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[SophieZ]

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March 19, 2006: The Monitor


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<> ~ 6:20 pm CST -- CYNTHIA ENLOE - on globalization and feminism (part two)




Today co-host Pokey Anderson will continue last week's Monitor conversation with Cynthia Enloe, looking at how to apply feminist thinking to situations as diverse as post-war decision-making and women in global factory work.

Prof. Enloe has spent her career studying the impact of militarism, state policies and politics on the lives of women throughout the world. "Manipulations of manliness often shape foreign policy decision-making," she has argued. "Focusing our attention on the military-industrial complex, oil and empire isn't enough. If we dismiss the politics of femininity and masculinity, we will never get to the bottom of what fuels militarization. We will never roll it back because we won't know what propels it forward."

She has taught and conducted research at Clark University in Massachusetts for 30 years, and is a founding member of Clark's Women's Studies program.

Prof. Enloe has published numerous books, and has received the Outstanding Teacher Award three times. She was named the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Honorary Geographer for 2003, which cited her for "deep and abiding appreciation of the importance of place in fostering understanding of the interconnections of gender and international relations around the globe."

Her newest article, "Macho, Macho Military" looks at the militarization of American daily life.

RECENT ARTICLE:
"Macho, Macho Military," March 9, 2006, The Nation,
http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0309-28.htm

RECENT BOOKS BY CYNTHIA ENLOE:
"The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in The New Age of Empire," University of California Press, 2004

"Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics"



<> 6:37 pm CST -- acclaimed investigative reporter SEYMOUR HERSH: September 11 to Iraq (part one)



One of the most respected investigative journalists in America, Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai story in Vietnam in 1969, and has been breaking stories about US intelligence, military, and foreign policy ever since.

His eighth book, Chain of Command, looks at events since September 11, 2001. Topics include intelligence failures prior to 9/11; postwar planning regarding Afghanistan and Iraq; the corruption of the Saudi family; Pakistan's nuclear program; influence peddling at the highest levels; and the torture scandal at Abu Ghraib prison. Hersh writes for The New Yorker, and is ahead of the pack on numerous major stories. He has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize, four George Polk awards, and more than a dozen other prizes. His unflinching reports draw on sources at high levels of government.

He charges the Bush administration with being propelled by ideology and hamstrung by incompetence in the Middle East. In today's interview with Monitor co-host Mark Bebawi, recorded earlier this week, Hersh called Bush "a dictator with a bedtime."

In a previous interview, Hersh said: "How could eight or nine neoconservatives come and take charge of this government? They overran the bureaucracy, they overran the Congress, they overran the press, and they overran the military! So you say to yourself, How fragile is this democracy?" Neocon Richard Perle has called Hersh "the closest thing we have to a terrorist." (Berkeley, 10/08/04, http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/101404E.shtml)

PART TWO of Seymour Hersh will be broadcast next week.

Hersh will be speaking in Houston on Thursday, March 23, 7:30 pm at the InterContinental Hotel, 2222 West Loop South. Ticket info: 713-315-2525

BOOK:
Chain of Command : The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib (paperback, August 2005) -- "Hersh’s critics may dismiss these explosive, less than objective conclusions. For others, however, this sobering book is the closest anyone without a security clearance will get to operatives in the inner sanctums of America’s intelligence, military, political and diplomatic worlds." -- Publisher's Weekly


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March 12
-- IMAD KHADDURI - looking at nuclear capabilities around the world
-- CYNTHIA ENLOE - on the macho military, Part One

[SophieZ]

1. NOW AVAILABLE on the archive.

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PS The hosts have issued a correction to the above.

It says INCORRECTLY above:
Hersh called Bush "a dictator with a bedtime."

The actual Hersh quote is:
"This president, you know, I call him a rebel, or a revolutionary with a bedtime."

[LynnTheDem]

2. Bush "a dictator with a bedtime."

Love that; Bush "a dictator with a bedtime."

From Sy Hersh, no less.

[SophieZ]

3. Nope. That was corrected above.

Hersh did not call Bush a dictator.

correction

Hersh did say: "This president, you know, I call him a rebel, or a revolutionary with a bedtime."