however according to many in-depth investigations taxpayers realistically pay about two trillion dollars for the pentagon to occupy the planet with the ebb and flow of u.s. wars that began and it's important to realize that hardly ever do u.s. bases actually shut down and close or business ever anywhere think about it what is the u.s. really ever left a country it's invaded other than iraq literally kicking out american troops and forcing its bases to shut down the u.s. military still is expansive outposts in korea germany and japan you know it's easy to talk about the military industrial complex in the abstract by discussing numbers of spending troop levels or even subsequent deaths for military operations but rarely do we ever hear about what a fact is bases have on the local communities they're stationed in so today i want to zero in on one small island which you probably know very little about one that's been greatly destroyed by the u.s. military over the course of the last sixty years okinawa japan it's the largest of the okinawa and raju who islands which are cut off from japan's mainland during

world war two while the u.s. was deliberating over whether to engage in a four ground assault on japan it invaded okinawa after the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in decimation of ninety percent of the tropical islands infrastructure the us use the island as a staging area soon after the us dropped two nuclear bombs on mainland japan and the war ended but sovereignty wasn't fully restored to that country until nine hundred seventy two but even after that the island of okinawa has been kept under what is essentially a u.s. military dictatorship until this very day the island was a perfect little ipad for america's next two wars in asia korea and vietnam and given the u.s. as recent asia pivot okinawa is still proving its usefulness according to author chalmers johnson in his book blowback okinawa is host to about thirty eight american bases which occupy twenty percent of its land twenty eight thousand u.s. troops live there plus an equal number of dio decent the. johnson notes that quote

there is nothing particularly unusual about this manifestation of american military imperialism in okinawa except for its concentration it continues to say that the presence of these bases unavoidably usurps distorts or subverts whatever institutions of democratic government may exist within the host society obviously tens of thousands of young americans immersed into a foreign culture that they are completely ignorant of is only going to breed endless problems the sixty year military occupation has been rife with sexual assaults robbery hit and runs and arson committed by the brave soldiers who claim that they're there to protect the japanese people and to make matters worse these problems are only exacerbated by the status of the armed forces agreement or sofa a treaty that essentially gives the us total immunity from crimes committed on japanese soil one of the things so far laos for is the us military to pollute anything of a responsibility from cleaning it up after the vietnam war thirteen thousand tons

of poison gas including sarah and lee from military storage bases on the island causing environmental destruction that still prevails today. but perhaps the greatest and justice of all of the crimes against humanity which are committed with almost total immunity to see the crimes taking place on okinawa that a rate of almost four times the amount taking place in other military towns all over the world in fact a heinous murder or brutal rape takes place almost twice a month there. yet despite this horrific record every time there is a sexually violent crime committed the u.s. military refuses to turn over the suspect until they're indicted by a japanese court a process so mired in bureaucracy that it's rarely ever done the only time these service members are handed over is when widespread demonstrations pressure the government to do so like in one thousand nine hundred five when three military men abducted and repeatedly gang raped a twelve year old okinawan girl and then were seen lounging by their base pool the

protests that followed that incident shook tokyo and washington and they delayed their plans to build a brand new base on the island because of fear of recruits repercussion from the community that is until now. you see yet another base is set to be built there but this time in an ecological preserve small fishing village that's home to an endangered marine life and coral reef and while the base has been approved it's currently being stalled at the local level because of the villages mayor and his constituents who vehemently oppose the construction so what's washington doing in response well plotting to get the mayor out of power of course but with the mounting pressure from the citizens of the island the u.s. military is finally agreed to start the process of removing nine thousand marines but get this it will take one me years to do so and it doesn't even begin to compensate for the catastrophic damage that's already been done the disregard for life and the ultimate destruction of

a homeland so at this point there's really no initiative the u.s. could take to make things right it's just too little too late. you may be familiar with those naked fruit juice bottles at your grocery store the ones that are being marketed as all natural and on g.m.o. well make it as. just agreed to settle a nine million dollar class action lawsuit for false labeling as it turns out those wholesome fruit smoothies include eleven chemical additives including one derived from formaldehyde shouldn't come as any surprise though considering how naked juice is owned by i have to see a company that's no stranger to lawsuits over deceptive marketing pepsi also happens to be one of the ten corporations in the world that control nearly every product we consume take a look at this chart you'll notice that the list also includes coca-cola johnson

and johnson kellogg's and nestle the reach of these corporations have a number of brands they own is staggering and while many people hold these food giants in high regard trusting them because of their sheer volume and reach the truth is that many of these mega corporations have a dark side one that consists of deception propaganda and the lave labor all for one bottom line profit well i've compiled what i think are some of the worst corporations in terms of social responsibility right now and here to help me break it all down i'm joined by b.t.s. producer man mel got up oh no we're going on man of the hour you know well how do you get on so many talk a little bit more before we even get into all this insanity about this lawsuit from against naked and have seen poor naked. feel really is this actually is as far as lawsuits go really worked out to these advantage here a class action lawsuits nine million dollars they get to settle the all they have to do is take all natural out of the name of the brand they get to keep able to

continue labeling it non g.m.o. even though it's been proven that there's eleven like you mentioned eleven chemical additives including one that is a g.m.o. strain of this is like a genetically modified soybean it's called fiber sold to it's and you can't even digest this stuff so i mean it's really terrible and it's almost across the board this isn't the only company that's doing this and so yeah i think that this is this is really kind of kind of horrible and more more symbolic of the way that all of these companies are kind of getting away with not being not. i mean to label anything yeah and i think you make a good point when you say that once they just settle they can still maintain that kind of packaging the deceptive marketing and really no one really knows about this last guy that may be vitamins but if i can say i didn't have i don't you know me from l.a. to hollywood out of that i mean so you have people are still going to buy it thinking that it's the healthy alternative it's a really dangerous and it's overpriced and sort of these other similar lawsuits going on yeah you know we mentioned that you know pepsi is one of the big ten that

includes kraft foods coca-cola and all these it was just mentioned a few kraft is going through a similar lawsuit over the word wholesome and blaming principles of little bit silly kellogg's coffee cereals had similar issues in two thousand and eleven and then now again in two thousand and thirteen over finding synthetic materials inside of inside of their foods of course kashi we've seen all the commercials it's the best stuff in the world and that might be snapple i don't know but she does the same thing that markets itself and people wearing togas going on canoes doing all this crazy stuff and that is just kind of shows you the p.r. machine beyond behind the speaking of p.r. machine let's talk about nestle one of the largest companies in the world i think the largest group coming in the world other than their chocolate slave labor they are one of the largest water bottling manufacturers in the planet and you know before i said some stuff about nestle we actually got a video response from an android replicant working for nestle in front of this

beautiful. flag and lake and i think she said i mean i really don't know what you're hearing that's on her by yeah anthropomorphize into the i'm actually i'm actually sad that you stop sending videos i thought that there was a break in the. station really. no matter i wanted to get on this show as the good old stephanie but that shows you how strong their p.r. machine really is i mean the video when i first put it out i got an immediate response i mean they have a whole team just doing damage to. on their image and then when you put out this other video kind of not one we got a video response i mean they have a full on p.r. department is that something that's the thing about deceptive marketing and journalism's ugly sister which is p.r. right it only affects a few people you're deceptive about something it's really going to affect the people that are you know activists against you moe's and the people that might be allergic to something like soybeans and if you see that you have no sawyer no products it's not a label then there's something called you know and it's like the shock that people

can go with this is this is serious though and i think that. a lot of these companies that are touted as being oh these are the symbol of what a company should be like nestle nestle is that it's amazing that people actually revered nestle as being a symbol of what corporations should be on really their very irresponsible my god yeah and number that we saw that list earlier and it was c.n.n. economics list of the top ten most i don't know i wasn't most socially responsible companies because i am most liked most admired company c.n.n. money article that show the most admired companies you get companies on there like c.n.n. and whole foods and we know that whole foods thing to be admired that was led found in some of the candy to prove that they're producing along with trader joe's but i mean the converse of the and this is something that you found that you showed me earlier was that you know we look at into a list that says one of the worst companies some of those same companies that are in the best lists are also in the worst and you see it a lot when actual consumers are data mining what they find to be the worst socially responsible companies that when you see like an economics website saying well these

are the best companies because it's really all about the bottom line about money and so you have seen nestle raping the planet i mean making millions of percent increase on this on extract in the water out of times of drought bottling you know putting waste water that's essentially free and the company's chairman has already kind of made it very clear that he supports the privatization of of water so i mean i don't know what more you can say i think what we can expect next is nestle to bottle air no you know what a lot of charged. and they were sent because. maybe they won't charge for the exhale but let's talk about some other companies that we find to be right and if you look at this list that we kind of were trying to come out of the just a little bit yeah it's a little arbitrary because at any point in time any one of these companies like apple or b.p. could be put on the worst list you know last year remember hearing about apple in the foxconn. yeah that was a. whole list of those that were going on but i think that this year it really is

wal-mart that's going to be taking market is the worst company really about and i think d.c. had some local news to where wal-mart was trying to push itself into d.c. and they refused to pay anymore the minimum wage i mean this is been contentious for years now wal-mart trying to come in to d.c. and now finally they were able to get themselves a spot somewhere in the northeast part of the city and now this news that they're not going to be paying more than the minimum wage and that's kind of got people up in arms and so it's not looking like wal-mart is going to make it into the into the city but beyond that beyond just you know when it comes to labor here in the united states there are kind of reaction to that bangladesh is really what i think makes this really horrible company and what they did was they were willing to sign onto the international agreement that would have set those standards so that you know that wouldn't happen again and so they said leave it to us to kind of regulate ourselves and we're going to make sure that that doesn't cause us largest sexual discrimination lawsuit in history against wal-mart on top of that the way that they

treat their employees here is shocking but hey you got tom cruise and crew never they over even say oh you know this is the best we can do you get a bigger hollywood a scientologist on there you can i guess you can sell anything out many will have to go over the rest of this list another time or at a time thank you so much manual. time. and that's going to do it for us here you guys in d.c. thanks for watching and have a great i will see right back here tomorrow. choose your language. because we know if they feel some of us. choose to use the consensus you can. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that impact your life choose be access to your office who.

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