we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody. the questions the appeals get everything you needed. welcome bob this is all secret check on the headlines. it's amazing with the you are an arab league envoy kofi annan president bashar al assad says he's ready to eat such words of mass and solutions to the syrian crisis as he says political observer no one perceived as long as terrorist groups are were going to country spreading chaos hundreds today and that's. a testing time for the opposition around ten thousand people take part in opposition rally against the outcome of sunday's presidential poll to turn out how i was much smaller than expected with the player

whose own internal divisions and a lack of open eyes and. calls attention on the israeli palestinian group that triggered by the killing of a gaza resistance link that continues with a barrage of rocket fire and more victims of both sides israeli officials claim they total number of rockets fired from gaza exceeds one hundred. optimism about the greek tragedy right down to cruise premature as athens suffers a fresh turning gray from the fish ratings agency after me just declared the crippled country in default on its debt and up next our special report a stunning. beginning in the 1980's a belief is slowly taking over the world that mere liberal globalisation with its

builtin self-regulating mechanisms were finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and would assure the planet into an era of relative peace and prosperity recruit will bring on a 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 and thirty 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 eighty 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. when we have different presentations or sometimes bands that come or even 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 the first was parties as other events that have been here at the center as well yeah they have they have softened. up.

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 do 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 go spend. most of the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the calling. the unit for the american

empire is not the colony it's the military base bases are the number one other than . the point of production how much mentioned most people don't understand the bases exist i don't understand the functions of military bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people engage with things like. war in iraq. question of torture attention and mutely outrage them 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 workfare there's a saying that goes when soldiers come war comes. to feel . feel .

fear. in the past when the american soldiers came we would drain this well to scare them away. we would scream yankee go home. the american bases have not only stolen our lands but also our way of life if you

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 were. i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people who are. if a crook ask 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 person or persons and this photograph it says recorded me back my love it enough that.

world war two 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 and the us 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 jupiter its proximity to china and taiwan aquino was still represents america's military stronghold in east asia the island hosts thirty eight u.s.

bases which house a force of that a 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 atomic bomb why she could hurt you worse than a terrible under special way 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 the a grocery or 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 and yet also another cost because of the cold war are to go garcia has the most wonderful you know logo. that would really be the ideal place for a base so we were at. the wrong place if you know of the wrong place at that time because our place was a best place for a the more sophisticated us than you can base outside of the us and the pier 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 live scattered between mauritian 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 upheld their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we've been surprise and surprise needs to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to a substantial degree and one problem or another socialism has spread to a 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 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 you know to stay and 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 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 learn certain plays and now we don't have any opponents no how can we play this game anymore and so they needed a new enemy and a new enemy will for a while there was drugs we had a war on drugs we then became terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of our leaders sometimes her brain a big think sometimes they're afraid a very little one but not of something else about you know that i don't think you quite understandably well sometimes when you become afraid there isn't anything that's really dangerous i'm time to think things are dangerous when they're not trying stockholm former cia agent wrote i think

a very poor. the 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 and order that the us public would support a military build up or support a particular work. cut out. of what they were. a network of bases means that you have at your fingertips if you were the emperor of the west the means of. there's always somebody we don't like and somebody who must be stopped perpetual war for perpetual police is being the american dream once we were launched upon them we would never look back and we were always thought on the

pretext to attack another. targeting is an effort to process many things are considered we have advanced weapon systems with perception ministries and we take care in matching the appropriate order to produce the desired effect on the 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 but 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 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 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 u.s. bombing of iraq and then nine hundred ninety one the united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain kater our oman and united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia in one nine hundred

eighty nine the us who wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay area garia macedonia hungary wozniak and croatia following us were only to afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and she eventually following us barmy edited version of iraq in two thousand and three the united states wound up with iraq. staying behind. i believe is actually at the as 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. the presence in countries such as iraq such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so that's. what we have here is video games. and. some of the things that go.

with it. is to want to this has been at first but soon the. trolls daily says you can say you can buy me one being on your first quite a long time and make that age as it will give way pay for college is something i wanted to do for a long time and done students active and i never wanted this job so 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. i think it be enough to say the experience. of

going to cut down a lot 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 is 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 guam a u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa in hindalco bay the project follows the decision to expand the jungle warfare training center complex further north in short the u.s. has agreed to return some of the locals but only if the except to give up more land elsewhere on the items. you know you. do want to and this is an ideal habitat for

the do gongs you want to we have to do all we can to take care of it. the reef is right here or have been. it protects the bay and enables the sea grass not to do go . well there you go. this is come schwab military base they put in the u.s. established it in the midst of world war two with. the poet who thought it a bit cool that now they want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport and without it. they got not a look at it go on and on or. the us takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment or more. since many rare species live here this was

a very serious consequences of human or orgy of all the law. can now or are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia what if. other and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of cum swelled for one year from morning to night and normally would be three i held up a sign saying no new basis something a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me it will be that they offer me for breakfast with them. and they were so young that. i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people. one. of them with. you know your presence here lee's kids are trained to kill we must stop and we believe we can prevent the construction of these tele paths with our actions when we look to obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. fragmented we're going to.

be 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 then all of you. so thank you and thanks to your families thanks for the service and the sacrifice and thanks for making a difference everything. by militarism we do not mean national defense or the obligation of citizenship for able bodied people to defend

a 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 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 a standing army 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 but still. 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 or so and 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. attention abeyta detention our bases there and there is a fact away. from . the the on

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