they're part of it and realized everything is. part of the big picture. book stores are naughty from the world wide web to a nationwide war extremist opposition groups in syria tons of the internet to encourage a bloody battle in the country while the u.n. arab envoy seeks a diplomatic solution. to the future credit rating agency downgrades greece to restrict a default shattering a boom the optimism of the leaders pulling the pull deal pushed through by athens. americans call for an overhaul of the electoral system ahead of this year's presidential poll for the report that found millions of the seized and ineligible voters. up next as our special report for you standing army that takes a look at how american military bases shape the lives of millions in the countries

where they're based. 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 which parts of the planet into an era of relative peace and prosperity retreat will bring on the great depression nine eleven and the current economic crisis have shown that believed 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 report today these amount to seven hundred sixteen infatuate 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 in iraq 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 and military expansion related in some way. maybe have different friends and stations or sometimes bands that come or even

though 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 our we party the streets was parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah they have they have softened but. never. in the early twenty first century military bases the network of military bases all around the world 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 got to spend. most of the movies that we have of the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the calling. the unity for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base bases on. the you know. the point of contention how much mentioned most people don't understand that the bases exist the understand the functions of military bases and and it's much much easier for people to engage with things like. war in iraq. question of torture thanks for that and mutely outrage some of these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the

capability of. doing webcams that. you can do and. to focus on the war and not work perpetration is 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. to feel. feel .

feel. feel. feel. in the past when the american soldiers came during this bell to scare them away. when. we would scream yankee go home.

the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life 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 so they've been used in the korean war in vietnam and now in iraq. in war people die that's obvious now of course there are. but i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people who are. if a cop asks you for a knife. there is 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 bust or not but i must photograph it says give me back my lad if you must that. you are. to mock 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 nineteen 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 now was 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 the the atomic bomb why should 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 they were 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 the indian ocean at all cost because of the cold war are to go garcia has the most wonderful you know luggage. that would really be the ideal place for a base so we were at. the wrong place if you know the wrong

place at that time because a place was the best place for a the more sophisticated us than you can base outside of the u.s. and the u.k. 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 two strategic position and to put it its 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 mauritians and the united kingdom refereed 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 upheld their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense

purposes and we feed surprise and surprise east 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 an 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 and 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 going to 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 that after the collapse of the soviet union and 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 while for a while there was drugs you had a war on drugs with them became terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of early it is sometimes her brain to think

think sometimes they're afraid of very little what but not as something else about it i don't think you quite understand me well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm gonna get thinking they're dangerous and they're not chance toccoa former cia agent wrote i think a very. same book called in search of enemies in which he identified different areas in the us 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 build up or support a particular war. but you know. what they were. a network of bases and means that you have at your fingertips if you were the emperor of the west the means of petrol. there's always

somebody we don't like and somebody who must be stopped compared to war for petrol pieces being the american dream once we were launched upon him we would never look back and we were always find a pretext to attack another. targeting is an effort to process many thanks for considering we have advanced weapon systems with perception nations and we take care in matching the appropriate ordnance to produce the desired effect on a target. 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 what's 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 with some of the large incited 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 path of 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 u.s. bases i would say have been the chardy are the result of war they are the booty or

newt of war in the sense that they were captured during wartime and never given back following the u.s. bombing of iraq in eighteen eighty one united states it wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain our oman and united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia and then nine hundred eighty nine the us who wound up with military bases in kosovo mania garia macedonia hungary bosnia and croatia following its bombing of afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and djibouti following its bombing at a division of iraq in two thousand and three the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the is 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. and the presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so that's. what we have in here is video games.

and. some of the things that go. with it. is to want to this has been at first but soon to be done trolls daily. you can see you can buy me one being either for quite a long time and make it that age as it will give way for college is something i want to do for a long time and guns do is active there 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 deployed to iraq or afghanistan. i'm nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. thank you be enough to say the experience. of going to cut down on that. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states both the transpacific and the 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 pretend that they have base to the island to roam the u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa in. the project follows the decision to expand the jungle warfare training center complex for the north in short the u.s.

has agreed to return some land to the new calls but only if they accept to give up more land elsewhere on the items. you know you. do want to this is an ideal habitat for the gongs 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. through this is come schwab military base. the us established it in the midst of world war two. it will go a little bit. but now they want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the

way to or a bay and build a floating airport and without that. a look at it. the u.s. takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment. since many rare species live here this would have 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 cum swabbed for one year from morning to night nor new day 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 will. they offer 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. one.

of them with. you going up i thought of here these kids are trained to kill we must stop list and we believe we can prevent the construction of these telepaths with our actions overlooked obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. three hundred years of. a lot of challenges 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 risen 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 room in 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 a part of 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 a huge 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 are means 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. attentional base in attention our bases this is a man there is a sacrilegious. issues

that so much as. we can call it so here is the republican party going along just march to november is very likely former massachusetts governor mitt romney will eventually capture the. i'm.

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