Reply #48: Interesting piece on #Gaddafi public relations tactics in the West (bought and paid for by Saif)

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Interesting piece on #Gaddafi public relations tactics in the West (bought and paid for by Saif, of course). http://bit.ly/frT4In
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Professors Paid by Qaddafi: Providing 'Positive Public Relations'
Jon Wiener
March 5, 2011

Joseph Nye of Harvard’s Kennedy School wrote in The New Republic in 2007 that Muammar Qaddafi was interested in discussing “direct democracy.”

Anthony Giddens of the London School of Economics wrote in the Guardian the same year that Libya under Qaddafi could become “the Norway of North Africa.”

Benjamin Barber of Rutgers University wrote in the Washington Post, also in 2007, that Libya under Qaddafi could become “the first Arab state to transition peacefully and without overt Western intervention to a stable, non-autocratic government.”

Great minds think alike? Actually, no: all were being paid by Libyan money, under a $3 million per year contract with a consulting group which promised to “enhance the profile of Libya and Muammar Quadhafi” in Britain and the US.

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http://www.thenation.com/blog/159046/professors-paid-qaddafi-providing-positive-public-relations