Lieberman on Iraq War: Worth it, despite costing more in "life and treasure" than anticipated
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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Saying he was "cautiously optimistic" about Iraq's future, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor that the Iraq War was, in the final analysis, worth America's time and that it served as a positive symbol for Arab revolution... Read more
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- -: Lieberman on Iraq War: Worth it, despite costing more in "life and treasure" than anticipated
December 13, 2011 (over 12 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast Saying he was "cautiously optimistic" about Iraq's future, Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) told reporters at a breakfast sponsored by The Christian Science Monitor that the Iraq War was, in the final analysis, worth America's time and that ...
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- -: Marc Koska: 1.3m reasons to re-invent the syringe
October 22, 2009 (over 14 years ago)http://www.ted.com Reuse of syringes, all too common in under-funded clinics, kills 1.3 million each year. Marc Koska clues us in to this devastating global problem with facts, photos and hidden-camera footage. He shares his solution: a low-cost syringe that can't be used twice. TEDTalks is a da...
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- -: Revisiting the 2007 Pet Food Recall - Marion Nestle
October 7, 2008 (over 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/26/Pet_Food_Politics_The_Chihuahua_in_the_Coal_Mine Author and NYU Professor of Nutrition Marion Nestle describes how cost-cutting in China resulted in the massive recall of internationally distributed pet food in the Spring of 2007. ----- Author and p...
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- -: Remembering a Fallen Soldier in Afghanistan - Craig Mullaney
March 19, 2009 (about 15 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/03/09/The_Unforgiving_Minute_A_Soldiers_Education West Point graduate and US Army veteran Craig Mullaney discusses when his platoon was ambushed in Afghanistan and the emotional consequences of losing a soldier during combat. "When you're doing causality ev...
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- -: Are US Drone Attacks Justified? Obama Legal Adviser Koh Says Yes
April 3, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/25/Legal_Adviser_Harold_Koh_International_Law_and_the_Obama_Administration Harold Koh, legal adviser for the U.S. Department of State, explains why the Obama administration views its use of drone attacks in Afghanistan and Pakistan as lawful and justifie...
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- -: UN Legal Advisor Shamsi: Drone Attacks Harm US Policy in Pakistan
April 7, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/03/25/Afghanistan_Pakistan_and_the_Modern_Challenges_to_Use_of_Force_Law Hina Shamsi, a senior UN advisor on extrajudicial executions, discusses the escalation of U.S. drone attacks in Pakistan from 2008 to present day. She also addresses the disputed numbe...
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- -: Was the Surge Worth It? The Human Cost of the Iraq War
April 13, 2010 (about 14 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/27/David_Finkel_The_Good_Soldiers Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Finkel remembers fallen soldier Duncan Crookston, a 19-year-old who died five months after being severely injured by an explosively formed penetrator (EFP). "We reach the point where...
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- -: Biotech Disaster by 2020? Martin Rees Weighs the Risks
September 15, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/02/Martin_Rees_Lifes_Future_in_the_Cosmos Long Now Foundation president Stewart Brand interviews cosmologist Martin Rees about his 2002 Long Bets prediction that "by 2020 a biological catastrophe (either bioterror or bioerror) will lead to one million ca...
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- -: Dealing with the Remains of Palestinian Suicide Bombers
September 28, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/08/06/Megan_Stack_An_Education_in_War Megan Stack, foreign correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, reflects on something "truly bizarre" that she observed while covering the Second Intifada in Israel. The morgue in Jaffa, she says, was f...
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- -: Nuclear Nightmare: Fallout from an India-Pakistan War
October 19, 2010 (over 13 years ago)Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/09/21/Richard_Rhodes_Twilight_of_the_Bombs Author Richard Rhodes presents a simulation of the potential climate impacts of an India-Pakistan nuclear exchange. The immediate destruction, he says, would kill 20 million -- followed by another billion from fail...
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