by Charles Cameron | May 31, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — for global perspective ] . ** Hoffman and Reinares‘ The Evolution of the Global Terrorist Threat: From 9/11 to Osama bin Laden’s Death offers 700 pages of densely-packed information about global, ans they do mean global,...
by zen | May 29, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] I’m still alive. Work and other commitments have been overwhelming the past month or so, but Charles Cameron has ably been holding down the fort. A trio of highly recommended posts: T. Greer – The...
by Charles Cameron | May 21, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — following up on Browsing in bin Laden’s library ] . Marcy Wheeler at Salon reports of the ODNI’s Bin Laden’s Bookshelf (expanded form, .pdf) that “the categorization imposed by ODNI” consists “largely of...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — biblio post #2 in preparation for the Boston conference – background on new religious movements and violence ] . Assuming I’m right that Islamic eschatology is now swinging into focus, and since my interest in the topic was...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — since this topic is at last swinging into focus ] . It is my impression that Islamic apocalyptic has finally surfaced as a significant contributor to those interested in questions of contemporary national security — first, through...