by zen | Apr 29, 2013 | Monitor
Anne-Marie Slaughter had a short but bombastic WaPo op-ed on Syria and chemical weapons use that requires comment: Obama should remember Rwanda as he weighs action in Syria ….The Clinton administration did not want to acknowledge that genocide was taking place...
by zen | Apr 26, 2013 | Monitor
There is much buzz right now about whether the cruel Syrian Baathist-Alawite regime of Bashar Assad, struggling to hold on to power in the midst of civil war against rebel Sunni forces, crossed President Obama’s “red line” by using Sarin gas, a war...
by zen | Mar 6, 2013 | Monitor
Sixty years ago one of the greatest monsters in history, a mass-murderer of tens of millions many times over, the yellow-eyed, “Kremlin mountaineer” breathed his last. We live, deaf to the land beneath us, Ten steps away no one hears our speeches, All we...
by zen | Nov 1, 2012 | Monitor
The always interesting John Hagel tweeted a link recently to an old post at Mill’s-Scofield Innovanomics, a blog run by a business strategist and consultant with a science background, Deb Mills-Scofield. Summer’s Trump Cards ….Culture Trumps Strategy:...
by zen | Oct 3, 2012 | Monitor
I was going to comment on the death of the famed historian who was the Soviet Union’s most venerable and shameless apologist, but I was beaten to it in a brilliant piece by British blogger and fellow Chicago Boyz member, Helen Szamuely: A great Communist crime...