by Charles Cameron | Aug 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — don’t be fooled by the pretty colors, what you see is just a mass of data points artfully displayed ] . Here’s a fascinating graphic from the quantitative mode of analysis: I really don’t have much to say about this,...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 31, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — and yes, “p.16 below the fold” is pretty much the news equivalent of “at the back of the bus” ] . A prime-time Dutch TV news show, De Wereld Draait Door, regularly includes a satirical segment, and the other day the...
by Nico Prucha | May 21, 2014 | Monitor
As we outlined in a brief analysis in our first post, Ali Fisher and I will head into a more deeper analysis of our findings regarding the release of “The Clanging of the Swords, part 4″. In the next posting we will discuss and analyse the most important...
by Nico Prucha | May 19, 2014 | Monitor
The release of the video Salil al-sawarim (SaS) by ISIS’s media department al-Furqan over the weekend demonstrated the sophistication of the jihadist use of social media to disseminate their video content. Al-Furqan’s sister department, al-I’tasimu had announced the...
by Nico Prucha | May 15, 2014 | Monitor
Following the recent airstrikes carried out against a convoy targeting al-Qaeda fighters in remote training camps in southern Yemen, Ali Fisher and Nico Prucha examine how the tales of drone strikes and civilian suffering claimed to be the result have become a...