thanks for joining us here on our t.v. at stake a recap of the headlines socialism france saw a long time one france's presidential election beating incumbent nicolas a crazy with fifty one percent of the vote to become the country's first socialist president in seventeen years. a fugitive exiled russian oligarch a boris berezovsky puts a bounty on vladimir putin for anyone willing to detain the russian leader at the presidential inauguration on monday. protestors throw smokescreen aides and

fireworks in clashes with wide police in moscow and tea government rally with a number of opposition leaders arrested after apparently inciting crawled to defy police orders to move. up next on our t.v. our special report on the impact of u.s. military bases all over the world on the lives of people in the countries that host them stay with us for that. is this place. well how they get the money to make them and who's giving it and. to protect us from. these are all questions that somebody like obama should butt out. it just didn't happen. 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 then running the personnel through their paces and and feeding them and and so on and that is an incredibly expensive operation this is what. the president has an hour it 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 in the u.s. department of defense alone consumes is 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 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 card

a doctrine you have to president jimmy carter he said protection of the flow of persian gulf oil is a 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 these and west are united and pioneering a new front here of progress. serving the interest 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 frontier

is nothing into the trade of the world oil. one of the material that is making a truly great contribution to our modern civilization. ok. one of the reasons the reason for the primary one for the invasion of iraq is to ensure u.s. control over the major energy resources of the world the embassy which mean built inside baghdad is a city like no other embassy in history or in the world they're not building the embassy in syria and iraq in the huge basins around with an intention to leave

their building with an intention to maintain control. since two thousand and three the u.s. 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 bases created in response to an imminent threat have ended up becoming permanent jaeger garcia for example born in the context of the cold war is still operational and has played

a crucial role in the iraq war they say don't even if they are. tardy physiatrist idea that you know the ins and outs say for the people to go if they are to return they are but the thing is americans are living there and they have developed they i and i i and. are you going to head like out of the island to college and look like a military new old and i mean we can no enjoying their life so they are why should we not have the right to go on now i don't 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 sovereignty in a number 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 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 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 than so they were aggressive you know. if. you like 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 man and so when you leave off the base man

i mean you're feeling pretty good about yourself you know i mean you 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 then some i'm looking at you the wrong way you know you just not to have a lot of them you know when you know you were told 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 more wars and causing problems for the local people. because does garbage i mean if that's the case then you don't let us off the base you let us off the base there's going to be issues. i heard on the news one day about they ok now and girls had been raped by united

states military men and i was really upset over this because. i remember how we treat sort of treated the oaken 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 n.t. based. 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 ireland and i saw the bases was still here i i just couldn't believe it. it's it's it's almost like a cancer here for these people they day since the end of world war two the spaces have been here.

this is something americans should know what happens when we open bases in other people's countries what kind of problems does it saw or does it cause of 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 a fine bit of the noises i would noise it doesn't bother us at all because they're our bases but for other people it's a real problem. we're going home i don't know now this is a list of the crimes and accidents caused by the us military in okinawa because

it's the accidents are very frequent they stick it in a long. career i know these are just a few and they know it and i just didn't have time to write the most down. and look at all of the. little secrets are told the market that they're going to. buy that will do to me here is a map of the base as you can see it's right in the middle of the city.

hall. area. and all this elementary school stands only three hundred yards away from the base a bit here we are inside the so-called clear zone where the planes take off and land this got up and 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.

fighting the noise is terrible they fly old a lot of nonstop. some cry in the middle of the night they get on and get better and some even stops coming to school. well. we're here to say they have a chance to won't accept any more military bases to be better and won't accept any

more war machines on its lamps repeat god therefore we say no to all military facilities to get us 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 the chance of italy just a few miles away from the city's historical center. already hosts a u.s. military base. home to the southern european task force and one of ten major u.s. bases in italy area designated for the new base is the x. of billion 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. or 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 a helicopter crash airplanes on your side so it's purely ideological and negativism by 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 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 ever. says it will serve you well 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 though 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 u.s. if the bilateral agreement never made public nor ratified by the italian parliament .

i another truck is arriving let's try to stay together i that. i. i. i. i i. i you know that was what i say. hello i. open the gate muth you're breaking the special law on us my. basis. what if you're not going to do what i don't. wanna hear what i'm going to walk out

and do you know why we struggle like this church you have all going to come to understand how we feel think we are because they are even articulate we're not even if the american and japanese governments have bullied us for years going to kill not to have we ever killed an american i met up with. your various girls have 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 better years sundered predicts they will never grow up and we realize you're only doing your job well i don't know but ours is a historical g.-d. creator that we will pass this legacy on to future generations. who in elementary school we are taught the declaration of independence and if you're paying attention on the day it 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 a war i was. god i was a bum a selection 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 the uncertainty surrounding the fate of the us bases in iraq and the plans for 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 what it best in 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. that's about smile and over their prejudice get it imo. so not a chill i hope to get it back one 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 and that little space will let you work it out of all good and i would then

distribute them freely to the people of okinawa in the name of peace. throughout iraq at their. own if we all stay united in the struggle there are now i'm confident we can prevail. you know can i work it out there or if we don't speak out against the fact of our lands we will never be able to change the world. if you're here. and about it we have to keep our campbell in there. that's the only way we can prevail but they. have my biggest strength and. our path is one of resistance 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 out there will be a point we're ok 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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