by Charles Cameron | Sep 17, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — forthcoming book announced ] . JM Berger at Intelwire frames it like this: ISIS: THE STATE OF TERROR Jessica Stern and J.M. Berger co-author the forthcoming book, “ISIS: The State of Terror,” from Ecco, an imprint of...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — two superb pieces this week on Iraq and ISIS, deserving of a slow and grateful reading — and a third on IS, the “caliphate” into which ISIS renamed itself just today ] . Peter J. Munson leads off my list with a wide-angle...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 11, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an attempt to “curate” the onrush of news, hitting the high points on a low, low morning ] . I have tried to keep the tweets here limited to their own texts, with illustrations only where essential, and without “parent...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — an intriguing example of enantiodromia aka reversal or the hairpin bend ] . Let’s start with this tweet from Glenn Greenwald on September 11th 2013, a dozen years on from that tragic day: A coalition of current and former military,...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 31, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — continuing my series on the “serpent bites tail” reflexive form (1, 2, 3, 4) in which analytic gems and other insights may often be easily discovered or succinctly expressed — read this post fast for fun, or reflectively...