by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 10, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Last week, Montenegro, that tiny mountainous country, population of about 662,000 on the Adriatic Coast between Bosnia and Albania, was invited to join NATO. The invitation had been nine years in the making. (Montenegro map 2015 from...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 9, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Didn’t Vladimir Putin turn 63 on October 7? And didn’t the Russian military provide him with a spectacular birthday present – the launch of 26 cruise missiles from the country’s flotilla in the landlocked Caspian Sea that very same day? It was...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 26, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — architectural history as a question in philosophy — Palmyra ] . Future? A jailed activist’s 3-D models could save Syria’s history from ISIS https://t.co/4YjbSuaOwB pic.twitter.com/K8daGICoUW — WIRED (@WIRED) October 21, 2015...
by Charles Cameron | Oct 17, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the moral arc of history from Billie Holliday via MLK to Obama — and beyond, who knows? ] . Our topic here is foresight — prediction, prophecy, prognosis, projection. ** The Legatum Institute today tweeted a Pew Research...
by zen | Oct 7, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a “zen“] “And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Moloch, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the LORD.” – Leviticus 18:21 “They rejected the commandments of the Lord … and...
