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2017-01-07 Government

Clapper calls for U.S. Information Agency ‘on steroids' to counter Russian propaganda

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Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-07 04:03|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Forget the Department of Defense, and the fact that we failed you in the past. We now need those new Trump defense dollars. Just ask Leon Panetta, Mike Morell, or Brennan !

Please hurry! We've already selected senior people and purchased desks.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-07 04:11|| 2017-01-07 04:11|| Front Page Top

#2 [Russia Today] was very active in promoting a particular point of view

So are most US news outlets. So what?

Posted by phil_b 2017-01-07 05:05|| 2017-01-07 05:05|| Front Page Top

#3 Sounds, kinda, Sovietish - doesn't it?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-01-07 06:32|| 2017-01-07 06:32|| Front Page Top

#4 A Mark Dillen review of Nicholas Cull's, The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy found at this link.

About the author: "Mark Dillen is an international public affairs consultant. As a member of the Senior Foreign Service, he served as Political Minister Counselor at the US Embassy in Rome in 1999, when talks about a Loya Jirga were underway in Rome with Zahir Shah. Mark recently returned from Kabul, where for one year he was Communications Director for USAID and Executive Secretary for the USAID Mission."

Posted by Besoeker 2017-01-07 07:38|| 2017-01-07 07:38|| Front Page Top

#5 Remember, white propaganda is truth. So how do you fight white propaganda, with gray (misleading) or black (lies)? The Donks are already full spin on the latter. They don't need govt subsidizes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-01-07 07:49|| 2017-01-07 07:49|| Front Page Top

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