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east isn't it speaks out of the international economic forum in st petersburg could see himself in isolation but interruption. stuff hospital. beginning in the 1980's the belief is slowly taking over the world that mere liberal globalisation with its builtin self-regulating mechanisms would finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and with us of the planet into an era of relative peace and prosperity free trade will bring on a 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 report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in 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 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 crises and 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 for service parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah they have they have softened. up. 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 do 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 have spent. most of the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the color of. the unity for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base is on. the point of projection on change and most people don't understand the basis exist i don't understand the functions of a voluntary basis and and it's much much easier for people engage with things like troops this war in iraq. question of torture thanks to that immediately

outraged them these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of. doing webcams that. you can go in. and focus on war and not work perpetration is to 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. to feel

. feed. in the past when the american soldiers came. to scare them away. when. 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. 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 now of course there are. both or i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people but if

a cop 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 a miss photograph it says give me back my love it's enough that. you own. world war two 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 okinawa 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. on the back 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 you the atomic bomb 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 players the u.s. wanted a base in the indian ocean at zero 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 the wrong place at that time because our place was the best place for a the more sophisticated us than you can base outside of the u.s. and the game in one thousand nine hundred eighty one due to an agreement between the u.k. and the us the british made the island available to the americans as a military base because of its true strategic position and supported 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 to date have scattered between moriches and the united kingdom refereed 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 propelled their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we feel surprise and that price needs to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to a substantial degree and one crime 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 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 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 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 were given prophecy to play a game we learned certain plays and now we don't have any opponent no how can we play this game anyway and so they needed a new enemy and a new enemy was for a while it was drugs we had

a war on drugs with them the cane terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of our leaders sometimes her brain to think think sometimes they're afraid of very little out but notice something else about you that i don't think you quite understandably well sometimes when you become a brain there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm time to think things are 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 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. you know. what they were. and that would have bases means that you have at your

fingertips if you were the emperor of the west of the means of petrol war there's always somebody we don't light and somebody who must be stopped from petrol war for petrol pieces being the american dream once we were launched upon him we would never look back and we would always find a pretext to attack an enemy. targeting is an africa process many things are considered we have advanced weapon systems with perception munitions and we take care in matching the appropriate ordinance to produce the desired effect on a target. that 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 in two thousand and one with some of the lead in sight at 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 a new military bases in iraq and central asia first and foremost and 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 community war and the united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain our oman and the united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia and then nine hundred eighty nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo mania area macedonia hungary bosnia and croatia following us wrongly to afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan it was very stand prejudiced in kurdistan georgia yemen and djibouti following its bombing at a diversion of iraq in two thousand for

a day the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the because the ultimate purpose of many of these wars and 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. the presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so absent from what.

we have been here is a video games. and . some of the things that go. with it. is two one three five plus has been at first but soon to be running trolls daily. you can see again by me i want to be in the eye of first quite a long time and many days as they call it would pay for college get something i

want to do for a long time and guns active and they're never wanted this job so it has to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being to ploy to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. think it be enough to say the experience to. the bottom of the cloud by 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 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 from base 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. 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. this is an ideal habitat for the dew gongs but we have to do all we can take care of it. the reef is right here. it protects the bay and enables the sea grass that do go easy to type flourish. 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 they're. going to go to. that now they

want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport near that that. you know a lot of the. law. in. the us takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment. since many rare species live here this would have very serious consequences. orderable. can now 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 new day three i held up a sign saying no new bases so that a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me. all i got into it they offered me hamburgers for breakfast in them and that. they were so young that.

i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people and all. of them with if you were young we never planned you know your price thought here these kids are trained to kill we must stop us and we believe we can prevent the construction of these telepaths with our actions overlook the obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest better. than you could have. lot of challenges but we also had 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 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 fortunes or eighties or 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 the. standing 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 and 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 are made in attention are made his it is a hand there is a sacrilegious.