Center for Strategic Communication

Bouleversé by forgiveness

[ by Charles Cameron — not just “thinking outside the box” — how about upending the whole thing and seeing what shakes out? ] . FWIW, this isn't the world, nor is it upside down — it's just a rather different map, eh?. A...

When myth breaches the news media ocean

[ by Charles Cameron — Draupadi in the Mahabharata, the anonymous med student recently gang-raped on an Indian bus ] . Humpback whale breaching, source: Wikipedia under CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic license. Some people go out on the oceans and watch...

Ashura: the Passion of Husayn

[ by Charles Cameron — today’s solemn commemorations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in comparative religious perspective ] . I was listening to Mozart‘s Requiem last night, and it is rich in grief shot through with glory. That’s the...

Introducing the Person / Position Paradox

[ by Charles Cameron — ye olde war of science vs religion embodied in Rep. Paul Broun, with sundry comparisons to human rights, UN, dominionism, JFK, creeping shariah etc ] . . Lest we forget, Muammar Gaddafi‘s Libya, in the person of Ms. Najat Al-Hajjaji...