by Sterling Jensen and Robert Sharp | Aug 29, 2012 | Monitor
By: Sterling Jensen and Robert Sharp Lebanon has a political system, security force, and national memory to weather the current storm.
by Robert Tollast and David Forsythe | Aug 24, 2012 | Monitor
By: Robert Tollast and David Forsythe As the US Treasury imposes sanctions on an Iraqi bank, what defines our relationship with friendly autocracies?
by zen | Aug 20, 2012 | Monitor
The Master and the Minion The Russian girl-punk rock band Pussy Riot has done something with their protest at Christ the Savior Cathedral that prior cases of oppression, election-fraud, corruption and murder of Putin’s critics by agents of the siloviki regime...
by zen | Jul 10, 2012 | Monitor
I previously made note of the emergence of an authoritarian Creepy-state element in American government, enjoying bipartisan popularity with this era’s predominantly Boomer elite politicians, CEOs and academic activists. Largely because this growing surveillance...
by Joas Wagemakers | Apr 22, 2012 | Monitor
The number of jihadi publications on the Arab Spring is increasing dramatically as the months go by and my time has – as always – been very limited, hence my recent absence from Jihadica. I have several posts about al-Qaida’s advice to the Arab...