by Charles Cameron | Aug 19, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — waiting for the other shoe to drop — or be thrown, i suppose — or if a sandal, for the sand to be shaken off it if need be ] . #Iran, a state whose rulers practice #taqiyya (lying to non-Muslims), inspecting its own nuke sites?...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 10, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — working my way towards that ever-elusive Grand Theory of Linkage ] . Ahem — not unlike my DoubleQuote format, these Taiwanese leg-irons offer another form of linkage ** Here’s a cross-cultural DoubleQuote embedded in a Guardian...
by zen | Aug 5, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] GOP Front Runner, Donald J. Trump A friend sent an essay by the prolific IR scholar, Professor Angelo Codevilla that had been posted at Powerline Blog. It was good. For the unfamiliar, Codevilla often writes on national...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 2, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the violence, the sheer cruelty, is stupefying, true, and frequently misunderstood ] . Example: ISIS crucifies 5 more men in the city of al-Mayadeen- it has now crucified 8 people there in a week. #TerrorFacts http://t.co/SzwJg1IJYa...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 4, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — on monk Wirathu, also the trickiness of images-with-quotes on social media ] . The quote from Wirathu (upper panel, above) is a direct quote from a NYT interview with him: You can be full of kindness and love, but you cannot sleep next to...
