Center for Strategic Communication

Unfortunate tweet sequence

by | Jul 23, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — keeping a wary eye on algorithms, with the sting in the three links at the end ] . Here’s a tweet alerting readers to a newspaper piece on the Munich terror attack: Police investigate claim Muinch gunman lured victims to their deaths...

Terror Is Glamour as War is Game

by | Mar 18, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — on the necessary simultaneity of temporal and eternal perspectives ] . ** First as to glamour -– it may help to reflect that glamour, our word, comes not from Vogue but from the same origins as grammar (referring to languages) and...

Strategy at the speed of stupid

by | Mar 1, 2015 | Monitor

[by Lynn C. Rees] Warren Buffett claims for his master, champion investor Benjamin Graham, this observation: “In the short-run, the market is a voting machine […] but in the long-run, the market is a weighing machine.” The Graham school of...

Sunday surprise: Pakistan vs Dr Bronner

by | Dec 21, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — ideology in two soaps ] . ** The 1971 Pakistani soap ad quotes Pakistan’s third President, GEN Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan: Remember the PROMISE OF ALMIGHTY ALLAH that, if you are steadfast in the path of Justice, He will bless you with...