by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Aug 31, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeThe Greek island of Kos can’t accommodate all the refugees who land on its shores. Nor can Greece alone deal with all those who turn up on its sea-washed territories.Though incessantly berated for hard-heartedness, Europe, collectively, can’t...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 25, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — methinks there’s a disproportion here ] . ** From Hurriyet, yesterday: After recently slamming the warped theology of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), Turkey’s top religious body may have another formidable enemy: The...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 22, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — by way of TS Eliot, Mario Vargas Llosa and others, and leading to a post on camels and their shadows ] . ** In the year I was born, 1943, TS Eliot published a series of essays titled Notes Toward the Definition of Culture in the New...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 16, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — some ugly comparisons, you have been warned — but it is only the exaggerated ugliness that drives my point home ] . The first DoubleQuote of three I’m posting here shows two views of sacred sites taken over by conquering...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | May 29, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeSatire, shock, ugly facts—since 9/11 the U.S. has tried practically every psychological approach to discourage young people from joining up with Al Qaeda and ISIS, according to Greg Miller and Scott Higham in the Washington Post. A Tale of...
