by zen | Aug 29, 2013 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski a.k.a. “zen”] There is much ado about a prospective Western (i.e. American) aerial campaign to bomb the Iranian allied Alawite-Baathist dictatorship Syria over use of chemical weapons against primarily al Qaida allied Sunni Islamist...
by Charles Cameron | Jul 13, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — a speech worth close attention ] . . I bypassed several opportunities to hear or read Malala‘s speech today, until Shivam Vij tweeted that she had mentioned Badshah Khan. That caught my attention — Khan is not the most...
by Ollie Engebretson | Jun 18, 2013 | Monitor
With much of the global chatter focused on Syria and Iran, foreign policy discourse has largely ignored the stalemate over Western Sahara. However given the conflict’s implications for Morocco-U.S. relations, regional cooperation, and US security concerns, the U.S....
by Kaitlyn Huppmann | Mar 8, 2013 | Monitor
North Korea can’t hit America, but South Korea and Japan in Range Jack Kim / Reuters North Korea has plenty of military firepower even if its threat this week of a pre-emptive nuclear strike on the United States is a hollow one, with South Korea most at risk from the...
by Spencer Ackerman | Jan 29, 2013 | Monitor
The U.N.’s new drone inquisitor isn’t out to take away lethal robots from the U.S. military or CIA. But he also doesn’t intend to shy away from uncovering their mistakes — and abuses.
