veiling the hidden strategies behind hundreds of the u.s. military bases around the world. this place who owns general electric they make allen bombs well how they get the money to make them and who's giving it and why to protect us from. these are all questions that somebody like obama should have been asking. it just didn't happen the empire it was it was designed and those bases just came along like you know some terrible cancer. 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 kadena air force base every

single day involved just that one base in that one country on one day one have been fault 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. president eisenhower 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. 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 close to out of control. in 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 it has to. be procured day 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 string. 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 a carta doctrine after 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 that end 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 where are you in my head and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest of the saudi arab. serving the interest of the united states. and demonstrating the high quality of the american system of free enterprise. system which from this new frontier is coming into the brain of the world oil. one of the material that is making the truly great contribution to our modern civilization.

and. one of the reasons the reason in fact the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure us control over the major energy resources of the world the embassy which means people inside baghdad it is a city like no other embassy in history or in the world they're not building the embassy. in syria rank in the huge basins around with an intention to leave their 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 u.s. 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 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 fear that iraq may be used as a launching pad for future wars in the region. often in fact basis created. response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent jeggo garcia for example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played a crucial role in the iraq will be stayed to. see beauty steady and you know the ins and outs say. that people are to go if they are to return and they are but the thing is americans are living they are paying to

they have to follow they i and i and i you going head like the island with nuclear i clearly told you new old and i'm erica no enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on now iran 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.

by hosting u.s. bases countries lose their software to you in a number of ways you can do a very interesting kind of study in terms of the thickness of the so for 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 what kind of political powers what happens when u.s. soldiers. commit crimes in these countries and when you find is that the countries that have less power or leverage in relationship to 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 law of the host nation other not put into prisons in the host nation often they're just brought 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. a. lot. you know like you're like shot up which steroids you know i mean you're working out every day and you've got guns you've got stuff man and so when you leave off the base man 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 and getting kind of drunk and in some i'm looking at you the wrong way you know you does not you know when you know you were sold you're 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 and causing problems for the local people. as does garbage i mean if that's the case then you don't let us off the base you lose hope debased 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 really upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated d.-o. can only people when i was here as a set as an eighteen year old and eventually some of 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 let 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 a week of lectures so that was 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 i just couldn't believe it. 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 the americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's country what kind of problems does it stop or does it cause more problems and i think it does i think people. 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 for us bases are 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 me i don't know i know this is a list of the crimes accidents caused by the u.s. military in okinawa because it's the accidents are very frequent distributed along. these are just a few minutes and i just didn't have time to write the mode down. on

a. little secret. here is a map of the base as you can see and it's right to do middle of the city. i . mean.

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. that's why the aircraft fly solo and even the helicopters little problem you guys sometimes they are so close we can see the pilots face. to face the noise is terrible they fly old a lot like nonstop. some crying in the middle of the night. and some even stops coming to school.

that. we're here to say they have a chance oh won't accept any more military bases pretty moderate under won't accept any more more. or machines on it slams three feet up therefore we say no to all military facilities to get beyond it to those that come in arms we say go home. in two thousand and seven the u.s. revealed its plans for a new military base in detained italy just

a few miles away from the city's historical center. already hosts a u.s. military base the. 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 x. of indian airport. the plans for the new base include forty eight buildings over twenty acres of land i couldn't give a damn about the sensor because if it said you have four people it said three of 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 a complacent big from my point of view is a dirty commie ok but why because the italian government to reach and 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 tanks they don't have the helicopters they don't crash airplanes on your side so it's purely ideological and negativism by a bunch of zero people who don't do anything in a worthless. in april two thousand a key live and yet is elected mayor of beach and so the promise of holding a referendum on the new base. it 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 photo against in a place that. is . i mean yeah 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 it's the bilateral agreement never make public nor ratified by the italian parliament. i. i another truck is arriving let's try to stay together i know that. i.

think it was what i say. hello i. open the gate muth you're breaking the special law on us. basis. what you're not going to do what i don't. wanna hear what i'm a very well god do you know why we struggle like this treasure have overcome do you understand how we feel free we are going to go there and you know not to care we're not even if the american and japanese governments have believed us for years for addiction to have we ever killed an american i mean that what broke up. your

various girls had been raped of other planes and helicopters have repeatedly crashed. one of this is what these bases have brought us they have oppressed us for sixty two bitter years sun it predicts they will never grow up on it we realize you're only doing your job well i don't know but ours is a historical today. we will pass this legacy on to future generations. elementary school you're taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day that is taught you'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 a war i was. i

was about his election law 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 uncertainty 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 perpetuate us hegemony over the rest of the world. the us must now choose when it destine 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. you know it as to that's my learned over there at the desk at a mall. so not to chill i hope to get back one a day. in the net i do use the land to grow lots of white radish take on what we don't want in us so that i could grow millions of them in that little space more knowledge i can let it work it out of all good and i would then distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace cannot touch your ideas you have. their moment there are mr erakat the. more nice we all stay united in the struggle the more and i'm confident we can prevail. you know can

i work together or if we don't speak out against the fact of our lands we will never be able to change the world. our data thought it would come of it you're here. with me and we have to keep our camp and. that's the only way we can prevail but they was the. biggest strength. 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 if that group they are in 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 where k. for is no longer needed and we look forward to that day. the questions any of thing else just get everything you needed.

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in moscow a very similar atmosphere as the london riots of two thousand and eleven however as you can see protesters are throwing smoke grenades and fireworks and clashes with riot police at an anti-government rally with a number of opposition leaders arrested after apparently inciting crowds to defy police orders to move. incumbent nicolas sarkozy on rival francois hollande face off in france is a presidential election the end of a bitter battle that could redefine the country's role on the world stage. and a leading human rights activist from bahrain is arrested days before r.t.d. is to air his interview with julian assaults in which he spoke of the violent crackdown on protesters in his own country.