this is all sick of check on the headlines at half past the hour. it's amazing live if you are arab league envoy kofi annan doesn't bashar al assad says it's ready to search for diplomatic solutions to the syrian crisis he says political dialogue proceed as long as terrorist groups are at work in the country spreading chaos on just a minute. that's just in time for the opposition our drugs have found some people take part in a rally against the outcome of sunday's presidential poll but the turnout was much

smaller than expected with internal divisions and the lack of organization being delayed. until shown these are a christian and border triggered by the killing of the guards a resistance lead at the continues with a barrage of rocket fire and more victims on bad sides israeli officials claim the total number of rockets fired from gaza exceeds one. are up next our special report standing army looks at how american armed forces shaped the lives of millions in the country. where it's. like. well how did they get that money to make them and who's giving it and why. these are all questions that somebody like obama shebang. it just didn't happen the empire it was it was

designed. and those days is 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 catania air force base every single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day and 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. the president has in our it 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. it and that was often out of control represented private interests rather than the national interest i was starting 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 in day out three hundred sixty five days

a year to safeguard the 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 the carta doctrine if to president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is of 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 and west are united in pioneering a new front here 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. system which from this new from dear is something 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 that the primary one for the motivation of iraq is to ensure us control over the major interference or sense of the world in the embassy which means look inside baghdad is a city like no other innocent and street in the world not building the embassy and

also in iraq and the huge basins 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 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 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. has many fear that iraq may be used as a launching pad for future wars in the region. over the fact bases created in

response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming per minute. general garcia for example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq war to the stage even though. i studied a few see beauty stadia that you know the island is not safe for the people to go if they are to return and they are but the thing is americans are living they are and yet they have to follow they i and i and i even had like out of the island you call it new clyde here lee told you knew all i know america know enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on now i don't 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 lose their software to be in a number of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thinking this of the so for the status of forces agreement this is what's negotiated between the united states and so whole host nations and in terms of 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 when you. i 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 there's just one 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 to be more aggressive and so they were aggressive you know. if. you like your like shot up which steroids you know i mean you're working out every

day and you've got guns you've got stuff and so when you walk to the basement i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you're 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 drunk and it's mind looking at you the wrong way you know you does not know how long you know when you know you were so do your marines i mean they like that stuff military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local borders and causing problems for the local people but . is this garbage i mean if that's the case and you don't let us off the base you let us off the base this going to be issues.

i heard on the news one day about. they ok now when girls 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 of peace activists 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 some lectures so that was in one 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 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 kind. what kind of problems as it saw. 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 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 this is a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa as. the accidents are 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. and look up all of. you will see us through the muck to the. bible to me 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 we are inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off and land historically for that's why the aircraft fly solo build up and even the helicopters will fall when you sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face.

right noises terrible about they fly old a lot like nonstop. i see some crying in the middle of the night they go on a week later and some even stops coming to school. well . we're here to say that of each answer won't accept any more military bases he won't

accept any more war machines on its land street therefore we say no to all military facilities to get deanna 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 and be chained to me just a few miles away from the city's historical center which answer already hosts a u.s. military base that has that medal it home 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 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 chance of because you could say you have four people if it said three or four 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 who can place a big change from my point of view is a very good commie ok but why because the entire government the region the authorities have 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 thinks they don't have the helicopters they don't cry for airplanes and so it's purely ideological and negative by a bunch of zero people who don't do anything worthwhile. thank. goodness for two thousand and eleven yet is elected mayor of new trends and the promise of holding a referendum on a 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 chance to decide to hold an autonomous referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants things that . i mean i don't want the americans in my town and this is a chance to say out loud that it's been almost seventy years since the end of the war and we still have occupying troops in our city. 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 u.s. and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty four us it's

the bilateral agreement never make public neurotically by the italian parliament. another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. here that's another part. of. the. open the gates move you're breaking the special law on us military bases.

was here for you i don't. wonder what i'm going to walk i don't you know why we struggle like this fred you have a current you understand how we feel think we are going to get there even if they're not even if the american and japanese governments have bulletins for years is going to be similar to how we ever killed an american i don't have a problem. with your various girls have been great but you'll have planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. on this is what these bases have brought us they have oppressed us for sixty two bitter years on it kind of think they will never grow up. we realize you're only doing your job right out what ours is a historical today. we will pass this legacy on to future generations. in elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you pay

attention on the day it is taught you'll be taught that it says that. the king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace they committed abuses and usurpations and this is why was i am a god that this was a recent a clear independence from britain even to a war was. was was was was a bomb a select was hailed by many in the world as the beginning of a political phase radically different from better 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 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 will it just 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. cold out there out there so that's my land over there to dispute it imo. so not a kill hope to get it back wanted a hurry because there. are no niggers 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 back on like that look at iraq or okinawa i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace cannot touch your ideas you are. not there on this rhetoric at their. own if we all stay united in the struggle more and i'm confident we can prevail on. your ground i want that era where if we don't speak out against the fest of our lands we will never be able to change the world. article quoted it was about crime of course mature here. and we have to keep our cowboy. that's the only way we can prevail what's the. big stand. and i mean our path is one of resistance it's not terrorism.

we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what it thinks they are and to make sure that people have the freedom of movement that kids can go to school that 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 were a force no longer needed and we look forward to that day. requests any of thing else to get everything you need.

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