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Hillary Clinton Faces Heat Over Paid Speeches
Hillary Clinton Faces Heat Over Paid SpeechesUNLV Students Want $225,000 Fee for Upcoming Appearance Donated- Peter Nicholas, Wall Street JournalHillary Clinton is facing a backlash over her paid...
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Chewing will be allowed at State Department "Culinary Partnership" events ...
JB Note: With all due respect to the State Department, it has a genius for turning the most human of human activities -- breaking bread, sharing a meal -- into yet another bureaucratic exercise (see...
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June 27-28 Public Diplomacy Review
Image fromVIDEOEzhoFF Band - United States - youtube.com Via IK on FacebookPUBLIC DIPLOMACYState Dept: Egypt's Jailing of Journalists a 'Detour on the Path to Democracy' - Jeryl Bier, Weekly Standard:...
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Inequality Is Not Inevitable: Notes for a Lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What...
From New York TimesTHE GREAT DIVIDEInequality Is Not InevitableBy JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ JUNE 27, 2014 6:16 PM 377 CommentsThe Great Divide is a series about inequality.E-MAILFACEBOOKTWITTERSAVEMOREAN...
View ArticleBlast From the Past: "How the Word Will See the Surge" (2007)
Published on Tuesday, January 9, 2007 by CommonDreams.orgHow the World Will See the Surgeby John BrownThere has been much press commentary in recent days concerning the administration's planned surge...
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June 29-30 Public Diplomacy Review
"[...]tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne pas savoir demeurer en repos dans une chambre."--Pascal; image fromAUDIOSpecial VOA Newscast on PCJ Radio Int. [satirical]-...
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FROM SARAJEVO TO BAGHDAD: THE LESSONS OF WAR
From the New Yorker; via JR on FacebookJULY 1, 2014FROM SARAJEVO TO BAGHDAD: THE LESSONS OF WARPOSTED BY JOHN CASSIDY17PRINTMORE2Apologies to all you World Cup fans, but today I am concentrating,...
View ArticleWindow on Eurasia: Rostov Journalist Outlines Five Scenarios for Ukraine’s...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014Window on Eurasia: Rostov Journalist Outlines Five Scenarios for Ukraine’s DisintegrationPaul GobleStaunton, July 1 – In the wake of the Crimean Anschluss, many Russians have...
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Modern Art at its Best
IMAGE: MODERN ART AT ITS BESTFrom Photos: Soviet Shuttle Dreams To Dust
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Вера в соцреализм: 125 лет со дня рождения автора "Рабочего и колхозницы"
fromВера в соцреализм: 125 лет со дня рождения автора "Рабочего и колхозницы"Культура 1 июля, 14:52 UTC+4Самые известные работы скульптора Веры Мухиной - в материале ИТАР-ТАССВера Мухина, 1946 год©...
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Evidence of U.S. Public Diplomacy Effectiveness: Putin Propagandist Dmitry...
Dmitry Kiselev Is Redefining the Art of Russian Propaganda - Joshua Yaffa, newrepublic.com: Nobody exploits basic human insecurity and fear quite like Putin's favorite TV host - "Watching hours of his...
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Since when are international relations a "social science"?
"One major divide in international relations, as well as in other social sciences, is between those who believe in structure and those who believe in agency." (David A. Graham, "Why Putin Turned...
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U.S. Diplomats Could Learn From Cassius Clay or, "love adventures in Russia"
JB Note: "Gone with the Wind" was (still is?) the most popular American novel ever in Russia (which I was told, perhaps erroneously, while serving in that vast, complex Eurasian geographical expression...
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The American way of war: It may surprise you
From Los Angeles TimesOp-Ed The American way of war: It may surprise youMilitants from the radical group ISIS are seen last week in Iraq celebrate their declaration of an Islamic state. (Associated...
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American Dream is still alive, but unrecognized: Notes for a lecture, "E...
fromAmerican Dream is still alive, but unrecognizedEverett Rosenfeld, CNBC5:33 a.m. EDT July 5, 2014(Photo: Thinkstock) 145CONNECT 17TWEETLINKEDIN 23COMMENTEMAILMOREA new study shows that a majority of...
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Price tag for the American dream: $130K a year: Notes for a lecture, "E...
fromLIFEMONEYTECHTRAVELOPINION72°WEATHERCROSSWORDSYOUR TAKEINVESTIGATIONSVIDEOSTOCKSMOREUSERSEARCH3156432106183Price tag for the American dream: $130K a yearWHAT IT COSTS TO LIVE THE AMERICAN...
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July 1-5 Public Diplomacy Review
"Greed is picking up."--Gary Kaltbaum, president of Kaltbaum Capital Management, regarding "the continuation of a bull market"; image fromVIDEOISIS mocks Obama in Michael Bay-style propaganda video -...
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Ambassador Robert Gosende: Presentation in Warsaw on "The Conduct of Foreign...
Ambassador Robert Gosende: Presentation* to graduate students at Warsaw’s Higher School (University) of Social Psychology in Warsaw, Friday, June 13, 2014:The Conduct of Foreign Relations in the...
View ArticleIn new age of wealth and inequality, calls for intervention go unheeded -...
Op-Ed In new age of wealth and inequality, calls for intervention go unheededRICHARD D. BROWN AND BRUCE H. MANN, Los Angeles TimesThomas Piketty, writing from France, is the latest person to sound an...
View ArticleVoices: Almost everything you know about World War I is wrong
Voices: Almost everything you know about World War I is wrongRick Hampson, USA TODAY 9:28 a.m. EDT July 6, 2014Partly because most of us have never even known an American veteran of World War I -- the...
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