Center for Strategic Communication

Of blood and song

by | Apr 10, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — what carves memory? blood is spilled, song carries grief and anger across centuries ] , One hundred years ago, Irish blood was spilled in the Easter Uprising of 1916, as Sinéad O’Connor & The Chieftains call us to remember in...

Jabhat and IS “caliphate” by the numbers

by | Jul 12, 2014 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — large numbers don’t fit well into small skulls, but we do what we can ] . Charles Lister tweeted today: The numbers are, for my humble self, staggering. And you can’t lose $1.5 billion if you didn’t have $1.5 billion at...

Serpent logic and related

by | Sep 14, 2013 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — where paradox begets form in phrasing, redux ] . Here for your entertainment and entrainment are some further instances where the tweet doubles back on itself, bites its tail, or otherwise embodies some form of “form”...

A Meditation In Time Of War: “precision”

by | Nov 21, 2012 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — comparing two species of precision and imprecision found in time of war, one which the camera can record, one which the heart must wait to learn — let us pray the cease-fire holds ] . The key phrases here are “the mosque...