by zen | Oct 2, 2012 | Monitor
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has taken criticism for Chicago’s skyrocketing homicide rate which stands this year at a shocking 19.4 per 100,000 residents. This is roughly triple the murder rate in New York City, is worse than in perennially crime-ridden Oakland and is...
by zen | Sep 12, 2012 | Monitor
As you probably already know, the US Embassy in Cairo Egypt was stormed today by Islamists supposedly angry about a video on Youtube supposedly made or endorsed by anti-Muslim Quran-burner and bigot Rev. Terry Jones. The embassy, deliberately left without sufficient...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 27, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — when religious leaders talk of wiping nations off the map ] . -Two bearded religious figures face of with what seems like parallel but opposite rhetoric:...
by zen | Aug 13, 2012 | Monitor
John Robb now has a Facebook page for Global Guerrillas, where he posts quick snippets of big ideas. It seems to be a replacement for his old, informal, personal blog which served a similar purpose some years back. In any event, John had a spectacular picture of...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 2, 2012 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — Ansar al-Din destruction of shrines in Timbuktu expands to include elimination of mosque door and haram eschatological belief ] . @tweetsintheME This was the Door of al-Qiyama (aka “all hell will break loose if you open it...
