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In a propaganda war, U.S. tried to play by the enemy’s rules
Washington Post By Greg Miller and Scott HighamCONFRONTING THE ‘CALIPHATE’ |This is part of an occasional series about the rise of the Islamic State militant group, its implications for the Middle...
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Tories go to war with the BBC
via ACP on Facebook; fromDavid Cameron, infuriated by the corporation's election coverage, appoints BBC critic John Whittingdale to "sort out the BBC" ahead of the royal charter review next...
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Broadcasting Board of Governors reform bill reintroduced
BBG WatchBBGWatcher May 14, 2015 0 CommentsCongress, Featured News, Hot Tub BlogAlbio Sires, BBG, Bill Keating, Brad Sherman, CEO,Chris Smith, Dana Rohrabacher, disinformation, Ed Royce,Eliot Engel,...
View ArticleIsrael can win the public diplomacy war
Norman Bailey globes.co.ilTo stop winning battles and losing wars, Israel needs a professional, independent, public diplomacy agency.The current Jerusalem conference on combatting anti-Semitism can be...
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B.B. King Wowed Soviet Audiences
American blues legend B.B. King performs on stage at the Live at Sunset Festival in Zurich, Switzerland, in July 2012.By Mark Baker and Tom Balmforth, RFL/RL; via MP on FacebookMay 15, 2015The music...
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How to challenge propaganda and disinformation
FromBy Donald M. BishopJB comment: Is not the real question, may suggest, which "facts" -- rather than facts "themselves" -- "should be submitted to a candid world"? But such a "factual" selection is,...
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Exporting the Best of America – What the Business Sector Can Learn From Jazz
Via LBfrom:americansecurityproject.orgLouis Armstrong on Tour in the 1950sExporting the Best of America – What the Business Sector Can Learn From JazzPosted By Chad Tragakis on May 06, 2015SHARE...
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Advisory Commission Questions Closing of American Centers
via JBFrom: pdaa.publicdiplomacy.org(Artaxerxes, Wikimedia Commons)17 May 2015. In a new white paper, the U.S. Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy expressed concerns about the scheduled closing of...
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All Hail Music Diplomacy: B.B. King Departs the Global Stage
Huffington PostDerek ShearerProfessor of Diplomacy at Occidental College and former US ambassadorLegendary blues guitarist and singer B.B. King died last week. He was a global ambassador for American...
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US Embassy Madagascar: A Post Far From Heaven With a $700K Imaginary American...
Posted: 1:02 am EDT From DiplopunditLast week, State/OIG released its inspection report of the U.S. Embassy Antananarivo in Madagascar. It’s one of those report that you read and you want to pull your...
View ArticleThe Profitable Patriotism of Vladimir Putin's Biker Bromance
From globalvoicesonline.orgWith a name like theirs, you expect big things from the “Night Wolves,” the Russian motorcycle gang that’s become internationally famous for its peculiar patriotic events and...
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[Herald Interview] ‘Korea-Japan-U.S. ties no zero-sum game’
koreaherald.comDespite the strained ties between Seoul and Tokyo and other challenges, the South Korea-U.S. alliance is 'more resilient, deeper and broader than ever,' former U.S. ambassador to Korea...
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Walter Lippmann on the Voice of America -- Relevant to Current Discussions of...
Lippmann image fromWalter Lippmann, "The Voice of America Should be Abolished," Los Angeles Times (April 29, 1953):The Rockefeller Committee has advised the President to take the Voice of America and...
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Ecuador's group of friends act signed in Minsk
eng.belta.by:"Ecuador's group of friends act has been signed in Minsk. The signing ceremony took place in Minsk's Friendship House on 20 May, BelTA informs.The document was inked by Ambassador...
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Cold War Modernists (book review)
Review by Dr. John H. Brown (American Diplomacy)Greg Barnhisel, Cold War Modernists: Art, Literature, and American Cultural Diplomacy, New York: Columbia University Press, 2015, ISBN:...
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China's Public Diplomacy by Ingrid d'Hooghe (book)
FromChina’s Public DiplomacyAuthor(s): Ingrid d'HoogheGenre: Politics and SociologyLanguage: EnglishYear: 2014E-book Format: PDFFile Size: 2.8 MB
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House Panel Advances Reforms of US International Media
VOAFILE - Islamic State militants use propaganda, such as a video purportedly showing conquest of Ethiopian Christians, to portray themselves as fierce and powerful.RELATED ARTICLES US Congressional...
View ArticleGreat Britain Morphs Into Merely OK Britain
From Great Britain Morphs Into Merely OK Britain.From news.investors.comBY FAREED ZAKARIA "... In Cameron's first term, the Foreign Office budget was cut by more than a quarter, and further trims are...
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America House opens with a photo exhibit and a welcome to Ukrainians
From: share.america.govImage from entry, with caption: People standing and looking at a display of photographs hanging in a gallery (U.S. Embassy Kyiv)The U.S. government has opened a center in Kyiv,...
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Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Stengel...
Note: An "America House" was opened in Kyiv by the USG twenty years ago -- only to be closed down a few years later. See. Regarding another "American Space" under Mr. Stengel's stewarship, see. Rick...
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