so this is our theory catwalk this week's top stories greece has been engulfed in violent protests against the pressure on the government cuts comes as the prime minister shuffled the cabinet in a bid to push through a sturdy package to secure a second and you bailed out. later airstrikes reportedly hit one of tripoli's residential areas destroying a house and killing at least seven going warmings also that's

a fuel shortages in the rich country. and the state's role in russia's economy must leave. this part of the future president it left out of the international economic forum in some places but he also reiterated calls to fight corruption more effectively and create a better investment cards. the next a special report on the rubble of a u.s. military bases and setting the world. as these players. don't know how they get the money to make them and who's giving it to and what to protect us from what these are all questions that somebody like obama should have been out. it just didn't happen it

was it was designed. and those bases just came along and i can 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 catania air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day one have involved 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 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 is in our it was warning against in his farewell address and 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. 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 the fence alone consumes this much petroleum is sweet and does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured in day out three hundred sixty five days

a year. to safeguard their oil the united states must have some capacity to protect it and in this country their 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 strain. 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 carta doctrine if the president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is a vital interests of the united states and to protect that flow will use any means necessary including military force to there and 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 the policy. and west are united and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arab. serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new run dear

is nothing into the brain of the world oil. one of the material that is making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one of the reasons the reason for the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure us control the. major energy resources of the world in the embassy which means built inside baghdad as a city like no other embassy in history or in the world we're not building the embassy. in syria rank in the huge presence around with an intention to leave

they're building the 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 basis 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. over the fact bases created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent jaeger garcia for

example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq war at this stage and even if they are. thirty fifty ability steady you know the island is not safe for the people to go if they are to return but the thing is americans are living they are saying that they have developed they are united and i. are you going to head like out of the island you college nuclei clearly tell him you knew all and i'm every kendo enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on all the ironing 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 think pnas of the so for the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so-called host nations and it determines. political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that the countries

that have. a power or leverage in relationship to united states have much thinner sofas in these cases these countries you'll find that when u.s. soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable they're not they're not tried under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they just want out of the country back into the united states were deployed to war zone because as they say boys will be boys nice guys been trained to be more aggressive and so they were aggressive you know. if. not. you know like you're like shot up with 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 live off the basement i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you feel like you're a tough guy you could take anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort of attitude it getting kind of drunk and it's some i'm looking at you the wrong way you know use not to have you know when you know you were told your marines i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local wars are causing problems for the local people. as does garbage i mean if that's the case then 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 one girl had been raped by. a united

states military man and i was very upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated the yoke you know in 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 left the base people here know that there was a next marine who was stationed here who's doing piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so we took the lectures so that was one nine hundred ninety six and that's when i came back and as we moved around the island and i saw the bases was still here i i just couldn't believe it. it's almost like a cancer here for these people since the into world war two these bases have been here.

this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's country the kind of problems does it solve. or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people and i think people get really angry you know at the this 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 crossed our bases a fine you know the noises i would noise it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's a real problem. where they know my dinner and this is

a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa the facilities the accidents are very frequent mistake in all. these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mown down. i'm not a lot. of secrecy although most think that there was. a battle to me here is a map of the base as you can see it's right in the middle of the city.

and this elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base. here we are inside the so-called clear so where the planes take off and land this go but when you go that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters little problem you sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face.

was white noise is terrible they fly old a lot like nonstop. some cry in the middle of the night they get. any better and some even stops coming to school. we are here to say to the chancellor won't accept any more military bases he won't

accept any more more machines on its land street therefore we say no to all military facilities he could be added to those that come in arms we say go home. in two thousand and seven the us revealed its plans for a new military base and detained italy just a few miles away from the city's historical center be chance are already hosts a u.s. military base because that might add italy come to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy area designated for the new base is the x. a billion airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the chances because if it said you have four people instead of 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 beachheads from my point of view is a dork a commie ok got why because the italian government the region the authorities have decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists don't have tanks they don't have helicopters they don't quite. aeroplane's on your side so it's purely ideological and neck appeased by a bunch of people who don't do anything and a worthless. hundred thousand april two thousand and eleven he had his elected mayor of cents on the promise of holding a referendum on a 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 one thousand five percent of the participants vote against in a place. where. i mean i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud but that 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 and 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. i another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. i. think that's another part. of. our. open the gates muth you're breaking the special law on us. basis.

but if you're not going to do a pro. bono you're going to do what i do you know why we struggle like this can have overcome you understand how we feel free we are going to go out there and you're a victim we're not even if the american and japanese governments have bullied us for years significant other to how we ever killed an american i don't need a burka. for your various girls have been great planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. one of this is what these bases have brought us when they have oppressed us for sixty two bitter years son of god if they will never grow up on it we realize you're only doing your job i don't know but ours is a historical g.-d. creator that we will pass this legacy on to future generations. who will measure a school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day that it's taught he will be taught that it says that. the king

george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace the committed abuses usurpations of this and i was i have make up that this was a reason to declare independence from britain even to a war was. i was i was a bum a selection 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 and 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 perpetuates us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose what it best in 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. matts my land over there but it is good it. so not a till i hope to go back one day her. support better. than an owner i do use the land to grow lots of white gratis i can always tell them what they must so that i

could grow millions of them and not little space or not i will let you work it out or i'll get on i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace or not at your idea shot at. them or whatever me throughout iraq at the. moment if we all stay united in the struggle there are now i'm confident we can prevail. not i want it or are if we don't speak out against the fetter violence we will never be able to change the world. if you're here. and on about it we have to keep our camp and. that's the only way we can prevail. and it's strengthened. and i do you know our path is one of resistance not terrorism.

we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what it the group they are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement the kids can go to school you can go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and there will be a point where a force no longer needed and we look forward to that day. the questions anything else get everything you needed.

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