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• Iraqi civil society network recognized

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The Iraqi nonviolence network La’Onf has been awarded the 2009 Rights & Democracy’s John Humphrey Award in appreciation of its work to promote peaceful and non-violent political alternatives for Iraqis.Formed in 2006, La’Onf is a network of 120 civil society groups from every region, including a number of ...
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• Democracy jobs

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa- National Endowment for DemocracyThe National Endowment for Democracy is searching for a Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) to be based in Washington, D.C.To Apply: Applicants should send a resume, cover letter and salary requirements to ...
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• Events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  November 16, 2009. U.S. Private and Non-U.S. Funding of Media Development, featuring: Anne Nelson, Author, Experimentation and Evolution in Private U.S. Funding of Media Development; Mary Myers, Author, Funding for Media Development by Major Donors Outside the United States. With comments by: Marjorie Rouse, Internews ...
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• National Endowment of the Arts throughout History

  
  The Contemporary Conservative — Authority: 146
  From Burts Eye on Big Hollywood: A lot of people seemed shocked to discover that the folks at the National Endowment of the Arts were so ready, even anxious, to devote their talents to propagandizing on behalf of Obama and his administration. That merely proves that a lot of people haven’t been paying ...
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• State appointments suggest curve turned on democracy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The Obama administration has come under fire from democracy advocates for failing to match rhetorical commitments with appropriate policies and personnel. The administration has rejected the charge, and some recent appointments would seem to support their assertions.Middle East democracy expert and former Brookings ...
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• Uncle Sam sitting on a goldmine

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  “Geithner doesn’t want to be the Treasury secretary that sells gold at $1,100 an ounce and next year it’s at $2,000,” said Shelton.Furthermore, a sale of all the country’s gold wouldn’t make much of an impact. With the nation’s annual deficit at $1.7 trillion, a $787 billion stimulus package and a $700 ...
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• Has North Korea’s brinkmanship been gamed?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  North Korea’s semi-feudal, semi-Stalinist regime has historically managed to play off the U.S., Russia and China to its own advantage.It “might be a failing state, balancing on the verge of famine, but when it comes to diplomatic games, North Korean politicians are second to none,” writes Andrei Lankov, an ...
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• Follow Up on Nat’l Endowment for the Arts Scandal

  
  Count Us Out — Authority: 151
  NEWLY REVEALED DOCUMENTS Contradict NEA Chairman Landesmanby Patrick Courrielche “The former NEA Director of Communications acted unilaterally and without the approval or authorization of then-Acting Chairman Patrice Walker Powell.” – Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, on September ...
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• NEWLY REVEALED DOCUMENTS Conradict NEA Chairman Landesman

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 806
  “The former NEA Director of Communications acted unilaterally and without the approval or authorization of then-Acting Chairman Patrice Walker Powell.” – Rocco Landesman, Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, on September 22, 2009 Chairman Landesman’s claim that Yosi Sergant, the former NEA ...
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• “U.S. Public Diplomacy toward Iran: Structures, Actors, and Policy Communities” By Foad Izadi

  
  Creative-i — Authority: 149
  This dissertation is an in-depth study of the structures, actors, and policy communities associated with U.S. public diplomacy toward Iran. Since 2006, the U.S. government has spent more than $200 million for its Iran-related public diplomacy via State Department democracy promotion programs, National Endowment for ...
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• Azerbaijan: bloggers’ sentences further proof of backsliding

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  A Baku court today sentenced two opposition bloggers to prison in a case that has highlighted declining media freedoms and curbs on civil society in Azerbaijan. Emin Milli, 30, and Adnan Hajizada, 26, received sentences of two and two-and-a-half years, respectively.The verdict came on the same day as a round table ...
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• Kazakh activists’ prosecution politically-motivated

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  The prosecution of leading Kazakh democracy and human rights activist Yevgeny Zhovtis is politically motivated, new reports suggest.Zhovtis, director of the Bureau for Human Rights and Rule of Law, a grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, was sentenced to four years in prison last month for accidentally ...
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• ‘Call of Duty Endowment’ Aids Unemployed Vets

  
  GameLife — Authority: 670
  Activision Blizzard has established a charity to help find jobs for unemployed veterans, it said Monday. The Modern Warfare publisher has committed to raising millions of dollars through a new foundation called the Call of Duty Endowment , a non-profit dedicated to helping soldiers find work. This announcement ...
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• Activision Launches Charity Site

  
  The Girls Entertainment Network — Authority: 123
  Imagine living in the desert, away from your family and friends for months … years.    Imagine waking up every day of your life and wondering if today is the day you will die.  The day your child takes it’s first steps without you. The day you will take another life.   The day one of your [...]
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• Georgetown had 71st largest endowment for fiscal year 2008

  
  Vox Populi — Authority: 638
  The National Association of College and University Business Officers recently crunched the numbers to come up with a complete ranking of U.S. college and university endowments for fiscal year 2008. Granted a lot has changed since then, but with an endowment of $1,059,075,000 at the end of fiscal year 2008, ...
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• Call of Duty Giving Back

  
  BeefJack - The Gamer's Sauce. — Authority: 495
  Activision Blizzard, the people behind the wildly popular Call of Duty series, has announced what they are calling the Call of Duty Endowment (CODE). The purpose of this fund is to combat the struggle that veterans face when they come home from war. In the United States, at this time, there are over 500,000 unemployed ...
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• Russia’s human rights activists: harassed at home, honored abroad

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 435
  Moscow’s municipal authorities are refusing to renew the leases of two leading Russian human rights and democracy NGOs, a move being interpreted as “official retribution” for their role in recent anti-government protests. The move is a further reflection of the shrinking political space available to dissident ...
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• Activision and Call of Duty Do Something Right for a Change

  
  Aeropause Games — Authority: 484
  I have been an avid critic of the things that Infinity Ward and Activision have done with the latest release of Call of Duty, to the point that I am actively boycotting the purchase of the title.  But now, I have to get behind at least one initiative with the Call of Duty brand that Activision is getting behind, and ...
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• Rocco makes peace with Peoria

  
  Gratuitous Violins — Authority: 422
  So Rocco Landesman , chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts , made it to Peoria. (Thats him with the cast of Rent presented by the citys Eastlight Theatre .) As you may recall, the former head of Broadways Jujamcyn Theatres got himself in hot water for a comment to The New York Times about a certain ...
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• Activision Donates 1M$ to Aid People Who Played on Veteran in Real Life

  
  LazyGamer .:: Console and PC Gaming News ::. — Authority: 492
  Today marks quite possibly the biggest videogame launch in the history of the multiverse. While some of you, particularly PC gamers, may be boycotting the game and others hate on Activision for whatever other reasons, today Activision shows us another, softer side. In what seems to go against Activison CEO Bobby ...
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