by Burning Issues Video | Jul 8, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/RkpWT2vqykU[/fve] The United States' interventions in the Middle East over the past decades have been a clear failure by any measure, says Andrew Bacevich, an author on military matters and a retired Boston University history professor, in this...
by Burning Issues Video | Jun 29, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/kDwlgxayM0Y[/fve] Be wary of rhetoric coming from Pentagon leaders championing an escalation of military pressure against China, says Lawrence Korb, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, in this Burning Issues video. "There are a...
by Burning Issues Video | Jun 21, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/3V4mFLSajK0[/fve] In order to eliminate the threat of ISIS, the United States has to support eliminating the conditions that have led people in Syria and Iraq to conclude that ISIS is the lesser of two evils, says Phyllis Bennis, a fellow at the...
by Burning Issues Video | Jun 8, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/VckahRnih6g[/fve] We should be asking the presidential candidates more about their views on using the U.S. military to train foreign armies, a strategy that has not worked well in Iraq and Afghanistan, says Lt. Col. Daniel Davis in this Burning...
by Burning Issues Video | Jun 1, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/EkUwv6WQhDk[/fve] The next president needs to take on the imbalance between what the nation spends on military engagement and our spending on peace-building and conflict prevention, says Theo Sitther, director of the peace-building program at the...
by Burning Issues Video | May 31, 2016 | Burning Issues, Climate, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/u2alBcISoeU[/fve] The United States has been promoting hydraulic fracturing – fracking – in dozens of countries around the world despite the direct environmental risks and its contribution to global warming, says Charlie Cray, a researcher at...
