#publicdiplomacy — Public Fediverse posts

How all propaganda works
https://open.substack.com/pub/joetripician/p/the-mirror-and-the-megaphone
#Propaganda #Disinformation #ForeignPolicy #InformationWarfare #MediaLiteracy #USPolitics #CognitiveWarfare #PublicDiplomacy #StateDepartment #OpenWeb

Für das jüngst erschienene Handbuch "Digitale Ethik" habe ich einen Beitrag zur "Digital Diplomacy" beigesteuert. #DigitalDiplomacy ist die Fortsetzung der #PublicDiplomacy im digitalen Raum – und angesichts der desaströsen Weltlage notwendig wie selten. Ich lege in meinem Beitrag die kommunikativen und politischen Konzepte der Digital Diplomacy dar und zeige ihre ethischen Bezüge auf, u.a. mit Teilhard de Chardin und Garton Ash.
Infos zum Handbuch #DigitaleEthik unter https://www.nomos-elibrary.de/10.5771/9783748942399/digitale-ethik

.> Why in the world would anyone want to resurrect Elliott Abrams?...

.> It is particularly risible that Abrams would be appointed to a position charged with maintaining integrity in U.S. public diplomacy....

.> He was convicted in 1991 of two misdemeanor counts of unlawfully withholding information from Congress, but received a pardon from President George H.W. Bush. Lawrence Walsh, the independent counsel who investigated Iran-Contra, prepared multiple felony counts against Abrams, who eventually admitted that he knew more than he acknowledged in congressional testimony. Several years later, he was publicly sanctioned by the District of Columbia Bar for giving false testimony to Congress about Iran-Contra.

.> in the 1980s, Abrams regularly covered up atrocities committed by U.S.-backed military forces in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. He did the same for the Contras in Nicaragua, and, as a result, was heavily criticized by Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The Lawyers Committee, Americas Watch, and Helsinki Watch collaborated on a report in the mid-1980s that charged Abrams with “undermining the purpose of the human rights bureau in the State Department.”

> When presidents such as #BillClinton, #BarackObama, #DonaldTrump, and #JoeBiden nominate individuals who clearly lack integrity, it creates #cynicism at the very institutions these individuals are asked to lead. This was certainly true at the #CIA in the cases of Woolsey, Gates, and #GinaHaspel, and it will be true at a less well-known institution such as the Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy.
https://www.counterpunch.org/2023/07/21/the-strange-rehabilitation-of-elliott-abrams/
#EIliotAbrams #USApresidents #PublicDiplomacy #BidenAdministration

I have a forthcoming book: Talking Back to the West: How Turkey Uses Muslim Identity Politics to Challenge the International Order and Siilence its Critics. It examines Turkey’s expanding #globalcommunication apparatus, its #politicaleconomy, goals and strategies. Instead of solely analyzing the government-backed #communication ventures as tools of #publicdiplomacy, it pays attention to how an #authoritarian non-Western actor can exploits #post-colonial criticism and #counter-hegemony to