if you're just joining us a very warm welcome to you this is auntie lot from moscow the headlines now but the u.n. arab envoy is into moscow's seeking aid people about a solution to the syrian crisis something some of position groups i'm really reject but the foreign support is stepping up calls for military action. a test of will russia's opposition looks to regain its momentum at a rally here in central moscow but internal fractures in draining public interest

leave many on the sidelines. a fierce exchange of fire on the israeli palestinian border moves into its second day with dozens of rockets fired on civilians on both sides it follows the killing of a gaza resistance leader. and optimism about the greek debt write down proves how much is often suffer as a fresh downgrade from the fitch ratings agency with moody's going even further and declaring greece to be in default. and to stay with us if you cannot see up next it is part two of us special report out of standing on me and takes a look at how american military bases shape the lives of millions and over one hundred countries whether based you want you're not. this place won't stand on electric lake alan bond well how they get the money to

make them and who's giving it to them and why to protect us from what these are all questions that somebody like obama should have been asking is. it just didn't happen the empire as it was designed. and those bases just came along and i can know some terrible cancer. when you see how much money is at stake in in the operations that go on every day it's phenomenal the number of flights to take off from katrina air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day one have involved thousands of gallons of jet fuel. repair and maintenance and parts for those aircraft the rationale for these bases 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 is in our it was warning against in his farewell address and 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'm sorry 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 the fence alone consumes this much petroleum is sweet and does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured in day out three hundred sixty five days a year. to safeguard their oil the united states must have some capacity to protect it and in this country their 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. 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 a carta 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 their 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 that policy. and

west are united and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest of a saudi arab. serving the interests of the united states. and demonstrating the high caliber of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new run dear is one thing into the brain 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 controlled media major energy resources of the world to the embassy it's been built inside baghdad is a city like no other embassy in history in the world they're not building the embassy. in syria rank in the huge pieces around with an intentionally they're building them with an intention to maintain control. since two thousand and three the u.s. has built dozens of military bases in iraq in two thousand and eight the u.s. and iraqi governments signed an agreement that states that all foreign troops should leave the country by two thousand and eleven. the agreement also says that the u.s. will not seek permanent basis 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 theaters iraq may be used as a launching pad for future wars in the region. over in fact bases created in response to an imminent threat of ended up becoming permanent jaeger garcia for example on in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq war and they say didn't even pay out a steady feasibility study you know the ins and outs say for the people to go if they are to return they are but the thing is americans are living they are paying to they have temporal lobe they iran and i are you going ahead like out of the island you college nuchal i clearly told you knew all an american know enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on our iran and enjoy the same way they are doing.

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of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so whole host nations and it determines. 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 cases 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 laws of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they just want 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'll. get.

a lot. more you 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 man and so when you leave the base man i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you feel like you're a tough guy you can take anybody you know but so coming into town with that sort of attitude and getting kind of drunk and did so might be looking at you the wrong way you know you're just not the whole lot you know when you know you were soldier you're marines i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local more wars are causing problems for the local people pull. this garbage and. and if that's the case then you don't let us off the base you let us off the base his going to be issues.

i heard on the news one day about a okinawan 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 yoke and only people when i was here as a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some a peace activist i'm in touch with me and they had a contact here in okinawa and when they found out that i had been stationed here they left the base people here know that there was an exploration who was stationed here who was doing a piece work now in america and so they invited me to calm back to do so we caught the lectures 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 they have a sense the into world war two these spaces have been here. this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's countries we're kind of problems does it solve or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people and 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 base we don't have any korean base we don't have any french bases or you know we just all american bases in harasta our base is a five you know 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 it's the accidents are very frequent distributed among. these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mon down. m a o o. o c those are all the muppets that there will be. right back with me here is a map of the base as you can see it's right in the middle of the city.

and this elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base. here we are inside the so-called clear zone for where the planes take off from land

let's go pretty quickly that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters will call them you know sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face. fighting the noise is terrible they fly old a lot nonstop. some cry in the middle of the night they get under a bed and some even starts coming to school. well .

we're here to say that the chancellor won't accept any more military bases he won't accept any more more machines on its land streets therefore we say no to all military facilities he could 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 the chance of already hosts a u.s. military base because that might add that home to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy area designated for the new base is the x. a billion airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over

twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the sensor because if it said you have four people instead of fear or 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 picture from my point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because they tell you government to reach and your target is a 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 helicopters they don't crowd. airplane so it's purely ideological and negative by a bunch of people who don't do anything worthless.

in april two thousand the king live and yet is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on a new base it is said to be held on october fifth just a few days before the italian supreme court blocks the referendum. despite the court's decision the citizens of the chance to decide to hold an autonomous referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants base. i mean i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say it out loud but 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 chance 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 when

it comes to military bases most bases are in fact covered by secret treaties between the us and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty four us if he bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian. i. another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. here that's another hurdle.

to. open the gates move you're breaking the special law on us military bases. i. was not going to do it i don't. wonder what i'm going to want to do you know why we struggle like this president of global economy you understand how we feel free we are going to go there if you're a victim we're not even if the american and japanese governments have bulletins for years the victim of that of how we ever killed an american i don't know about. your various girls have been great planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. this is what these bases have brought us how they have oppressed us for sixty two bitter years when it kind of the people never grow up. and we realize you're only doing your job i don't know but ours is

a historical today. we will pass this legacy on to future generations. when you go in elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day it 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 and usurpations of missiles and i was ahem make up that this was recent a clear independence from britain even to a war was. i was i was the bombers alexy 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 but the ever growing military budget the escalation of the war in afghanistan and the uncertainties 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 perpetuates us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose when it destine 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.

put out throughout estimates my learned over there to discard it imo. so not a chill i hope to get it back one is a hurry because their supporters are out in the net i'd use the land to cool lots of white gratis i call no way out on what they must so that i could grow millions of them and not little space more knowledge i can let you do it i doubt i'll get on i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa so in the name of peace or not at your audio shout at. them or might there are no threats at the. moment we all stay united in the struggle there are no i'm confident we can prevail . you are not i want it or are if we don't speak out against the fest of our lands we will never be able to change the world. our data thought it was none of us you're here to torture. and it's about we have to keep our count and

there. are no values the only way we can prevail. it's strength. and heidi our path is one of resistance not terrorism. we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what the group they are in to make sure that people have the freedom of movement to kids can go to school people go to work and people can sleep safely and we would like to see kosovo develop and continue to grow and there will be a point where a force no longer needed and we look forward to the day. we questions any of thing else to get everything you need.

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