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Blog: What US can’t accept in Belarus, it supports in Uzbekistan – CPJ

Last week, President Obama signed into law a bill that expands sanctions against Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko continues to imprison his opponents and critics. Lukashenko unleashed the latest crackdown hours after the flawed December 2010 presidential vote, which declared him winner of a fourth term

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Havel’s moral leadership remains a beacon, Obama tells memorial tribute

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Václav Havel’s “peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and

Inherent limits to China’s soft power: Let 100 flowers bloom but ………… – NED

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): U.S. President Barack Obama sets off on his Asia tour amid growing speculation about the Unites States’ ability

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Beatification of John Paul II was a low priority public diplomacy event for President Obama

TedLipien.com, Truckee, California, USA, May 01, 2011 — In a public diplomacy blunder likely to offend American Catholics, Polish-American voters and people in Poland, the Obama

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The Broadcasting Board of Governors and the Destruction of US International Broadcasting

FreeMediaOnline.org Truckee, CA, USA, March 07, 2011 -- The following was written by The Federalist, a regular contributor to FreeMediaOnline.org, in

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Voice of America Website Hacked by Islamists; Critic of Government Mismanagement Warns About Obama Administration’s Retreat in Providing Uncensored News to China

FreeMediaOnline.orgTruckee, CA, USA, February 21, 2011 -- As reported by PiratesWeek and Kim Andrew Elliott, a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG)

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Reagan is Out, Obama is In – U.S. Embassies in Central and Eastern Europe Ignore 100 Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Birthday

TedLipien.com, Truckee, CA, February 08, 2011 -- One would think that the centennial of Ronald Reagan's birthday could be a perfect public diplomacy theme for

Freedom House: Obama Should Call for Mubarak to Step Down Immediately

Freedom House: In the wake of widespread and calculated attacks by Mubarak supporters on pro-democracy activists, Freedom House calls on President Obama to urge President Hosni Mubarak

Supporting indigenous democrats is no imposition

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED): Conflating democratization with military invasion and implying that democracy assistance is an imposition generates a mindset that

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Clinton Speech Addresses Human Rights in China in Advance of State Visit

Freedom House: Freedom House applauds today's speech by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on U.S.-China relations in which she clearly spoke out about major human rights

Obama adminstration’s approach to democracy and human rights: ‘weak’ or ‘activist’?

Democracy Digest from the National Endowment for Democracy (NED):

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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

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

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

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

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

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

Leaked U.S. Embassy Warsaw Cables – Obama to the Poles: Have some Patriot missiles that don’t work to protect you from Russia

Obama to the Poles: Have some Patriot missiles that don’t work to protect you from Russia

 

Opinia.US Truckee, CA, December 6, 2010 — The Guardian newspaper in the

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