As President Trump destabilizes America’s role in the world, progressives have a unique opportunity to define a new foreign policy for America. But while the ascendant progressive movement in Congress has advanced a bold agenda on domestic policy, it needs to develop a cohesive and principled vision for the U.S. role in international affairs. A panel featuring Rep. Ro Khanna, Peter Beinart, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Andrew Bacevich, Trita Parsi, and Neta Crawford
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I love that this discussion included conservatives. Brilliant touch.
Trita Parsi supposed to represent Iranian people’s interest, because he claims to be the head of IAC, but as you can see he talks about human rights in Israel, Saudi Arabia, and China, but not in Iran. He is a very clever, so called intellectual, who has been proven to represent the criminal regime of Iran's interest not Iranian people. Person like him in this panel, who presents himself as a progressive, is an insult to the progressives. Please do google his background, to find out what his views are on Iranian Regime.
president eisenhower's farewell address warned us of the very thing that is happening today with the industrial military complex and the power and influence that that entity weilds.
You folks spent a lot of time discussing detailed nuances yet failed to mention the primary target or objective even once. Not a good sign. An ice-free Arctic in 2019 or 2020 means it's game over and all of your theories mean nothing if humans have gone extinct. That is the most likely scenario at this time. The fact that you didn't know that is a valid excuse for your mistake, but no longer. Therefore the primary strategy for foreign policies, how the military is used and our financial resources are divided amongst allies and campaigns, while normally critically important, is far less important than going to war with'climate catastrophes occurring at exponentially accelerating rates of frequency, intensity and duration. You briefly mentioned climate in passing, but the policies that actually create an effective Green New Deal, and not the useless toilet paper AOC presented, are described at Mead2020 (0rg)  the only presidential candidate focused on climate who actually has the infrastructure experience of designing generating stations, wind, solar, geothermal, hospitals, school systems, college level science content, manufacturing, distribution, agriculture and tech villages along with the required National grids, zero-emission desalination and other uniquely 21st century components required for creating a civilization that manages to dodge Extinction. If you go through the cabinet letters for each department, including the Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, the CIA and NSA, UN Ambassador, US trade representative, the Mead2020 (0rg) and internal departments interfacing with foreign affairs, you find a well-thought-out integrated, comprehensive, practical, affordable, profitable and effective National plan and Global agenda. The plan even includes converting the entire grid of the United States to 100% zero-emission Power, Fuel and Water, as well as moving  the Navy and Air Force to zero emission fuel for ships, land, rail and jets. These Technologies already exist. The plan even has a component to ensure Bernie Sanders is in the White House . Candidates love to give flowery speeches, and it's understandable why you would do the same thing here showing everyone how smart you are and some of what you said makes sense, but if you have not looked at the Nitty Gritty of the natural world's cataclysmic event calendar as it actually, scientifically is known to exist today, and not the delusionally optimistic framework every single economic and political pundit erroneously uses, and consider the short future Humanity has if we don't take dramatic action quickly, everything else is just pipe dreams. An example is Palestine. Obviously any Progressive and many Conservatives who have studied the matter, like Solomon solving the dispute between mothers over a baby, a two-state solution mostly solves most of the problems. However, everyone in that region will be dead in less than 5 years, so why bother? That giant migration will soon impact and flatten Europe, Russia and Asia, who will each also be experiencing their own food shortages and internal crisis. If you want to do something for the Palestinians, and if there is any impoverished group on Earth who deserves some assistance for the century of genocide, it is the Palestinians, cordon off the area, build some Quikrete structure so people have a roof over their head, and perhaps air conditioning which would buy them an extra year or two, bring in solar and desalination for a few years, and figure out where they're going to go because anything south of 70 degrees latitude is going to have a very difficult time surviving.  I didn''t hear anyone mention that fact, or the fact that cities like Miami and soon many others are going to be disappearing altogether. This isn't happening in 2050 or even 2030. The acceleration of ice melt after an ice-free Arctic takes place will be horrific. And once skilled Labor stops maintaining 1600 nuclear facilities around the world, the surface of the Earth will be sterilized. Brace for impact. You literally have months, not years or decades to take aggressive action. And we won't.
Israel today has become a nazi like state. period. That says it all. This is heart-breaking.
Gaza is simply a concentration camp.
They should round of all these war hawks & drop them in Yeman. We give money to Israel to buy US weapons from Saudi – watch Noam Chomsky
17 plus years later some people are finally starting to talk about the $6 trillion wars and the $750 billion annual Defense Department Budget…. Please consider giving Tulsi Gabbard at least a $1 contribution so she can be part of the debate between Democratic presidential candidates. She has made ending the wars on terrorism and regime change the primary issue of her candidacy. She is an Iraq vet and currently in the National Guard. Her rank is Colonel. She needs $62,500 and contributions from 200 people in each of 20 states. Thanks for anything you can do.
Climate change, again Fear Porn!
Costs of War – Katrina, isn’t that the group Neta and Andrew are a part of? No high level military/ex-military on it except for Andrew.
Neta, you have to stand closer to mic. Hard to hear what you said!
Fewer liberals, more socialists please. There is no role for the US in the world — it has opposed every liberation struggle worldwide, except the liberation of capital to flow more freely, enslaving more of the world.
Claiming China is rising due to our own investments isn’t necessarily true there’s a difference between causation and correlation. I get what the conservative on the panel is saying. Human rights are important though when it comes to foreign policy
Bernie’s progressive foreign policy speech in 2017 was very good
Peoples talk too much, no action taken to Israel, is time the peoples power of the world, should sanction Israel. And free those Palestinians.
Great conference, great panel !!
Fix the title. The C is missing.
Andrew Bacevich could play a major role in a future Progressive administration..
We need an Anti-imperialist league like 100 ago. And an anti-war caucus in congress!
16:46 what the fuck. how can you say that without any reference to capitalism or workers? It just makes it sound hollow to me.
The audio is a little off especially for a couple speakers but this discussion is great. Trump ran on a non-interventionist platform, but in his typical dishonest fashion, he appointed people who are developing usable nukes like characters out of Dr. Strangelove. Nuclear weapons and climate change are both existential threats that all the world needs to act together to address.