Polish American Congress ignores Obama’s missile defense promise to Russia affecting Poland’s security

Mar 29, 2012 Comments Off by

It seems remarkably strange that the Polish American Congress (PAC) has had no comment on its website about President Obama’s promise to President Medvedev that after this year’s US presidential elections he will have more flexibility to make concessions to Russia on the missile defense issue. This is an issue vital for Poland’s security. Any [...]

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Why U.S. Public Diplomacy No Longer Works and Can It Be Fixed?

Dec 27, 2010 Comments Off by

Update: America.gov restored my comment. TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, December 27, 2010 — On the day the U.S. Senate voted to approve the new arms reduction treaty with Russia, I found an article on the State Depatment’s website, America.gov, which gave a long list of the START treaty’s benefits lauded by the Obama administration but failed [...]

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Misleading foreign audiences – America.gov or America.STATE – U.S. Senate Ratifies New START Treaty

Dec 22, 2010 Comments Off by

Update: America.gov restored my comment. TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, December 22, 2010 — I found a factually correct but at the same time completely one-sided report for foreign audiences on America.gov – a State Department website – which claims to have some journalistic objectivity. I posted my comment to the story, which was promptly removed. I [...]

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Voice of America English programs go the way of Voice of Russia, says former VOA journalist

Dec 22, 2010 Comments Off

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, December 19, 2010 — In their eagerness to promote the Obama Administration policies to overseas audiences, the Voice of America (VOA) English Service reporters and editors have been toeing the White House line on the proposed START arms reductions treaty with Russia and failing to report in a balanced way on [...]

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Putin’s signal to Congress on START – We don’t kill traitors in America

Dec 17, 2010 Comments Off

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, December 17, 2010 — The START treaty must be very good for Russia if Prime Minister Putin felt it necessary to disavow a reported statement given earlier to the media by an unitentified Kremlin official who suggested that an assassin or assassins may have been dispatched to the U.S. to kill a [...]

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