by matmorris | Mar 28, 2008 | Diplomacy, Framing, Image, Iraq, Politics, Strategic Comm.
or Deconstructing John McCain by Matthew B. Morris John McCain gave what was billed as a major foreign policy speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council on March 26. In the speech he described himself as a “realistic idealist:†I am an idealist, and I...
by editor | Mar 24, 2008 | Europe, Popular Culture
by Steven R. Corman An anti-Islam Member of Parliament from the Netherlands, Geert Wilders, has produced a short film that portrays the Quran as an inspiration for terrorist attacks and violence. A recent story in the New York Times on Wilders and his effort reported...
by matmorris | Mar 20, 2008 | Iraq, Media
by Matthew B. Morris Al Jazeera broadcast another message from Osama bin Laden today. If confirmed as authentic, this is the second message from bin Laden in the last two days. Although the translation is not yet available, the message is another call on Muslims to...
by editor | Mar 20, 2008 | Media
by Steven R. Corman Here is an interesting (if somewhat frenetic) post in which Dr. Shackleford makes an interesting argument about the potential demise of bin Laden. He points out that all of OBL’s comments in the recent video could be from 2005 when the Danish...
by editor | Mar 19, 2008 | Diplomacy, Image, Russia
by Steven R. Corman John Brown sent me a link from russiaprofile.org that he labeled “important.” The article describes a Russian public diplomacy effort that comes with an eyebrow-raising budget. Quoth the article: As Peter Finn describes it, “The...
