call them back here's a recap of the week's top stories on our team seven civilians dead in a suspected nighttime and nato air strike in a residential area in tripoli as the alliance tries to build will be out of its three month still may. reeses new man all the money rolls up his sleeves to steer the debt stricken country's reforms for a furious public range of affluence against even deeper cuts. america's accused of twisting thailand's arms as

a new york judge casts doubt on the legality of extraditing alleged russian arms small there are people in the states. and the u.s. has encircled the world with a trail of army bases with almost eight hundred military facilities spanning more than one hundred countries well that's the second part of our special report on how america is increasing its global influence. splits. well how will they give that money to make them and who's giving it and to protect us from. these are all questions that somebody like obama should have been asking. it just didn't happen it was it was designed. and those days is just came along and i can know some terrible cancer.

when you see how much money is at stake and in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from katrina air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day when 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 running the personnel through their paces and and feeding them and and so on and that is an incredibly expensive operation this is what. the president has an hour it was warning against in his farewell address in one thousand nine hundred eighty one where you had better 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 supposed to out of control. the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil to every day more than any other country far more than any other country the u.s. department of defense alone consumes this much petroleum is sweet and does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured day 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 a long 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 the carta doctrine after president jimmy carter he said protection

of the flow of persian gulf oil is of 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 by entering a new round here of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arabs. serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new frontier

is nothing into the brain of the world's 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 u.s. control over the major energy resources the world to the embassy that's when we go inside baghdad is a city like no other embassy and street in the world we're not building the embassy . in syria rakim the huge pieces around with an intentionally. they're building with an intention to maintain control.

since two thousand and three the u.s. has built dozens of military bases in iraq and chief thousand and eight the u.s. and iraqi governments cite 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. hopefully in fact bases created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent. syria for example born in the context of the cold will still operational and has played

a crucial role and iraq will they say to. study feasibility study you know the ins and outs say for the people to go if they are to return and they are but the thing is american solid being they are painted they have temple of they i and i and i you going ahead like the island you college nuchal i clearly told you knew all and american know and showing their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on iran 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 the edge of r.c.s. 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. but hosting u.s. bases in those countries lose their sovereignty. in a number of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thickness of the sofa the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so whole host nations and it determines. who can access the united states will have will have political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that because trees that have less power or leverage in relationship to high stakes have much thinner

so for us in these cases these countries you'll find that when u.s. soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable the not and they're not tried under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they're just put 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 to be more aggressive and so they were aggressive you write a. lot . and you're like you're like shot up with steroids you know i mean you're working out every day i mean you've got guns you've got stuff man and so when you leave off the base man i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you

feeling like you're a tough guy you could take anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort of attitude getting kind of drowned and it's oh my god looking at you the wrong way you know you it's not the whole lot you know when you know you were told your marine i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local boards are causing problems for the local people pull. its best garbage i mean. if that's the case to you don't let us off the base you let us off the base it is going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about a okinawan girl had been raped by united states military men and i was very upset

over this because. i remember how we tried sort of treated the okinawan people when i was here as a set as eighteen year old and eventually some a peace activist i'm 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 an ex maureen who was stationed here who was doing a piece work now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so we took lectures so that was in 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 just couldn't believe it. it's. it's almost like a cancer here for these people but a day since the end of world war two these spaces happen here.

this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's countries we're kind of problems as it saw. or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people and i think people get really angry you know at that 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 space we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in for us our base is a fine bit of the noise is our 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 because. the accidents are very frequent distributed

among. their career and these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mode down. i'm not a quote of. course it was sold on what it did with the. baby here is a map of the base as we can see it's right in the middle of the city. on

. 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 up when you go that's why the aircraft fly solo children and even the helicopters little problem you sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face. fighting the noise is terrible they fly old

a lot nonstop. flight some cry in the middle of the night they go. over there and some even stops coming to school. well. we're here to say the chancellor won't accept any more military bases to be better and it won't accept any more more machines on its lam street and therefore we say

no to all military facilities because he 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 the chance of italy just a few miles away from the city's historical center. already hosts a u.s. military base because that. home to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy area designated for the new base is the exhibition airport that. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the chance of because if it said you have four people if it said three or four are over the age of ninety and the base is a nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise then no planes landing so anybody of

complacent beachheads from high point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because the italian government to reach and your card is of decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists that don't have tanks they don't have the helicopters they don't quite. aeroplane's on your side so it's purely ideological and negative by bunch of people who don't do anything in a workplace. of three. hundred thousand april two thousand the king live and yet is elected mayor of new trends 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 of decide to hold an autonomous

referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants photo against in a place that. just. says it's 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 minutes and bases most bases are in fact covered by secret treaties between the u.s. and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty four u.s. it's the bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian parliament.

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you know why we struggle like this treasure have according to you understand how we feel free reality because there is your argument not even if the american and japanese governments have believed us for years spiritual not to have we ever killed an american i don't know what broke up. your various girls have been great of other planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. this is what these bases have brought us they have oppressed us for sixty two bitter years sort of cardiff they will never grow up and 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. anyone elementary school we are taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day it is taught he'll be taught that it says that. the king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace the

committed abuses and usurpations of this and i was again make up that this was a recent clear independence from britain even to war was. i was about his election 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 a 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 perpetuate us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose will it just in the countries 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. that's my land over there did escape it imo. so not until i hope to go back one day . support. in the known as i do use the land to grow lots of white radish they call nowhere don't want in us so that i could grow millions of them and that little space or not i cannot make it work it out or get on i would then distribute

them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace. might their army throughout iraq at the. moment we all stay united in a struggle and i'm confident we can prevail. you cannot argue that there are if we don't speak out against the first of our lance we will never be able to change the world. that we are none of which are here. and we have to keep our count. that's the only way we can prevail. and have my biggest strength. our path is one of first distance if 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 freedom of movement that kids can go to school people go to work and people and sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and dad there will be a point where a force no longer needed and we look forward to getting. the questions any of thing else should everything you needed.

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