by Patricia H. Kushlis | Apr 28, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis In three days, the international media will have long forgotten last week’s centenary of the Armenian “genocide” and moved on to the fortieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975, an event in history which still reigns as a...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Apr 20, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe What’s the difference between a treaty and an agreement? The most significant difference is Constitutional. The former must be approved by the Senate, a Senate currently controlled by Republicans. Hence, no doubt, the Obama administration’s...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 12, 2015 | Monitor
by Joan Wadelton, Guest Contributor The Department of State’s administrative misdeeds have become increasingly serious, much more commonplace and disturbingly costly. The list of failures across the spectrum of management functions (by which I mean the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Dec 18, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpePinch me!Wake me from this nightmare!Am I really stuck in an America awash in arguments pro torture put forth by fellow Americans proudly proclaiming they’d do it again? Waterboarding. Rectal rapes. Chaining. Hanging. Agonizing stress...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Nov 25, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis In a talk in Washington, DC last April, Strobe Talbot, Russian expert, journalist and former Deputy Secretary of State, described Vladimir Putin as a consummate risk taker, an excellent tactician but a poor strategist. Putin’s dream of...
