hello you're choosing to see international thanks for being with us our top stories native admits its forces killed civilians in a strike on a residential area in tripoli on sunday with a bath the regime fishel say nine died including to invade. also america's accused of twisting thailand's army as a new york judge cast doubt on the legality of extraditing alleged russian arms smuggler victor boot to the states. and greece is new man on the money rolls up his

sleeves to steer the dead stricken countries reforms for a furious public rage against even deeper cuts in athens. the u.s. is encircled the world with a trail of army bases with almost eight hundred military facilities spanning more than one hundred countries next step the first part of a special report we've got for you on how america's increasing its global influence . beginning in the 1980's 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 into an era of relative peace and prosperity free trade will bring on the 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 records 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 crises and military expansion related in some way. when we have different friends and stations or sometimes bands that come or even though we have . challenge nights if we have people that want to show off their challenge 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 solved the last. thing. 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 get when you look at the pentagon's website in their

public information they had 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 go straight. to the movies that we have in the movie for free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the calling. the unity for the american empire is not a colony it's the military base bases on. the point of production how much nation most people don't understand the bases exist

i thought or stan the functions of both are bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people engage with things like. war in iraq. question of torture thinks that immediately outrage them these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of. and webcams that. can 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. 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.

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in the past when the american soldiers came. to scare them away. we would scream yankee go home. the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life here 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 they've been used in the korean war in vietnam and now in iraq. in war

people die that's obvious now of course they're what. 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 are there is nothing wrong in lending it to him but if he asked 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 it says give me back my land at last that. thanks. to 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's 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. well aware 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. you know how bad i feel the atomic bomb why it's good for 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 jericho 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 place the u.s. wanted a vase and yet it was another cost because of the cold war to go garcia has a morse wonderful you know lug. 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 a base base froyo the more sophisticated us than you could base outside of the u.s. and the game in one nine hundred seventy run 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 two strategic position and to court it it's 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 militias and the united kingdom where for 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've means a prize and surprise needs to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to a substantial degree and one form or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth. and the shadow as i'm approaching 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 you know to 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 that 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'll be in 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 was for a while it was drugs and you had a war on drugs with then came terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of our leaders sometimes her kind of think. sometimes they're afraid of very little what i noticed something else about you that i don't think you quite understand it me but sam well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm time to 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 cured up to identify a particular enemy of the moment in order that the u.s. public would support a military build up or support

a particular war. i don't know. what a worldwide network of bases names that you have at your fingertips if you were the emperor of the west the means of. 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 them we would never look back and we will always find a pretext to attack another. targeting is an intricate process many thanks for considering we have advanced weapon systems with perception relations and we take care in 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 the station. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later in two thousand and one who some of bin laden cited 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 a new military bases in iraq and central asia first and foremost in 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 one thousand nine hundred one united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain cape char oman and united arab emirates following a spawning of yugoslavia in one thousand nine hundred nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay near vogue area macedonia hungary bosnia and croatia following us were on the go up jonathan in two thousand and one into the us wound up with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan it was best then

gigas then kurdistan georgia yemen and djibouti following us barmy get invasion 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. a presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some of.

what we have and here is a video games. some of the things that both. of us are. going to want to test first binet first assume the. trolls

daily says you can save the environment one being on your first quite a long time and make that age as it will give way for college something i want to do for a long time and guns do is active i had never wanted this job so i had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being to cloyd to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. think it be another saving experience for me. if i want to. by the down by the by. well the u.s. japan 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 month base to the islands of brum a 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. the north in short the u.s. has agreed to return some of the locals but only if they accept to give up more land elsewhere on the items. this is an ideal habitat for the do go we have to do all we can to 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 with. the pound it will go to a bit of it. now they want to destroy two kilometers of heno kobe. all the way to or away and build a floating airport with that big. you know a look at it go. by. 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. orderable. in okinawa or are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of comes wild for one year from morning to night nor new b three i held up a sign saying no new basis for that and

a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me you know it all has got to get back that they offer me hamburgers for breakfast. and. they were so young that i don't know what i don't know i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people all. over the union we have to turn. the waters here these kids are trained to kill we must start less and we believe we can prevent the construction of these kelly pads with our actions when you're obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest better. than order you could have. 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 militarism 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 huge standing army 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. attention abbate inattention are mated dishes iron hand is a sack a leg. i'm .