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in the rest of country. and now we. in the us the u.s. is involved in behind a trail of military bases with no continent presence. her we're. the ones this place who owns general electric they make alan bombs or how they get the money to make them and who's giving it to them and why to protect us from what these are all questions that somebody like obama should have been asking. it just didn't happen the empire as it was designed. and those bases just came along like you know some terrible cancer.

when you see how much money is at stake in in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from katrina air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day and have been fault thousands of gallons of jet fuel. 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. president eisenhower was warning against in his farewell address in one thousand nine 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. in 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 defense alone consumes says much petroleum is sweet and 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 the oil the united states must have some capacity to protect it and in this country that 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 carded doctrine after 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 that end 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 the then western united and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arab. serving the interests of the united states. demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. which from this new frontier is romping into the grain of the world oil. one of the material that is making the truly great contribution to our modern civilization.

and. one of the reasons the reason in fact the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure us control over the major energy resources of the world the embassy which means built inside baghdad is a city like no other embassy in history or in the world they're not building the embassy. in syria rank in the huge basins around with an intention to leave they're building them with an intention to maintain control.

since two thousand and three the u.s. 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 bases 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. in fact basis created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent. seat. for example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq will be stayed to. see

beauty steady and thought you know the ins and outs say. that people are to go if they are to return they are but the thing is americans are living they are paying to they have to fill up they i and i and i you going ahead like the island nuclear i clearly told you new old and i'm eric i know enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on now i don't and enjoy the same way they are doing. so by many as the navy's best 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. by hosting u.s. bases countries lose their sovereignty in a number of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thickness of the so for the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so whole 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. the trees that have less power or leverage in relationship to united states have much thinner sofa's in these cases these countries you'll find that when u.s. soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable them up and they're not tried

under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they're just want out of the country back into the united states were deployed to war zone because as they say boys will be boys and these guys been trained to be more aggressive than so they were aggressive. if. you like your like shot up which 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 it's my looking at you the wrong way you

know you're just not to have you know when you know you were told your marine i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local borders and causing problems for the local people. as does garbage i mean if that's the case don't you don't let us off the base you let us off the base there's going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about they ok now when. the girl had been raped by united states military men and i was really upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated diogu knowing people when i was here as

a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some of 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 people here know that there was an exploration who was stationed here who's doing piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so a week of lectures so that was one nine hundred ninety six and that's when i came back and as we moved around the ireland and i saw the bases was still here i i just couldn't believe it this. it's almost like a cancer here for these people 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 what 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 the 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 for us our bases are fine the noise is our noise it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's a real problem. we're going oh my goodness this is a list of the crimes accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa. the accidents are very frequent distributed along.

these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mode down. on a. little secret. here is a map of the base as you can see and it's right to do middle of the city. i

. mean. 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 group opening for that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters little problem you guys sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face. fighting the noise is terrible they fly old a lot nonstop. some cry in the middle of the night.

and some even stops coming to school. that. we're here to say they have a chance so won't accept any more military bases pretty moderate and won't accept any more more. machines on its lamps repeat god therefore we say no to all military facilities to get beyond it 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 the. home 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 ex of indian put. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the chancellor because it's been said you have four people. three of whom 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 because from my point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because the italian government to reach and the

authorities have decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists they don't have tanks they don't have the helicopters they don't question airplanes on your head so it's purely ideological and negative is by a bunch of zero people who don't do anything and a worthless. in april two thousand a key live and yet is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on the 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 chance to decide to hold an autonomous referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants photo against in a place that. is

. i mean yeah i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud but 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 opposition 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 us it's the bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian parliament. i another truck is arriving

let's try to stay together i know that. i. think that's right i think it was what i. know that i. opened the gate moved you're breaking the special law on us my. littery basis. what you're not going to do i don't. know not yours i'm a very well god do you know why we struggle like this treasure have overcome do you understand how we feel think we are because here you may not think that we're not

even if the american and japanese governments have believed us for years for addiction to have we ever killed an american i met up with. your various girls have been raped of other planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. one of this is what these bases have brought us they have oppressed us for sixty two bitter years sun it predicts they will never grow up. we realize you're only doing your job well i don't know but ours is a historical duty. we will pass this legacy on to future generations. school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day it 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 ahem make up that this was

a reason to declare independence from britain even to a war i was. i was about as 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 the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the us bases in iraq and the plans for 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. you know if that's the that's my land over there but it is good it imo. so not a chill i hope to go back one day. in the net i do use the land to grow lots of white radish take on where i don't want them less so that i could grow millions of them and that little space more knowledge i can let it work it out all good and i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace cannot touch your ideas you have. their moment there are many throughout

iraq at their. own if we all stay united in the struggle more and i'm confident we can prevail. you can i want another order if we don't speak out against the fast of our lands we will never be able to change the world. order that we kind of mature here. and on about it we have to keep our camp and. that's the only way we can prevail but they wish they could. and have my biggest strength. our path is one of resistance not terrorism. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what if that group they

are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement that kids can go to school that people go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and out there will be a point where k. four is no longer needed and we look forward to that day. the questions any of thing else just get everything you needed.

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