by Charles Cameron | Jul 20, 2016 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — when two data points contradict a trend, what’s up? ] . Gotta love the graphic of “Twitter being written into the ancient Persian Cyrus Cylinder in an animation film for Farsi Twitter, highlighting the platforms importance for...
by Scott Monje | Jun 1, 2015 | Monitor
The U.N.-administered camp at Mazrak, northwest Yemen is now stretched beyond capacity after a Saudi military offensive against the Houthis starting early November uprooted a fresh wave of IDP families. (Photo credit: Hugh Macleod/IRIN) Yemen had drawn little...
by Lynn C. Rees | Sep 16, 2014 | Monitor
[cut and pasted by Lynn C. Rees] It has been the uniform policy of this Government, from its foundation to the present day, to abstain from all interference in the domestic affairs of other nations. The consequence has been that while the nations of Europe have been...
by dtrombly | Jan 29, 2013 | Monitor
Thus far, the intervention in Mali seems, at least initially, a banner standard for the practice, insofar as Washington is concerned. A coalition of African and European forces, with France taking the lead in the air and with crack troops on the ground, is sending...
by Ian Platz | Jan 16, 2013 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust wrote for PBS Need to Know about the French military intervention in Mali. Over the weekend France launched an assault on northern Mali, part of an operation to unseat the extremists who have occupied half the country since last year’s coup....
