you visit though you're. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow and today we take a look at the top stories of the week media's new leaders tried to bring calm to tripoli after capturing the capital but the massive flood of weapons onto the streets means stability still be a long way off. moscow slams the e.u.'s newest sanctions on syria aimed to put pressure on president assad over his crackdown on protesters but it's over the accuracy of media coverage coming out of the country are raising questions about who's to blame for the bloodshed. ukraine threatens to take russia to court in its push for a discount on gas prices but the kremlin claims it's on solid ground in

a looming battle say complaints have no legal ground. and hundreds of thousands rally across israel in the nation's biggest anti-government protest demonstrators demand the authorities turn their attention from security to social justice. now it's time for our special report on the anti-war movement in the u.s. that emerged during the vietnam conflict and how it changed the course of history. in the early one nine hundred sixty s. the united states government began sending combat troops to south vietnam. to make sure to go down or greater. ask yourself what's going to happen to all the other little tyke america's stated goal was to spread democracy and defend freedom but thirty years later the legacy of that ten year war which left fifty thousand americans and over three million vietnamese dead still remains unsettled and in the

decade to debate that followed the end of the war some stories of yet to be heard. the day your soldiers sailors airmen marines and coast guard are better educated. are better informed. traditional american ingenuity and if. not better as opposed but at higher up and understand what the war is all about. killing. linked. lists. it's a. misunderstanding of my feeling. it's the typical good. when i hear good news here and when you're

colonel in basic training you have this fabric of course a good school or a school and i want to sell it. really you know really i try to spend my whole life having people with a better life can basically feel better that's when are still around. they tried to trick me into a kill they tried to trick me into somebody who could take a life if there's one thing in real life i feel i could ever call. to say i didn't look at. the president. stay in my hair. cut them out all we can say of the horrible profit for the for. you know joe goes almost through which cross of the server. there wasn't too much to do on a troop ships old set up on the docket like never wraps a lot of time to get to where we are what we are going to what was right or wrong and we go back and forth back and forth and we always an open cooling well that's

all we're doing the right thing because as a result. during the vietnam war an antiwar movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in barracks and on ships it flourished in army stockades navy grids and they did see towns and surrounded military bases. and penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam. it was a movement no one expected least of all those early hundred twenty prison of thousands in texas and by nine hundred seventy one it had in the words of one colonel confessed to tire farm service and. yet today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. and i was really proud of what i thought i was doing there earliest days of the war planted the seeds for the movement to come even among the first american troops in vietnam the elite green berets the problem

i am was realizing what i was doing was not good i was doing it right but i wasn't doing the right. i was asked to train green beret people special forces men why were they training these guys to endure mythology while they were training them to do german taji in vietnam because they knew that if they were able to offer a few simple remedies and help cure a few children of some simple bacterial infections that that would include a shape themselves to the vietnamese community and you know you remember the phrase that winning the hearts and minds of the people so this was this was how you were going to win the hearts and minds of the people and while they were offering their band-aids of helping to cure a few cases of him to tie go they were bombing the hell out of the villages. i was out on patrol. and your hip was and.

we took a couple of prisoners and whether they were combatants or not you know. patrol was led by americans but every vietnamese are in there and every turn over the army. and use the old fashioned methods who interrogation force torture that was pretty common practice. i tell you as bad as that is that treatment was the cynicism that attached to it was a part that was really sickening and death of everything i've been taught everything i've learned everything i grew up with this is just not the way you treat human beings. there's a long time for that you could say yes. i got out of the military in nineteen sixty six i got up because of the things i saw the things i was doing and this reasons that we were given for doing that it was a personal protest it was just me getting out of the service and there was no

movement to join i found the war in vietnam more got reports of and i felt that i just couldn't be a part of it eventually i said look i'm not training you guys anymore i don't agree with what you're doing i think it's immoral i think it's medically unethical and i just stopped through out of the clinic. it took a few weeks for the army to catch up with that and when they did they invited me into the commanding officer office and said look what are you doing here and i told him exactly what i was doing i said i'm not training and they said well you know you should know the consequences of that and i said i'm perfectly aware of the consequences i don't much training at that point it was obvious that it was going to be court martial and a few days later i got the court martial nokes. howard levy spent three years in prison. along with him three g. i's of fort hood who refused orders to vietnam and received five years hard labor and a dishonorable discharge army lieutenant henry how who carried a sign at

a demonstration reading and johnson's fascist aggression in vietnam was sentenced to two years and two marines william harvey and george daniel received six to ten year sentences for organizing a meeting about whether black people should fight in vietnam. and on march third one thousand nine hundred eighty six former green beret donald duncan was the featured speaker at antiwar a meeting at the town hall in manhattan i just wanted to do what i knew about it. and it would let people then judge for themselves. i think the most startling thing to me occurred however as the court martial began what would happen was we would walk from the parking lot to the building with a quad wash was being held and it was the most remarkable thing when hundreds hundreds of g.i. s.

would hang out of windows out of the barracks and give me that the sun will give me that clenched fist this was mine but to me this was a revelation and at that point it really became crystal clear to me that something had changed and that something very very important was. only people would. think. yes. i would inch i really don't know how many but i know how many i met you know there's a majority of the men that i met in the service were opposed but they didn't know how to force their opinion given much thought. yes. nine hundred sixty eight was the turning point by then america had over a half a million troops in south vietnam during the lunar new year holiday called tet the enemy of the north vietnamese

a national liberation front arms launched an offensive that overran the entire country before being pushed back the tet offensive revealed that the enemy have widespread support from the vietnamese people and america was mired in a war it couldn't win and with soldiers beginning to question the war in the wake of the tet offensive thousands began going to a war were absent without leave many found the way to san francisco where series of events brought the emerging g.i. in timor movement entre connection a stage. we joined together. and she was making sixty eight we took sanctuary in a church change ourselves for ministers. we essentially called the press and said to them we're not going to get out we were refusing orders and in fact we were resigning from the military to come and get it . the fact that it took them three days to decide to heal the sick to fully

cooperate. had nothing to lose. and they had no idea what was going to come and that's a free place to really free place you know you're you know what's going to happen you know where you're going but you know what you're doing. yeah and that was my introduction to the search for school presidio stockade. the population for sure usually upwards i was going if you can call what would be sixteen and there were so sometimes double that in there. that were crowded. close . to the shore guards for me it was really fun. with the nine for peace held in military prisons soldiers throughout the bay area

began planning for the first and she war demonstration in the country organized by g.i.'s and veterans i was an a member of the medical committee for human rights we got together a number of times and talked about how we were going to organize active duty to go to the peace demonstration and then i remember also hearing about the fifty two bombers that were dropping leaflets on vietnam urging the vietnamese to defect and i thought well if they can do it overseas then. we can hire a small private plane loaded up with leaflets and drop the leaflets on the trades send. thousands and thousands of leaflets one point and we were a little concerned about it. but nothing evidently they landed pretty accurately that's what they testified to clarke my shop. and on my way

driving him to the demonstration i decided i was going to wear mine a full uniform and my opinion was fairly straightforward it was it was more like we are his uniform for the war in congress as an active duty person i certainly had the same rights that he did and i could wear my uniform protesting the united states and. cities install this court martial by the navy for making a political statement while in uniform and following the march for a while g.i.'s turn themselves into the presidio army stockade keith mathur was being held so had been assigned kind of by the movement people to go into the stockade and find out what was going on because they had been shot this prisoner and killed him for nineteen year old private michael bunch life in the army had been a little more than a series of a wall violations his last stop was here at the presidio stockade where he was

fatally shot last friday while trying to escape from the work the tail. for the guards shot him and killed him you know point blank and his only crime was so i want to be they're. going to war. because he was really young age and for no good reason not unlike a lot of his brothers. in a car so so. much. we reacted. this really. willing to discuss our bridge. toward actually. the wires over the walls we rip the squawk box off the wall and then things start to calm down because we started playing we came to a decision that just thing we could do was to have some kind of a demonstration and it was at the roll call of formation we had a signal that was what was supposed to break ranks and we did and then we walked

over here and sat down at a certain point commandant came out and read this. and we just kept saying aloud or i'm going to link arms and sing sing. off tell you we were really scared we have them right where we want to finally listening to us fear that's the first time i can ever remember anybody listening to us while i was in the military. the commanding general of the sixth army which was the jurisdiction and he said that they thought that the revolution was about to start and they really had to set an example you know come down hard and we were the guys that they decided to do that with and they did it i mean you know we were on trial for a life. you know i kind of came it was unable and you know within two days of being the stockade i was on your space and that's. for singing we shall overcome.

nationwide support the city when he said. i was wounded three times when i was out in the bush and then third time i was wounded was on the summer of one hundred sixty seven and we got overrun by north vietnamese regulars and started like a human wave. a guy came up behind her old stuck his rifle in the hole and i sort of an a k forty seven where i am i am sixteen point zero but i sort of pulled my trigger when i saw a case. and a bullet hit me in the news and i. came to a few minutes later and the gun was jammed in my new was. after the fighting ended

in the sun came up and they carried me over to. me and he was sitting up against a tree and he was. three bullet holes of his chest and he has a carry away and a corrosive. killed he did a good job. and he was about my age and. and i said thinking you're all. alive it was just a matter of pure luck and i started thinking oh i wonder if you had a girlfriend it was molly's mother was going to find things like. the one you just went through the experience of that nature and you find out that it's all lies and they're just lying to the american people and your silence means that your part if you can have my goal and i couldn't stop i mean i couldn't be so you know i thought i had a responsibility to my friends and to the country in general and if you had to me. i don't consider yours the first but it was the first shot where i was you know the

barrel with him and looked him in the face afterwards and i. believed him to make that his wife his death not be in vain meant that i had to try in every case for all of the justness that he was fighting for believed he was fighting for his country so i became involved in the world as. with more and more soldiers turning against the war handful of peace activists open the first of what would become a network and dozens of them. war g.i. coffee houses located in the towns that hover near military bases. and the dusty texas town of killeen just outside fort hood which talented over twenty thousand troops he came home with a g.i. coffeehouse known as the army officer for not. being in the army over here and then out right. i can figure i can

get on any army the minute our. name only was struck came from a shock absorber on a helmet so that's what do yo yos throw it was it was a place where you go there and it's old soldiers and they had a record player and all the latest rock records and underground papers and using of breath. and to go out on ambush like one did we go out on the ambush and see me good people in. the early morning and stuff. because they've got to get right was there. a majority of women are they doing their grammar they were very. very very good and they're no different than. anyone thinks they can back out of it and hopefully be a good guy to see them and you know that he's making a mistake because he's already.

you know put on an on has cropped up at several army bases these days the so-called underground g.i. press which consists largely of anti war newspapers military authorities are clamping down hard on the papers recently when there was an underground newspaper laying on the bed. is called the last harass a free man they were free. this is not the rise material and this is a person material there are not a lot of how many copies this inside the barracks go. turnus in a media break that night and the paper there were one around in the barracks everybody's reading and two or three guys of time sitting around on a pair of guys' beds and stuff like that check out this paper what i liked about it was the fact that the officers hated me every day had to be good they had heard how to do something about this that was good type mimeographed printed the g.i. underground press explode it. cost a ton travel

a record in georgia last harass washington fort benning georgia air force for your board techs new jersey fort hood texas pres it's published by a group of radicals soldiers stationed at this army face and we use a distributed plan doesn't we on base we go round and leave bunches of them in their eggs as we go through nightly month footlockers if you recall distributing literature on base there was a court martial friends shortly after the first issue was published the g.i. founded the press gypsy peterson was pulled over by fort hood police in a vacuum down his car and claim to follow the remnants of marijuana arrested him for america possession of marijuana in an attempt to suppress his movement following it through a trial in the texas court gypsy peterson was sentenced to eight years in prison for fraud north carolina's brief for jackson south short crimes are are just inside

work despite the military's best efforts the underground press became the night light of the g.i. movement as the army's own recruiting slogan fun travel and adventure turned into the popular g.i. expression of the. press elite soldiers around the world and inspired many outside the military you know i grew up believing that if our flag was flying over a battlefield that we were on the side of the angels my father fought in the second world war you want to wards and and medals. you know i grew up there in the good wars here's this woman who steps out onto the world stage is a famous actress comes from one of the ruling class families in hollywood and makes that political decision to change sides she steps onto the side of the people and particularly the vietnamese people she stands with the g.r.s. and she stands with the g.i. movement and she says i'm going to stand with this i'm going to give vent to i'm going to help support it and build it you know it's not all like that you have to

be a show that's a terrible demonstration going on outside there's always a demonstration going on outside richard this one is completely out of control let me ask you point this time brianna data from all political prisoners yet not a proper government official we have to care about. and i would like you know i just got us going i want our actors are going to call out a third marine you can't read here why not. for years program or comedian bob hope to tour vietnam entertaining american troops but soon the cheers turned to cheers i mean new kind of entertainment emerged. howard levy himself a celebrity within the g.i. movement he met with donald sutherland and me and he said what if we put together. an antiwar show that's you know the opposite side of the coin from from the bob

hope show. next up look at life. after the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant the army. here was a way that i could combine my profession my acting with my desire to end the war it just seemed like a perfect fit. this is we bring to these bases is not trying to tell the people on the bases anything that they don't know we are coming in response to what is probably the most powerful movement going on in this country the movement of the man inside the military and women who are beginning to understand how they're being

used and what the nature of american foreign policy is and we come there because they have asked us to we come there because for the last year we have read in the newspapers from vietnam from from west germany from open our work in the philippines and from what we want entertainment we want people to speak to how we feel and the majority of us don't know why we're going over there that we don't know why we're being shot up with a wire but if it were being killed we don't know why we're killing those people. and the truck we're doing the idea. we needed to. wash. all the way should be exempt from zero. zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero zero really good right where you . i'm not. i'm not.

comfortable with the country so you good people come in with different information about black palace trouble if that you know black community and you don't feel real good about you so you want to really question which room you know. but i remember one day the first saw james talking about gooks so you know naive i was that you know and people which. i didn't really understand that you know one day he was one of the groups and i remember i would often way hear this of the same things and then. things began this thought clicking in my head like it would. be easier if they check and discover a speakeasy. leaf.

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