Subversive U.S. Public Diplomacy Theme – Ronald Reagan

Jan 04, 2011 Comments Off

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, January 03, 2011 — The following is not a State Department cable. It was not written by The Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Judith McHale and not leaked by Wiki Leaks: TOTALLY TOP SECRET PARA 5 & 6 ATT. U.S. EMBASSY WARSAW SUBJECT: Ronald Reagan As A Subversive Model [...]

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Who is the leader of the Free World? – Reagan, Bush, Obama – lessons in public diplomacy in response to anti-democracy crackdown in Belarus

Jan 03, 2011 Comments Off

En ce moment, il n’y a plus de pilote dans l’avion. [At the moment, there is no longer a pilot on the plane.] — A European comment on President Obama as a leader of the Free World. TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, USA, January 03, 2011 — Who is the leader of the Free World when democracy [...]

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Voice of America continues one-sided coverage of U.S.-Russian relations

Dec 28, 2010 1 Comment

TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, December 28, 2010 — I wrote earlier about unbalanced coverage by the Voice of America English Service of the START treaty debate in the U.S. Senate. Here is another stunning example of a completely one-sided report by VOA on U.S.-Russian relations. There is not a single sentence in this report about Congressional [...]

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

Dec 27, 2010 Comments Off

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

Dec 27, 2010 Comments Off

Update: America.gov restored Ted Lipien’s 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 [...]

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