call me. old. street. dot com. welcome back this is our c.n.n. these are the biggest stories of the week. as leisure reversing gains a landslide victory in last week's presidential election may chime just a lie ahead for the new leader a while eternal fractures and a lot of clear goals leave the opposition room and increasingly show their support and rise up to the. pope for the syrian crisis as russia and the arab league come to an agreement over how to stop one is a country for the rest of those trying to hold stakes or they start to see.

three zero pinching ways to launch air strikes in gaza hit it seventeen people and three days it was as i just heard and saw all the trees with the sides and it is the worst the region has seen. after next it's our special report a standing army looks at how american armed forces shape the lives of millions in the countries where that base. is this place. with a lake on board well how they get the money to make them and who's giving it all and what to protect us from what these are all questions that somebody like obama should have been asking was. it just didn't happen in the empire it was it was designed. and those bases just came along but i can know some terrible crimes.

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 when have been false 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 and running the personnel for their cases 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 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 those out of control. the united states consumes one fourth of the world's oil to every day more than any other country far more than any other country the u.s. department of defense alone consumes this much petroleum is sweet and does on a daily basis that's a huge amount that has to be procured day 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 the 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 you have 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 that policy. and west are united and pioneering a new round 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 run dear

is nothing 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 the reason for the primary one for an invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control over of the major energy resources of the world in the embassy which means build inside baghdad as a city like no other embassy in history of the world they're not building the embassy. in syria iran can make huge police around with an intentionally they're

building with an 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 side 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. also in fact bases created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent jega syria for example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played

a crucial role in the iraq war and the stage and even. a nice tidy few city stadium thought you know the island is a nice 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 are united and i had one headlight the island you call it nuclei clearly two new new old an american know and showing their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on all ireland 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. patients countries looser suffers in the. for of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thickness of the sofa the status 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 will have 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 the not and they're not tried under the law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they're just put 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 know a. lot . and you're late 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 and so when you really walk the

basement i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you feel like you're a tough guy you could get 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 me the wrong way you know use not to have you know when you know you were sold your marine i mean they like that stuff the military likes that stuff they may say well we don't want our guys breaking local borders are causing problems for the local people. as does garbage i mean if that. the case didn't you don't let us off the base you let us off the base it is 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 okinawan people when i was here as a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some my peace activists got 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's doing piecework now in america and so they invited me to come back to do so we took 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 were still here i just couldn't believe it. it's. it's almost like a cancer here for these people they 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 kind. what kind of problems does 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 that 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 cross our base is a find it 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. they're going oh my goodness 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 this ticket and all. these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the moment down. and look at all of. course leaders all the muppets that there is a. baby here is a map of the base as you can see and it's right in the middle of the city. area

. of. 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 this go pretty quickly that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters will call the new guard 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 go on and put in some even stops common just cool. 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 street god therefore we say no to all

military facilities we 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 and to change it to me just a few miles away from the cities historical center. already hosts a us military base because that might add that when it come to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy area designated for the new base is the next of billion an approach that. 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 it said three of whom 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 are

complacent from my point of view is a dark economy ok but why because the italian 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 don't have tanks they don't have helicopters they don't crowd. airplanes so it's purely ideological and they can buy a bunch of people who don't do anything and a worthless. in april two thousand and eleven he had his 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 chancellor decide to hold an

autonomous referendum and on october fifth ninety five percent of the participants folks against in our place. 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 u.s. and host nations in italy's case this is the one nine hundred fifty four us kitchen bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian parliament.

i. another truck is arriving let's try to stay together. that's another part. open the gates move you're breaking the special law on us military bases. what you're going to do

a couple. hundred yards out of the you want to do you know why we struggle like this president is going to come to understand how we feel free we are going to go there and you're a victim we're not even if the american and japanese governments have bulletins for years we ever killed an american i don't know. if your various girls have been great but planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. this is what these bases have brought us to have a presence for sixty two bitter years on it kind of think they will never grow up. i know we realize you're only doing your job i don't know but ours is a historical truth a creator we will pass this legacy on to future generations. i'll even elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention all that is taught he'll be taught that it says that. the

king george the third kept among us standing armies in times of peace that committed abuses and usurpations of missiles and i was a him make up that this was a reason to declare independence from britain even to go to war was. was was was it was the bomber's election 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 testing 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. there are thoughts about smile and over there but it is good imo. so not to chill i hope to go back one day. support better. in the net i do use the land to grow lots of white radish take on what we want to last so that i could grow millions of them

and not little space more knowledge i will not get you a get around oh ok man i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace or not at your ideas your. temperament their army throughout iraq at their. own if we all stay united in the struggle and i'm confident we can prevail. you cannot i won't let her or if we don't speak out against the first of our lands we will never be able to change the world. our data to what it was kind of mature here. and on about how we have to keep our count and their. values the only way we can prevail but what's the. biggest strength. and how do you know our path is one of resistance not terrorism.

we're here to provide a safe and secure environment for everybody regardless of what i think that they are and to make sure that people have the freedom of movement to 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 out there will be a point where k. four is no longer needed and we look forward to that day. for the questions and you have thing else to get everything you needed.

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