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September 7
"I used to be a government propagandist with the US Information Agency."--Professor Nancy Snow, "Isis beheading videos: the scariest part is how well their propaganda is working," The Guardian; image...
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September 8-9
“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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September 10
"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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September 11-12
"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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September 13
"Propaganda, of course, goes hand in hand with policy."--From a letter by George Creel, Chairman of the Committee on Public Information (1917-1919) to President Woodrow Wilson, December 27, 1917;...
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September 14
"There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full."--Henry Kissinger; image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACYBackground Briefing En Route to Ankara, Turkey - Special Briefing, Senior State Department...
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September 15-20
"It is only that which has no history, which can be defined."--Nietzche, Genealogy of Morals (II, 13); Nietzche image fromPUBLIC DIPLOMACY-RELATED BLOGSBlogs by Council members - Public Diplomacy...
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September 21-October 1
"There's a lot of sex in these stories; have you had any?"--Writer Toni Morrison, commenting on chick-lit "Good in Bed" author Jennifer Weiner's early work; cited in Princeton Alumni Weekly, Sept 17,...
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Joni Ernst Wants to Make English the Official Language: Note for a lecture,...
via LH on facebookJoni Ernst Wants to Make English the Official Language - Mother Jones"I think it's great when we can all communicate together."—By Patrick Caldwell| Fri Oct. 24, 2014 5:23 PM...
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Via BKU.S.Department of StateSee also (a) “Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public Diplomacy": A Select Annotated Bibliography" (b) "Creel, Lippmann, and the Origins of American Public...
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Americans Under 30 Have No Religion — This Country Is Going to Change: Note...
FromAmericans Under 30 Have No Religion — This Country Is Going to ChangeAmericans are abandoning religion in droves.By Amelia Thomson-Deveaux / The American Prospect January 19, 2015The following...
View ArticleA note to PDPBR subscribers/readers; plus an article, Seriously The White...
JB note: As some Public Diplomacy Press and Blog Diplomacy readers/subscribers may have noticed, this blog has been taking a winter break. So allow me, if your busy schedule allows, to bring you up to...
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Abbreviated Edition:Will expand in the coming monthsState Department Asks Twitter For Ideas To Fight Terrorists - Alex Pappas, Daily CallerPublic Diplomacy: Time to Debate Change, Continuity, and...
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Crimea-Cuba: Will any pundits makes the connection? (From a Facebook exchange)
My recent entry on Facebook:The great Obama post-Cold War victory: We got Cuba back! In inside-the-beltway Euro-obsession with Russia/Ukraine/ Crimea, declared a "A victory for Putin" by out-of-work...
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