key issue is that similar to him it is usually a signature on the mark with the chance to meet the middle east and beyond what is the condition of the arab spring our humanitarian interventions are very good what about the what. about this is our sham these are the biggest stories of the week as those who are committing gains are resoundingly train last sunday's presidential election the protest movement loses momentum because of internal structures and a lack of clear goals and. a row over the syrian crisis as russia and the arab league come to an agreement over how to stop the violence in the country that there are still those trying to poke sticks of its parts of the city. on three days on the pfizer open to news to launch airstrikes in gaza killing more than

a dozen in the worst violence in the region has seen in a get. out next hour special report standing army looks at how american armed forces 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 we finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and with us 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 in forty 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.

we have different presentations or sometimes bands that come or even more 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 streets was parties this other events that have been here at the center as well yet they had they have solved the last. thing. in the early twenty first century military bases a 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 acknowledge 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 gotta respect. the movies that we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the quality of the unity for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base bases on the number there the media . the point of production knows how much nation most people don't understand the bases exist i don't want to stand the functions of the voter bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people to gauge with things like

this war in iraq. question of torture thanks for that immediately outrage them these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability of. doing webcams back home. to focus on war and not war preparations 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 workfare there's a saying that goes when soldiers come war comes. to feel

. the feet . in the past when the american soldiers came during this. way.

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 but it's obvious now of course there are. great or 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's nothing wrong in lending into 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 and this photograph it says give me back my lad it was 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 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 utra 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 thirty five thousand soldiers. well aware of the growing tension between the u.s. 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 wires could hurt you worse than a terrible thunder 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 it was all entirely bundled up and shipped out in order to as the u.s. navy put it sanitize the borders the u.s. wanted a base an indian ocean other will cost because of the cold war to go garcia has the most wonderful you know. that would really be the ideal place for

a base so we were at. a wrong place if you know the wrong place at that time because our place was the best place for a the more sophisticated us than you can base outside of the us in the day in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 malicious 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've been 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 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 thousand nine hundred one

above all how fast our country moved united 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 limited any basis for this global apparatus there was no further reason for it it was irrelevant. and 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 were given 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 was for a while it was drugs we had a war on drugs we then became terrorism and that was

a very good substitute in the minds of our lead is sometimes her brain a big think sometimes they're afraid of very little rock but now to something else about you that i don't think you quite understand the only black man 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 proud. same book called in search of enemies in which he identified different areas and the u.s. 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 i do not. know what they were. a network of bases means that you

have at your fingertips if you are 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 peace is being the american dream once we were launched upon them we would never look back and. always find a pretext to attack another. targeting is an effort to process many things are considered we have advanced weapon systems with perception mean nations 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 and east asia. the true consequences of this policy would be seen only ten years later in two thousand and one osama bin laden cited 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 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 nine hundred ninety one united states wound up with military bases in saudi arabia kuwait bahrain our oman and united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia nine hundred eighty nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay area garia macedonia hungary bosnia and croatia following a swami to afghanistan in two thousand and one into the us round up with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and she will surely follow us barmy get invasion of iraq in two

thousand and three and 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 worst 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. some of the things that the. swiss are going. to want to just miss benette first pursuing the new gun controls bailey says you can see again by one being on a first quite a long time and right at that age is like well it would pay for college if

something i wanted to do for a long time and done students active either 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 supplied 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 it. falling apart by the sound bite of a 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 pretend that have base to the islands of a u.s. territory the move though is tied to the construction of

a new strip on the eastern coast of okinawa in himachal bay 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 to the local but only if they accept to give up more land elsewhere on the items. this is an ideal habitat for the jew gongs we have to do all we can to take care of it. the reef is right here. it protects the bay and enables the seagrass that we do go. with. this is come schwab military base they put in the us establishment in the midst of world war two. the pound at the thought 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 and without it. they got enough of a look at it go on and on will pick. the us takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment the more so. since many rare species live here this was a very serious consequences of the money all ords able. to go into an organ now or are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia what if the. other and there are less than fifty left.

i sat in front of cum swelled for one year from morning to night nor new day three i held up a sign saying no new basis from a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me it will rise back to the fact that they offered me for breakfast. but they were so young that.

i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people. with. you know your precious dollars yearly as kids are trained to kill that we must stop less and we believe we can prevent the construction of these telepaths with our actions i would look to obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that are going. on you could have. a lot of challenges but we also had 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 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 our 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 a standing army or 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 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 baten attention or may says it is a man is a sacrilegious.