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August 17 Public Diplomacy Review
"[W]e did not wholly trust the Iraqi security forces."--Michael Brough, a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army, a combat adviser in Iraq in 2011; image fromVIDEO'Propaganda' Director Slavko Martinov -...
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The Declaration of Independence: Not a Sacred Text?
Pauline Maier, Historian Who Described Jefferson as ‘Overrated,’ Dies at 75 - Douglas Martin, New York Times:One of her most influential books, “American Scripture: Making the Declaration of...
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Are Manning and Snowden patriots? That depends on what we do next - Andrew J. Bacevich, Washington PostAre Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden traitors or patriots? With Manning in jail and Snowden the...
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August 18 Public Diplomacy Review
"Online, there’s no visa problem."--Zvi Galil, the dean of the Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, expecting that, in the coming years, his school's program to offer a master’s degree...
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Against smoking marijuana
We allow so much junk to violate our fragile lungs -- industrial waste (asbestos), car exhaust, tobacco smoke, other forms of pollution -- so why do we need yet another substance, "weed," granted...
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Wall Street star Philip Falcone admits to wrondoing BY ANDREW TANGEL
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August 20-21 Public Diplomacy Review
“If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.”--Oscar Wilde; via MR; image from"Follow Under Secretary Sonenshine on Twitter!"--From "A Snapshot of Public Diplomacy in Action Archives...
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God and Cockroaches
If anyone, philosopher or not, can explain why God created cockroaches, I think I may die peacefully.Image from
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Taking a bath in Mother Russia or, different paths to "modernity."
Моя Россия -- "My Russia." Via JJ on facebook
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August 21-13 Public Diplomacy Review
"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts."--Charles Maurice de Talleyrand ; Talleyrand image fromARTICLESRecent Items on the...
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August 24 Public Diplomacy Review
"[I]n regards topublic diplomacy. My understanding of the art is 'say much, but say nothing.'"--Comment by CBT, in Eric Zorn, "The Weeks in Review -- Open Thread," blogs.chicagotribune.com; image...
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August 25 Public Diplomacy Review
"How did the world turn before acronyms? I think it probably did just fine."--Cathy Davidson, "MOOC, SPOC, DOCC, Massive Online Face2Face Open . . . (Uh Oh!): Age of the Acronym," hastac.org; image...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon: Review – New Public Diplomacy in the...
Review – New Public Diplomacy in the 21st CenturyBy Sue Jansen on August 26, 2013 New Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century: A Comparative Study of Policy and PracticeBy: James PammentRoutledge,...
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August 26 Public Diplomacy Review
“Air power is an unusually seductive form of military strength, in part because, like modern courtship, it appears to offer gratification without commitment.” Image from--Eliot A. Cohen, who directed...
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August 27 Public Diplomacy Review
"In short, Luck's always to blame."--Jean de La Fontaine; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYThe Case for Blowing Things Up - PD News–CPD Blog, USC Center on Public Diplomacy: "Despite the allure of soft power...
View ArticleHonoring Martin Luther King and Bombing Syria
As Obama prepares to honor rhetorically Martin Luther King (who was strongly opposed to the War in Viet-Nam), the President evidently has plans to bomb Syria. I wonder what MLK, a statesman most...
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August 27, 2013Bomb Syria, Even if It Is IllegalBy IAN HURD, New York TimesEVANSTON, Ill. — THE latest atrocities in the Syrian civil war, which has killed more than 100,000 people, demand an urgent...
View ArticleThe Rumsfeld/a Foreign Service officer's Axis of Evil
I. Donald Rumsfeld: Obama Administration Has Not Justified Syria Intervention - Huffington Post (August 29, 2013):Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who served under former President George W....
View ArticleElecting Barack Obama president won't be enough to improve America's standing...
After the honeymoon: Electing Barack Obama president won't be enough to improve America's standing in the world - John Brown, theguardian.com (2008):It is widely accepted that public diplomacy has been...
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