by Burning Issues Video | Mar 29, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/RwMejx5-ftY[/fve] Daniel Kalik, the chief of staff at J Street, a progressive Jewish "pro-peace" organization, discusses which 2016 presidential candidate is best positioned to help Israel and the Palestinians reach a peace agreement. J Street...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 28, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/bXDmZ7k2Dgo[/fve] Jim Zogby, the president of the Arab American Institute, explains the "conflict within a conflict within a conflict" in Syria in this segment of the Burning Issues series. Zogby, who also does public opinion polling in the...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 25, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Democracy
[fve]https://youtu.be/d4FKwJluPTE[/fve] Berta Cáceres was an indigenous and environmental activist in Honduras who was the 2015 Goldman Environmental Prize winner for her success in blocking the Agua Zarca dam project, which would have decimated the communities and...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 23, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/B-UXE6OuA7E[/fve] A ghost of the Cold War – the nuclear arms race – could come back to haunt us in a very big way if it is not brought out of the shadows in this presidential election, according to Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughshares...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 21, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Election 2016
[fve]https://youtu.be/LkIOxvlRS5c[/fve] What should voters make of claims from Republican presidential candidates and lawmakers that our military is weak and underfunded? According to Miriam Pemberton, a research fellow and defense expert at the Institute for Policy...
by Burning Issues Video | Mar 17, 2016 | Blog, Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy, Election 2016
[fve]https://youtu.be/KRllAa55_OM[/fve] Melvin A. Goodman, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy, discusses the lessons of the Libya crisis to be learned from Hillary Clinton's actions as secretary of state, and how Bernie Sanders has approached the...
