by Lynn C. Rees | Mar 5, 2014 | Monitor
[resuscitated by Lynn C. Rees] A book review of Max Hastings’ book Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940-1945: John F. Kennedy said that in 1940 Churchill mobilized the English language and sent it to battle. But that was the problem. Churchill saw war in...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jun 15, 2013 | Monitor
[dots connected by Lynn C. Rees] Sigh What did Lucius Aemilius Paullus know and when did he know it? Colonel Hamilton Alexander Hamilton thought he knew. And who is Colonel Hamilton (as he so liked to be called) that he should know? Not (then) Colonel Hamilton...
by zen | Feb 11, 2013 | Monitor
Someone for reasons unknown last week leaked the classified Department of Justice “White Paper” on targeting with drone attacks the numerically tiny number of US citizens overseas who have joined al Qaida or affiliated groups. The leak set off an outburst...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2012 | Monitor
[by Charles Cameron — the difficulty of difference, plus a poem for M ] . . When you have a worldview, it all fits together pretty seamlessly. You see a map of record high temperatures such as the one above, swiped from emptywheel today, and it’s either...
by nbrody | Apr 7, 2008 | Framing, Government, Media, Strategic Comm., Surveillance, technology, Terrorism 2.0
by Nicholas Brody Wikipedia is becoming a major source of news and reference information for the American public. A Pew internet poll found that 36% of online adults consult Wikipedia. That number jumps to 50% for college-educated adults. Among educational and...
