Saturday, June 25, 2011

June 25



“Movies have always been the most effective, consistent form of mass-media propaganda in presenting a party-blessed version of history.”

--Paul Clark, a professor of Chinese culture and film at the University of Auckland, in New Zealand, who is a visiting scholar at Peking University, regarding the PRC's latest propaganda film, “Beginning of the Great Revival, and its sister film, “The Founding of a Republic,” which was made for the 60th anniversary of the birth of the People’s Republic of China; image from

PUBLIC DIPLOMACY

Obama (Finally) Talks to Voice of America - Helle Dale, Heritage.org: "The White House finally ended its boycott of Voice of America (VOA), the government’s own international broadcasting service, on Wednesday, hours before the President’s speech on U.S. troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. Though every President since VOA’s creation in 1942 had appeared on air with VOA, Barack Obama had not; Obama preferred to reach the world via BBC World Service, Al-Arabaya, and others. Given the fact that the Administration has requested $767 million for international broadcasting, this omission was odd, to say the least. Not only that, but at White House briefings and especially prime time presidential news, VOA has been actually barred from asking any questions.


Has the Obama Administration shunned VOA as a hold-over from the days of the Cold War? It almost appears that way. After intensive appeals from VOA to new White House communications director Jay Carney, the White House relented, giving senior VOA correspondent Andre DeNesnera an exclusive interview in the White House map room. Though conducted in the afternoon of June 22, it was embargoed until the following morning. ... Though the merit of the President’s decision can certainly be debated, it would be encouraging if the White House finally realized that it has a strategic asset in U.S. international broadcasting, which it will have to rely on increasingly if and when it starts withdrawing from Afghanistan. For instance, under the leadership of its director Beth Mendelson, the Afghan service of VOA has achieved a 65 percent audience share for its evening news broadcast. Furthermore, incoming VOA director David Ensor’s last job was as director of communications and public diplomacy U.S. embassy in Kabul. He will understand better than most of official Washington the kinds of challenges and opportunities that continue to face both American troops and the Afghan people." Image from

The Human Tragedy Of Illegal Immigration: Greater Efforts Needed To Combat Smuggling And Violence
- Ray Walser, Jena Baker McNeil, Jessica Zuckerman, Heritage Foundation, posted at: "Over the past 10 years, traversing the U.S.–Mexico border illegally has become increasingly dangerous for would-be immigrants. Illegal immigrants face kidnapping, murder, and rape at the hands of violent drug cartels and ever more ruthless human smugglers. Hundreds of people die every year trying to cross the border into the U.S. However, illegal immigration is dangerous not only to the illegal immigrants themselves—it is costly to societies and nations as a whole. In order to fight illegal immigration


and reduce the toll on human lives, the United States must take a comprehensive approach of increasing border security and improving legal immigration procedures and public diplomacy, as well as fostering reforms and greater efforts to crack down on human smuggling in Latin America." Image from

Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale on Twitter

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How The U.S. Government is Leading Cyber Diplomacy - mediabadger.com: "I was reading Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Judith Mchale‘s remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations on June 21st this year. One statement caught my attention on how the US State Department has looked to deal with our complex world of communications today and she’s very right: 'By taking our public diplomacy into the marketplace of ideas.' The social web is very much about ideas. It is where ideas are first translated from mind into an electronic world where they can be quickly and easily adopted, fostered and developed into actions that take place in the real world. Such as the Arab Spring, raising money for Obama’s election campaign, gaining support for petitions at a local level or simply creating new products. For governments around the world the social web represents a challenge from municipal government through to federal and as the U.S. State Department truly understands – international relations."

Communication Technology 2011 Abstracts - aejmc.com: "Live Tweeting At Work: The Use of Social Media in Public Diplomacy • Juyan Zhang, University of Texas at San Antonio; Shahira Fahmy, University of Arizona • This study used a survey to examine factors that affect adoption of social media in public diplomacy practice by foreign diplomatic practitioners in the United States. Results showed the key factors identified in the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology (UTAUT) framework: Effort expectancy, performance expectancy, social influence and attitudes,


facilitating conditions, in addition to perceived credibility had positive influences on the adoption process. Findings also showed respondents most often used social networks (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) followed by video sharing sites, intranet, blogs, video conferencing, text messaging and Wiki. Further more women reported the use of social media than men, but on average, men used more different types of social media than their female counterparts. Finally gender, age and level of gross national income (GNI) appeared to have significant moderating effects on the adoption of social media in the context of public diplomacy." Image from

Public diplomacy as a part of the U.S. soft power - Youth Diplomatic Initiative: "Публічна дипломатія – [English translation from Ukrainian here] фактор м’якої сили Сполучених Штатів Америки Молодіжна дипломатична ініціатива запрошує Вас на зустріч з заступником аташе з питань культури Посольства Сполучених Штатів Америки в Україні Паном Тімоті Стендартом. Під час зустрічі будуть обговорюватися значення публічної дипломатії США у сучасних міжнародних відносинах,


формуванні іміджу держави на міжнародній арені та для окремої особи, її впливі на зовнішньополітичні процеси. Окремо буде приділено увагу досвіду м’якої сили США як прикладу для України. На додаток: завдяки досвіду очевидця та глибоким знанням американського дипломата, під час другої частини заходу буде обговорена нинішня ситуація в Афганістані та Іраку. Зустріч відбудеться у Відділі преси, освіти та культури Посольства США в Україні за адресою: м. Київ, вул. Глибочицька, 4." Speaker's image ("Timothy Stendartom") from article.

Hollywood – Weapon of Mass Attraction or Weapon of Mass Destruction for the US? - digghotshop.com: "Introduction: "The full name of the book is 'American Idol after Iraq' which is published by Blackwell – Wiley in 2009. The author of the book Nathan Gardels has been the editor of New Perspectives Quarterly since it began publishing in 1985. ... His co-author Mike Medavoy has had a very active role in making large number of Hollywood movies. ... In this must-read book the authors explain and mainly discuss the public diplomacy and Hollywood role in shaping it, mainly in the new era after 9/11 terrorist attacks. The foreword is by Joe Nye, Harvard Professor which is mostly well-known with his notion of 'soft power'. Once again, Nye asserts the importance of the soft power- Weapon of Mass Attraction- and recalls that not missiles and bomb but the American soft power was the key in collapse of Berlin Wall and consequently Soviet Union, the Evil Empire as Reagan called it. Nye believes that in wake of the new century American soft power is not as powerful as the past decades. ... Hollywood,


as the authors put forward has been the largest machine of dream making and storytelling in human history. Unlike most countries in the world America’s image is based not only on who they are and what they do, but on how the Americans present themselves to the world through their global window. The most attractive and glamorous production of this machine has been the image of America as the promise land of infinite possibility and opportunity where individual liberty is in hand and the society is always on the move. In its 100 years it has opened a new window toward the world in which America has been seen through it and Americans has seen the world through it, as well. Some believe it has been truly and largely successful in telling and selling the American (version of) stories in past 100 years. 'The dreams of America – individual freedom, middle class, prosperity, social mobility, the rule of law- which were made the dreams of the world, too, were pictured by Hollywood.'” Image from

This Is What Empires Do - William Bowles, globalresearch.ca: "Back in the 1980s when the Sandinistas kicked the Gringos out of Nicaragua a concerted propaganda campaign was launched by the US to convince its domestic audience that the Sandinistas were revolutionary Marxists bent on exporting revolution to El Norte. Nothing could be further from the truth of course, but tarring the Sandinistas with a Red brush did the trick, calling on decades of virulent propaganda concerning the 'Red Menace'. 'The Office of Public Diplomacy, officially known as the Office of Public Diplomacy for Latin America and the Caribbean, was part of a White House ordered PR plan in the 1980s to provide cover for the secret CIA war in Nicaragua. CIA director William J. Casey initiated the propaganda campaign after meeting with private sector PR men.


Walter Raymond, Jr., a CIA propaganda expert, moved over to the National Security Council to get the program up and running. Raymond is reported to have instructed his OPD subordinates to 'concentrate on gluing black hats on the Sandinistas and white hats on UNO [the contras' United Nicaraguan Opposition].' ... Raymond picked Otto Reich to run the new OPD, which was housed in the State Department. Despite the unraveling of the Iran-Contra scandal, the full story of the OPD -- a covert, illegal, inter-agency propaganda campaign aimed at US citizens and Congress -- never received full public scrutiny.' -- 'Office of Public Diplomacy', Sourcewatch." Image from article

Redistributing Power In The Taiwan Strait -- Analysis - Eddie Walsh, Eurasia Review: "China’s ability to sustain its dramatic military and economic rise throughout a global crisis certainly will impact how it manages its core issues. This is especially true in the Taiwan Strait, where China has already been able to significantly alter the bilateral distribution of power vis-à-vis Taiwan. ... In the eyes of the PRC [People’s Republic of China], the external affairs of the ROC [Republic of China]


remain a fundamentally military issue, and are dealt with in the framework of an internal opposition grouping seeking to build international relations independently. It therefore is unlikely that the PRC will be willing to significantly advance the diplomatic engagement of the ROC. The use of the diplomatic carrot will likely continue, but as a method of advancing a PRC narrative rather than as public diplomacy for the benefit of Taiwan." Image from article

Top political advisor calls for enhanced economic development - Yang Lina, Xinhua: "Top political advisor Jia Qinglin on Friday called for more efforts to expand domestic demand, boost


consumption and reduce energy usage in order to enhance the country's economic development. ... Jia said the political advisory body's 'public diplomacy' efforts should be promoted in order to 'increase foreigners' understanding toward China's conditions, values and development.'" Image from article, with caption: Jia Qinglin (C front), chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), speaks at the 14th session of the Standing Committee of the 11th CPPCC National Committee in Beijing, capital of China, June 24, 2011.

International Service and Higher Education: New Research Looks at How Programs Impact Both Student and Community - Washington University in St. Louis: "The Brookings Initiative, together with partners at Washington University’s Center for Social Development (CSD), is assessing the field of international service, including researching its impact on volunteers and communities. 'There’s been a dearth, historically, of impact research on international service, so we’re adding to that body of literature and, at the same time, looking at the significance of global service in our nation’s public diplomacy,' says David Caprara, director of the International Volunteering and Service Initiative at the Brookings Institution. 'We are increasingly seeing a need for greater assessment of both the impacts and outcomes not only of Peace Corps, but of this broadened array of global actors in development that include global service: NGOs, universities and corporations.' A major component of the Brookings Initiative is the Building Bridges Coalition, a group of more than 300 NGOs, corporations and universities that work together to advance the field of international service."

President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts - press release, Whitehouse.gov: "Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to nominate the following individuals to key Administration posts: ... Adrienne O’Neal, Nominee for Ambassador to the Republic of Cape Verde, Department of State [:] Adrienne O’Neal,


a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, currently serves as the Director of the Senior Level Division of Career Development and Assignments in Human Resources at the Department of State. Previous assignments have included Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Lisbon, Director of the Office of Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy for Europe and Eurasian Affairs." O'Neal image from

Blanchard to speak at Karsh exhibit: Photographer became friend after shooting portrait - Margaret DeRitter, The Kalamazoo Gazette: "A Blanchard update James Blanchard served two terms as Michigan's governor (1983-1990). These days he remains involved in politics, public service, law and business. ... *Chairman of Meridian International, a public diplomacy nonprofit."

British Embassy Beijing, 3 New Positions - chinadevelopmentbrief.cn: "JOB VACANCY - Communications Section ... The Communications Team is responsible for coordinating all public-facing aspects of the work of the Embassy. The team currently comprises six members. ... The London team will ... rely on you to provide them with a better understanding of what Posts really need, and input ideas and suggestions to help shape the direction of Olympics public diplomacy work.

Main Duties: Provide advice and guidance to colleagues in Beijing and across the Asia-Pacific region on planning London 2012 related public diplomacy events and to act as first point of contact on Olympics Public Diplomacy questions." Image from

RELATED ITEMS

The right move on Afghanistan: Considering both the gains made and the goals that remain elusive in the decade-long military campaign, President Obama chose the necessary path by scaling back the number of U.S. troops - Editorial, Los Angeles Times: A political settlement, if it could be negotiated, would be the ultimate reason to accelerate the withdrawal from Afghanistan. The United States should pursue it.

Opinion Writer Rethinking ‘the long war’ on terrorism - David Ignatius, Washington Post: Obama concluded that this counterterrorism side of counterinsurgency works far more reliably than the uncertain, nation-building side.


The embrace of counterterrorism tactics makes sense as an exit strategy from Afghanistan, and as a continuing check against al-Qaeda. But America should understand that this is a dark face of war — something perilously close to combat by assassination. Image from

What the Afghan war is missing: A sense of desperation - Matthew Sherman, Washington Post: After more than five years as a civilian adviser to U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is clear to me that there can be no single blueprint for our military actions abroad.

What's Victory? The Nine Orwellian Propaganda Terms That Define Our War State: Here are nine common terms, including "victory" and "enemy" used by our government and military that probably don’t mean what you think they mean - Tom Englehardt, AlterNet: Now that Washington has at least six wars cooking (in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen, and more generally, the global war on terror), Americans find themselves in a new world of war.


If, however, you haven't joined the all-volunteer military, any of our 17 intelligence outfits, the Pentagon, the weapons companies and hire-a-gun corporations associated with it, or some other part of the National Security Complex, America’s distant wars go on largely without you (at least until the bills come due). War has a way of turning almost anything upside down, including language. But with lost jobs, foreclosed homes, crumbling infrastructure, and weird weather, who even notices? This undoubtedly means that you’re using a set of antediluvian war words or definitions from your father’s day. It’s time to catch up. Image from article

Journalists Allowed Back In Syria - FrumForum: The Guardian reports: A trickle of western journalists is being allowed back in to Damascus – under close supervision by government


minders – suggesting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime is sufficiently concerned about its hold on power to be willing to engage in a foreign propaganda war. Image from article

Four members of Libyan football team defect - Alistair Lyon, Janet Lawrence, Reuters Africa: Four members of Libya's national football team and 13 other Libyan football figures have defected to rebels, in a propaganda blow to Muammar Gaddafi, the BBC reported on Saturday.

Libya Fact-Finding Mission Video Compilation Defeating Propaganda [video] - alexandravaliente.wordpress.com

The Plan to Destabilize Syria - ABNA.ir: The military operation to destabilize Syria and the propaganda campaign that came with it have been orchestrated by a coalition of states under US coordination, in exactly the same way that NATO coordinates its member and non-member states to bombard and stigmatize Libya.

Negative stories about Egypt in Saudi media - As'ad, The Angry Arab news Service: "One notices a trend: a quiet war is going on between Egypt and Saudi Arabia, although the Military Council does not want it to get out of hand, and tries to contain it. But Egyptian media relish stories that are damaging to House of Saud, and Saudi propaganda outlets are regularly printing stories that are very negative about Egypt after the overthrow of Mubarak. I mean, there is this ridiculous story in Al-Arabiyyah (the news station of King Fahd's brother-in-law) which maintains that Egyptian media AFTER THE FALL OF MUBARAK are lacking professional standards. I kid you not."

Likud Propaganda in Saudi media - As'ad AbuKhalil. The Angry Arab news Service: "Look at this 'news' story in the mouthpiece of Prince Salman and his sons (Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat). The Israeli correspondent for the mouthpiece (who, I am told, is a real supporter of Likud) maintains that Netanyahu has agreed to the formula of withdrawal to 1967 borders. It is of course a flat out lie, and no other media in the world 'reported' this, but this is part of the Israeli Likud propaganda that is regularly planted in Saudi media these days. Do you dare to question my thesis about the Saudi-Israeli alliance anymore?"

West Bank Settlers Spread Propaganda Using Violent Video Games - posterous.com: Using video games as propaganda is nothing new. The U.S. has been doing it with 'America's Army' for some time, while Hezbollah has employed 'Special Force' to spread its message. But those games might seem quaint and diplomatic in the face of a series of games from Residents' Councils of Samaria and Binyamin, an advocacy group for Jewish settlers in the West Bank. The organization has released a trio of violent shoot-'em-ups with Biblical roots and a pro-Israeli bent. The first, 'Judah Maccabee,' puts players in the role of a Maccabee soldier (a rebel army that took control of Judea from the Greeks around 167 B.C.) as he infiltrates a Greek camp. The second, 'Ahab in Samaria,' has players defending Israel from invading soldiers. 'Ammunition Hill,' the most recent game, puts players in the boots of a soldier during the invasion of East Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.

Activists send anti-Pyongyang propaganda leaflets - The Korea Herald: South Korean activists sent five anti-North Korean propaganda balloons across the inter-Korean border on Saturday from a western border resort in commemoration of the outbreak of the 1950-53 Korean War, their representatives said. About 10 activists, mostly North Korean defectors, released the propaganda balloons in Paju, north of Seoul, Saturday morning. The balloons carried about 100,000 leaflets, 500 one-dollar bills, booklets, radios and DVDs, they said. The leaflets included stories of the North Korean invasion of the South in 1950 and the uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East, they added.

Security Tight in Xinjiang‎
- Qiao Long, Radio Free Asia: Authorities in the troubled northwestern region of Xinjiang have stepped up security ahead of the second anniversary of deadly ethnic riots in the regional capital, Urumqi, residents said on Friday. The Chinese government has also stepped up official propaganda in recent weeks, residents said.


"They have been sending out a lot of propaganda lately about the China-Eurasia Expo," the first Urumqi resident said, referring to an Urumqi-based trade fair promoted by Beijing as a means to boost the region's prosperity. "They seem to take this very seriously." A second Urumqi resident said: "They are sending out broadcast messages to everyone. I just saw on my way here that I'd got a text message on my cell phone." Image from article, with caption: Uyghurs protest in Urumqi, July 7, 2009

Social management has no room for dissent - Michael Sainsbury, The Australian: MAO Zedong had "serve the people"; his successor as China's modern-day emperor, Deng Xiaoping, had "socialism with Chinese characteristics". After that, the slogans hammered home by China's leaders became muddy. Jiang Zemin settled on "the three represents". But ask any ordinary Chinese what these three elements are and they will question your Mandarin. China's latest leader, Hu Jintao, has been prolific, a veritable dictionary of slogans: scientific management, harmonious society, the eight virtues and the eight shames. Sweeping China's propaganda outlets this season is his new buzz phrase, "social management." An unprecedented string of public protests, including bomb blasts, in recent weeks at the treatment of individuals by varying levels of government officials and the rough deal ordinary Chinese are getting from their wealthy rulers showed why Hu is pressing home his latest slogan. And there is little doubt what it means. On the eve of the Chinese Communist Party's 90th anniversary celebrations next Friday, the cracks in China's economic miracle are starting to show.

People, You Will See This Film. Right Now. - Xiyun Yang, New York Times: This month China’s great masses are being mobilized by their leaders for an unusual purpose. Employees at state-owned companies and at all levels of government are joining students from grade school to universities as they leave their homes, head out into the heat and do their duty: ensure the financial success of the government’s latest propaganda film, “Beginning of the Great Revival.” The movie, which opened on


Wednesday on almost all of the country’s 6,200 screens, is part of a campaign to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party next Friday. It is also playing in 29 American theaters, including ones in New York and Los Angeles. The movie, along with its sister film, “The Founding of a Republic,” which was made for the 60th anniversary of the birth of the People’s Republic of China, in 1949, is an attempt to update the state-sponsored propaganda movie to appeal to younger audiences, by adding screen stars, a subplot and modern production methods. The government has stacked the deck, so success is virtually guaranteed. Image from article, with caption: A movie theater in Beijing

Hitler-Punches: Paolo Rivera's Movie Poster Tribute to Classic Captain America and More: comicsalliance.com: After 70 years of countless published illustrations, the most famous image of Captain America remains his very first appearance on the cover of Captain America Comics #1 in 1941.


Created by Joe Simon and Jack Kirby, the cover depicts the Sentinel of Liberty delivering a well-deserved clobbering to Adolf Hitler, forever imprinting the superhero in our cultural memory. While it remains to be seen whether the scene will be recreated by Chris Evans in Captain America: The First Avenger, the filmmakers and illustrator Paolo Rivera saw fit to make sure some version

of that famous image made its way into the world of the movie.

WWII US Propaganda Posters - nostalgiaonwheels.blogspot.com. Among them the below:


Remembering the first kiss and the last commissar - Glenn Garvin, kansascity.com: My Perestroika, which airs Tuesday as part of the PBS series POV, is a warm, gorgeous quilt of such memories from the last generation of Russians to have grown up under communism. Director Robin Hessman blends the stories of five childhood friends, now in their 40s, with a stunning collection of old snapshots, home movies and Soviet propaganda films.


The result is an exquisite human resizing of an epic chapter of history, the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. My Perestroika is not a Stalinist horror story in the icy vein of Darkness at Noon or One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. Its five subjects - two teachers, a musician, a businessman and a vending-machine technician - grew up relatively privileged and well past the era in which the dominant image of Soviet power was the Siberian work camp. What they endured was not torture or horrifying deprivation but the terminal dullness and endemic corruption of a society that everybody knew was headed for the dustbin of history. Image from

FOUND ON THE WEB

No Strings Attached? How U.S. funding of the world press corps may be buying influence - Jeremy Bigwood, In These Times (June 4, 2008):


Image from article, with caption: Lebanese men in Beruit watch Alhurra, a U.S.-funded Arabic-language television network. The name of the satelite channel means 'the free one' in Arabic

AMERICANA

Man robs bank to get medical care in jail - news.yahoo.com: Some people who need medical care but can't afford it go to the emergency room. Others just hope they'll get better. James Richard Verone robbed a bank. Earlier this month, Verone (pictured), a 59-year-old convenience store clerk, walked into a Gastonia, N.C., bank and handed the cashier a note demanding $1 and medical attention.


Then he waited calmly for police to show up. He's now in jail and has an appointment with a doctor this week. Verone's problems started when he lost the job he'd held for 17 years as a Coca Cola deliveryman, amid the economic downturn. He found new work driving a truck, but it didn't last. Eventually, he took a part-time position at the convenience store. But Verone's body wasn't up to it. The bending and lifting made his back ache. He had problems with his left foot, making him limp. He also suffered from carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis. Then he noticed a protrusion on his chest. "The pain was beyond the tolerance that I could accept," Verone told the Gaston Gazette. "I kind of hit a brick wall with everything." Via PR.

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Potato chips worst culprit for weight gain - USA Today: The potato chip is the biggest demon behind that pound-a-year weight creep that plagues many of us, a major diet study found.


And the reason is partly that old advertising cliche: You can't eat just one. "They're very tasty and they have a very good texture. People generally don't take one or two chips. They have a whole bag," said obesity expert Dr. F. Xavier Pi-Sunyer of the St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York. Image from

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