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Strategic Communication ­- Cuba (Case Study)

In July 2015, the United States restored diplomatic relations with Cuba and, in March 2016, President Obama became the first sitting U.S. President to visit Cub...

Pump & Dump Groups.....and Girlfriends

Love em or hate em - they exist and are perpetuated by equal parts greed, manipulation and profit. One caveat which is overlooked by many of the newly incorpora...

History: Religion in the Caucasus - Post Soviet Influence

Armenia was the first country in the world to adopt Christianity has state religion, in 301. The founder of the Armenian apostolic church was Saint Gregory the ...

History: The status of languages in Post-Soviet Caucasus

The collapse of the Soviet Union had great consequences for the peoples and languages of the USSR. The status of languages of the titular nations of the former ...

Nature or Natural - A Human Perception

Nature to me is a place that feels not designed or created by man. I would not consider a pine tree farm as being nature, but if I went to the woods and came to...

History: Strategic Communicaton and the US Propaganada Machine in World War II

As a student of both history and media, applications of effective strategic communications has always fascinated me as the collective actions of social engineer...

The Anthropocene - What is Nature?

What is nature? Perhaps, a broad generalized definition such as everything surrounding us, or everything surrounding us for many centuries, not constructed by h...

Government Froze Bank Account - A Case for Crypto as a Deterrent

The following represents one minor contemporary example of centralized government draconian policies and subsequent enforcement powers in regards to access and ...

The Anthropocene - Boundaries & The Global Environment

Where does the Anthropocene take place? When trying to decide where the Anthropocene takes place, it becomes obvious that the Anthropocene is also a planetary c...

Strategic Communication in Contemporary War - A Failure of US PSYOPS

Strategic communication is an important aspect of foreign policy that seeks to communicate messages to a target audience. The term has been used rather ambiguou...

Peoples & Languages of The Caucasus - The Meskhetian Turks

The Meskhetian Turks are refugees, forced to leave Meskhetia, in southern Georgia under Stalin's deportation policies in 1944. This Caucasus region of Eurasia h...

Visiting a New York Cemetary?..........Always Carry a Gun

It is interesting to see some of the localized abhorrent behavior of a particular environment in relation to our desensitized urban collective existence. While ...

Strategic Communication with Muslim­ Majority Nations Following 9/11 (Case Study)

As a graduate student studying INSS and in particular the application of IO through strategic communications, I had the distinction of being exposed to a wide a...

Athropogenic Discourse - Academic Insights on Scale & Scope

In this article I will continue with my examination of the Anthropocene as an emerging concept and analyze what various prominent scholars and academics view as...

American Idiocy #2 - Walmart-ization of US Culture

When I lived briefly in Florida, I became very familiar with the cultural divide that exists between the west and east coast. This division is even vehemently d...

Post 9/11 Strategic Communication in Pakistan - Evolving US PSYOPS

In continuing this series on PSYOPS and Information Operations using both State and non-State actors as examples, I will now examine another pertinent and conte...

Funding the Idiocracy - The Lottery

Every now and then US State lottery jackpots reach enormous levels. This is almost entirely fueled by a culture of consumer greed, materialism, steeped in debt,...

The Most Beautiful Girl in The World - Branding & Commodifying Humans

As someone who has been interested in the social sciences with a preference for propaganda studies, I find these kinds of stories as attempts by the mass media ...

Strategic Communition - Control the Message, Control the Audience (PSYOPS)

As a graduate student I once was told by a former Prof. in Defense & Strategic Studies, in reference to Strategic Communication that one must always remember th...

The Anthropocene - Scale and Scope - Academic Discourse Analysis (Continued)

In this article I will continue my analysis of the various academic debates and principle discourses surrounding the Anthropocene as an emerging epoch and how v...