Search: United States,Social Media (10 materials)

Brexistentialism for useful innocents

... populist upheaval that drove a simple majority of Britons to vote to leave the EU. The Telegraph, The Guardian, CNN, Money, and social media say that's what we should believe, and that thet “existential crisis” exists among Brexiteers ... ... and Russia, China, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, the Phillipines, Turkey, Norway, Sweden and the United States, among others. A perfect storm for fans of defense driven econmic growth. The longer the "leave" negotiations ...

28.07.2016

The smog of war

President Barack Obama, seeking to shape his legacy, said that COP 21 makes the United States, which did not ratify the earlier Kyoto Protocol, “the world leader in fighting climate change.” But Obama will not be around to lead the COP 21 fight, which is not scheduled to start until 2020. By that time another U.S. president ...

23.01.2016

Brinkmanship for useful idiots

... sidelines” conversation. Effectively, Obama was preaching to the choir that resides in the fantasy land of conversational social media. Obama, showing more grey hair and projecting the image of a wizened leader, tried to show the world that he could ... ... and publicized by CBS News comes into play. CBS has been, historically, an important propaganda asset of the government of the United States dating back to World War II.. The study reveals that the United States since 2008 has been at work creating the ...

10.06.2015

Sports Diplomacy. Can Sepp Blatter bring unity to a fractious FIFA?

... french national team star says he is satisfied being president of UEFA and that he has no plans to challenge Blatter's leadership at this time. Seemingly immune from the media campaign conducted by ethics assets, including FIFA officials in the United States and Britain, Platini has artfully dodged accusations that he supported Qatar's bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, based on the suggestion of former french president Nicholas Sarkozy. Will ethics advocates steal Blatter's ...

04.04.2015

Facebook and “The Decline of Power”... A treatise for useful idiots.

... important traditional power broker and fund raiser for his wife, Hillary, in her campaign to become the next president of the United States. Zuck's latest choice “The End of Violence” “The Better Angels of Our Nature” ... ... (metropolitan St. Louis) Missouri. As for the problems of managing institutional change, this blogger recommends learning from the pre-social media, pre-Cold War era. “Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy” a new book by Tom Twiss, a professor ...

26.01.2015

BRICS and Washington's social pivot to India

... Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is merely at parity with half a dozen other key industrialized states in India and the rest is social media hype. Gurajat is a state of 62.5 million in a nation of 1.8 billion located on India’s border with Pakistan,... ... administration recently removed Modi’s name from the state department “blacklist” that prohibited his entry into the United States over the incident involving the alleged massacre of Muslims, and Sikhs that transpired during his watch. It was ...

02.10.2014

Obama's "Scare Force" Targets BRICS

... Chechen and Azeri extremists have been involved with the military components of Washington’s proxy regime in Ukraine have inflamed fears of a full blown front size ground and air war. For now the sanctions regimes being imposed by major powers-- the United States and its NATO allies, and Russia-- has put food exporters in the crossfire of what is destined to become a long and costly episode of a different kind of war, economic warfare. BRICS member Brazil, and Argentina, another major food exporter ...

11.08.2014

Yes we can. Brazil confident about World Cup security

... “federal mixture” of military and civilian organizations that are providing around 50,000 personnel to provide it. Cardozo revealed that the Federal Police are operating a center for international police integration which receives input from United States agencies, and many other nations. An information booklet provided by the ministry of defense noted that the government is using drones as part of the security effort. In addition, a cybercrime unit is operating to defeat efforts by global ...

05.06.2014

Containment's Last Hurrah

... as being inherently neurotic and inward looking are convenient for American “retail politics” and conversational social media but branded public diplomacy initiatives are proving themselves out of step with the fast changing realpolitik of ... ... secretary of state John Kerry has called the Russian media platform “RT” a “propaganda bullhorn.” But the United States has a couple of those too. Kerry, like his boss, has been calling for tougher sanctions if the Kremlin doesn’t ...

27.04.2014

FIFA, sports diplomacy and the Bout connection

... recommendations. The tactic of bringing on the man who helped make “soccer” a multi-billion dollar enterprise in the United States was to assuage the mounting concerns of investigative journalists, corporate ethics enthusiasts and millions of ... ... in Syria and Ukraine. All of these events will intersect in the next few months in the real world and in the virtual world of social media and digital diplomacy that thrives on the internet. For those who posit that geopolitics and hegemony are dead concepts,...

31.03.2014

Poll conducted

  1. In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?
    U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements  
     33 (31%)
    U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity  
     30 (28%)
    U.S. wants to dissolve Russia  
     24 (22%)
    U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China  
     21 (19%)
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