by zen | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
As you probably already know, the US Embassy in Cairo Egypt was stormed today by Islamists supposedly angry about a video on Youtube supposedly made or endorsed by anti-Muslim Quran-burner and bigot Rev. Terry Jones. The embassy, deliberately left without sufficient...
by J.ScottShipman | Jul 23, 2012 | Monitor
[by J. Scott Shipman] The Twilight War, The Secret History of America’s Thirty-year Conflict with Iran, by David Crist When President Obama made a heartfelt opening, a smug Iranian leadership viewed it as a ruse or the gesture of a weak leader. Iran spurned him....
by Posted by AD Brown | Sep 14, 2011 | Monitor
Ten years have passed since the tragic events of September 11th 2001. Over 3,000 people died in the brazen assault on New York’s Twin Towers. Lives were shattered, families torn asunder and a nation lay shocked in the debris of … Continue reading...
by Posted by AD Brown | Sep 6, 2011 | Monitor
With the ten-year anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon only days away, a debate still rages over whether Britain and America are now more secure now than on September 10th 2001. Critics complain that … Continue reading...
by editor | Oct 27, 2010 | Analysis, Framing, Image, Politics, Popular Culture, Sensemaking, Strategic Comm.
by Lisa Braverman A couple of weeks ago as I skimmed the news, I saw the freshly-released images of the Park51 Community Center (colloquially known as the “Ground Zero Mosque”). In the same sitting, I also performed my semi-regular check of a former professor’s...