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Local residents of Tall Afar, Iraq (U.S. Army)The Hearts and Minds of the Battle
It’s Issue 5 in our 2006 election series, 30 Issues in 30 Days: The Battle for Hearts and Minds. We’ll hear two views and ask what the findings of the National Intelligence Estimate reveal about the successes, and failures, of the US government’s ideology campaign. Also: Alan Hevesi 101, and what makes "exclusive" exclusive?
Hevesi 101
Liz Benjamin, political reporter for the Albany Times-Union and blogger
- talks about Alan Hevesi's latest political problems
» Times Union blog
The New Exclusivity
Tim Pollak, Partner at Reason Inc., a marketing-strategy consulting firm, and columnist at Forbes.com
- discusses the democratization of luxury goods and what this means for the luxury market.
» Forbes.com
» Reason Inc.
30 Issues in 30 Days: The Hearts and Minds of the Battle
Torie Clarke, Senior advisor to Comcast, former Pentagon communications chief, and author
Lipstick on a Pig : Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game (Free Press, 2006)
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Rashid Khalidi, Director of the Middle East Institute and
Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University, and author of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood (Beacon, 2006)
- discuss the battle for hearts and minds and the findings of the National Intelligence Estimate
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The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood and
Lipstick on a Pig: Winning In the No-Spin Era by Someone Who Knows the Game available on Amazon.com
Reading Project: Hugo Chavez at the UN
Greg Palast, investigative journalist who has written for The Washington Post, Harper's, and The Nation and author, The Armed Madhouse (Dutton Adult, 2006)
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa, journalist and senior fellow at The Independent Institute, and author, Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux 2005)
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The Armed Madhouse and
Liberty For Latin America: How To Undo Five Hundred Years Of State Oppression available on Amazon.com
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