by Charles Cameron | Jul 23, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a couple of discordant notes on goings on ] . This tweet from Casey Michel showing contemporary American fans of Sir Oswald Mosley — My look at growing ties between US hard-right extremists and Kremlin-linked organizations:...
by Sungtae "Jacky" Park | Apr 13, 2015 | Monitor
While the recent nuclear framework agreement between the P5+1 and Iran is a major step towards ensuring that Tehran does not obtain nuclear weapons, some justifiably point out that a final deal might turn Iran into a “second Saudi Arabia,” albeit one that will wreak...
by Kennington Cung | Jan 28, 2015 | Monitor
International News Coverage Middle East, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Retired Generals: U.S. set for failure in Iraq and Syria without clear Strategy Thomas Gibbons-Neff / The Washington Post Without a clear strategy from the White House and the return of a...
by Maggie Feldman-Piltch | Jan 20, 2015 | Monitor
Five of the latest developing stories in the MENA region. 1. Houthis take over Yemen Presidential Palace On Tuesday, one day after agreeing to a ceasefire, Shia Houthi fighters have taken over Yemen’s presidential palace which houses the main office of...
by Charles Cameron | Nov 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — these caught my eye recently on the Aussie Lowy Interpreter site — an upcoming movie, Nasrallah on IS / Daesh, and Rugby diplomacy, NZ-style ] . This looks to be a film that may be of interest to ZP readers: Perhaps Zen and others...