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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)
and
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)
and
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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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [40]
Tweet If You Use Twitter
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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