Center for Strategic Communication

Prophecy, Poetry and Prediction

by | Jul 17, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — personal preference, gangs, Chicago, insurgency, Afghanistan, and admitting the uncomfortable ] . Albrecht Durer, The Blessed Virgin enthroned on the crescent moon ** Poetry, on the whole, has a liking for prophets. Thus Sylvia Plath...

The best war game is a library of windows

by | Jul 3, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Escher, Borges, simulating the future, wargames, A Pattern Language, Sembl ] . MC Escher, Relativity. Ridiculous phrase, a library of windows. Unless you think, as I do, of books as windows onto different worlds, in which case it makes a...

Miracles and rumors of miracles

by | Jun 30, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — Timbuktu tombs, cultural preservation, WWII, miracle stories, della Robbia ] . . A report on Al Jazeera today is sub-headed: Al-Qaeda-linked group in northern Mali attacks tombs of Sufi saints just days after sites put on UNESCO endangered...