well in detail the pentagon usually admits to about yearly to about eight hundred military bases or sites from macro to micro but in their count they don't include anything in a war zone and at tom dispatch you know we've done some reporting for instance on the afghan war or the present afghan war zone where we have upwards of four hundred bases again from tiny combat outposts to enormous basically american towns with boardwalks with fast food joints and whatever that we just built more or less from scratch and there are certain countries where the countries are embarrassed that their military bases there it's really hard to say i mean eight hundred to a thousand maybe more depending on what you're counting it's an awful lot it's an imperial presence of a kind i don't think we've ever seen in history and it's particularly strange because the bases traditionally bases more or less where the way you kept colonies but for us bases are actually the thing when you see global

it's a frightening word it sounds like every single country throughout just globe has some form of military presence from the united states that i can't swear but it's every city probably isn't every single country but a striking number of countries i don't actually know the number right here but i mean if you think if you if you take this another way and you think to yourself. the u.s. military now has a kind of secret military inside it and those are the special operations forces which have been incredibly peeved up and taken over certain activities that once were more cia type activities in the bush and now obama period those special operations forces and there are thirteen thousand of them according to the washington post stationed outside the united states their station now in seventy five countries there are only one hundred ninety two countries in the u.s. i think that's the latest figure so you're talking about somewhere. upwards of

forty percent just for special operations forces so it is a lot now it's very interesting that to draw that dividing line between declared war is an undeclared wars which you raise this point in your work often most americans are aware of declared wars with iraq but afghanistan over the last several years what about the un declared boys how come nobody really talks about bad wars skirmishes whatever you know it's hard to know in this country what people know i mean i mean even the wars the afghan war for instance has disappeared more or less disappeared for years at a time from i think from the media well from public consciousness you know it's hard to say what the u.s. media you could always find something i mean there's something there and that is that is it's not there's ever no coverage but you have to be a news jockey like me you have to be reading the inside pages of the papers the war in the pakistani border line and americans obviously know very little about that i mean we are proud of our drones and so we're caught always between calling it

a covert war and actually. that actually bragging about it and americans are remarkably detached from the wars that being are being fought in their names and the various other military positions and so on and so forth on the globe it's one of the things that i focus on as is just the degree to which we are doing things that americans could know about basically don't we have to put some of that blame on the media who is essentially responsible for bringing some of that information to the u.s. and i have to ask you do you feel like the media and the military are sort of sleeping in the same bed at this point i think the military made of but there's a there's a history with the military of a post vietnam history of trying to put journalists in bed with it when you are embedded with the military there's an element of stockholm syndrome there just has to be with it and you tend to if you're out with american troops in afghanistan you are in the end i mean your life is at stake you are at the end going to a dead. american troops let me ask you this you spent years the ciphering the sort

of the military is agent of the us foreign policy when when when should that line be drawn between you know reasonable national defense and really a kind of paranoid extension of us is that line ever drawn any more no but basically it basically is no longer drawn and so what you really get this you get american treasure poor into by the multi-billions into you know into into remarkably strange wars approach i've long been convinced that if osama bin laden you know had a dream for him in a nightmare for us it was to involve us in in inconclusive wars in distant lands that would cost us a fortune there's a kind of intelligence national security bureaucracy that's fed in this country all fear and americans are irrationally scared of terrorism since two thousand and one the number of americans who have been you know killed by by terrorist actions is

it's a shark attacks but below anything else dangerous in our world you know and yet the fear level is so who remarkably high and everything is justified upon us those lines are drawn and we don't think seriously about what our national interest is and we're paying for it now you've mentioned money and apparently the pentagon is going to be able to enjoy as much as seven hundred twenty six billion dollars next year or something along those that i say that's and i have to ask you i mean it might seem a sort of a naive question but it has to be asked couldn't this money be put to better use and especially now in this economy of course you know commanders in afghanistan can walk into a village they have they have a fund so they can find an afghan village elder if they want to do a hearts and minds' sort of thing they can see that the infrastructure is weak that they have canals or filled in or whatever they can just pay money to people to start digging out those canals you can't do that in the united states we are. can't

do nation here we can't build anything we just we just decided not to build a tunnel between new jersey and new york city where i live because it was too expensive but we can spend billions building these bases very efficiently if they're extraordinary in a way can do x. these huge bases in afghanistan or iraq or wherever else i think it's quite startling actually and what about the cost of civilians on the ground civilian lives we have piled up many towers in response to the towers that went down to two thousand trees three we have piled up many towers of dead and they don't have memorials nobody thinks about them i mean except obviously their families and their countries we don't know the numbers in iraq or afghanistan but they are they are startling numbers not only has the idea of peace go on just go on the idea really of diplomacy in the normal sense as opposed to a militarized kind of diplomacy but the very idea of victory the most basic thing to a military culture is going on in one of your latest articles you ask this question

how old will you be when the american envoy stared state goes down as you often bring up this point of a terror of an internal state of war you know is that essentially america's destiny and in one war i'm starting out i actually think not this can only go on so long all things of course must end but in the american case you know we cannot simply continue fighting trillion dollars to three whatever it might be a trillion dollar wars ad infinitum i this country simply can't afford it and washington thinks that we're in a slow long manageable decline i think this country like the soviet union in an earlier period it's in decline now most this is what americans know asked the question is this country in decline sixty five percent of americans the most recent poll say yes we are in a state of decline americans feel this washington doesn't fully feel this yet but that reality is going to shape. this war world of ours will it continue to go on

for the next couple of decades or what i know it's a time when i don't know i don't think it's a couple of decades no i mean longer or less no i think it's less i think it's really significantly less i think we are in a steeper decline and we realize we won't be able to afford to eat it too eternally . it will be a necessity to to lessen the american military on the military mission on the planet talking about these issues and u.s. wars and u.s. military isn't. there many authors out there here in the united states talking about it how come this point does just not get across to washington is it so different planets i think washington is in many ways remarkably sealed off from most fresh thinking i think one of the startling things and disturbing things about the arrival of the barack obama in foreign policy terms is that is the people he chose to put them around him you know obama picked james jones as his national

security adviser general marie a retired marine general who is a friend of john mccain's you have made him elections coming up right out nothing's really going to change after that right it's going to be the same thing over and over again it will be worse it will be worse because the we know before the election happens and without being there are november second without even thinking about it we know that whoever comes in the group the the america will be a country that will be able to do less and congress will be able to do less less is going to happen for a while i mean lesson in the sense of anything new any change anything that would really set us on a different course i think this is not going to be a happy moment. not a very optimistic prediction time go hard thank you very much for sitting to us today it's a pleasure. dear

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on the day. the latest news in the week's top stories on our t.v. shows seals the deal to build vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant in a bid to help the country develop as an independent and modern state the agreement was signed as me through to visit the noise to boost cooperation with the region. tensions flare as georgia has reportedly arrested a network of twenty people all georgians for spying for russia to d.c. has refused to either confirm or deny the claims. and the first ever joint us russian anti drugs operation in afghanistan but the success forces have destroyed four drug labs and confiscated a ton of heroin with over two hundred workers i should say over two hundred million

dollars. let's check in now at the sports desk a partridge joins us. by their cave and i understand a lot is happening in the russian premier league highness yes a five games in the russian premier league today when you design it lived up to expectations and moved six points to the top they need just seven more points to the title that's coming up now. hello welcome to the sports on another action packed sunday and here are the top stories marching on alexander country called bags of braces in it when three military into a line you go six points clear at the top of the russian premier league. club losing finalist mccall usually loses the final of the st petersburg i think as it stands between the fifty and. i'm fighting back texas claw their way back into baseball's world series with victory at the san francisco. stars football was in

its own petersburg have restored their six point lead at the top of the russian premier league after a comprehensive three nil i went over there in a real battle to avoid relegation the host went in front off the quarter now the keeper was rooted from the spot he's done it as a bitch fired him his free kick. on to the second came three minutes before the break the d.n.a. of the strong launch the cross is in the closer call for guided the easy finish and he wasn't done for the day six minutes off to the restart danny puts the russia strike us through the net instead it's in the second of the often being to take his tally for the season to twelve. so it is an extra six points clear at a time that the all else read tom edgecumbe caught at home the only goal of playing in the fifty third minute i'll turn to behind the example for the tunnel was there to fire home what seems to be the way to cost stay in the drop zone along with the

beer. and also sponsor conceded an own goal early in the game at tara but they did manage to score late equaliser with mia jejune salvaging a point for the visitors to make fifteen this able. to me while dimitri situ off school the eighteenth when it went after just one luckier to grab a one zero win despite having market crashes sent off on the stroke of time for the way. locos moved up to fifty still with pipes from the read about blissfully exposed assassin entertained but faced a spell in the late game. on a saturday forced by spacek moscow came from behind to stay in the hunt for a place in europe think season home side find themselves a goal down when i'm retired gauche netted to twenty two minutes but spotlight went into the break level eight in mcgeady provided the cross needs to expire of ellison added the finish one more on the way it stayed until the final minutes when substitute extended to slow down in the box. and no mistakes spot

on time taken for three crucial points. and six places that moscow also remained in the chase league spot after coming from behind to win still want him to look bottom severe but when they have gelato gave the visitors a surprise lead off for an hour. then just six minutes the first taking the lead having karami city to the level. and from them days almost identical to make it two one the first then got to victory with four weeks to go at sentence and get off the same targets to make it three one. stoppage time because some shelf added the force they crossed in some different. while over in england liverpool have the chance to move out of the relegation zone as they travel to bolton in the last of sunday's three premier league fixtures roy hodgson's side need just a point at the reebok stadium twice three faces to fifteen's victory to see the new look even prior to both bolton fall and beaten in the last five games well earlier there were two job is kevin nolan scored a hat trick ball shown on reality and is

a brace as newcastle thrashed ten on sunderland five one as in james's park the black cats have titus bramble sent off after fifty three minutes and got a light consolation through darren bent while aston villa got better and finished goalless. tennis now and kim clijsters is currently on court against caroline wozniacki at the w.i. championships final in doa and. quick look at the score show is coming back next in the final crisis where she just just gone a game up with a break because you just said three to two close to so soft and in the meanwhile time macalso cushing got a surprising when i perform a champion mikkel usually in the phone of some petersburg and a straight sets win a concept plan. meanwhile in the k h l i haven't got needed jaromir jaeger overtime goal to get a win after maybe list the almost club still second in the western conference plenty more games underway as we speak the big match of the day is western conference leaders in a moscow test instance and petersburg best tight three things the defending

champions aren't bossed they're also tired they can still go out. and on saturday there was a shot three one defeat to. go down course i think the first one to be in the first period so straight to the second period where we learned to convert converted a power play to double and was advantage however this cough into the powerplay blueline took one back from the current but it's a curious need if only a minister still and wants to go advantage in a quick counter-attack discomfort did give a lot of hope they were saving the game with a strike to put it back to three to. six closer they got. to thank you meanwhile russia's preparations for next year's rugby world cup of suffered another setback after they were thrashed thirty two points to six by argentina's reserve side their second loss to the us many weeks is richer than forty eight. there's less many years ago till two thousand and eleven rugby world

cup gets underway new zealand and then putin's russia have a lot of work to do no one is expecting miracles but the newest nation to take part in rugby showpiece event needs to improve fast if they're going to be competitive against the likes of australia ireland in italy as says russia's new banks coach henri paul could see. the rights of the world cup go to sort of been involved in a short time but it's hard when the players they have cells they need the fruits they need to work on a concert so pretty much everyone everywhere. particular sneezed and you know we slowly going to go through the process that is this decision making here to make about who's going to go to the world cup so those are things that you know officer steve diamond in the call i will work on myself i would have to work with the guys on technique and skill work to continue their preparations for the event in new zealand russia have been playing two tests against argentina second string the

russians will be opening encounter of over forty points last weekend and we're hoping for a much improved performance seven days later after the majority of the first half they would give a good account of themselves and would have been in front before we would go kicking and opportunistic trying from this to strum half thomas could barely as opposed to trail by just cool points going into the half time break despite applying some early pressure falling resumption russia would soon find themselves further behind as visitors long problem both managed to bundle is way over the line from close range and the home side were left with a mountain to climb just minutes way turn despite being down to fourteen men certainly didn't individual you are as and one published still is was on hand to finish a slick move and put argentina into twenty to six lean meaning russia needed to convert a tries just to draw level those to be no way back for the russians who were beginning to tire and argentine. as great

a fitness would prevail as they would run into late scores to secure a thirty two points to six victory. in the first half was part of a positive thing the year of power from the try against a run a play by as it came in the first ten minutes because he controlled most of all we had most of position we were in small wooden and those of zero as a negative so that's the thing that has something to work on but i think during lee we keep the cells in the game we were able kick his ego has been working all around you know a lot you know with mr l. fly after about one fly off but the last two games we were given a few guys are on the fur in general prefer a lot of game time and that's great for the development and improve performance by the russians you know face japan is may continue then build on the world cup but in reality the team needs to become much fitter and start making elementary mistakes have begun to have a chance of even competing on the same level with some the world's top sides in september two thousand and eleven richard pengelly doherty moscow. over in america

the texas rangers have claimed their first win in baseball's world series beating san francisco forty to cut the giants lead to two one in the series texas had come into saturday's home game in arlington looking to restore some pride after being stretched in san francisco it was a fraught game but the team moment when rangers number nine put up much more and snatched jonathan sanchez for two out of three when i met in the second innings that proved to be enough to win the game and that's the rangers a chance to level the best of seven series from the size return to the ballpark on sunday. well you know it's nice mitch morgan has certainly established himself as a major league player. he's just a battler he goes up there in. he uses every bit of talent he has he fights when he gets but you don't usually miss it it was a huge homerun for us tonight but it's on the board gave us a little breathing room and colby lewis took it from there and there's also been

a victory in the n.b.a. for the milwaukee bucks who registered their first win of the season by beating charlotte ninety eight eighty eight on home court under ball gets back in bradley's center for the first time since breaking his hand just to create a relevant bad fall back in april and he knocked up fourteen points eight rebounds and threw blocks in this one instance also needs to foster right because of running a full you've got to finish. by six ball that's teammate brandon jennings recorded his first career triple double and even twenty points ten rebounds and ten assists and even more k.q. in the ninety eight eighteen victory. and in other games atlanta outscored washington by ninety nine points to ninety five sacramento one on the road to cleveland portland also came out when is it new york or chicago and indiana and high winds every detroit philadelphia spectacle.

of elsewhere memphis easily beat minnesota truck home court hundred nine eighty nine denver and you only have no problems when they're away games. and that's all the sports news for a couple of hours the weather is next. to . technology update. the future covered.

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don't come. to. russia seals the deal to build vietnam first ever nuclear power plant in a bid to boost the country's economic growth. the deal was during president invaded first official visit there i know it for all the details of the trip they would actually. also we're taking a look at this week's top stories and fresh tensions flare as georgia reportedly foster a spy network gathering information for russia to be nice he refuses to confirm or deny the claims. and success in unity russian big u.s. destroyed for drug labs on their first ever joint operation in afghanistan.

at seven pm in moscow and this is the weekly with me and he said now why thanks for being with us first stop russia will build vietnam's first ever nuclear power plant to me through trade have said the deal will help vietnam develop as a powerful independent and modern state the russian president's visit to hanoi it comes as moscow looks for closer cooperation with southeast asian countries capturing those are the reports from the vietnamese capital. many deals were assigned today during the russian president's official visit to one oil but this deal is perhaps the most important and this deal is said to be worth over five billion u.s. dollars and will certainly help vietnam as stablish stability in its energy sector vietnam of course suffers from a lot of blackouts a lot of electricity shortage help as the russian president himself said help the country as stablish itself within the twenty first century world there.