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An exchange on U.S.- Russian educational exchanges

Bob Persiko1 hr · I was sorry to learn that Russia is dropping out of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program. I was in charge of the Youth Programs Division at the State Department in 1992 when we...

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1997 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards on race and ethnicity:...

From census.govThe U.S. Census Bureau must adhere to the 1997 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) standards on race and ethnicity which guide the Census Bureau in classifying written responses to the...

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The number U.S. residents who speak a language other than English at home...

1,052,938 U.S. Residents Now Speak Arabic Other than English at HomeOctober 6, 2014 - 12:00 PMBy Craig Bannister, cnsnews.comThe number U.S. residents who speak a language other than English at home...

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Media coverage of Russian withdrawal from FLEX program

Via LJB by emailMedia coverage of Russian withdrawal from FLEX programTue, 10/07/2014 - 08:19 — Kaitlyn Chriswell - Alliance for International Educational and Cultural ExchangeAs the Alliance...

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Propaganda in the U.S. During -- and After -- the Great War

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"From: J. Michael Sproule, Propaganda and Democracy: The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion...

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Lippmann and Propaganda

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"From: J. Michael Sproule, Propaganda and Democracy: The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion...

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The Committee on Public Information and the Office of War Information

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"From: J. Michael Sproule, Propaganda and Democracy: The American Experience of Media and Mass Persuasion...

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The American Dream/Nightmare: Note for a lecture "E Pluribus Unum? What Keeps...

From The Times Literary SupplementThen and Now, 1983We look back to a review by Patrick Lindsay Bowles of Goldby Blaise Cendrars, translated by Nina RootesPublished: 24 September 2014Sutter’s Mill –...

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Will Vladimir Putin star in a remake of the Magnificent Seven?

Putin image fromBrynner image fromNote: Yul was born in Siberia; Yul Brynner (Russian: Юлий Борисович Бринер, Yuliy Borisovich Briner; July 11, 1920 – October 10, 1985); see also; Magnificent Seven...

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More on Yul/VVP; or, how Hollywood sees Cossack-Polish relations

In a previous posting, I noted that President of the Russian Federation Putin bears a certain resemblance to another Russian-born actor,Yul Brynner (their political allegiances, however, are quite...

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The Mysteries of Mr. Lippmann: Note for planned article, "Creel, Lippmann,...

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)The Mysteries of Mr. LippmannAnthony LewisOCTOBER 9, 1980 ISSUEWalter...

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Walter Lippmann reviews George Creel's book on the Committee on Public...

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Citation from an Article (1920) by Lippmann on Creel and the...

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Creel and the Espionage Act

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)From James R. Mock and Cedric Larson, Words that Won the War...

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The Committee on Public Information's War Exhibitions

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)The Committee on Public Information's War ExhibitionsFrom James R....

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Who is George Creel, the USA's first "minister of propaganda"?

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Who is George Creel?From  From James R. Mock and Cedric Larson, Words...

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Thoughts Inspired by a Wartime Billboard

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)THOUGHTS INSPIRED BY A WARTIME [WWI] BILLBOARD By Wallace Irwin;...

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Why America Fights Germany

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)Why America Fights GermanyIn  ... March [1918]... appeared [the CPI...

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EspionageAct of June 15, 1917, as amended by the so-called "Sedition Act" of...

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)James R. Mock and Cedric Larson, Words that Won the War (Princeton:...

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American Propaganda and the Propaganda Fide

Note for a Planned Article"Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy"(comments welcome; draft, not for citation)"There was also an even greater task beyond our borders. There were...

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A meeting of great minds, from two different centuries, on cultural...

"Our approach to the neutral countries was simple and direct. Instead of prattling about 'cultural relations,'sending Hollywood stars on good-will missions, pouring out millions in largess, and begging...

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