by Charles Cameron | Mar 2, 2015 | Monitor
[ guest post by Tim Furnish, posted by Charles Cameron ] . Blog-friend and occzsional guest poster Dr Tim Furnish just posted this very timely piece at his MahdiWatch blog, and I am delighted to post it in its entirety here with Tim’s permission. ** Israeli...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 25, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — from battle-flag to transcendent symbol ] . Father of the Imam Mahdi, postcard from Masshad, Iran, writer’s collection ** I have written so much on the topic of the black banners from Khorasan [eg], which in turn arguably derive from...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 21, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — writing in a very different mode this time — I’m chuffed ] . Today a quasi-science-fictional scenario I wrote for The Atlantic Council’s Art of Future Warfare proect was posted as a “featured entry” in their...
by zen | Dec 30, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] A Facebook friend with an astute comment pointed me toward this Wall Street Journal article by Joe Rago on the mission of General John Allen, USMC as “Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter...
by Charles Cameron | Dec 22, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the history and dwindling significance of a sign ] . ** In my previous post in this series, Black Banners in Sydney 1: a DoubleQuote in the Wild from Ardeet, I wrote: The flag in the image from the Lindt cafe is not in fact the Daesh /...
