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September 8-9 Public Diplomacy Review
“All efforts to make politics aesthetic culminate in one thing, war.” ―Walter Benjamin; image fromATTEMPT AT HUMORA Modest Proposal: Make England the 51st State! - John Brown, Notes and EssaysImage...
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Walter Lippmann and American journalism today
Walter Lippmann and American journalism today - openDemocracySIDNEY BLUMENTHAL 31 October 2007Subjects:democracy & power america inside out Best of 2007About the authorSidney Blumenthal is an...
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Since the war [WWI], especially, editors have come to believe that their highest duty is not to report but to instruct, not to print news but to save civilization, not to publish what Benjamin Harris...
View ArticleThe Oxford Handbook of Propaganda Studies: Contents
CoverThe Oxford Handbook of Propaganda StudiesEdited by Jonathan Auerbach and Russ Castronovo (2014)Oxford HandbooksTable of ContentsIntroduction - Thirteen Propositions about Propaganda - Jonathan...
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September 10 Public Diplomacy Review
"News and truth are not the same thing, and must be clearly distinguished. The function of news is to signalise an event, the function of truth is to bring to light the hidden facts, to set them into...
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Homage to Caledonia
Homage to Caledonia - Economist; via LH on FacebokHow Scotland's referendum is affecting the politics of EuropeFeb 22nd 2014 | From the print editionDAVID CAMERON has won few friends with his demands...
View ArticleАнекдот для лингвистов
Анекдот для лингвистов Via PP on FacebookРусский, французский и китайский лингвисты решили написать имена друг друга, каждый на своём языке.- Моя фамилия Ге, - сказал француз китайцу.- В китайском...
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Islamic, yet integrated -- Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...
The Economist via LH on FacebookWhy Muslims fare better in America than in EuropeSep 6th 2014 | DETROIT | From the print editionTHE State Department estimates that up to 100 American jihadists are...
View ArticleRussia Is Scared of the 21st Century — For Now
By Alexey Eremenko Sep. 10 2014 21:05 Last edited 21:06 Moscow TimesReutersFor too many Russians, the 21st century has proved hard to handle, which is understandable, given the economic shock of trying...
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The U.S. Map Redrawn as 50 States With Equal Population. Note for a lecture,...
From; via JW on FacebookHannah Keyserfiled under: The Afternoon Map[Map credit: Neil Freeman / See larger]Neil Freeman redrew the state borders to get a visual sense of what it would take for the...
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Forget The 50 States; The U.S. Is Really 11 Nations, Author Says. Note for a...
FromFor hundreds of years, this nation has been known as the United States of America. But according to author and journalist Colin Woodard, the country is neither united, nor made up of 50 states....
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The Nine Nations of North America. Note for a lecture, "E Plurinus Unum? What...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (if you can trust it; but it is an honest effort to share information to those who can't afford the price of acquiring knowledge -- e.g., overpriced college...
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Blast from the Past: (2008) : Obama's Foreign Policy
"The new [Obama] administration should also not give overseas audiences the false hope that its arrival on the world scene will mean a sudden, drastic departure from the policies of Bush, despite his...
View ArticleMore evidence that God is an American ...
FromAtheist must swear to God -- or leave US Air ForceAFP September 10, 2014 3:01 PMWashington (AFP) - The US Air Force has told a sergeant he will have to leave the military unless he agrees to take...
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European/American separatism: Facebook exchanges
John Brown33 mins · Edited ·RT obviously linking separatists in Scotland/Catalonia to what's happening in Ukraine. Not to be totally dismissed. I sense a reaction in Europe to centralism, be it from...
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September 11-12 Public Diplomacy Review
"Perhaps propaganda is the most dangerous drug of all."--Leonid Bershidsky, bloombergview.com; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYU.S. Department of State To Host Google+ Hangout on Music Diplomacy on September...
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Глупость русского евразийства
("Aktualne.cz", Чехия)Ян Паине (Jan Payne)© East News Lehtikuva Oy/Heikki Saukkomaa31/03/2009Евразийство: сделано в Казахстане ("Казахстанская правда",Казахстан)03/10/2013Евразийство...
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fromfromСтудентам медуниверситета имени Пирогова запретили носить религиозную одежду12.09.2014 18:40Facebook12ВконтактеTwitter1Google+1КОММЕНТИРОВАТЬ1скрытьФото: ИТАР-ТАССРектор Российского...
View ArticleHow Democracy Dies - Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
How Democracy DiesTocqueville taught that restless private obsessions would degrade civic commitments close to home.By PATRICK J. DENEEN • September 12, 2014 fromIf there are two things that one is...
View ArticleThe Disunited Kingdom: Note for a lecture, "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps the...
From: The Disunited Kingdom: A Royal Mess -- The ineptitude of Britain’s politicians have them scrambling to stop Scottish independence with only a week to go. But Britain’s inability to handle...
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