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Posts by Adam Clayton Powell III

NO INDEPENDENT ARAB MEDIA EXIST, SAY ARAB JOURNALISTS
MAR 4, 2005 - 2:04PM PDT
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WASHINGTON, March 4 -- There are no independent news organizations in the Arab world. That was the assertion of Arab journalists addressing a conference on Arab media today, who said the only truly independent voices in the Arab world are bloggers.

Even the new satellite television networks, such as Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya, were criticized -- including by one of Al-Arabiya's anchors, Hisham Melham. He credited the new networks with breaking taboos and showing the Arab world through Arab eyes, instead of through the eyes of European and American observers. But the networks focus only on the extremists.

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REPORT URGES RESTRUCTURING, MORE RESOURCES FOR U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
JAN 25, 2005 - 2:16PM PDT
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 -- U.S. public diplomacy should be centered in a new federal agency with triple the current staff levels, according to a White Paper issued today by the Public Diplomacy Council, a non-partisan organization based here.

The report also recommends permanent off-budget funding for international exchanges, increased funding for international broadcasting and a cabinet-level interagency coordinating committee.

"United States public diplomacy is in crisis," the report stated. "Buffeted by a decade of budget cuts, hampered by bureaucratic structures that marginalize it and call on its expertise too late in the policy process, public diplomacy as currently constituted is... FULL TEXT
 
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WOLFENSOHN ANNOUNCES PLANS TO STEP DOWN AT WORLD BANK AMID CRITICISM OF HIS TENURE
JAN 2, 2005 - 2:21PM PDT
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 -- A key post in global soft power will soon be vacant: James Wolfensohn confirmed today that he expects to step down as president of the World Bank when his current term ends this spring.

Last month, Wolfensohn signaled he would not continue to serve, in a year-end message to the Bank's staff. Wolfensohn refered to "leadership succession" and "an effective transition" early in 2005, according to an account in the Washington Post. Wolfensohn first became president of the Bank on June 1, 1995, and he will have served for ten years when his current term ends... FULL TEXT
 
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DIGITAL SOFT POWER
DEC 30, 2004 - 2:23PM PDT
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US government criticized for slow aid, but tsunami relief attracts record private donations online

WASHINGTON, Dec. 30 -- By the time President Bush spoke publicly yesterday and promised U.S. leadership in tsunami relief, a wave of donations from individuals had swept over the Internet.

Google and amazon.com are among the popular Web sites that have added disaster relief links to their home pages, and those electronic bits of support are already adding up to millions of dollars, according to the Washington Post.

By last night, amazon.com alone had raised $3 million from 53,000. That means amazon.com, by itself, has raised... FULL TEXT
 
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