat carrying them to Europe sank off the southern Italian island of Lempedusa....
by Charles Cameron | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — shall we say, not a great enthusiast for war? ] . . This image of Winston Churchill in the bombed out ruins of Coventry Cathedral is almost a self-referential paradox in itself, if you still believe the canard that he knew the Germans were...
