by zen | Dec 26, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Walter Pincus, taking notes for the embattled bureaucrats of the creepy-state here: ‘Front-Page Rule’ is unprecedented in U.S. intelligence community ….“Accountability and secrecy” were two watchwords a former...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how a half-baked, re-raked tale from 2007, now showing on my local Facebook, gets things all wrong ] . Let’s set the record straight. It seems that Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times did the amplification in this case. He...
by zen | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] There is much ado about a prospective Western (i.e. American) aerial campaign to bomb the Iranian allied Alawite-Baathist dictatorship Syria over use of chemical weapons against primarily al Qaida allied Sunni Islamist...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 15, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — all the AQ leaders teleported into this one cave for their annual conference, see, and spoke to reporters as they were leaving for “near” and “far” – no wardrobe malfunctions, though ] . Following up on my...
by Lynn C. Rees | Aug 10, 2013 | Monitor
[by Lynn C. Rees] It is dangerous to promote an ideal and pretend it’s not for entertainment purposes only. Motivational constructs like “national interest” and “grand strategy” have, from time to time, proved useful for prodding the...
