by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 2, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe April 30: News flash! Three dead, dozens injured, outside a RR station in Urumqi, capital of China’s “autonomous” Xinjiang region. Ok, who did it? Muslim extremists? Uighur separatists? Muslim extremists who happen to be Uighurs? Uighur...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 3, 2014 | Monitor
By Brady Kiesling, Guest Contributor Brady Kiesling served two tours as political officer at the U.S. Embassy in Athens before resigning in 2003 over USG policy. He is the author of “Diplomacy Lessons” (2006), and “Greek Urban Warriors,” his booklength study of Greek...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Sep 6, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe For years you have been smart enough not to be drawn into the Red Line trap vis-à-vis Iran, despite Israel’s incessant demands that you draw that line in the sand. And then! You foolishly boxed yourself in, publically drawing a Red Line re Syria...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Aug 16, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Walter Pincus of the Washington Post tells us that “data Mining is here to stay.” He points to a wide variety of commercial uses as well as the now well-publicized NSA practices that have aroused so much indignation. Those who object, he...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jun 7, 2013 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The April 15, 2013 Boston Marathon bombing was made to order television drama operating in nearly Aristotelian time from the beginning through the bizarre car chase, shoot out and round-up of the one suspect still alive. The script was almost all...
