Media appearances

USA Today cites Waller’s strategy on weaponizing ridicule

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(Institute of World Politics news release)  A recently-published white paper on the use of ridicule as an instrument of political warfare by  IWP Professor J. Michael Waller has been recognized in the opinion pages of USA Today and is topic of discussion in the blogosphere. Author Peter Schweizer posited that “in a brilliant new white paper on public diplomacy, Michael Waller, the … Read more

Information a vital weapon

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by J Michael Waller, USA Today, December 7, 2005. [USA Today ran an editorial that criticizes the US military for planting propaganda in the Iraqi press. The editors invited Professor J. Michael Waller to provide an opposing view after the Pentagon refused. Both pieces appeared together on December 7. For the USA Today editorial, click here. Dr. Waller’s column … Read more

How to undermine Chavez regime in Venezuela: See VOA interviews

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The consolidating dictatorship of strongman Hugo Chavez is destroying the Venezuelan economy and threatening to destabilize South America and the Caribbean, Annenberg Professor J. Michael Waller said on the Voice of America radio and VOA-TV in separate interviews on June 21 and 23, 2005. In the Spanish-language programs, Waller called on Brazil, as Venezuela’s largest and most influential immediate … Read more

Spain should consider martyr’s message

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by J Michael Waller, Insight, March 15, 2004. In the midst of warring ideologies it may be well for the people of Spain to consider the faithfulness of their forebears who resisted the Islamic occupation of their land just over 1,100 years ago. The Madrid bombing coincided with a martyr’s feast day. Download pdf: IM-Spain-martyr-Mar2004