by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Apr 11, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe Hopes were high a few years ago. The Arab street—that’s working people as well as the educated middle class—was waking up and demanding a better shake. Throwing off well-founded fears of brutal retaliation, thousands of people gathered...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Mar 22, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis I know it may be hard to believe after reading multiple media reports about Putin’s latest “surprise pull out from Syria†but the Kremlin did not, repeat, not, really pull its military out of Syria last week. The Russian Air Force is still...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Feb 15, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Madeleine Albright wrote in “My Undiplomatic Moment,†a commentary published in The New York Times on February 13, 2016, that she had said at a Clinton rally in New Hampshire “there’s a special place in hell for women who don’t help...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Jan 25, 2016 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Not long after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan various versions of the following joke circulated in Moscow: An American and a Soviet were comparing notes about their respective modes of travel. The Soviet asked the American how he got the...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 10, 2015 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis Last week, Montenegro, that tiny mountainous country, population of about 662,000 on the Adriatic Coast between Bosnia and Albania, was invited to join NATO. The invitation had been nine years in the making. (Montenegro map 2015 from...
