we want to present. something real. front heads to the polls in a runoff but which rule defined whether an equal downs like crazy will be the latest a unity that swept from he's opposed by the crippling debt crisis. major presidential campaigns mob by escalating violence as protests against the military religious turn from being peaceful and and ethnic russians. also russia's north caucuses is wrong by twin terror attacks on the public in the republic of dagestan that left thirteen people dead and more than one hundred injured. plus an anti-government rallies expected in moscow a day before it led to a putin takes over from getting treated better as russia's president up next it's our special report.

beginning in the 1980's the belief is slowly taking over the world that mere liberal globalisation with its built in self regulating mechanisms would finally do away with old institutions like the state and the military and would usher the planet into a new era of relative peace and prosperity free trade 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

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. when we have different presentations or sometimes bands that come or even will be. 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 there's christmas parties there's other events that happened here at the center as well yeah 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 build when you look at the pentagon's website and their public information they acknowledged 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 got a perspective in this. movie the movies that

we have in the movies are free. the unit of empire in the classic european empires was the colony. the unit for the american empire is not the colony it's the military base bases are the number they're. the point of projection how on mentioned most people don't understand that the bases exist i don't understand the functions of the filter bases and and it's much frankly it's much easier for people to engage with things like. war in iraq. question of torture or things that immediately outrage them these are internet stations where soldiers can not only check the internet but they also have the capability. doing webcams that. you can go in. 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. to feed . feed

. in the past when the american soldiers came. 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 are. both or i feel a great pain in my heart because our lands are being used to kill people who are but if a clerk 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. but that's an art but i must photograph it says give me back my land it's the.

world war two mock 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 under 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

due to 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 about me. when the back 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 deal 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 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 they were 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 indian ocean at all cost because of the cornwall diego garcia has the most wonderful you know log. 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 our place was the best place for the most sophisticated us than you can base outside of the u.s. in the u.k.

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 too 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 live scattered between more rishis in 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 islands which appellant their right of return. we had to suffer exile because of for defense but poses and we've been surprise and surprise needs to be exiled from your homeland for the defense of the west. to

a substantial degree in 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 had after the collapse of the soviet union that 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 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 while for a while it was drugs we had a war on drugs with then came 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 out but know that something else about you know that i don't think you quite understand me what's planned 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 pro. 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. i don't 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 the petrol war there's always somebody we don't like and somebody who must be stopped perpetual war for potential peace is being the american dream once we were launched upon them we

would never look back and we will always find a pretext to attack an enemy. targeting is an effort to process many thanks for considering we have advanced weapon systems with perception munitions and we take care in matching the appropriate ordnance to produce the desired effect on a 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 much 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 who some of 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 birth 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 us bombing of iraq in one thousand nine hundred one the united states wound up with military bases in

saudi arabia kuwait bahrain our oman and the united arab emirates following its bombing of yugoslavia and then nine hundred eighty nine the us wound up with military bases in kosovo or bay area garia macedonia hungary bosnia and croatia following us valma go up jonathan in two thousand and one into the us wound up with military bases in afghanistan pakistan kazakhstan uzbekistan tajikistan kurdistan georgia yemen and djibouti following its bombing get into version of iraq in two thousand and three 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

wars themselves as convenient opportunities to station the bases and to have a more. permanent presence in countries such as he rocks such as afghanistan such as kosovo. so have some with. what we have and here is video games.

and. some of the things that go. with it and with two one to five times first binet first consume a new gun controls daily. you can see again by me i want to be in the army for quite a long time and made at that age as it will give way to pay for college get something i want to do for a long time and join students active i had 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 deployed to iraq or afghanistan. about to

become nervous but i'm ready if i get called to go. think it be another saving experience to make. fun of. down by the sun. 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 time basis to the island of u.s. territory. the move though is tied to the construction of a new ass trip on the eastern coast of okinawa in hindalco bay the project follows the decision to expand the jungle warfare training center in 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.

new york about. this is an ideal habitat for the do gongs that we have to do all we can to take care of it. the reef is right here. to protect the bay and enables the sea grass that do go easy to type flourish. where they're going to. do this is come swab a military base that. the u.s. established in the midst of world war two this. wanted to go to. that now they want to destroy two kilometers of henoch obeying. all the way to or a bay and build a floating airport and without that they've got. a lot going and they go on and on will. take you know. the u.s.

takes no responsibility for its impact on people or the environment from work. since many rare species live here this would have very serious consequences you know once you. can now or are the only ones in the whole of eastern asia. and there are less than fifty laugh. about it jim.

i sat in front of cum swab for one year from morning to night nor knew before i held up a sign saying no new basis so that a lot of soldiers came out to talk to me you know it all has got to get back that they offer me hamburgers for breakfast in the mall so i'm out. there and they were so young that i guess you know what i mean i couldn't believe they would be sent to iraq to murder other people. all. of them with. you going up i thought to hear these kids are trained to kill we must stop us and

we believe we can prevent the construction of these hello pads with our actions when you're obviously we only resort to peaceful means of protest that a vote. five hundred your group of. a lot of challenges but 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 than all of you so thank you and thanks to your families thanks for the service and the sacrifice and thanks for making a difference every day. by

militarism 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 eighty's or as the roman republic slowly inadvertently thoughtlessly acquired themselves an empire they began to realize they needed standing armies 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 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 basic inattention or maces it is a hand in the shack. it

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