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February 27-28
"The blog is mightier than the sword."--Headline for article by journalist Amit Lewinthal, israelhayom.com (2012), perhaps relevant eons ago (by social-media standards); image fromPDCAST[LISTEN] On...
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March 1
"[M]eat is the culinary equivalent of gasoline."--Maureen Ogle, in her new book “In Meat We Trust,” a history of what she calls “Carnivore America"; image from, with caption: Lady Gaga's Meat Dress,...
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March 2-8
Abbreviated Edition"I find this faith breathtaking; Americans making all those mistakes that can be avoided by being American."--University of Manitoba Professor Vaclav Smil, reacting to the quotation...
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March 9
Abbreviated edition"Banana"--Term used in the state-run China News Service to characterize recent U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, meaning "that he is yellow on the outside, but white at the...
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March 10
“Thank God for books as an alternative to conversation.”--W.H. Auden"I'm on Facebook so I don't have to talk to people."--A university student (paraphrased); image fromVIDEOMartha Bayles: Through a...
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March 11
"At the State Department history is just one damn thing after another."--Ambassador Laurence Pope; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYInterview: Ambassador Laurence Pope on the State Department, the Foreign...
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March 12-17
Abbreviated edition"If you are not doing good public diplomacy in this town you are dead."--The reaction of Australian ambassador Kim Beazley upon learning that the Melbourne Theatre Company was...
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March 18
Abbreviated edition“it’s what Carl Bildt does.“--A definition of public diplomacy or people’s diplomacy at a seminar chaired by Jon Worth, communication consultant in Brussels; image from; on Bildt,...
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March 19
Abbreviated Edition“The situation in Ukraine continues to develop. Vladimir Putin signed a treaty this morning that formally absorbs Crimea into the Russian Federation. So if you felt bad because you...
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March 20-22
-From: Max Seddon, "Russia’s Propagandist-In-Chief Went On A Junket To Meet U.S. Security Officials," BuzzFeed; via IL; see alsoPUBLIC DIPLOMACYDid the Obama administration enable the invasion of...
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March 23-24
"Communications andpublic diplomacy is [sic] more important than ever before."--Brzezinski, "Diplomacy in a new Communications Era: U.S. Embassy ranked #3 'super communicator' in all of Sweden,"...
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March 25
"CAT"--The Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team; cited in Carol D. Leonnig and David Nakamura, "Secret Service agents on Obama detail sent home from Netherlands after night of drinking," Washington...
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March 26
"The king, he soaked his arrows truein poison, and beyond the plainsdispatched those messengers and slewhis neighbors in their own domains."--From a poem by Aleksandr Pushkin recited in Russian by the...
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March 27
“Putin apparently doesn’t use the Internet because he is afraid of being tracked by foreign governments and 'cause any time he needs to know something, he can just ask Edward Snowden.”--Talk show host...
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March 28-29
"They flow disjunctively: directed, shaped and sometimes inhibited by what we might call mediating structures of interlocution."--The "so-called global cultural flows," according American University...
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The Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Review: "It's junk," decrees Hotmail...
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March 30-April 7
Abbreviated Edition"The PD community really is a welcoming and supportive bunch."--Academic James Pamment; image from“epiphenomenal” --How some academics define public DiplomacyQUOTATIONSQuotations on...
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April 8
Abbreviated Edition"[D]oes this mean that the Department of State (DoS) has expanded its influence role beyond public diplomacy?"--Lawrence Dietz, referring to USAID’s Twitter for Cuba in his blog,...
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April 9
“The Tourism Minister of Crimea announced that foreign tourists can visit the country this year without a visa. And just when you thought visiting Crimea couldn’t get any more enticing – no...
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