Conversations With History: American Foreign Policy
Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier for a discussion of U.S. foreign policy from the Fall of the Berlin Wall until the attack on 9/11. They discuss the search for a grand strategy during the Clinton administration and outline the debates among liberals and among conservatives about the U.S. role as the sole superpower, especially the relative importance of economic power versus military power in shaping world order. Chollet and Goldgeier also focus on the new security challenges facing the United States– global warming, terrorism, and the spread of infectious disease. Series: Conversations with History [12/2008] [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 15411]
Duration : 0:57:21
Noam Chomsky: Is Capitalism Making Life Better?
Is Capitalism Justified? Are the Current Justifications for Capitalism Sufficient?
-Noam Chomsky Answers These Questions in this interview
Duration : 0:10:8
Obama Marijuana Policy (MPP-TV)
Join MPP-TV as we review five of the 2008 presidential candidates’ positions on marijuana policy.
Duration : 0:6:32
fiscal policy and the multiplier effect
how does fiscal policy work for a government? Why does the multiplier effect make demand management so difficult?
Duration : 0:9:11
aint live, EnjoyBlack Book of Canadian Foreign Policy – Yves Engler
Montreal-based activist and author Yves Engler launches his book The Black Book of Canadian Foriegn Policy in Edmonton on June 18, 2009. The Black Book of Canadian Foreign Policy sheds light on many dark corners of Canadian foreign policy: From troops that joined the British in Sudan in 1885 to gunboat diplomacy in the Caribbean and aspirations of Central American empire, to participation in the UN mission that killed Patrice Lumumba in the Congo, to important support for apartheid South Africa, Zionism and the US war in Vietnam, to helping overthrow Salvador Allende and supporting the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, to Haiti, Iraq and Afghanistan today. Engler’s work has been praised by Noam Chomsky.
http://blackbook.foreignpolicy.ca/
Duration : 1:13:51
Pete Alcock – What is Social Policy?
Pete Alcock gives his answer to the question ‘What is Social Policy?’
Social Policy in Britain 2nd Ed.- 2003, Palgrave
Understanding Poverty 3rd Ed. — 2006, Palgrave
International Social Policy (Ed. with Gay Craig) — 2001, Palgrave
Student’s Companion to Social Policy 2nd Ed.(Ed. with Angus Erskine and Maggie May) — 2003, Blackwell
Blackwell Dictionary of Social Policy (with Angus Erskine and Maggie May) — 2002, Blackwell
Welfare and Wellbeing — Richard Titmuss’s Contribution to Social Policy (Ed. with Howard Glennerster, Ann Oakley and Adrian Sinfield) — 2002, Policy Press
Work to Welfare: How Men become Detached from the Labour Market (with Tina Beatty, Steve Fothergill, Rob Macmillan and Sue Yeandle) – 2003, Cambridge UP
‘Close work’ Doing qualitative research in the voluntary sector,(Ed. with D. Scott) – 2005, Charities Aid Foundation/University of Birmingham/University of Manchester
Duration : 0:3:57
Ellsberg Explains Reality of US Foreign Policy to Kristol p1
Daniel Ellsberg spent three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, serving as rifle platoon leader, operations officer, and rifle company commander.
He worked as a strategic analyst at the RAND Corporation and consultant to the Defense Department and the White House.
“His recent essay, “The Next War”, featured in the October 2006 issue of Harpers magazine, urges government officials to reveal truths about government secrecy and nuclear planning—with documents—to avert a possible attack on Iran.”
“A hidden crisis is under way. Many government insiders are aware of serious plans for war with Iran, but Congress and the public remain largely in the dark.” http://harpers.org/archive/2006/10/0081208
Duration : 0:2:31
Ron Paul: Foreign Policy Ignored
As the health care reform battle rages, Congressman Paul points out the need to also keep paying attention to developments in foreign policy and discusses recent events that could have long-term effects.
Duration : 0:6:12
Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Book Club
Presidential candidate Ron Paul assigns some reading material to Rudy Giuliani. Discussion on CNN’s “Situation Room”
Duration : 0:3:10