by Charles Cameron | Jul 6, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — with a side dish of Tzipi Livni ] . photo credit: Greg Nash via The Hill I’ll be socratic here, asking questions to illuminate my hunches. ** I’m seldom fully convinced by anything that comes from the left and reads the way I’d...
by Kareem Chin | Aug 19, 2013 | Monitor
Al Jazeera America Promises a More Sober Look at the News Brian Stelter / New York Times When the cable news channel begins broadcasting on Tuesday, “there will be less opinion, less yelling and fewer celebrity sightings,” its chief says. On Friendly Waters: China’s...
by Kareem Chin | Jul 22, 2013 | Monitor
European Union Adds Hezbollah to Terror List James Kanter & Jodi Rudoren / The New York Times European Union foreign ministers on Monday added the military wing of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite militant group, to a list of terrorist organizations. But questions...
by Chelsea Sanchez | Jul 1, 2013 | Monitor
Protesters to Egypt’s Morsy: You Have One Day To Step Down Salma Abdelaziz / CNN Egyptians who helped overthrow a 29-year dictatorship in a widely hailed revolution have now given the country’s first democratically elected president one day to step down from...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 26, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H. Kushlis It’s not quite cucumber time in Russia. That’s at its height in August. The days are long; the nights are short but I suppose that doesn’t matter much for someone holed up in Sheremetyevo’s transit lounge unless of course there are no blackout...
