to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth and the shadow is encroaching upon the first. in the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the former sleepy empire that the united states is trying to get its astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million or more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases so. we don't have power bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in the last hour basis so far. the noises on the north and doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases

but for other people it's almost like a cancer here from speed. since the end of world war two the space is open for. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions you know thing else to get everything you needed.

today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images. from the streets of kandahar. operation. a telemarketer broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

is this place. you make out of bombs you know how they get the money to make them and who's giving it to and what to protect us from what these are all questions to somebody like obama should have been out even though it just didn't happen i'm sorry it was it was designed. and those bases just came along and i can know some terrible cancer.

when you see how much money is at stake and in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from kadena air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day one have involved thousands of gallons of jet fuel. and repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for these bases is that they're continually practicing and training and using the equipment and running the personnel through their paces and and feeding them and and so on and that is an incredibly expensive operation this is what. the president has in our it was warning against in his farewell address in one hundred sixty one where he invented the phrase military industrial complex meaning hidden power power that was not really under the supervision of congress that. and that was often out of control represented

private interests rather than the national interest i'm sorry to say that we in america did not pay attention to the warning he gave it gave to us and today it's close to out of control. the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil every day more than any other country far more than any other country the u.s. department of the fence alone consumes as much petroleum is sweden does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured day in day out three hundred sixty five days a year. to safeguard their oil the united states must have some capacity to protect it and in this country their job has been given to the military.

and the military must have bases naval bases air force bases and army bases in the areas where the oil is located or along the supply routes. if you look at the map collectively there is an almost contiguous string. of u.s. military bases from poland to pakistan in this really strategic middle ground between the emerging economic competitors of the united states the european union on one hand and china and japan on the other the us has a formal policy of maintaining military dominance of the persian gulf area it's called a carta doctrine if to president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is of vital interests of the united states and to protect that

flow will use any means necessary including military force to there and he said we will need military bases in the persian gulf area and he established military bases to support this policy of protecting the flow of persian gulf oil and then wars were fought as well in line with that policy and west are united in pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interests of the saudi arabs. serving the interests of the united states. and them honest trading the high quality of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new run deer is romping into the brain of the world oil. one of the material that is maybe a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one

of the reasons and the reason for primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control really major energy resources of the world in the embassy which mean book inside baghdad is a city certain no other embassy in history of the world they're not building be embassy. in syria rank in the huge were recently around with an intention to leave there building the moon intention to maintain control. since two thousand and three the us has built dozens of military bases in iraq in

two thousand and eight the u.s. and iraqi governments signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven. the agreement also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent basis or a permanent military presence in iraq. obama secretary of defense robert gates though has stated that even after two thousand and eleven he expects to see several tens of thousands of american troops as part of a residual force in iraq. hence many fear that iraq may be used as a launching pad for future wars in the region. over the fact basis created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent. syria for example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq war but they say just a minute there i study physically to study you know the island is and i say

for the people to go if they are to return they are made the thing is americans are living they are dead they had to follow they are united and i. are you going to head life out of the island to college look like nearly two hundred million year old and i'm every kendo enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on now i don't and enjoy that same way they are doing. so by many as the navy spece kept secret because of its remote location diego garcia is actually home to about three thousand residents at any given time there's also a unique assortment of quality of life opportunities to take advantage of on diego garcia the island's athletic center is open round the clock with a wide range of workout equipment and a full sized gymnasium be sure to spend as much time as possible researching this

informative website to help you prepare for what will certainly be a memorable assignment abroad. but hosting us but he says countries lose their software he in a number of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the think miss of the sofa the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so-called host nations and it determines. who can access the united states will have what kind of political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that the countries that have less power or leverage in relationship to the united states have much thinner so for us in these cases in these countries you'll find that when u.s. soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable they're not and they're not

tried under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they just want out of the country back into the united states were deployed to war zone. because as they say boys will be boys nice guys been trained to be more aggressive them so they were aggressive you know. if. you like you're like shot up with steroids you know i mean you're working out every day and you've got guns you've got stuff man and so when you leave off the base man i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you feeling like you're a tough guy you could get anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort of attitude and getting kind of drunk and is so much looking at you the wrong way

you know you're just not a whole lot you know when you know you were soldier you're a marine i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local more wars and causing problems for the local people. it's best garbage i mean if that's the case then you don't let us off the base you let us off the base just going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about they ok now and girls had been raped by united states military men and i was a very upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated the oaken only people when i was here as

a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some my peace activists got in touch with me and they had a contact here in okinawa and when they found out that i had been stationed here they let the n.t. based. people here know that there's an x. marine who was stationed here who's doing piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so we took lectures so that was nine hundred ninety six and that's when i came back and as we moved around the ireland and i saw the bases were still here i i just couldn't believe it. it's. it's almost like a cancer here for these people they since the end of world war two these spaces have been here. this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's countries we're kind of problems does it saw. or does it cause more

problems and i think it does i think people. i think people get really angry you know at that this idea that we are policing the world we have a right to put bases anywhere we want we don't have foreign bases in america we don't have any british base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in in for us our base is a fine of the noises i would noise it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's a real problem. where they know my dinner and this is a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the us military in okinawa because it's the accidents are very frequent mr get in on.

these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the moment down. and look up close. or see the market there with the. baker hamilton here is a map of the base as you can see it's right in the middle of the city.

of. this elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base. here we are inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off and land this critical pretty quickly that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters little problem you know sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face. fighting and noises terrible about they fly old a lot like nonstop. some cry in the middle of the night they

get on a platter and some even stops coming to school. we're here to save of a chance so won't accept any more military bases he won't accept any more more machines on its land street god therefore we say no to all military facilities should be added to those that come in arms we say go home. in

two thousand and seven the u.s. revealed its plans for a new military base in the chance of italy just a few miles away from the city's historical center. already hosts a u.s. military base because that might actually come to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy the area designated for the new base is the exhibition airport early in the plans for the new base included forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the chances because it's been said you have four people it said three or four are over the age of ninety and the base is a nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise there are no planes landing so anybody a complacent from my point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because the italian government to reach and your target is a decided yes and they want to make

a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists don't have tanks they don't have the helicopters they don't crowd. airplanes and so it's purely ideological and negative piece by bunch of people who don't do anything and a worthless. hundred thirty were. five hundred thousand april two thousand and eleven he had his elected mayor of the chance on the promise of holding a referendum on a new base. it is said to be held on october fifth but just a few days before the italian supreme court blocks the referendum. despite the court's decision the citizens of the chancellor decide to hold an autonomous referendum and on october fifth one thousand five percent of the participants vote against in a place. that

will serve you i mean i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud that it's been almost seventy years since the end of the war and we still have occupying troops in our city i despite the clear a position of the people of the chance of the italian government gives the us the green light to go ahead with a new base. it's not unusual for the normal democratic process to be subverted when it comes to military bases most bases are in fact covered by secret treaties between the u.s. and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty four u.s. if the bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian parliament . i. i another truck is arriving

let's try to stay together i. i. i. i. i. just felt like i love her i. am coming to. open the gates muth you're breaking the special law on us my. literary basis. what i'm not going to do i don't. wanna hear what i think about how do you know why we struggle like this treasure have woven a kernel you understand how we feel three reality doesn't even if it's going to not

even if the american and japanese governments have bullied us for years little bit similar to how we ever killed an american i don't have a burka. these are various girls have been great but you know of other planes and helicopters i've repeatedly crashed. on this is what these bases have brought us oh they have oppressed us for sixty two bitter years son of god i think they will never grow up and we realize you're only doing your job i don't know but ours is a historical today. we will pass this legacy on to future generations. a good elementary school taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day that is taught you'll be taught that it says that. the king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace that committed abuses and usurpations of missiles and i was i have make up that this was

a reason to declare independence from britain even to go to war i was. i was on the eve of the bombers election was hailed by many. as the beginning of a political phase radically different from that of the bush administration and in many ways it has been. but the ever growing military budget the escalation of the war in afghanistan and the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the us bases in iraq and the plans for a new military bases in a number of countries show how hard it is for this or any other president to challenge those policies that benefit the military industrial complex and perpetuate us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us

must now choose when it destine the country's dwindling resources to strengthen social and democratic institutions or will it continue to fuel this parasitical complex that by definition can only produce new weapons and new wars. to match my land over there or to discard it on more. so not until i hope to get it back when it's a her. support. in the net i do use the land to grow lots of white radish. i want enough so that i could grow millions of them and not little space or not i can make it work it out there are all good and i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace.

there are many threats at the. moment if we all stay united in the struggle there are now i'm confident we can prevail. you are not i want never or if we don't speak out against the first of our lands we will never be able to change the world. order that we are none of which are here. and it's about who we have to keep our camera where that and. that's the only way we can prevail but they want to be. found. our path is one of resistance not terrorism. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what it the group they

are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement that kids can go to school. and go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and add there will be a point for a force no longer needed and we look forward to that day. the questions anything else to get everything you needed.

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