the georgetown journal of international affairs. i'm glad that you have published here at georgetown. slate, salon weekly. a nice mixture. i'll say that i first saw him myself or met him once before, i saw news hour with jim lehr and was very impressed with what he had to say. next associate professor of political science at the university of massachusetts amherst. we heard from jillian earlier in an extraordinarily good question, which led to i thought some reflective and interesting answers. her academic interest include political culture, protest and policing in jordan, neoliberalism, identity publics. this is my favorite, contentious politics. where is there politics that is not -- and state repression. professor has received awards in fellowships from the social science research council, the fulbright foundation, overseas research centers and the american institute for yemeni studies. she's conducted wide ranging field research in egypt, jordan and yemen and has traveled extensively throughout the region. finally last but at at

newspapers including the international journal of middle east studies, middle east policy, the georgetown journal of international affairs. i'm glad that you published here at georgetown, "slate," salan, al hyat. i'll say that i first saw him myself recently on the news hour with jim lahr. i look forward to hearing from him. next will be gillian swedler, professor of political science at the university of massachusetts amherst. we heard from her earlier in an extraordinarily good question which led to i thought some reflective and interesting answers. her academic interest include, listen to this political culture, protest and policing in jordan, neoliberalism, identity politics, and this is my favorite, contentious politics. where is there politics that is not contentious? and state repression. she has received awards in fellowships from the social science research council, the fullbright foundation oversees research centers and the american institute for yemeni studies. we heard a question about yemen. she conducted wide-ranging field research in egypt, jordan and yemen and traveled extensively

to thank you so much that was georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers well be back in a half hour but in the meanwhile don't forget to follow me on twitter that addresses out you see catherine of. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't. charge is a big issue. good afternoon and welcome to capital account i'm more in the store here in washington d.c. to hear your headlines for march seventh two thousand and twelve well super tuesday came and went and if anything it seems more like a super letdown as the economy dominates the agenda this election year voters have failed to flock to one candidate who actually has a long term view and addresses the concerns of sound money and monetary policy and represents an actual shift from the status quo so why is that we'll take a look at what kids meanwhile germany does seem to be taking a cue from republican presidential hopeful ron paul who was long called for an audi

are more opinions and facts in today's mainstream press at least on television well georgetown university journalism professor chris chambers was with me earlier breaks it all down for us. the united states is a complicated kind of animal there's never we don't know aside from voice of america and all that other apparatus we don't have a state you know mouthpiece or you know that shoots out what you know that. well that's true but here's the thing is it what we really have are the government and other interests a lot of most of the time it's corporate interests big business certain movements you know being on the right of the left you know usually in the last twenty five thirty years going on the right using the media or people in the media like pundits or certain shows as proxies or chess pieces in their little war so it's not like one big propaganda mouthpiece you know the stereotypical you know stalin kind of thing it's it's a lot of weird it's a chess game it's just came among giants and you know we become the little we don't we're not the pawns really bored basically and you know if you heard s

chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university. well it hasn't been a good couple of weeks in afghanistan to say the least first came the photos of the marines urinating on afghan corpses then u.s. troops burned the koran at a giant wartime prison prompting nationwide riots the gruesome killing spree by a u.s. soldier allegedly last week resulted in the deaths of sixteen afghan civilians the taliban has suspended peace talks and with the u.s. and with the united states and afghan president hamid karzai has proclaimed himself quote at the end of his rope with washington and now this is shocking new video out of a dentist and showing what appears to be an apache gunship crashed near a school and the incident highlights the dangers of aggressive a low level flying in a part of the country where american troops are almost entirely dependent on airpower no one was killed according to the video scription of the copter crew supposedly could face criminal charges now again this incident incident comes at a political various moments in amer

chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university and of course that does it for now for more on everything you saw just to get in to our website or our twitter account or follow me on twitter that's at losing captain of will be back at seven pm eastern. cultures that so much of it is a huge music issue on the market as the syrian civil war grinds on calls for an outside military intervention growing louder and louder while at the same time there is. take. the. low end welcome to crossfire computor all about syria and the law of unintended consequences as the syrian civil war grinds on calls for an outside military intervention grows louder and louder while at the same time there is ample evidence that foreign countries in groups are already waging a clandestine war in the country it is hard to see a peaceful end to this conflict particularly for the people on the ground. still. to cross the civil war in syria i'm joined by rod one day a day in washington he's a visiting scholar at the institute for middle east studies at the elliott school of international affairs at george w

chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university and so weigh in on tonight's show a hundred forty characters or less tweet at me about abscesses right there on the screen for now have a great night. can . start. to. blow and welcome across our computor all about syria and the law of unintended consequences as the syrian civil war crimes on calls for an outside military intervention grows louder and louder while at the same time there is ample evidence that foreign countries and groups are already waging a clandestine war in the country it is hard to see a peaceful end to this conflict particularly for the people on the ground. live to take. to cross not the civil war in syria i'm joined by rod one day in washington he's a visiting scholar at the institute for middle east studies at the elliott school of international affairs at george washington university also in washington we go to jacob hornberger he is founder and president of the future of freedom foundation and in new york we have to leave all of your own he is the united nations director at human rights watch all righ

newspapers including the international journal of middle east studies, middle east policy, georgetown journalof international affairs, i'm glad that you have published here at the georgetown. slate, is salon, "al-hayat" and, aal aram weekly. i met him once before but saw him recently on the news hour with jim lehrer and was very impressed what he had to say and look forward to hear from him. next is jillian, schwedler. political science prefer from am hurst. we heard from jiflian, a good -- jillian. her academic interests include, listen to this now, political culture, protest and policing in jordan, neoliberalism, identity politics, and this is my favorite, contentious politics. where is there politics that is not --. that is me. and state repression. professor schwdler reserved from fulbright foundation, council of american overseas research centers and american institute for yemen any studies. you heard a yes about yes, ma'am men. she has conducted wide-ranging field research in egypt, jordan and yemen and traveled extensively throughout the region. and finally, last but not at all least,

especially on a friday so we want to talk a lot more about this christopher chambers is a journalism professor at georgetownuniversity press here that should journalists be able to stretch as a second job. why not. it's i mean i would like to just to all you know me back when i was twenty but you know this this story is really an allegory for a lot more serious issues i mean the issue of going to school and going into debt and not going into what was once a you know i learned as you career and in a profession and a calling as a journalist and that's why people are either dropping out of school or one in or going to work for goldman sachs on the other it's also a perfect storm allegory for the for you know the firm of traditional journalism and what they call legacy outlets i mean and how those outlets of not you know creatively addressed and evolved the way they should to the point where you might see google or amazon acquiring the washington post or new york times at some point so you know it's it's it's it's fun on one level but it's very serious on another and i was just kind of curious after hearing abo

this over the past six years with me to chat some more as the esteemed chris chambers journalism professor at georgetown university thanks for being. here after what us aside from teaching us all the perils of actually tweeting or general. for public consumption what's your biggest impression in terms of how twitter has changed us or affects us as a society well you have to look at it from the from their perspective when we look at twitter's you look at it it's. a company twitter's yes a company twitter so you think you know one hundred forty characters now they're looking at the world the world consciousness in terms of tweaks were we as tweeters are looking at it in terms of one hundred forty characters but they're looking at this big mass consciousness and how to commodify it and how to monetize it make money off of it so they're not really thinking about the effect on society they're thinking about themselves the fertile society however is a year we start to get more and more tunnel visioned the good news here is is that this is really isn't any different than what happened with the printing press o

studies and his ride -- master of arts in arab cities and his writings have been featured in the georgetown journal of international affairs. i'm glad that you have published here at georgetown. i've first -- i first met him on the newshour with jim lehrer and i was very impressed with what he had to say. next, will be julian schwedler. we heard from her earlier, an extraordinarily good question that had some interesting answers. her enters our political culture, protests and policing in jordan, neoliberalism, identity politics, and this is my favorite -- contentious politics. [laughter] where is their politics that is not? and state repression. she has received awards and fellowships from the social science research council, the fulbright council, and the american institute for yemeni studies. she has conducted wide-ranging field research in egypt, jordan, and yemen and has traveled extensively throughout the region. finally, last but not at all is, sam tadros who was a senior partner at the egyptian union of liberal youth, an organization that aims to spur the idea of classical liberalism in egyp

georgetown. allen joins us live from new with a book from ahead. >> good morning. stock futures are porting to some declines. journal is sank filed in court sometime today. r on, we will hear more stress test results. talk oil prices. this is an issue not only for candidates but drivers as well. aaa is saying the price at the s averaging $3.96. is higher than the national average. analysts have warned as of $5 house by the end of the summer. there dapple it to a peak that type because of the fundamental. to the is according houston chronicle. airlines are trying to fix the problem. more on that and i e going up.prices ar i will have that coming up. live in new york. >> everything is going up. >> thank you. >> 48 degrees. >> the priest at the center of a controversy sidelines by the archdiocese. what's going word no lego has gone before. e toy take and out of the world adventure. daylight.xtra the weekend.er [ male announcer ] we asked real people if they'd help us with an experiment for febreze fabric refresher; they agreed. [ experimenter 1 ] relax, take some nice deep breaths. [ experimenter 2 ] what do you smell?

georgetown university discussion on religious freedom and extremism. in the meantime, we continue the conversation from this morning's washington journal, a look at the latest news from afghanistan, iran and syria. >> our first guest thinks and writes about american foreign policy from "the washington post" where he has written a number of interesting novels about similar issues. thanks for being here. we've been talking with our audience this morning about all the developments and u.s. policy in afghanistan. you've been a supporter of the nato strategy which is a timed withdrawal over the next couple of years. does this week's events change your thinking about that at all? >> we'll have to see. we debated with our nato allies going back to a summit meeting in portugal a year or so ago. and that calls for a phased withdrawal, calls for all nato troops essentially to be gone by the end of 2014. and for u.s. and nato troops to turn over the lead combat role by the middle of next year. it may be that the announcements this week, especially by president karzai urging that some time next year, he wasn't clear when, u.s. forces and presumably all nato forces shou

journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> coming up at 10:00 a.m. eastern, a forum on religion from georgetown university's berkeley centers on religion, peace and world affairs. scholars will discuss the arab spring, religious extremism and the obama policy for dealing with religious issues. you can see it live starting at 10:15 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> they would wear garments made of home spun cloth. and this home spun cloth would be much more rough textured. it would be much less fine than the kinds of goods they could import from great britain. but by wearing this home spun cloth, women were visibly and vividly and physically displaying their political sentiments. >> sunday night at 9:00, george mason university professor on the role of women during the pr american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> former natial advisers zbigniew brzezinski and discsed how policy has changed since they served in the white house. they also discuss the political democratic transition in egypt and iran's nuclear ambitions. from the university of marriage in college park, this is an hour and a

a georgetown university law professor explains how it works. "washington journal every day starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. they will go into negotiations and hope to have a markup session within a few weeks. they want to put a bill before the senate. and what they have to do is work out a new policy, spending less money, and getting rid of the direct payments that the crop producers have been giving for the last 15 years. then, we will see if it goes to the senate floor. then there will be another set in the house. host: to understand the reason they are getting rid of the subsidy payments for commodities is because of the budget debate in sequestration process? guest: there are two factors driving it. these direct payments were put in at a time when the government was going to get out of agriculture. of course, agriculture always goes up and downs of the government has not gotten out of agriculture. those payments have continued. now that prices are very high, they are very unpopular with the public. the decision has been made to get rid of those payment

journal" in september of 2009. six months before president obama signed the act into law. a few months later, georgetownor randy barnett wrote a legal memo for a conservative think tank. the dean of harvard law school would later call barnett the mastermind behind the legal challenge to the mandate. in that memo, barnett argued that congress can only regulate those who choose to engage in economic activity but the individual mandate regulates someone's decision to not buy health insurance. many constitutional scholars mocked the idea but over time conservatives have embraced it. >> you've got the individual mandate in here, which i think is unwise. i too believe is unconstitutional. >> for the first time in the 225-year history of the country, the federal government is telling you that you have to buy something. >> american people are telling us that the individual mandates, the requirements to buy insurance are something that they want us to scrap and start over on. >> the mandate itself was a republican idea starting way back in the mid '90s. after a series of conflicting decisions from various courts

georgetown university. thank you. guest: thank you. host: the "washington journal" team has been at the supreme court all morning.hey spoke to a turnings -- attorneys that have been in the courtroom. host: we are with three people were watched three days of the proceedings, and we will talk to them about their perspectives. guest: by practice in california. host: do you have a special interest in today's proceedings? guest: baidu pro bono work for the american cancer society, and we favor the law as it is time the end we want to make sure the minimum provision is intact and it is not severed. if it is severed, only the rest or the remaining law should be intact or enforceable. host: severability is the key point you are watching? guest: yes. host: what is of concern to those you represent? guest: the imposition of the mandatory purchase of health care insurance, if that is severed, and we have a lot of uninsured, we feel taxpayers will pick up the tab, so it is not good for as. host: we have another court watcher. guest: ed,, a member of the d.c. bar. i am here for two reasons. it is an extraordinarily important

georgetown university? >> guest: i teach broad classes in international politics. this semester i'm teaching one course in national security, and that's a class that looks at what are people arguing about in foreign affairs journalor international security? what are the cutting edge debates? and then i teach a class called grand strategy and historical perspective. which is a book, a class about imperial management. so we start with the romans, and then we go up through the ottomans, we get to the brits, the french, the germans, the japanese, and then we end with the era of american hegemony, so it's a senior seminar, if you will, and it covers a lot

later, new gingrich campaigns at georgetown university and ron paul meets with students at the university of maryland. tomorrow on "washington journal," michael green talked about south korean security and a possible satellite launched by north korea. new york times assistant business and financial editor gretchen morgenson looks at fannie mae and freddie mac. thomas mesenbourg and connie potter discussed the first ever release of records and surveys from the 1940 u.s. census after the expedition -- after the expiration the, the dallas -- confidentiality clause. washington journal why friday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> in march 1979, c-span began televising the u.s. house of representatives to households nationwide. today, our content of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books and history is available on tv, radio, and online. >> i asked admiral poindexter directly -- as the precedent know? he told me he did not. on november 25, the day i was re-signed back to the united states marine corps or service, the president of the united states called me. in the course of that call, the president said to me words to the effect