February 18-19

“A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”

--Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

"A collection of Wikipedia articles about physics contains text; the mind of a physicist contains knowledge."

--"Internet Knowledge Organizer" Larry Sanger

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Indian Public Diplomacy: A Strategic Future - India Inside Out Project. Via

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Zombify to Unify: "Euro schools pour propaganda brainwash" - Russia Today

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Grassroot Diplomat: "Grassroot Diplomat is the epitome of terms known as 'citizen diplomacy' and 'public diplomacy', whereby issues of an international nature is taken upon by members of society who do not necessarily belong to a government. As an independent agency, Grassroot Diplomat shows no allegiance to a solitary government viewpoint but will act in the interest of its clients no matter where they are or what political state their country is in. By using diplomatic strategies and connections within diplomatic circles, Grassroot Diplomat aims to connect client projects to prominent political leaders who show an interest to what stakeholders think."

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US-China: a mix of cooperation and competition - Russia Today: "Interview with Robert Ross, Professor of Political Science at Boston College and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. ... [Ross:] Vice-President Xi came to Washington in difficult time in US-China relations. The leaders – Vice-President Xi, Vice-President Biden and President Obama have gone to the Pentagon to meet with Defense Department officials including the Secretary of Defense.

So, in this respect there is the media element to this and public diplomacy is going rather smoothly. ... The number one task for the leader of China in reality is not the United States but maintaining domestic stability and the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. And the Vice-President Xi, when he becomes the president his commitment to the Chinese Communist Party will be to maintain that stability. And I think increasingly his role will be not only in policy making but in trying to develop a role that reassures the people that the Chinese Communist Party is committed to improve the condition of the Chinese people." Image from article

Thanks to U.S. Citizen Diplomats, Enduring Relationships Are Built Around the World - Kathleen Stephens, DipNote: "In my new role as Acting Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, on Thursday, I had the chance to meet with almost 500 citizen diplomats in attendance at this year's National Council of International Visitors' (NCIV) annual meeting. I thanked them for the role they play in supporting our U.S. foreign policy goals by building trust and respect between the people of the United States and the citizens of the world. NCIV has a national network of more than 80,000 dedicated volunteers, in over 90 regional chapters. In 2011, the U.S. Department of State's International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) brought over 5,000 visitors to the United States on 811 projects from over 170

countries. This would not be possible without the NCIV network of volunteers who open their homes to these international visitors, show them around their communities by taking them to visit cultural venues and to meet with local government representatives and business leaders. The annual meeting is a chance for NCIV members to connect with Department leadership, and for the Department of State to thank volunteers and emphasize the critical nature of their work. We talked about the front page story in the Washington Post of Vice President Xi's visit to Iowa that very day to reunite with an American family he spent time with 27 years ago, when he was a provincial agricultural official leading a delegation to the state -- that long-ago friendship is still helping to build a better relationship between the United States and China. And it's a perfect way to illustrate how citizen diplomacy works -- which happened to tie in well with the annual meeting's theme: 'One Story at a Time: The Impact of Citizen Diplomacy.' It captures the essence of international exchange and why we do it." Via PD_Dan on twitter. Image from

How does the State Department practice public diplomacy in the age of social media? - Alex Howard, gov20.govfresh.com: "Millions of people around the world are aware that the U.S. Department of State is using Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. Between them, the U.S. Department of State, U.S. embassies and consulates now collectively manage: ■125 YouTube channels with 23,940 subscribers and 12,729,885 million video views ■195 Twitter accounts with 1,403,322 followers; ■288 Facebook pages with 7,530,095 fans. The U.S. Department of State also maintains a presence on Flickr, Tumblr, and Google+, and an official blog, DipNote. Its embassies and consulates also maintain a presence on these social media platforms and produce their own blogs. What many U.S. citizens may not realize is that U.S. foreign service officers are also practicing public diplomacy on China’s Weibo microblogging network or Russia’s vkontakte social network. The U.S. Department of State also publishes social media content in 11 languages: Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, English, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Urdu. Many embassies are also tweeting in local languages, including German, Indonesian, Korean, and Thai. That’s a lot of talking, to be sure, but in the context of social media, a key question is whether the State Department is listening.

After all, news about both human and natural crises often breaks first on Twitter, from the early rumblings of earthquakes to popular uprisings. This morning, three representatives from the U.S. Department of State shared case studies and professional experiences gleaned directly from the virtual trenches about how does social media is changing how public diplomacy is practiced in the 21st century. In the video embedded [in this article], you can watch an archive of the discussion from the New America Foundation on lessons learned from the pioneers who have logged on to share the State Department’s position, listen and, increasingly, engage with a real-time global dialogue." Image from

Public diplomacy's ship comes in. (The US Navy's "ship-to-shore connectivity.") - Kim Andrew Elliott reporting on International Broadcasting

US and allies "must take to television and resume their conversation with the Iranian people," she [Azadeh Moaveni in the Guardian] writes - Kim Andrew Elliott reporting on International Broadcasting

News about radio humor: Iran counters RFE/RL's "Day After Tomorrow" with "Day Before Yesterday" - Kim Andrew Elliott reporting on International Broadcasting: " RFE/RL, Off Mic blog, 15 Feb 2012, Deana Kjuka: 'Iran’s new state media political satire show, Radio Pariruz, Farsi for 'The Day Before Yesterday,' a show started in response to Radio Farda’s popular satirical show, 'Pas Farda,' or 'The Day After Tomorrow.' Radio Pariruz launched on January 24. Modeled after 'Pas Farda,' Radio Pariruz

is the second recent attempt by Iranian authorities to counter what 'Pas Farda' has been providing Iranians for the past two years: a platform to challenge the limits of political discourse in Iran through satire. Last May, RFE/RL’s senior correspondent Golnaz Esfandiari reported on the launch of a new website called 'Radio Dirooz,' Farsi for 'Radio Yesterday,' that summarizes Radio Farda’s reports and reposts them, adding their own spin. So far, though, it seems that Pariruz is having a tough time recasting its shrill message in the playful language of satire.'" Image from Elliott article

Blind Ambition - Alex Belida, Mountain Runner: "When the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) recently unveiled a new Strategic Plan, it set a brazenly ambitious goal: 'To become the world’s leading international news agency by 2016.' But based on its latest budget proposal, global news organizations like Reuters and AP would appear to have little to fear. To achieve its goal, the BBG, a tiny federal agency overseeing U.S. non-military broadcasters, first plans to gut its existing news operations, starting with the nation’s flagship overseas broadcaster, the Voice of America."

BBG awarded 50 million dollar contract to Gallup while planning to terminate broadcasts and fire over 200 journalists - BBGWatcher, USG Broadcasts/BBG Watch: "Journalists at the Voice of America, Radio Free Asia, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Alhurra TV, Radio Sawa, and Radio and TV Marti are outraged that their parent agency, the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG), has awarded a 50 million dollar multi-year audience research contract to Gallup while approving plans for drastic cuts and reduction in broadcasting overseas and for firing over 200 reporters and support staff, the majority of them working for the Voice of America in Washington, DC. The BBG plans to eliminate completely Voice of America radio broadcasts to Tibet and to close down the VOA Cantonese Service which produces both radio and television programs to China.

The BBG awarded the five-year 50 million dollar contract to Gallup on December 6, 2011. ... The independent, nongovernmental Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB – www.cusib.org), which last year had opposed a previous BBG effort to end all VOA radio and TV broadcasts to China and to fire 45 journalists, is again protesting against the latest BBG proposed cuts. The BBG’s last year’s proposal for China was overwhelmingly rejected by Democrats and Republicans in House and Senate oversight committees. After the unveiling of the BBG’s FY2013 Budget Proposal, a CUSIB spokesperson told BBG Watch that 'this egregious effort to disappropriate funding from VOA will effectively undermine the purpose of the Congressionally-mandated Public Law 94-350 to inform the people in China who speak Cantonese by providing them with news broadcasts that promote freedom and democracy.' This campaign against Voice of America – during PRC Vice President Xi Jinping’s week-long visit to the United States – is nothing less than another attempt to concede that little by little, the Broadcasting Board of Governors will dismantle America’s commitment to broadcast news from the United States,' a CUSIB spokesperson said." Image from article

Commercials Encourage Young English-Speakers To Learn German -  posted atCenter for Applied Second Language Studies: Improving Language Teaching and Learning: "German is related to English, so you may already speak some German. And if you pursue advanced German throughout your academic career, it could help you land a great job in the near future. These are the messages behind a do Deutsch advertising campaign the German Embassy has launched in cooperation with ABC 7 (WJLA) in Washington, DC. Two separate sets of television advertisements - one aimed at a young audience of kids just starting to learn their first foreign languages

at school, another aimed at college students just starting out in life and thinking about how to stand out from the crowd in their first job searches - have aired recently on Channel 7 (ABC) in the Washington area. The ads were sponsored by the German Information Center USA, the public diplomacy department of the German Embassy in Washington." Image from

Public Diplomacy: Trying to Pigeonhole Deutsche Welle’s Chinese Department - justrecently.wordpress.com: "It may also begin to matter if Deutsche Welle itself sees members or former members of the Chinese department as people within the ranks of the enemy. ... Deutsche Welle would need to be aware of a crucial thing, even in a more ideal situation: there are journalists in China who truly stick their neck out as they are breaking news, and investigating stories. As journalists, rather than activists, they show much more courage than the average German reporter – and (I suppose) gain much more trust from their readers." 

100 envoys to fight Israel Apartheid Week on campuses: Public Diplomacy Ministry to send Israelis from different sectors in society abroad to represent and defend the state - Lahav Harkov, Jerusalem Post: "The 'Faces of Israel' mission, which leaves next weekend, includes settlers, Arabs, artists, experts in national security, gay people, and immigrants from Ethiopia. Actor Aki Avni will also join the group. The participants in the project have undergone several weeks of training in the Public Diplomacy Ministry, and

will visit dozens of college campuses to battle the 'apartheid' label in New York, Boston, Washington, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Toronto, Montreal, Dublin, London, Madrid, Johannesburg and Cape Town. The mission will be split into 20 groups that will participate in conferences and panels, as well as speak directly to college students. ... According to Edelstein, the groups plan to explain to students that they are all Israelis who come from different walks of life, yet choose to remain in Israel. The mission’s participants were chosen to show that Israel has a diverse society that values equality and human rights, he explained. The minister said he hopes that students abroad who are meeting real Israelis for the first time will stop the 'messages of incitement and hatred that, at the end of the day, could reach students that are the leaders of tomorrow.'” Image from article

ijassat iqbal jassat - Twitter: "What an oxymoron: Ministry of Public Diplomacy (sic) in #apartheidIsrael! Ja-Nee they need it as much as the Nats needed Min of Info in SA!"

Video: National Victory, Blow to Palestinian Propaganda - "Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: '[T]he ongoing propaganda [war against the State of Israel. ... does not involve bullets and missiles, it is, nonetheless, as vicious and as destructive. This war, being fought in the sphere of public diplomacy, propagates lies and libels in an effort to cast Israel as an international

pariah and strip her of all legitimacy and credibility.'" Image from

African Week in Review Feb 11-17 - theafricanfile.com: "About afrikantraveler [:] Student in Los Angeles pursuing studies in Africa, Public Diplomacy, ICT, and Democracy."

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(other items on this topics appeared in PDPR Feb 13-19

Pop Filter Hot Pick: Distinctively Dutch Festival launches Downtown - Jennifer Baron, popcitymedia.com: "What began an innovative idea six years ago is now taking root as a city-wide cultural confluence. Running February 18th through May 20th, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s highly anticipated Distinctively Dutch Festival is showcasing three months of interdisciplinary arts in both traditional and unconventional sites located throughout Downtown's Cultural District, as well as at select venues from the Northside to Oakland.

Boldly celebrating a diverse spectrum of contemporary performing and visual arts from the Netherlands, including many US and world premieres happening in the Burgh, the multi-format festival spotlights the new work of pioneering figures in dance, theater, music, visual art, film, literature, and architecture. ... 'This festival reinforces the Trust’s commitment to mounting major punctuating events built around culturally specific work. It’s also a cultural diplomacy program. We are so fortunate to have a remarkable Pittsburgh-based arts community here,' says Paul Organisak, VP of programming for the Cultural Trust and executive director of the Pittsburgh Dance Council. ... Organisak views the festival as a model for how cultural diplomacy can create lasting economic, political, academic, and artistic ties between the Netherlands and Pittsburgh." Uncaptioned image from article

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Counterinsurgency Tips, No. 453: Nazi Stuff = Bad - Peter Van Buren, We Meant Well: For those Marines who slept through their counterinsurgency lessons, let’s try again. Using Nazi symbology is bad:

Peeing on Taliban, also bad.

It all reminds people of this:

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US military chief cautions against Israeli attack on Iran: General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, says a strike 'at this time would be destabilising' - Harriet Sherwood, Jill Treanor, guardian.co.uk: The United States is stepping up efforts to dissuade Israel from attacking Iran's nuclear facilities, with a strong public warning by the US military's most senior figure and the dispatch of two high-ranking officials to Jerusalem. General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, said in a television interview that

it was "not prudent at this point" to attack Iran, and "a strike at this time would be destabilising." But in a comment likely to fuel speculation about Israel's military plans, he added: "I wouldn't suggest we've persuaded them that our view is the correct view." The two countries were having a "candid, collaborative conversation" which was continuing, he said. His concerns were echoed by William Hague, the British foreign secretary, who said it was "not a wise thing at this moment" for Israel to launch military action against Iran. Dempsey image from article

Ring of Iranian Bases Threatens US - Juan Cole, Informed Comment: "I had grabbed an earlier version of this graphic off a Democratic Underground bulletin board from 2005. It made the point that the United States, which professes itself menaced by Iran, rather has Iran encircled by military bases.

I have tried to update the map a bit, though this area is a moving target and the map no doubt isn’t perfect. It is expressive enough, however, of the reality. Iraq and Uzbekistan no longer have American bases, but the US military now has a refueling station in Turkmenistan. Some critics complained that forward operating bases are not much of a base. But actually, this map vastly understates the case. It shows only a few of the estimated 450 US military bases and outposts in Afghanistan, e.g. And it does not show drone bases, of which the US has 60 around the world. Iran has 150 billion barrels in petroleum reserves, among the largest reserves in the world, but they cannot be exploited by US corporations because of Israel lobby-inspired US congressional sanctions on Iran. US elites, especially Big Oil, dream of doing regime change in Iran so as to get access to those vast reserves. Likely the most important US objection to the Iranian civilian nuclear enrichment program is that it could give Iran 'nuclear latency,' the ability to construct a bomb quickly if it seemed to Tehran that the US planned to attack. That is, the real objection in Washington to Iranian nuclear know-how is that it makes Iraq-style regime change impossible and so puts Iranian petroleum out of reach of Houston for the foreseeable future. This consideration is likely the real reason that Washington does not, so to speak, go ballistic about North Korea and Pakistan having actual nuclear warheads, but like to has a fainting spell at the very idea of Iran enriching uranium to 3.5 percent (a bomb takes 95%). North Korea and Pakistan don’t have oil." Image from article

Column: Why Iran's nuclear plans are no big deal - Al Neuharth, USA Today: Trying to ban nuclear weapons now anywhere is as unrealistic as it would have been to ban rifles in the olden days. Or atomic bombs in World War II. It's so simple: Countries that have nuclear weapons and know when or how to use them — or more likely not use them — will be the survivors and leaders. Those who misuse them will die as other countries with nuclear weapons retaliate.

Africa: Nuclear Threat or Propaganda War? - allafrica.com: Africa must not be fooled into taking the Western side against other civilisations like China and Iran.

Beginning of the End - Editorial, New York Times:  What is certain is that there is little time and a huge amount to be done to increase the chances that Afghanistan will not implode once most of the American troops are gone. Islamabad’s continued collusion with the Taliban and other extremist groups is the biggest threat to Afghanistan’s long-term stability. The fact that Pakistan did not stop the

Taliban from agreeing to negotiations with Washington may be a rare positive sign. But with Islamabad there are never any guarantees. As frustrating as it is, the administration must keep trying to cajole and pressure Pakistan into cooperating. The United States really has no choice, not least because a collapse in Pakistan — with 100 plus nuclear weapons — would be even more disastrous than a collapse in Kabul. Image from

The End of American Intervention - James Traub, New York Times: For the last 20 years we have lived amid the furious clangor of war — and debates over how to wage it. The intense and urgent clashes in the 1990s over “humanitarian intervention” gave way to pitched battles over “regime change” and “democracy promotion” after 9/11, and then to arguments over “counterinsurgency strategy,” a new battle for hearts and minds, as Barack Obama ramped up the war in Afghanistan. The foreign policy debate has often felt like an ideological cockfight. And now, although we have not yet realized it, that era has come to an end. Only a few years ago the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — wars of occupation, nation-building and counterinsurgency — looked like the face of modern conflict. Now they don’t. Americans don’t believe in them and can’t afford them anymore. We must accept, if uneasily, the future which now seems to lie before us: We will do less good in the world, but also less harm.

Book Review: “Eisenhower in War and Peace” by Jean Edward Smith - Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post: Too often we forget, even after having had half a century to think about it, that, as Jean Edward Smith puts it in this fine new biography, Eisenhower was “the only president in the twentieth century to preside over eight years of peace and prosperity.” This was not because he was a cautious, passive caretaker president but because his long, distinguished military career had led him, as earlier their own experiences of war had led Ulysses Grant and William T. Sherman, to hate war. In 1953, when he took office, the United States was in the midst of the Korean War, a conflict the American public loathed. “Ike believed the country wanted peace,” Smith writes, “and he was determined to provide it. War was neither a board game nor a seminar exercise for armchair intellectuals.” So he got the country out of Korea, refused to rescue France from the folly of Dien Bien Phu (thus keeping the United States out of Vietnam) and declined to go along with France and England in their subsequent folly at Suez.

We will never know what Kennedy would have done about Vietnam as we slipped gradually into the quagmire there, but we do know that the war was enthusiastically boosted by McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and the other “armchair intellectuals” he brought into his administration. We do know that it was carried on by Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, before the latter finally extricated us from it. Scarcely had we caught our breath than George H.W. Bush led us into war with Iraq, though he at least had the sense to stop as soon as the job was done. Instead it was left to his son and namesake, poked and prodded by neocons with no personal experience of combat — chickenhawks, as they’re known in some circles — to take us not merely into Iraq but into Afghanistan as well. Image from

Looking for a Fight [Review of Honor in the Dust: Theodore Roosevelt, War in the Philippines, and the Rise and Fall of America’s Imperial Dream By Gregg Jones] - Candice Millard, New York Times: What is striking about “Honor in the Dust,” Gregg Jones’s fascinating new book about the Philippine-American War, is not how much war has changed in more than a century, but how little. On nearly every page, there is a scene that feels as if it could have taken place during the Bush and Obama administrations rather than those of McKinley and Roosevelt. American troops are greeted on foreign soil as saviors and then quickly despised as occupiers. The United States triumphantly declares a victorious end to the war, even as bitter fighting continues. Allegations of torture fill the newspapers, horrifying and transfixing the country. In the end, “Honor in the Dust” is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States. This is the story of what happened when a powerful young country and its zealous young president were forced to face the high cost of their ambitions. There finally came a point, Jones writes, when even Theodore Roosevelt realized that “America’s dream of empire had passed.”

Handmaidens to Censorship: The threat to online freedom may come from governments, of course, but also from private companies doing the state's dirty work. Luke Allnutt reviews "Consent of the Networked" - Wall Street Journal: The problem is that many thinkers on the information-wants-to-be-free side of the debate present the same binary choice, seeing almost any state control of the Internet, or any government attempt to protect intellectual property, or even the attempts of private social networks to get people to log in with their real names, as affronts to democracy comparable with the worst excesses of repressive regimes.

Luckily, Mr. MacKinnon's analysis is more nuanced and balanced than that, and "Consent of the Networked" is an excellent survey of the Internet's major fault lines. To protect online freedom, she favors grass-roots movements of empowered users pushing back against corporations. She argues that companies must be convinced, through multi-stakeholder efforts like the Global Network Initiative, "that respecting and protecting their users' universally recognized human rights is in their long-term commercial self-interest." See also; image from article.

Media and the armed forces - Ikram Sehgal, thenews.com.pk: The new way of making war, the projection of “soft power,” is cynical in that it involves millions of people in the persuasion effort. The lords of this new media war are the communication and image experts closely tied to political power, producing a sophisticated kind of communication in comparison with classic state propaganda. Having great financial resources they use the same psychology employed by advertisement groups to successfully launch a product on the market. In today’s technology-driven scenario, where “wars can be won or lost on the world’s television screens,” the operational commander will have to be proactive and innovative in dealing with the media. Commanders have always tried to acquire accurate information; the modern IT appears to provide a greater opportunity to clear away the fog than ever before. Deception, disinformation, and the use of mass media are also of increasing value as military tools. The Indians have been very successful keeping strategic harmony in their media campaign against us [in Pakistan]; their policy being “conversionary” – i.e., attacking the foundations of our ideology, so that we ourselves began to question the two-nation theory – and “divisive” – i.e., creating misunderstanding between the federating units on one issue or the other: e.g., the problem of sharing of water. India has some very good and seasoned journalists, but in any conflict with Pakistan they follow the government brief without exception."

Russian propaganda movie on August war meets protest in Azerbaijan - kazbeginews.wordpress.com: The propaganda premier of the film taken by Russian movie editors about Russian aggression against Georgia 2008 was disrupted due to public protest in Baku, Azerbaijan. The management of the movie-theatre, where the premier had to be held, removed it from the schedule. Representatives of Azerbaijan Cinema refused to show the movie, saying that it causes not similar reaction in the Azeri society and concern in the Georgian society. On February 16, the public show of the movie was also refused by the Park Cinema in Baku. They accused the

Russian film-makers of attempts to justify the beginning of war against Georgia and occupation of Georgian territories, saying the film must not be shown at any cinema. The film was shot by a Russian editor Janik Faizyev and it was funded by the Putins regime. The premier was scheduled for February 21, however, it was removed from movie rent. In 1992-1993 and in 2008, Russia organized an ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia. More than 400,000 Georgians were driven out of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and are not allowed to return to their homes until today. Instead, the region is becoming more and more militarized. Russia spends large amounts of money on all this, from making propaganda films to bribing island nations, to maintaining military bases in occupied territories. They try to justify this by saying that Russia was noble enough to save a small people from destruction. Image from article

Putin’s Propaganda Method Pervades the Internet - my.firedoglake.com: Dr. Bernaras Ivanovas, Vytautas Magnus University, interpreted by Leonid I. Donkeytalevitch: For more than ten years Russia has been under the control of V. Putin’s regime. President Putin has tried to consolidate his political powers using a very wide number of instruments: at first he blocked free press on federal level, he brought back governmental control to economy, but one of the most important of these activities was propaganda. President Putin uses television very effectively, but at the same time the Internet is used as an electronic interface too. For that reason, Russia established the Academy of Management in Tiumen city (Russia). At first, this institution was established in Petersburg in 2001, but in 2003 it moved to Tiumen (their Internet address is www.koba.ru). The main work of his institution is concentrated on the Internet. The head of this propagandistic institution is General I. Petrov. He is well known among the Russian policy elite as a Stalinist. He also is vice commander of the Russian Military rocket forces and ex vice commander of Bajkonur space centre.

Wary of China, India tries to charm its neighbours - economist.com: Talk to Indian diplomats abroad and its most senior officials in Delhi, and a theme emerges. “India’s priority is democracy and stability,” says an Indian high commissioner in a nearby country. Most security types in Delhi have no time for the “string of pearls” theory—the idea that China is seeking to encircle India in its alliances with Pakistan and other neighbours. Yet they agree that India made mistakes in the past, failing to foster warm ties nearby and so leaving gaps into which Chinese investors, donors and diplomats have stepped.

Propaganda... - Greg, getartsmart.blogspot.com: Early mornin Art lovers... here we go... In your view, were British and American First World War recruitment posters unethical? Why or why not? Do you think that the

aesthetic quality of a propaganda poster is important to its success? Explain. Drop some intellectual bombs. Change the consciousness of your classmates! Image from article

Trimet Transit District Attempts Destruction of It's [sic] Unionized Employees by the Careful Application of Propaganda Which Is Disseminated by the Portland Corporate Media - rantingsofatrimetbusdriver.blogspot.com: Propaganda is a form of communication that is aimed at influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda, in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience. Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented. The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda. Propaganda can be used as a form of political warfare.