back here with r t here's a look at the top stories shall we voices in syria are stepping up calls to continue and all out bloody war against the regime this is an international envoy kofi annan seeks to negotiate peace talks between the government and opposition. israel has asked the u.s. for weapons that could be crucial to an attack on iran's underground in clear facilities but america's defense secretary has stressed a u.s. strike will be much more effective and amid a military action is now off the table if the plan was he fails. greece has

reportedly finally agreed a deal with private investors which could allow it to stave off at a fault on its debts however is soaring suicide rates high so you are suggests the public is already struggling to deal with the level of cuts. saying that in no way still that's we explore the web of u.s. military bases across the globe and our special report. on. the money to make them and who's getting it and why to protect us from what these are all questions that somebody like obama should. it just. as it was designed. and those bases just came along like you 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 kadena air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day one had been filed thousands of gallons of jet fuel. repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for the space 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. president eisenhower was warning against in his farewell address in one thousand nine hundred sixty one where he invented 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 have started 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 the u.s. department of defense alone consumes is 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 that 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 strain. oh 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 karta doctrine if the president jimmy carter he said protection of

the flow of persian gulf oil is a 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 their policy. then the west are united in pioneering a new run dear of progress. serving the interests of the saudi arabs. serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. away from this new frontier

is nothing into the trade of the world oil. one of the material that is making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. one of the reasons and the reason for the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure us control over. major energy resources of the world in the embassy which means go inside baghdad is a city like no other in the city and street the world they're not building the embassy here in syria iraq and the huge bases around with an intentionally they're building the intention to maintain control.

since two thousand and three the us has built dozens of military bases in iraq in two thousand and eight the us and iraqi government signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven. the premium to also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent bases 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 that ended up becoming permanent juggle garcia for example born in the context of the cold pool is still operational and has played

a crucial role and iraq will face a judge even if. i study feasibility study you know the ins and outs say for the people to go if they are to return they are made the thing is american saw living they are paying to it they have to follow they i and i and i even had like the island you call it look like a military funeral an 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 diego garcia 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 countries loose of sovereignty in the. 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 the term inside. 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 what 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 case in these countries you'll find that when u.s. soldiers commit crimes they're not held accountable they're 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 brought out of the country back into the united states were deployed to war zone because as they say boys will be boys and these guys been trained to be more aggressive and so they were aggressive you know. macho. you know and you're like you're like shot up with steroids you know i mean you're working out every day and you've got guns you've got stuff and so when you leave walk the basement 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 it getting kind of brown and it's some i'm looking at you the wrong way you know you just knock the hell out you know when you know you were sold your marine i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say but we don't want our guys waking local boys are causing problems for the local people . as does garbage i mean if they're. the case and you don't let us off the base you let us off the base this is going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about they ok now and girl had been raped by united states military men and i was very 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 a peace activist and 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 piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so i would be called lecturers so that was 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 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 current. what kind of problems as 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 space we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we display all american bases in an end for us our base is 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 my dinner and this is a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa because the accidents are a very frequent mistake in

a long. career and these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the most down. i'm up on all of the. little secret although if there were to. buy that will to be here is a map of the base as you 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 where inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off from lunch it's got a pretty quickly that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters to call them you know sometimes they're so close we can see the pilots face. all the fighting the noise is terrible about they fly old

a lot nonstop. some cry in the middle of the night they get on and put in some even stops coming to school. well. you know. we're here to say that the chancellor won't accept any more military bases to be better and it won't accept any more war machines on its land street therefore we

say no to all military facilities to be 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 in the chance of italy just a few miles away from the city's historical center a chance already hosts a u.s. military base because i might add that when it comes 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 indian airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the center because you've been saying you have four people it said three of whom are over the age of ninety and the base is a nothing of a base it doesn't generate smoke noise there are no planes landing so anybody

a complacent because from my point of view is the third to call me ok but why because the italian government the region the authorities of 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 cry for airplanes and 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 the chains and the promise of holding a referendum on the new base 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 chancellor decide to hold an

autonomous referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants in the place. i mean i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud 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 trends 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 for it comes to military bases most places 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 for us it's an eye lateral agreement to never make public nor ratified by the time and on.

another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. here that's. what. open the gates move you're breaking the special law on u.s. military bases. what you're going to do if i don't. undercut whatever you want i don't you know why

we struggle like this try to have we're going to come to understand how we feel think we are many theories you may not pick that one up even if the american and japanese governments have believed us for years on addiction to how we ever killed an american i am a broker out. there is girls have been great planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. how this is what these bases have brought us when they have oppressed us for sixty two better years i'm going to try to explain. and we realize you're only doing your job i don't know but ours is a historical juday. we will pass this legacy on to future generations. now when you go in 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. king george the third kept among us standing armies in times

of peace the committed abuses the use of creations of his and i was a hand make up this was recent a clear independence from britain even to a war was. i was was was was the bomber's alexei 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 by 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 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 when it best in 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. it ought to go with us that's my land over there judas hit him or. so not to kill i hope to get it back one day harder because they're. in the know nigga i do use the land school lots of white radish take on what we are don't want in us so that i could grow millions of them and not little space more knowledge i can let a kid like iraq or can i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa

in the name of peace to touch your ideas your. temperament their on the threat iraq at the. moment we all stay united in the struggle that more and i'm confident we can prevail. you cannot i work together or if we don't speak out against the federal our lands we will never be able to change the world. article but it was kind of a mature here. and it's about who we have to keep our camp and. that's the only way we can prevail i think was the. biggest stunt and. our path is one of resistance not terrorism but .

we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what it would they are and to make sure that people have the freedom of movement their kids can go to school that people go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo to bella continue to grow and there will be a point we're ok for is no longer needed and we look for today. the questions any of the girls to get everything you need.

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