by Charles Cameron | Aug 21, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in response to a comment by Zen on a previous post — swastikas, anarchist flags, Gadsden flags, black banners, and their various variants ] . Yesterday, in response to my piece on Black Banners in the Washington Post Zen commented:...
by Lynn C. Rees | Jul 21, 2014 | Monitor
[by Lynn C. Rees] Article II, Section 3 of our Constitution opens with this strongly worded suggestion: He shall from time to time give to Congress information of the State of the Union and recommend to their Consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 5, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — there shall be no caging of free speech, right? ] . I was struck by the resemblance between these two photos of defendants in Egyptian courtrooms – — one of Ayman al-Zawahiri on trial shortly after the Sadat assassination...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 3, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — ignorant, open, a tad sceptical, and willing to learn ] . Praying for peace in the shadow of war ** That video was from Lindsey Hilsum‘s Inside Ukraine: praying for peace in the shadow of war. There we read: It was mid-morning as we...
by zen | Feb 9, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor / Hiroshima / 9-11 / Iraq by John Dower Berlin Diary: The Journal of a Foreign Correspondent, 1934-1941 by William Shirer Moral Combat: Good and Evil in World War II by Michael Burleigh ...