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ZunZuneo: Do Former Users Even Care That It Was Secretly Built by USAID?
FromBY YULIYA KOMSKA • April 14, 2014 • 10:00 AM(Photo: Tuitui/Shutterstock)Share on facebookShare on twitterShare on google_plusone_shareShare on emailShare on printfriendlyMore Sharing ServicesOur...
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U.S. Public Diplomacy Mission Statements
A 2003 article, citing the State Department website, notes that: "Working in liaison with the Pentagon, [Charlotte] Beers was appointed to head the State Department’s propaganda unit in the immediate...
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'Casual marijuana use changes the brain,' researchers say
See also John Brown, "Marijuana and holy water," Notes and EssaysThe below from'Casual marijuana use changes the brain,' researchers sayWednesday 16 April 2014 - 12am PSTAlcohol / Addiction / Illegal...
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Notes for a Lecture: "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United"
From SEARCHDISUNIONThe Civil War Death Toll, ReconsideredBy NICHOLAS MARSHALL APRIL 15, 2014, 8:00 PM 77 CommentsDisunion follows the Civil War as it unfolded.E-MAILFACEBOOKTWITTERSAVEMOREWhat did the...
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April 15-16 Public Diplomacy Review
"Trying to get foreigners to like us is the default endeavor of the State Department’s public affairs officers, and, in my view, it’s largely a waste of time."--Former Under Secretary of State for...
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Query to linguists re "публичной дипломатии" (Russian translation of public...
Query to linguists, inspired by a noteworthy comment by MC on Facebook. Here's the query:The translation of "public diplomacy," rendered in some Russian texts as "публичной дипломатии," suggests in...
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April 17 Public Diplomacy Review
--image fromBOOK REVIEWAmerican Statecraft [American Statecraft: The Story of the U.S. Foreign Service by J. Robert Moskin, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2013] - John Brown, American Diplomacy:...
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The 600 Years of History Behind Those Ukrainian Masks
From TimeThe 600 Years of History Behind Those Ukrainian MasksMark Thompson @MarkThompson_DC 9:00 PM ETA masked separatist stands guard outside a government building in Slavyansk.Gleb Garanich /...
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Hollywood Smashes Hitler! Propaganda-tainment from WW2
FromOddball FilmsScreenings Thursday & Friday Nights at 8pm | 275 Capp Street, San Francisco, CA 94110Hollywood Smashes Hitler! Propaganda-tainment from WW2 - Fri. Apr 18 - 8PMOddball Films and...
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Notes for a Lecture: "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the United States United"
From Washington PostIs Barack Obama ‘black’? A majority of Americans say no.BY CHRIS CILLIZZAApril 14 at 11:51 amMore CommentsPresident Obama made history in 2008 as the first African American...
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VIDEO: "This is America! And we don't need to know where a country is to send...
A propos of the below Colbert video, the quotation: "War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" -- Ambrose Bierce -- is relevant.Bierce quotation from****Colbert: Ukraine ‘is wherever the...
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April 18 Public Diplomacy Review
"Psyplomacy model"--According to Dr Nicholas Beecroft, a new policy (which he says he influenced) launched by the British Council which shifted "their model of public diplomacy from a marketing model...
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A former altar boy and U.S. Ambassador speaks
From Facebook:Michael McFaul8 hrs · Stanford, CA · On this Good Friday, thinking for some reason of my years as an alter [sic] boy at St. Patrick's in Butte, Montana when I was so busy during the Holy...
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A Facebook comment on the new U.S. Under Secretary for Public diplomacy ...
http://amanpour.blogs.cnn.com/2014/04/18/selling-america-to-the-world/Selling America to the worldFrom Kiev to Damascus, Moscow to Caracas, there are very few international conflicts and debates where...
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Putin has more admirers than the west might think
From The Guardian; via MA on FacebookPutin has more admirers than the west might thinkRussia has found out who its friends are recently – and thanks to some old resentments, that includes India and...
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On "Dr" Rice enlightening the young at outrageous prices
As the good "Dr" Condi Rice continues to be in the news, including as a speaker at universities for outrageous fees, allow me to share the below article, written some years ago, about an intellectual...
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Snowden Russian anekdoty ...
JB note: In all honesty, being away from Russia for over a decade, I don't get all of these jokes, but those that I do get are quite funny.2014-04-19 22:28 GMT-04:00 John Brown...
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High on profits? Just askin'
A query re the Puffington Post from one of its grateful, unpaid (i.e., journalistically "klean" contributors, since he doesn't get laid -- pardon the typo -- to write) contributors ... HuffPost...
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How America Lost Vladimir Putin
From The AtlanticHow America Lost Vladimir PutinA rupture between Russia and the West, 14 years in the makingDAVID ROHDE and ARSHAD MOHAMMEDAPR 19 2014, 9:54 AM ET24inShareMoreA portrait of Russian...
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Europe and Ukraine: Putin’s Project
FromEurope and UkrainePutin’s Project16.04.2014 · Ukraine has no future without Europe, but Europe also has no future without Ukraine. Throughout the centuries, the history of Ukraine has revealed...
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