by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Dec 10, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The protests stemming from the failure of a grand jury to indict the Ferguson, Missouri, policeman who shot and killed an unarmed Black man continue. In fact, demonstrations tied to this and recent similar shootings are blocking traffic and...
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...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 22, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeWhen Barack Obama, a constitutional lawyer, took office as President of the United States, his supporters expected that he would act aggressively to reverse his predecessor’s disrespect for civil liberties. Astonishingly, he’s turned out...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Oct 3, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis The good news is that the US Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy has seemingly risen from the ashes – or more accurately been wrested from the clutches of a member of the US Congress who refused to vote for the pittance required to keep this...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 27, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — how AQ messages potential ISers — as usual, when there’s an overlap between divergent ideas, I start thinking ] . ** I was reading, once again, today about the US social media campaign in a WAPo piece, Digital War Takes Shape...
