market. find out what's really happening for the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. cars are reporting. welcome back you're watching r t here is a look at the top stories egypt's interim military government promises to review the jailing of at least seven thousand people but amid allegations of torture and abuse by the army egyptians question whether the revolution for justice and democracy has only put in place another dictatorship. the leaders of russia and china join their central asian counterparts for a peace summit focusing on fighting extremism and drugs the presence of organic stand iran are also invited to the tenth anniversary as c.e.o. mean in kazakhstan. you're looking at live pictures there from greece where more

angry protests are taking place on the streets of the capital the face of new cuts another appeal being discussed in europe is likely to force more sturdy measures of the public. so the headlines here in the next week score why every conflict the u.s. is involved in leaves behind a trail of military bases with no continent spared their presence. beginning in the 1980's the belief is slowly taking over the world that new liberal globalisation with its builtin self-regulating mechanisms would finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and would assure the planet in twenty year out of relative peace and prosperity retreat will bring on the great

depression nine eleven and the current economic crisis has shown that belief to be largely a myth. but many signs were already there. markets have always relied on state power and military might. america's transformation from republic to economic superpower following world war two was accompanied by the creation of a global network of military bases unlike any other in history. according to the pentagon's base structure of court today these amount to seven hundred sixteen and thirty eight countries more than two hundred fifty thousand soldiers stationed on these bases in addition to this the u.s. has a military presence in one hundred ten countries around the world. a year after his election barack obama approved the new administration's first military budget this amounts to six hundred eighty billion dollars thirty billion more than bush's last

defense budget and almost equalling the seven hundred eighty seven billion dollars set aside by the new administration for the economic crisis stimulus package why despite the crisis does the military budget keep growing a crises a military expansion related in some way. when we have different presentations or sometimes bands that come or even will be had. talent night if we have people that want to show off their talent we have a stage. we've done all sorts of things here from a halloween party christmas parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well you know they had they have solved the last. of it. in the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the world forms the new empire that the united states is trying to get when

you look at the pentagon's website and their public information they had knowledge having somewhere over seven hundred military bases scattered among about one hundred thirty countries that's astonishing that's astonishing most americans have no idea there are more than a quarter of a million more than two hundred fifty thousand u.s. troops stationed on these bases all around the world it's not illegal to take but. i've got to spend. most of the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the calling. the unity for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base bases on. the. the point of projection of how much nation or most people don't understand the

bases exist i thought on the stand the functions of military bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people to engage with things like this war in iraq. question of torture things that immediately outrage them these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of. doing webcams back home i. didn't go in. to focus on war and not war preparation is just simply shovel after the elephant one has to look at the war preparations that are going on around the world which military bases are central to. if one doesn't pay attention to that then again we can only deal with the symptoms which is which is warfare there's a saying that goes when soldiers come war comes.

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of them in the past when the american soldiers came we would ring this bell to scare them away. we would scream yankee go home. the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life if you will not culture our history and everything else such a thing cannot be tolerated. they say the bases are here to guarantee world peace so they've been used in the korean war in vietnam and now in iraq or in war people

die that's obvious. i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people who are. if a crook ask you for a knife. there are there is nothing wrong in lending it to him but if he asks you for a knife to murder someone or lending it to him would make you a murderer or a person or person unless photograph it says give me back my lad it was that. thanks.

to the birth of america's global empire of bases for germany italy and japan the defeat was followed by the establishment of a permanent american presence that continues to this day. nowhere is this clearer than in okinawa a little island south of the japanese mainland which after the war remained in the us administration until nine hundred seventy two when the island was returned to japan. in those years the u.s. established dozens of military bases on the island today along with south korea and due to its proximity to china and taiwan aquino was still represents america's military stronghold in east asia the island hosts thirty eight u.s. bases which has a force of thirty five thousand soldiers. well aware of the growing tension between the us and the soviet union following the war led to

an unprecedented global military buildup and to a strategy of exploitation of people's fears that in various forms has continued to this day. you know how bad. the atomic bomb wires could hurt you worse than a car was under pressure wave where you're not covered. in those years america expanded into new territories such as the case of jericho garcia a small island in the indian ocean part of the british overseas territories whose inhabitants got caught up in the global power struggle. nobody seems to know that diego garcia used to have

a very considerable population it was all entirely bundled up and shipped out in order to as the u.s. navy put it sanitize the place the u.s. wanted a base and indian ocean at zero cost because of the cold war to go garcia has a most wonderful you know lug. that would really be the ideal place for a base so we were at. a wrong place if you know of the wrong place at that time because our place was the best base floyd the more sophisticated us than you can base outside of the u.s. and the u.k. in one nine hundred seventy one due to an agreement between the u.k. in the us the british made the island available to the americans as a military base because of its true strategic position and to court it it's two thousand inhabitants today according to the pentagon diego garcia is one of the thirteen major u.s. military bases in the world and has played

a crucial role in all post nine eleven conflicts. exiles today have scattered between rishis and the united kingdom referee years they have been fighting a legal battle to return to their island in two thousand and eight though the house of lords overruled all the cases previously won by the islands which appellants their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we cleaned surprise and surprise us and the exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. 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 our own liberty. i was certainly a cold warrior i thought the soviet union was

a menace i still do i still believe that we had every right to try and defend ourselves against the power of the soviet union i began to change i got new information after the collapse of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one above all how fast our country moved you know to stay and find a replacement enemy to keep the military industrial complex functioning to serve the vested interests in the cold war system i was appalled by this i believe that we should have that after the collapse of the soviet union but eliminated any basis for this global apparatus there was no further reason for it it was irrelevant. instead they moved at once to find another enemy china. terrorism. drug lords even instability anything to keep it going we need an enemy and that we were

a football team and will be in prophecy to play a game if we learn certain plays and now we don't have any opponent no how can we play this game anymore and so they needed a new enemy and a new enemy was for a while there was drugs we had a war on drugs with then came terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of our leaders sometimes her kind of think tank sometimes they're afraid of very little about but notice something else about here that i don't think you quite understandably but they are well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm time to think things are dangerous and they're not john stockwell a former cia agent wrote i think a very poor. same book called in search of enemies in which he identified different areas and the u.s. society where there were there were the propaganda machine was geared up to identify a particular enemy of the moment in order that the us public would support

a military build up or support a particular war. but you know. what they were. a network of bases means that you have at your fingertips if you were the emperor of the west of the means of. there's always somebody we don't light and somebody who must be stopped perpetual war for virtual peace is being the american dream once we were launched upon them we would never look back and we will always find a pretext to attack an enemy. targeting is an effort to process many thanks for considering we have advanced

weapon systems with perception munitions and we take care in matching the appropriate ordnance to produce the desired effect on a target. for. the foundations for the new world order will aid in the middle east in one thousand nine hundred one following the first gulf war the us established a permanent military presence in the middle east but sly could have done fifty years earlier in europe and east asia. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later in two thousand and one osama bin laden cited the us military presence in his homeland saudi arabia as a reason for his hatred of the united states. in a curious twist of fate the nine eleven attacks and america's military response paved the way for the birth of new military bases in iraq and central asia first and foremost in afghanistan.

the relationship between bases and war is a hand and glove relationship bases most of the us bases i would say the majority are the result of war they are the booty or loot of war in the sense that they were captured during wartime and never given back following the us bombing of iraq in a teenager war and you know i think that wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain our oman and the united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia and taking ninety nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay area garia macedonia hungary bosnia and croatia following us vonnie go up jonathan in two thousand and one into the us

wound up with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan and it was because then prejudiced in kurdistan georgia yemen and djibouti following us vom we get invasion of iraq in two thousand the phrase the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the is the ultimate purpose of many of these wars we used to think of military bases being built in order to wage the worse and i think increasingly we see the wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the bases and to have a more. persons in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some from what.

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with it and it's too long to just first bend it first consume the. trolls daily. to be a safe environment and want to be on the first quite a long time and made that age as it will give way to pay for college get something i'm going to do for a long time and tons do is active i have never wanted this job so had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being supplied to iraq or afghanistan. about to be nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. think it be another saving experience for me. i'm going to. down final thought. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia

pacific and the united states as both a transpacific and a transatlantic power but we couldn't project that power without the men and women who serve here in japan as we look at the region it is at peace but we have threats like what we hear every day from north korea. and the security mission is essential to continuing to under gird america's leadership and being prepared for the kind of challenges we face but also to seize the opportunities for a better future. in

two thousand and nine after years of local protests u.s. secretary of state clinton signed an agreement with the japanese government to move the eight thousand troops stationed in the for ten days to the island of guam a u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa into local bay the project follows the decision to expand the jungle warfare training center in the north in short the u.s. has agreed to return some of the locals but only if they accept to give up more lend elsewhere on the items. this is an ideal habitat for the do go on because we have to do all we can to take care of it. the reef is right here. it protects the bay and

enables the seagrass that do go. on with. this is come schwab military base. the us established it in the midst of world war two. with the goal it bit of it. but now they want to destroy two kilometers of heno kobe. all the way to ora bay and build a floating airport with a bit. of a go. in. the u.s. takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment. since many rare species live here as would a very serious consequences. in okinawa or are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. and there are less than fifty

left. i sat in front of cum swabbed for one year from morning to night nor newbie three i

held up a sign saying no new basis so a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me you know will. they offer me hamburgers for breakfast. and that. they were so young that. i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people all. with a plan. when you know the world is here these kids are trained to kill or no idea that we must stop and we believe we can prevent the construction of these help with our actions when you're obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. founded your group of. lot of challenges but we also have some real opportunities and it's up to each of

us to determine the role that we will play on behalf of our country and our leadership but i have every confidence that when it comes to defending america's security and advancing our interests we have nobody better than all of you so thank you and thanks to your families thanks for the service and the sacrifice and thanks for making a difference everything. by militarism we do not mean national defense or the obligation of citizenship for able bodied people to defend the country in times of national emergency we mean our way of life a way of making a living an ideological position originally our conception of american military was like the early roman legions of the republic they were raised for emergency.

farmers left their fields went to war and were instantaneously demobilize they were not long service forces or any sort i was the roman republic slowly inadvertently thoughtlessly acquired themselves an empire they began to realize they needed standing or something like that happened in america after world war two as we began to build an arms industry. and an apparatus to support a huge standing army that subtly altered the political structure but. then he armies. destroy federalism they bring power to washington d.c. they require more wealth in order to maintain these armies these are long service armies twenty years or so they have to be taken care of when they become redundant

things of this sort it alters the power picture radically and that's of course what ultimately brought down the roman republic. attentional base inattention are made is it is a man there is a sacrilegious. from .

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