Marijuana and holy water
The last thing we Americans need are more drugs (or whatever you want to call whatever enhances what) in our lungs/body. I vote for holy water (that in principle does not violate our fragile...
View ArticlePublic Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon: Pakistan
Most misunderstood country in the worldNews Comments (2)By:Malik Muhammad Ashraf Saturday, 31 Aug 2013 12:37 am | Comments (2) Malik Muhammad AshrafProjecting soft image of PakistanWe often hear our...
View ArticleJimmy Leach: Add Digital Diplomacy to the Long List of Failures Over Syria
Jimmy Leach: Add Digital Diplomacy to the Long List of Failures Over Syria - pickstuff.netDigital diplomacy, the hipster cousin of public diplomacy, has been enjoying something of a Golden Age...
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August 28-31 Public Diplomacy Review
"We have received a DMCA complaint for your blog, John Brown's Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review. An e-mail with the details of the complaint was sent to you on Aug 30, 2013, and we reset the post...
View ArticleThe American Library in Paris: Not Supported by the USG
France: A bookish haven for Americans in Paris: Thriving since the days of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, the library is a welcoming chat spot and author hangout. Check it out while near the...
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September 1 Public Diplomacy Review
"Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom."--Francis Bacon; image fromNEW PUBLICATIONIntroducing our Winter 2014 Issue: Gastrodiplomacy by Public Diplomacy Magazine Editors. Image from entry, with...
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September 2 Public Diplomacy Review
"This guy is the Director of the Center on Public Diplomacy at USC?"--Reaction of Huffington Post reader robertdoss to the article by USC Center on Public Diplomacy Director Philip Seib, "A Case for...
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September 3 Public Diplomacy Review
"A Short Guide to the Middle East [:]Iran is backing Assad. Gulf states are against Assad! Assad is against Muslim Brotherhood. Muslim Brotherhood and Obama are against General Sisi [Egypt]! But Gulf...
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Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art...
From: Free: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Offer 474 Free Art Books Online - openculture.com:If you like reading about visual art but don’t like spending the considerable sums...
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American isolationism/exceptionalism
If there a recurrent pattern in American history, it is the tension between the U.S.'s isolationism and its exceptionalism.Dictionary definitions -- Isolationism: "A national policy of abstaining from...
View ArticleWhen the U.S. Learned to be Mr. Nice Guy
When the U.S. Learned to be Mr. Nice Guy: Containing Anti-Gringo Sentiment in Revolutionary Mexico Gave Birth to Public Diplomacy - zocalopublicsquare.orgBY JULIE PRIETO|SEPTEMBER 3, 2013Why do they...
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September 4 Public Diplomacy Review
"Literature is news that stays news."--Ezra Pound; image fromVIDEOUS Government - World Class Liars: Syria: Deja Vu all over againHUMORObama Assures Americans This Will Not Be Another 1456 Ottoman...
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Change we can believe in -- Obomba
"Change we can believe in" -- Obomba, the artist formerly known as ObamaAbove Prince image from; below young Obama image from
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Syrian war scenarios -- chemical weapons
The below comment is far beyond whatever professional competence I may have, but I want to get it off my chest:How many of our "strategic thinkers" have considered that eye-doctor Assadand his regime...
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September 5 Public Diplomacy Review
“To hell with them. If this guy wants this war, then let him have it."--A U.S. military officer, evidently referring to President Obama's intervention plans in Syria; image fromVIDEOSee the Assads on...
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September 6 Public Diplomacy Review
“I miss George W. Bush. ... That man knew how to sell a war."--Political satirist Stephen Colbert; cited in Bulletin News, LLC (September 5); image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYShilling for a Living: Public...
View ArticleSyria and U.S. Credibility
There's a lot of media talk that if the U.S. doesn't bomb Syria it will lose its international "credibility" as a "superpower." But if we do in fact stupidly bomb a country that has not attacked us,...
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Worry about zombies? Don't forget jellyfish! -- or, if you don't want to die,...
They’re Taking Over!SEPTEMBER 26, 2013Tim FlanneryE-MAIL PRINT SHAREStung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Oceanby Lisa-ann Gershwin, with a foreword by Sylvia Earle University of Chicago...
View ArticleSnowden in Exile
Snowden in ExileAmy Knight, New York Review of BooksPaolo Pellegrin/Magnum PhotosMoscow, 2008The revelation this week that former National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden had already...
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