Center for Strategic Communication

The Totally DoubleQuotable James Fallows

by | Mar 15, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Malaysia flight 370 seen through the media glass, darkly ] . ** Here’s Fallows in The Atlantic on Malaysia flight 370: As the years go by, I am more and more convinced that the immediate, fast-twitch talk-show responses on what we...

It’s a Safer, Way More Complicated World Out There

by | Nov 28, 2012 | Monitor

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. headquarters in New York on September 28, 2012. (Keith Bedford/Reuters) Cross-posted from Joshua Foust’s regular column in The Atlantic. … at least...

Wei Wu Wei, or the inactionable option

by | Nov 13, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — the excellence of today’s piece by Joshua Foust and the importance of intelligence that is not actionable, with illustrations from Zenpundit, Dickens and Shakespeare ] . Kate Bosworth peers out from under a blindfold in the 2010...

Games of telephone and counter-telephone?

by | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — embassy or consulate — a minor detail for an editor, perhaps, but all the difference in the world for Ambassador J Christopher Stevens ] . Here’s a screen grab of a piece posted on the Atlantic site today: . The article itself...