Center for Strategic Communication

The Foreign Service: Missing Once Again

By Patricia H Kushlis I spent Memorial Day morning at the ceremony at the Veteran’s National Cemetery in Santa Fe, New Mexico which honored America’s service men and women who gave their lives fighting for this country as well as those who became disabled as a result....

The US and Southeast Asia: Then and Now

By Patricia H Kushlis In three days, the international media will have long forgotten last week’s centenary of the Armenian “genocide” and moved on to the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, an event in history which still reigns as a...

Manhunt: religion and the director’s eye

[ by Charles Cameron — with an assist from Wm Benzon, under-appreciated and brilliant film and literary critic, musician, author of Beethoven’s Anvil ] . Screen-time is valuable: movie directors don’t just throw it away. Here are screen-grabs of two...