three. three. three. the. video for your media project free media. stories. major changes to. angry and even more austerity cuts. of helping america's european missile defense shield by refusing to host facilities. in iran confirms russia and has no plans to possess nuclear weapons during a key asian leaders plus also the u.s. drone attacks allegedly kill schools and civilians in yemen and the u.k. ready. for action in the restive country. every conflict

the u.s. is involved in leaves behind a trail of. presence. beginning in the 1980's the belief is slowly taking over the world that new liberal globalization with its builtin self-regulating mechanisms would finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and would assure the planet into an era of relative peace and prosperity recruit will bring on the great depression nine eleven and the current economic crisis have shown that believed 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 report 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 this 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 and military expansion related in some way.

when we have different presentations or sometimes bands that come or even though we have. 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 as other events that have been here at the center as well you know they had they have salsa classes and everything. in the early twenty first century military bases a network of military bases all around the world forms the new empire that the united states is trying to build when you look at the pentagon's website in their public information they acknowledge 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 got to spend. most of the movies that we have and the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the calling. the unit for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base is. there the idea. of the point of projection of how much nation 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 of 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. war and not war preparation is to simply shovel. 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 work or there's a saying that goes when soldiers come from war comes. to feel good feel

. feel. feel feel. for those. in the past when the american soldiers came we would ring this bell to scare them away for. hours. we would scream yankee go home.

the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life culture our history and everything else such a thing cannot be tolerated. and 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. in war people die that's obvious i know of course there were and. i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people who. if a cook ask you for

a knife. 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 a mis photograph that says give me back my land it's not that. thanks . to mark 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 the little island south of the japanese mainland which after the

wall 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 utra 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 their to 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. good or bad for. the atomic bomb why should you worse than

a terrible sunder specially where you're not covered in those years america expanded into new territories such as the case of diego 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 they were all entirely bundled up and shipped out in order to as the u.s. navy put it sanitize the books the u.s. wanted a base and indian ocean at all cost because of the cold war to go gas has the most wonderful you know luggage. that would really be the ideal place for

a base so we were at. the wrong place if you know of the wrong place at that time because our place was the best place for a the more sophisticated us than you could base outside of the u.s. and the there 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 put 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. the diego garcia exiles today have scattered between more issues in the united kingdom where for years they have been fighting a legal battle to return to them. in two thousand and eight though the house of lords overruled all the cases previously won by the islands which apparelled their

right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we've been surprise and surprised needs to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to a substantial degree in one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth. and the shadow is an approaching upon our own members. 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 hundred ninety 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 and 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 it's like we were a football team and we'll be in prophecy to play a game we learn certain plays and now we don't have any opponents no how can we play this game anymore and so they needed a new enemy and a new enemy was for a while it was drugs we had a war on drugs we then became terrorism and that was

a very good substitute in the minds of our lead is sometimes her brain a big think sometimes they're afraid of very little lot but notice something else about you that i don't think you quite understandably well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm trying to think things are dangerous when 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 in the us 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. what they were. a network of bases and means that you have at your

fingertips if you were the emperor of the west of the means of petrol. there's always somebody we don't light and somebody who must be stopped perpetual war for perpetual peace is being the american dream once we were launched upon them we would never look back and we were always thought and a pretext to attack another. targeting is an effort to process many things are considered we have advanced weapon systems with percent diminishes and we take care in matching the appropriate order to produce the desired effect on the 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 like it had done fifty years earlier in europe and the station. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later and 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 path 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 one thousand nine hundred or in the united states it wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain came to our oman and united arab emirates all against dominique of yugoslavia nine hundred eighty nine the us and wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay area garia macedonia hungary. and croatia following us wanting to afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan it was back to stand prejudiced in kurdistan georgia yemen and following us bomb we got invasion of iraq in two thousand and three and the united states wound up with iraq

. staying behind. i believe is actually at the as the ultimate purpose of many of these wars we used to think of military bases being built in order to wage the worst and i think increasingly we see the wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the basis and to have a more. herman presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some of. what we have in here is video games.

some of the things that go. with it. is two one two five that's been it first puts you in the gun controls daily so you can save the environment one being on your first quite a long time and me at that age is like well it would pay for college is something i

wanted to do for a long time and done students active and i 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. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. thank you be another say the experience of the fallen apart by the crowd by the thought. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states is 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 islands of grown a u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa. the project follows the decision to

expand the jungle warfare training center for the north in short the u.s. has agreed to return some land to the locals but only if they accept to give up more land elsewhere on the items. you know. this is an ideal habitat for the do gong's we have to do all we can to take care of it. the reef is right here. it protects the bay and enables the sea grass not to go. where. this is come schwab military base that. the u.s. established in the midst of world war two. and with the thought of it. now they

want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport and without that they've got enough of it. the u.s. takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment more so. since many rare species live here as would a very serious consequences. in okinawa are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of comes wild for one year from morning to night nor new day three i held up a sign saying no new basis for that and a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me you know it'll be back they offer me hamburgers for breakfast. and they were so young that.

i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people. or. with. you who you know breaks the waters here lee's kids are trained to kill we must stop us and we believe we can prevent the construction of a skelly pags with our actions over in europe obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. frowned on we are going to. 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 not presume 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 room in 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 as 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 of. bending 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 in attention automated system in hand there is a sacrilegious.