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Can Lobbyists Stop the War?
Real tactics of old worked, no one's explained why they wouldn't now, but instead, we do speeches, walk in circles -- and act like the other guys. A 'progressive' K street machine, a muddled liberal spectacle. An armchair protest with token street theater
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september 2007 by mjb
"Their Men In Washington"
Silverstein offers up an inside look to how other countries, primarily dictatorships and the like, broker public relations and pseudo-diplomatic campaigns to support corrupt business goals with low visibility, proving FARA an ineffective dinosaur.
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june 2007 by mjb

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