pre-text very pleased takes on this what are we going to see is that is that i was . is their role is ultimately still it's all good for you whereas the military is a religion it has been a literally borders that there is a goal for i would say at least five years yes there are a lot right i'm so sorry i don't mean to cut you off we always love speaking with you that was michelle she is a documentary just out of time for today bringing us so much more color on what's really going in bahrain he is from the center for research on globalization now that is going to our show for more on the stories we cover get our t. dot com slash usa follow me on twitter at lauren lester and i'll be right back here with for more news and a half hour. the in. the late.

beginning in the 1980's the belief is slowly taking over the world that new liberal globalization with its built in 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 retreat 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 infatuate 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 eighteen 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 friends and take chances 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 the streets was parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah they have they have salsa but. never. 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 acknowledged 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 go straight to. the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the color of. the unit for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base bases on. the media. to the point of projection how much nation most people don't understand the basis exist i thought on the stand the functions of military bases and and its much try

case much easier for people engage with things like. war in iraq. question of torture things of that immediately outrage them these are internet stations for soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of doing webcams at home. after the elephant one has to look at the war preparations that are going on around the world which military bases are central to feel 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 to. feel

feel . feel feel. for. in the past when the american soldiers came we would ring this bell scare them away.

we would scream yankee go home. the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life will not 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 or in war people die that's obvious and of course. i feel

a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people. if a crook asks 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 unless photograph it says give me back my land if that's the. 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 a little island south of the japanese mainland which after the wall remained in the us administration until nineteen 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 uter 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 house a force of thirty five thousand soldiers. well aware of the growing tension between the u.s. 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 why she could hurt you worse than a terrible sunburn 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 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 in india and also another cost because of the cold war to go garcia has the most wonderful you know luggage. that would really be the ideal place for a base so we were at. a wrong place if you know as the wrong place at that time because our place was the best place for the more sophisticated us than you can base outside of the us in the day 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 two strategic position and to put it its 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 mauritians and the united kingdom referee 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 the pelts their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we feed surprise and surprise needs to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to a substantial degree and one con 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 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 hundred ninety one above all how fast our country moved united states to 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 had after the collapse of the soviet union the eliminated any basis for this global apparatus there was no further reason for it it was irrelevant. and instead they moved at once to find another enemy china. terrorism. drug lords even instability anything to keep it going we need an enemy so that we were a football team and will be in prophecy to play a game 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 while for a while there was drugs and we had a war on drugs then came terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of our early it is sometimes her freedom take. some time her freedom very little about but now to something else about here that i don't think you quite understandably well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm time to think think they're dangerous when they're not john stockwell a former cia agent wrote i think a very. 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. but.

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 like and somebody who must be stopped compared to war for perpetual peace as being the american dream once we were launched upon them we would never look back and we were 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 missions and we take care in matching the appropriate order to produce the desired effect on

a target. 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 what's 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 in two thousand and one with some of the large insights of the us military presence in his homeland saudi arabia as a reason for his hatred of the united states. the next cheeriest twist of fate the nine eleven attacks and america's military response pave 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 in glove relationship bases most of the u.s. bases i would say in the chardy are the result of war they are the booty or loot of war in the sense that they were captured during war time and never given back following the u.s. bombing of iraq and eight hundred ninety one united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain kater our oman and united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia nine hundred eighty nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay near garia macedonia hungary. and croatia following its bombing of afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan it was better stan prejudiced in kurdistan georgia yemen and following its barmy

get invasion of iraq in two thousand and three the united states wound up with iraq . staying behind. i believe is actually at the is the ultimate purpose of many of these workers 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 bases and to have a more. their presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo . so have some of.

what we have and here is video games. some of the things that the. mr and ms two hundred five has first been it first put you in a new gun controls bailey says you can save.

time and make it that he has it all the way pay for college get something i'm going to do for a long time and guns. i never wanted this job. to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being deployed to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. i think it be enough to say the experience. of going to cut down was not going. 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 pretend that they have base to the. 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 island. they want and this is an ideal habitat for the gongs 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 they're going to.

do this is comes to our military base. the u.s. established it in the midst of world war two with. the knowledge that i get. that now they want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport. in the open and they go on and on all. the us takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment. since many rare species live here this was a very serious consequences. and open our are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of camp's web for one year from morning to night and normally would be through i held up a sign saying no new basis for the lot of soldiers came out to talk to me it will

be that 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. of them with. you. i thought here these kids are trained to kill we must stop this and we believe we can prevent the construction of these hello pads with our actions when you're obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. five hundred you could have. a 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 every day. by not risen we did not mean national defense or the obligation of citizenship for able bodied people to defend the country in times of national emergency or we mean a 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 in 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. standing armies. destroy federalism they bring power to washington d.c. they require more wealth in order to maintain these are means these are long service organs 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. attention all

bases and attention are made it is. there is a. culture is that so much of the taxpayers' money i mean i think this is a real strain it is being described as one of the worst meetings we've ever had is the organization of petroleum exporting countries or opec in crisis if it is doesn't really. a target here broadcasting live from washington d.c. coming up today on the big picture.

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