by Burning Issues Video | May 26, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/4wAcfAHHD3E[/fve] The Israel-Palestine conflict should not be viewed as a millennia-old intractable conflict, but a recent crisis in which the United States has been a key instigator through its "blank check" support of Israel, says Raed Jarrar,...
by Burning Issues Video | May 25, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/wXNHZ6umip8[/fve] Retired Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, who has done two tours in both Iraq and Afghanistan and who has since written articles critical of the way the United States has conducted the wars there, explains in this Burning Issues video his...
by Burning Issues Video | May 16, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/Dy1SSX2JaKU[/fve] An audit of the Defense Department's finances must be the next president's top priority to root out waste and "legalized corruption" in Pentagon procurement, says Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government...
by Burning Issues Video | May 12, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/PGAcgHgmZMM[/fve] Critics of the nuclear deal with Iran have stepped up their opposition even though it is a clear success. Kate Gould of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, an expert on the Middle East policy, explains why now is the...
by Burning Issues Video | May 11, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/OfM73I-dzRY[/fve] The next president should end the practice of recent presidents of using arms sales as an instrument of foreign policy, says William Hartung, director of the arms and security project at the Center for International Policy, in...
by Burning Issues Video | May 9, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/BSDU8Fy-5nE[/fve] The F-35 fighter place is a textbook example of how tax dollars are wasted on Pentagon weaponry, Mandy Smithberger, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Project on Government Oversight, explains in this Burning...