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military bases spanning across the globe and our special report and our way. beginning in the 1980's the belief is slowly taking over the world that new liberal globalization with its built in self-regulating mechanisms would finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and would assure the planet into a new era of relative peace and prosperity. will bring on the great. nine eleven and the current economic crisis have shown that believed to be largely a myth. but many signs were already the. markets have always relied on state power and military might. america's transformation from. electric anomic 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 report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in forty 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 eighteen 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 a crises a military expansion related in some way.

when we have different friends and stations or sometimes bands that come or even move we have talent night if we have people that want to show off their talent we have a stage. we've done all sorts of things here from a halloween party there's christmas parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah they had they have softened. up. in the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the forms the new empire that the united states is trying to build when you look at the pentagon's website and their public information they have 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 get respect. most of the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the colony. the unit for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base leases are the number of the media . to the point of projection and how much mentioned most people don't understand the basis exist i thought on the stand the functions of military bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people to engage with things like this war in iraq. question of torture things that immediately outrage them these

are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of doing webcams back home. you can go in. to focus on of war and not war preparations it's just 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.

feed. if. you feed it. for those of us in the past when the american soldiers came we would ring this bell to scare them away.

we would scream yankee go home. the american bases have not only stolen our lawns but also our way of life or culture our history and everything else such a thing cannot be tolerated we are going to want to say the bases are here to be world peace for what they've been used in the korean war in vietnam and now in iraq . and war people die. or. go to i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people or of bread. if a crook asks you for

a knife. that's right there's nothing wrong in lending it to him but if he asks 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 if you must that. thanks. to mark 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 u.s. 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 u.s. and the soviet union following the war veteran 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 deal the atomic bomb why she could hurt 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 diego 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 base in india and also another cost because of the cold war to go garcia has the most wonderful you know. that would really be the ideal place for

a base so we were at. the wrong place if you know there's a wrong place at that time because our place was the best place for the most sophisticated us then you could base outside of the u.s. and the there in one nine hundred seventy one due to an agreement between the u.k. in the us the british made the island available to the americans as a military base because of its too strategic position and to quote 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 today have scattered between the richest and the united kingdom where for years they have been fighting a legal battle to return to them. 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 seen surprise and surprise in these to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to a substantial degree and one problem or another socialism has spread the shadow of human regimentation over most of the nations of the earth. and the shadow is encroaching 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 and i began to change i got new information after the collapse of the soviet union in one hundred ninety one above

all how fast our country moved united states to 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. and 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 one for a while it was drugs you had a war on drugs with then came terrorism and that was

a very good substitute in the minds of our lead is sometimes preparing to make think sometimes they're afraid of very little lot but now there's something else about you that i don't think you quite understand me well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm time to think think they're dangerous when they're not trying stocco former cia agent wrote i think a very pro. 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 geared up to identify a particular enemy of the moment in order that the us public would support a military buildup or support a particular war. but i don't know. what they were. a network of bases names that you have at your

fingertips if you were the emperor of the west of the millions of petrol. there's always somebody we don't lie and somebody who must be stopped compared to war for perpetual peace as being the american dream once we were launched upon them we would never look back and. always find a pretext to attack another. targeting is an effort to process many thanks for considering we have advanced weapon systems with perception munitions and we take care in matching the appropriate ordinance to produce the desired effect on a target. that the foundations for the new world order will aid in the middle east in one thousand nine hundred one following the first call for the us

established a permanent military presence in the middle east what's like it had done fifty years earlier in europe in the station. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later in two thousand and one was some of bin laden cited the us military presence in his homeland saudi arabia as a reason for his hatred of the united states. in a curious twist of fate the nine eleven attacks and america's military response paved the way for the birth of new military bases in iraq and central asia first and foremost in afghanistan. the relationship between bases and war is a hand in 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 and then nine hundred ninety one united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain kater our oman and united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia and eight hundred eighty nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay area garia macedonia hungary. and croatia following us when we go afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan it was becca stan stan cooper stan georgia yemen and she eventually following us barmy get a division of iraq in two thousand and three the united states wound up with iraq.

stain b. try and. i believe is actually at the is the ultimate purpose of many of these wars we used to think of and 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. the presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some with. what we have in here is video games.

and. some of the things that go. with it. is too long to dismiss binet first consume a new gun controls daily. you can see you can buy one being on your first quite a long time and make that age as it will give way for college to someone to do for

a long time and done students at never never wanted this job so it had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something active so how do you feel about being supplied to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. i think it be enough to say the experience of it. going to cut down a line of thought. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states as 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 days to the island of 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. for the north in short the u.s. has agreed to return some land to the locals but only if they accept to give up more land elsewhere on the items. this is an ideal habitat for the gong's we have to do all we can take care of it. the reef is right here. it protects the bay and enables the seagrass 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. to call it the. now they

want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport without that. they've got in a lot going to go. on all. the us takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment. for that since many rare species live here this was a very serious consequences. in okinawa are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of come for one year from morning to night nor new day three i held up a sign saying no new basis for a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me you know it all has got to get back they offered me hamburgers for breakfast. and that. they were so young that.

i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people and. all. of the. you know you know i thought here these kids are trained to kill we must stop us and we believe we can prevent the construction of these hello pads with our actions when you look at the obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. founded we're going to. 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 every day. by not resume we do not mean national defense or the obligation of citizenship for able bodied people to defend the country in times of national emergency or 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 idiots or 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 human standing army that subtly altered the political structure of. 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 and 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. and taking our bases in attention our maces it is a man there is a sack a leg. and

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