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...
by Burning Issues Video | May 5, 2016 | Burning Issues
[fve]https://youtu.be/-3X1Mj7Vqlw[/fve] Presidential candidates who emphasize closing the federal spending deficit are ignoring a more important investment deficit in our infrastructure, our schools and in other fundamentals of future growth and shared prosperity,...
by Burning Issues Video | May 3, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/uPzFqfa4UQY[/fve] Danielle Brian, the executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, highlights the reasons why our Pentagon budget is so bloated in this Burning Issues segment. One simple answer: It's politics. The way the Pentagon...
by Burning Issues Video | May 2, 2016 | Burning Issues, Economy, Election 2016, Financial Reform
[fve]https://youtu.be/TGl3p6cVSCU[/fve] The Panama Papers, which opened a window into the world of secret bank accounts and money flows, help reveal the extent to which the global financial system is rigged to favor the wealthy and powerful, says Eryn Schornick,...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 26, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]ttps://youtu.be/tki-nuTUCko[/fve] Emira Woods, associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, says in this Burning Issues video that the next U.S. president needs to think of Africa differently and ally with the forces of change seeking to improve the...
by Burning Issues Video | Apr 25, 2016 | Burning Issues, Defense/Foreign Policy
[fve]https://youtu.be/2A8YD-yMo-I[/fve] The principle of a civilian-run military – a military answerable to a democratically elected president and Congress – has proven vital to the health of American democracy. But retired Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of...
