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AUG 27, 2008
Revealed: Britain’s Secret Propaganda War Against Al-Qaida
The Guardian
A Whitehall counter-terrorism unit is targeting the BBC and other media organisations as part of a new global propaganda push designed to "taint the al-Qaida brand", according to a secret Home Office paper seen by the Guardian.  Read more...

AUG 27, 2008
Lessons of a Postmodern War
The Globe and Mail
In the Georgia crisis, those nation-states and international bodies that defended the global rules, that condemned Russia for breaking them, and that used the soft power of public diplomacy to restore their effectiveness were all forces that could ultimately call on hard power and/or serious national self-interest to support their words. Practitioners of hard power were able to use soft power; advocates of soft power ended up wielding no power.  Read more...

AUG 27, 2008
In Denver, Making Room for Moscow
Newsweek
America's relationship with Russia has come to dominate the foreign-policy debate at the Democratic National Convention...It is through the prism of a flagging, halfhearted effort in Afghanistan that many Democrats now view the homeland security and public diplomacy issues stemming from the 9/11 attacks.  Read more...

AUG 27, 2008
The Biden Factor in US-Iran Relations
Asia Times Online
Senator Barack Obama's choice of Senator Joseph Biden as his running mate for the Democratic ticket for the US presidency is a good omen for troubled US-Iran relations and will likely translate into positive developments on that front in the event Obama moves into the White House.   Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Iran: Cultural Cooperation Helps Expand Ties Among Nations
Mathaba
Iran's Ambassador to Japan has said that one of the ways of expanding ties among countries is cultural cooperation. Speaking to IRNA at the inaugural ceremony of an exhibition titled 'West Asia Miniature, Persian Miniature' featuring miniatures by a Japanese artist in the Iranian Embassy in Tokyo, Mohammad Ali Sarmadi said that cultural cooperation and such exhibitions can leave positive impact on the two countries' ties.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Artistic Propaganda In Ossetia
Forbes
Apart from the regular bullets and tanks, the South Ossetian war between Georgia and Russia has brought forth some alternative methods of warfare. There was an alleged cyber-attack on Georgian Web sites that served as a premonition to the military action. More significant, though, were the harshly harmonious sounds of Dmitri Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony, performed in South Ossetia's capital last Thursday.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Berlin’s IFA Exhibition to Include Two Ethiopian Photographers
Tadias
Berlin’s Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations (IFA) , will host a photo exhibition which includes the works of two promising Ethiopian photographers - Aida Muluneh and Michael Tsegaye. The exhibit entitled ‘Bamako 2007′ touches on several themes including the landscape of the African continent, colonial heritage, HIV/AIDS, self-portraits, and wall paintings.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Fair Trial Unlikely, Karadzic Argues
The New York Times
The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has called for the dismissal of charges against him of genocide and crimes against humanity because, he says, negative publicity has made a fair trial impossible. In a three-page filing dated Sunday and released on Tuesday, he said any presumption of innocence had been “reduced to a joke” by what he called “demonization in the media.”  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Korea Undervalued Overseas
The Korea Times
According to Anholt's nation brands index in the fourth quarter of 2007, Korea ranked 30th out of the 35 countries. Another index released by East West Communications, a Washington D.C.-based nation branding consultancy, said the country placed 28th out of 200 countries.   Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
Learn from the Chinese
The Times of India
In two years’ time, New Delhi will host the Commonwealth Games. The question of whether they will be ready is important. Sports shows are branding exercises. The world sits up and notices when you host a successful sporting event. The Beijing Olympics have been yet more evidence of China’s prowess as an economic power.   Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
A Biblical Seven Years
The New York Times
Olympics don’t change history. They are mere snapshots — a country posing in its Sunday bests for all the world too see. But, as snapshots go, the one China presented through the Olympics was enormously powerful — and it’s one that Americans need to reflect upon this election season.  Read more...

AUG 26, 2008
US official lauds Qatar’s education drive
The Penninsula
Qatar's initiative to broaden its economic base and usher reforms and large investment in education sector were yesterday praised by James K Glassman, US Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs.  Read more...

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