the stories that shaped the week here on archie what he reported confirmed as russia's president elect after securing a comfortable win in the polls but rather believe tough challenges for the new leader lie ahead. the election draws thousands to russia's streets rallying for and against they are problems with the opposition movement facing a test for support i mean accusations of failed expectations. the arab league season i was russia on how serious crisis should be ended amid growing calls for foreign intervention it fears it could lead to further bloodshed. and greece receives a cold shower from rays agencies after it finally seems a debt deal with private investors declaring the country and default.

standing but in no way still next week's floor of the web of u.s. military bases spanning across the globe in our special report. beginning in the 1980's the belief has slowly taken 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 would assure the planet into an era of relative peace and prosperity free trade will bring on a great depression nine eleven and the current economic crisis could shown that belief 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 pay structure of course today these amount to seven hundred sixteen in 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 crises and military

expansion related in some way. we have different friends and stations or sometimes bands that come or even will be had. challenge night if we have people that want to show off their talent we have a stage. we general sorts of things here from a halloween party this christmas parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well you know they had they have solved the last. thing. 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 get 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've got to start. with the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the calling. the unity for the american empire is not a colony it's the military base bases are there. other than your. point of projection how much mentioned most people don't understand the bases exist. or stand the functions of military bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people to engage with things like. war in iraq.

question of torture things that immediately outrage them these are internet stations for soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of. and webcams are. going. to focus on war and not war preparation is to 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. you feel if you.

feel. in the past when the american soldiers came we would ring this bell to scare them away. what.

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 or 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 person or person unless photograph it says give me back my lad it's enough that. thanks. to 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 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. good or bad or feel

the atomic bomb why it's good for 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 jericho 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 players the u.s. wanted a base and yet it was not on cost because of the cold war people garcia has

a most wonderful you know lug. that would really be the ideal place for a base so we were at. a wrong place if you know of the wrong place at that time because a place was the best place for oil the more sophisticated us than you could base outside of the us and the gear 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. diego garcia exiles today have scattered between militias and the united kingdom where for years they have been fighting a legal battle to return to their island in two thousand and eight though the house

of lords overruled all the cases previously won by the islanders which upheld their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense purposes and we need surprise and surprise needs to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to a substantial degree and one form 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 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 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 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 what we've been prophesying to play a game we learned 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 was for

a while there was drugs we had a war on drugs with them became terrorism and that was a very good substitute in the minds of our leaders sometimes her brain i'm thinking sometimes they're afraid of very little lot but notice something else about you 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 john stockwell a former cia agent wrote i think a very. same book called in search of enemies in which he identified different areas in the us a 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. and got. what they were. a network of bases means that you have your

finger tips if you are the emperor of the west of the means of. there's always somebody we don't light and somebody who must be stopped from petrol. for petrol pieces being the american dream once we were launched upon them we would never look back and we were always find a pretext to attack another. targeting is an intricate process many thanks are considered 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. for. 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 in europe and the station. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later in two thousand and one who sum up a lot 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 birth of a 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 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 in one thousand nine hundred one united states round up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain kater our oman and united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia and then nine hundred ninety nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo mania area macedonia hungary. and croatia following us were only go up garrison in two thousand and one into the us round out with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and you the following us barmy get invasion of iraq in two thousand the fray 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 wars 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 that's.

what we have in here is video games. and. some of the things that the. swiss are going. to launch a five plus has been at first but soon you trolls daily so you can see again by me one of the first quite

a long time and made that ages that will give way pay for college get something i want to do for a long time and tons do is active i never wanted this job so i had to be infantry for me something i could be moving around constantly doing something and if 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. make it be enough to say the experience on the. phone to cut down but not. well the u.s. japan security alliance is the cornerstone of america's defense posture in the asia pacific and the united states go through 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 base to the items of u.s. territory. the move though is tied to the construction of

a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa. 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 island. we want this is an ideal habitat for the do gongs we have to do all we can to take care of it and the reef is right here. it protects the bay and enables the seagrass that do go easy to take flourish. where they're going to. this is come swab military base. the u.s. established it in the midst of world war two they're. going to go to

a bit of it. but now they want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obey. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport that they're. not all of it oh well i don't know but i think you know. 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. or would have all. been ok now or are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of comes wild 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 ill has got a ticket they offer me hamburgers for breakfast in the mall and. they were

so young that. i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people . if you know you going up like they want to hear these kids are trained to kill we must stop less and we believe we can prevent the construction of these hello pads with our actions when looked at obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are. found under your coat 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 in

advancing our interests we have nobody better than all of you so thank you and thanks to your families thanks to the service and the sacrifice and thanks for making a difference everything. by not presume 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 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 any sort 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 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 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. attention elevated attention are made it to fit there is a shackle

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