other 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 and the u.s. department of defense alone consumes as much petroleum is sweden 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 that 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 string. 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 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 that end 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 that 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 frontier is nothing into the brain of the world oil. one of the material that is making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization.

ok. one of the reasons the reason in fact the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control over the major energy resources of the world the embassy which being built inside baghdad is a city like no other embassy in history or in the world they're not building the embassy. in syria rank in the huge basins around with an intention to leave their building with an 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. often in 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 they say did a minute there i study fizzy beauty study that you know the ins and outs say. that people are to go if they are to return they are but the thing is americans are

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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 thickness of the so for 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 what kind of political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that the countries that have less power or leverage in relationship to the united states 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 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're just brought 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 them so they were aggressive you know. if. you like you 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 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 get anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort of attitude and getting kind of drunk and then someone looking at you the wrong way you know you just 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 more wars and causing problems for the local people. as does garbage i mean if that's the case don't 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 and girls had been raped by united states military men and i was really upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated the okinawan 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 let the n.t. based. people here know that there was an exploration who was stationed here who's doing a piece work now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so a week of 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 this. it's almost like a cancer here for these people they day since the end of world war two these spaces have been here. this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's countries what kind of problems does it saw. or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people. 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 for us bases a fine or 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 me i don't know no this is a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa because it's the accidents are very frequent this ticketed along.

these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mode down. on a. little secret. here is a map of the base as you can see it's right to the middle of the city. this

elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base. here we are inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off and land this critical need for that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters pitiful when you sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face. fighting the noise is terrible they fly old a lot like nonstop. some crying in the middle of the night. and some even stops coming to school.

that. we're here to say they have a chance a won't accept any more military bases pretty moderate and won't accept any more more. machines on its lamps repeat god therefore we say no to all military facilities to get beyond it to those that come in arms we say go home. in two thousand and seven the u.s. revealed its plans for a new military base in vicente italy just

a few miles away from the city's historical center. already hosts a u.s. military base the. home to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy the area designated for the new base is the ex of 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 changer because it's been said you have four people. three of whom are over the age of ninety and the base is nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise there are no planes landing so anybody a complacent big from my point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because the italian government to reach and the authorities have decided yes and they want to make a noise even though these are entirely harmless people it's like having tourists

they don't have tanks they don't have the helicopters they don't question airplanes so it's purely ideological and negative is by a bunch of zero people who don't do anything worth. in april two thousand a key live and yet is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on the 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 ninety five percent of the participants photo against in a place that. i

mean yeah 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 in 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 another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. that. i.

think that's what i think it was what i. know that i. open the gate moved you're breaking the special law on us my. littery basis. what you're not going to do a photo. or not you whatever you want to do you know why we struggle like this treasure have over a kernel you understand how we feel think we are because there is you know articulate we're not even if the american and japanese governments have believed us for years or addiction to have we ever killed an american i am if i were

a girl. your various girls have been raped of other planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. while this is what these bases have brought us they have oppressed us for sixty two better years sundered predicted they will never grow up and we realize you're only doing your job well i don't know but ours is a historical g.-d. creator and we will pass this legacy on to future generations. elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day that is taught you'll be taught that it says that. the king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace that committed abuses and usurpations of his and i was a him make up that this was a reason to declare independence from britain even to a 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 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 perpetuate us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose when it destine 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. you know it as a that's my learned over there but to discard it i'm all. so not a chill i hope to get it back one day. in the net i do use the land to grow lots of white radish take on what we don't want in us so that i could grow millions of them in that little space more knowledge i can let you work it out all good and i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace cannot touch your idea as you have done. their moment there are many throughout iraq at their. own as we all stay united in the struggle more and i'm confident we

can prevail. you can i want another order if we don't speak out against the fast of our lands and we will never be able to change the world. out of what it was. none of that you're here. to buy we have to keep our camp and. that's the only way we can prevail but they watch the. biggest strength and. our path is one of resistance not terrorism. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what if that group they are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement that kids can go to school that people 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 k. four is no longer needed and we look forward to that day. the questions any of thing else to get everything you needed.

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see tonight nato investigates of porch to air strike that's left seven civilians dead putting a question mark over the plans to pass for you to submission. in the other top stories of the week greece's new man on the money rolls up his sleeves to steer the debt stricken country's reforms after a few areas public rage against even deeper cuts in after. america's accused of twisting thailand's. new york judge cast doubt on the legality of extraditing alleged russian arms smuggling to prove the state. vet is mystery keeps moving over whether the president will run for a second term as he runs off the international economic forum and some people.

welcome you watching our team from moscow and our roundup of the week's top stories with me kevin owen it's now eight pm here in moscow and first libyan officials report seven civilians including two babies have been killed in apparent nato airstrike on a house in the capital the instant comes amid reinvigorated nato bombing is the alliance grows increasingly desperate to break the stalemate for motion reports in the capital tripoli i must warn you you might find some of the images coming up in a report upsetting. the residents of secrecy my district here in tripoli have been working out by a strike in the middle of the night and bomb all several moms landed here the story as you can see behind me several three story buildings quite a densely populated area with buildings standing very close to each other home to many people some of them very poor as we were told at least four families have been living in the damaged houses which is from twelve to fourteen people.

under the rubble we were able to show children in two adults a man and doing all of those little some of the people are still missing as you can see behind me the rescue operation is now undergoing but people here on the ground saying that there is little hope that's someone could be alive the buildings on the opposite side of this street have also been partially damaged but we were told that no one from there has been heard the libyan government spokesperson looked at him aside by him has come to the since protests this happened and he has said this civilian area had been hit by may take pride they want that by rockets in the sky people were killed children with my own hands with my own eyes i still i'm helping out with the girls who were killed and get the boys the father and the mother to hold the families redish and under this attack you cannot just.