PR Watchers Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber have finished writing their fifth book, Banana Republicans: How the Right Wing Is Turning America Into a One-Party State. It won't be in bookstores until late May, but you can order it now online.

"BKSH & Assocs., Burson-Marsteller's lobbying wing, is representing Radio Sedaye Iran (Radio Voice of Iran), the Beverly Hills-based network that advocates regime change in Iran," reports O'Dwyers.

In response to a study finding "diminishing foreign regard for American culture and politics, a new organization of marketing and advertising corporations is preparing to raise an initial $1 million to combat anti-Americanism abroad." The Business for Diplomatic Action nonprofit organization plans to launch a website "where corporations could exchange information to 'help them be good citizens of a country vs.