Karen Hughes Keeps Privatizing Public Diplomacy
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In an interview with PR Week, U.S.
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Yearly Kos "Coffee with the Troops" Features Iraq Veterans Against the War Sunday, August 5
(UPDATE: Read the post-event report at: https://www.prwatch.org/node/6321 )
Leaders of the Iraq Veterans Against the War are speaking at Yearly Kos Sunday morning, August 5, 9:30 a.m. at a Coffee with the Troops organized by the Center for Media and Democracy and moderated by CMD founder and Executive Director John Stauber. The event is open to the public and will be held in Regency Ball Room C/D on the 2nd level of the Hyatt. Garett Reppenhagen, Aaron Hughes, Josh Lansdale and Geoffrey Millard will speak and answer questions about the growing resistance to the war among active duty troops.
Military Takes Aim at U.S. Propaganda Ban
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In preparing its marketing study commissioned by the U.S. military, the RAND Corporation sought the advice of PR advisers including Burson-Marsteller, Weber Shandwick, J.D.
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Pro-War PR Front, Move America Forward, Caravanning to DC
The pro-war front group Move America Forward has announced that it will caravan across the United States September 3 - 17 on a trip to DC to lobby for the war in Iraq.
Bush's Pro-War Front Group, 'Vets for Freedom', Rallies with Republican Senators
Vets for Freedom (VFF), the well-funded pro-war lobby group, is cranking-up its PR campaign on behalf of President Bush's war in Iraq with a news conference held July 17th in the US Capitol. A slate of pro-war Republican Senators including Mitch McConnell, Jon Kyl, Lindsey Graham, along with former Democratic (now independent) Senator Joe Lieberman, all participated with Pete Hegseth and other VFF lobbyists.
In June 2006, I reported that:
Citizen journalists on SourceWatch have been investigating and exposing the many Republican connections and the partisan pro-war political agenda behind Vets for Freedom,
From Bank to Tank: Wolfowitz Lands Back at AEI
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One of the architects of the war in Iraq for the Bush Administration and former World Bank President, Paul Wolfowitz, has landed a role as a Visiting Scholar at the conservative think tank, the American Enterprise Institute.
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Michael Evans, A General in God's Army
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Bill Berkowitz reports on the rise of Michael D. Evans: "In recent appearances on two U.S. cable news networks, he was slinging and zinging -- the well-rehearsed pitchman for the Biblical 'End Times' was dead certain that 'Iran is going to have to be attacked' before 2008.
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Publisher to End Arms Affair
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A display at a DSEI exhibition
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Muslims Don't Trust U.S.
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U.S. Think Tank Calls for More Troops, More Propaganda
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"A new security study released by the Third Way, a Democratic-leaning think tank," and authored by two former Clinton administration officials, discusses how to rebuild U.S. credibility overseas.
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