here is a recap of the headlines on our team seven civilians dead in a suspected nighttime nato air strike in a residential area in tripoli as the alliance tries to bomb libya out of its three month still. greece's new mom all the money rolls up his sleeves to steer the debt stricken country's reforms after a few areas probably greater against even deeper cuts in athens. america's accuse of twisting thailand's arms as a new york judge casts doubt on the legality of extraditing alleged russian arms

smuggler the third move to the states or wherever the u.s. army walks of leaves its military mark forming a web of bases that span continents next our special report on the impact it's having on host countries. beginning in the 1980's and 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 in twenty year of relative peace and prosperity retreat will bring on the great depression nine eleven and the current economic crisis have 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 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 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 and military expansion related in some way. maybe 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 there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah they had they have softened. a bit. 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 do when you look at the pentagon's website in their public information they have knowledge 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 get a perspective as. most of the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the quality of the unity for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base bases on. there the media. the point of projection of how much mentioned most people don't understand that the bases exist i don't want to stand the functions of military bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people to engage with things like. 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. you can go in. to focus on war and not war preparation 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. it 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 . fear. in the past when the american soldiers came we would ring this bell to scare them away. what.

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. in war people die that's obvious and of course. they thought i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people who are.

if a crook ask you for a knife. there is nothing wrong in lending it to. you for a knife to murder someone or lending it to him would make you a murderer or a person or person and this photograph that says give me back my land exactly match 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 and 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 due to 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 but. one 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 as continue 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 players the u.s. wanted a base and indian ocean at all cost because of the cold who are 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 floyd the more sophisticated us than you could base outside of the u.s. and the u.k. 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 geostrategic 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 to date have scattered between more issues in the united kingdom where for years they have been fighting a legal battle to return to town. in two thousand and eight though the house of

lords overruled for all the cases previously won by the islands which appellant their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we've been surprise and surprised east and the 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 encroaching 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 thousand nine hundred one

above all how fast our country moved united states 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 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 and that we were a football team and we're 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 anymore and so they needed a new enemy and a new enemy for

a while was drugs you had a war on drugs with 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 of what i notice something else about it i don't think you quite understandably whatsapp well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous on time you think things are dangerous and 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 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. i don't know but. what they were. a network of bases means that you have at your

fingertips if you are the emperor of the west the means of petrol. there's always somebody we don't like and somebody who must be stopped perpetual war for perpetual peace is being the american dream once we were launched upon him we would never look back and we will always find a pretext to attack and that. targeting is an effort to process many things are considered we have advanced weapon systems with perception munitions and we take care and matching the appropriate ordinance to produce the desired effect on a 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 much like it had done fifty years earlier in europe and east asia. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later in two thousand and one when some of the large incited the us military presence in his homeland saudi arabia as a reason for his hatred of the united states. inexperienced twist of fate the nine eleven attacks and america's military response paved the way for the birth 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 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 one the united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain kate our oman and the united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia nine hundred eighty nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay area vogue area macedonia hungary. and croatia following a strong leader of afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and following us bomb we get

a division of iraq in two thousand and three 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 worse and i think increasingly we see the wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the bases and to have a more. presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some of.

what we have in here is video games. and. some of the things that go. with it and move to launch it as miss benette first machine gun trolls daily see if you can save the environment one being the other for quite

a long time and made that age as it will give way to pay for college get something i'm going to do for a long time and done students active either never wanted this job so it had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something and if 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. i think it be another saving experience for me. the fun of. but i found my thoughts on. well the u.s. to have 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 base to the islands of u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of

a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa in himachal bay the project follows the decision to expand the jungle warfare training center in for the north in short the u.s. has agreed to return some to the locals but only if they accept to give up more land elsewhere on the items. this is an ideal habitat for the do gongs we have to do all we can to take care of it. the reef is right here. and protects the bay and enables the sea grass that do go easy to take flourish. this is come schwab military base. the u.s. established it in the midst of world war two. when to call it. that now they

want to destroy two kilometers of heno kobe. all the way to ora bay and build a floating airport with it. not a look at it go on and on. the us takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment and work. since many rare species live here this would have very serious consequences. in okinawa are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. other and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of comes for one year from morning to night nor newbie three i held up a sign saying no new basis for that and a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me. a little back to back 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 if you young we look upon you oh you know i thought here these kids are trained to kill we must stop it and we believe we can prevent the construction of these telepaths with our actions of in europe that obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. flat on your quote of. 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 resumed 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 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 human standing order that subtly altered the political structure but still. 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 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 his attention automated as it is in hand is a fact. hungry

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