just about dead and they were all black and it didn't burn from any off i watched as far as i could walk before the bodies were show thick i could walk any further and look down at my feet. and i saw a young woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring and i was looking at my sister. when i looked into his eyes and it was all lies or was a lie and i suspect that everything i had ever been taught was a lie. my life completely radically changed. i do not know why i am here. i was in somebody else's village nine thousand miles from my farming village in upstate new york if. are they doing there or we doing there.

i want to form our villages that we saw the same. then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not p.c. . these are mother. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in from the sea. i said i was on the wrong side. i said how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side. valedictorian honor society student council. all conference athlete. who did everything right. and. it's all wrong.

why must this nation. has already received and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. we fight because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all this. training regime to leave all the fears that there are enemies out there. and charge to protect ourself from human beings and it really is we were the enemy . during bryant's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. brian the lord is his commanders about atrocities he

had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. to go to a country that we knew nothing about committing genocide trying to kill people with our. people. much more two of. the officers will. be of the people born on the fourth of july like brian run kovac received the bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam. even though. i was paralyzed in viet nam in many ways i see

that it was a blessing in disguise i have been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war. of an understanding and compassion respecting the lives of each and every human being how many more bombs are we going to have to drop how many more people are going to have to die we've got to profoundly change i turn in my bronx barack to work hard i lock my leg in vietnam am i totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm stuck to what they've got going until i stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop all. night states wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. then he started. i know we were in the

course of dropping many times the top of world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success. and felt that we should get out of concealment of this information for twenty five years has not led to the deaths of fifty thousand americans and several hundred thousand vietnamese in the last few years a couple of million over twenty years of this involvement. and i think the odds have been weighted in favor of secrecy the classified department of defense files revealed that since one thousand nine hundred forty five presidents truman eisenhower kennedy and johnson had misled congress and the public about unconstitutional military actions those beginning in the one nine hundred sixty s. included secret raids on cambodia and north vietnam. in the new. much the same way. was continuing the war while presenting to the public that he

was on the process of getting out and we speak of america's priorities the first priority must always be peace for america and the word. revelation of the secret pentagon documents for street protests and anger spread across the country decorated war heroes and civilians marched together protesting the unconstitutional undeclared war asked the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty one. ever since the end of world war two us presidents have authorized the illegal and unconstitutional wars of aggression. according to the us constitution only congress can declare war the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government has overthrown sixty

democratically elected governments dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions die in these undeclared wars. i was just a kid probably seventy years old and i was looking at. pictures and a look at the earth war. i said to myself what a crazy way to try to solve it. and as the years are gone by i. became even more can vent that that seven year old. was right fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. camus common around president reagan. turns his focus to the resource rich

countries of central and south america central america problems do directly affect the security and it will be. and central america is much closer to the united states than many of the trouble spots the concerns we knew but ready. to change the system because for one hundred years to those who is safe and three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been a tremendous source for their nose to for forty years the united states received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the us government supported the dictatorship of the some most of. the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one

thousand nine hundred seventy nine the samosa those were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one nine hundred eighty two. president reagan's plans to overthrow the nicaraguan government congress passed the boland amendment which prohibited u.s. military aid to the contras one thousand nine hundred four daniel ortega was elected democratically government implemented new social services for providing free education health care and land reform. socialist policies and economic aid received from the soviet union to start a covert war using the national security council the administration sent secret to aid to the mercenary soldiers known as the contents. of. this. by

the passage of the boland amendment the arming and support of the contras became the most ambitious paramilitary and political action mounted by the cia since vietnam. or changes new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help. we've begun with the request of no no or tell us what to bring people down she says look i don't care who you bring don't bring down republicans democrats but we want people to know. your country the spending our country. back skies are fine it will survive until they say much of the allied truth let's take it easy this is a central plank support diet goodness kind of problem right now so stop the.

politicians to do something to them. they put themselves on the line they did accept the reject. so when you want to be president or injury or somehow want to. have to go right to be cross with the wife of the forty three of them or can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters of the hottest. first city. when the old maid just manufactured two cents instead of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round lifts only the one percent. that's nothing.

to ignore middle of the room six. million real new. polls. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter us is over one trillion dollars and more than ten white collar crimes happen each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you want to be all for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only numbers you need to remember is one to one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom bust. when

a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it means no in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict respond dennison the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying there's just no way to hadn't been that we were even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in saying. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. in a world of big partisan movie laws and conspiracy it's time to wake. to

dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door. and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. and. let's lift it up in. the. me.

i knew that other us americans were going to get our way out and i'm serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in iraq one of their we come home wounded speak in their churches right up the and so on reagan was forced to admit that the us was actively working to overthrow ortega's democratically elected government. to gain political support to the president presented the contras as a people's democratic movement as a condition of our aid i would insist on civilian control over all military forces that no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid to go only to those committed to democratic principles is. what i want to nag on our one thousand a six i was a johnny come lately. within the first week the contras these us from. a terrorist attack three charming whopper tears each to rest or leave and

killed eleven eleven accomplice chinos. i saw five of those compazine i was coming in on a horse drawn wagons to us to the rest of the cemetery and open caskets and horse drawn wagons. the main contra targets of consistently been civilian homes buses or trucks which has helped destroy any public support they may have. eight civilians were killed in this truck when ambushed by counter machine gun the sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adolfo calero who would earlier work as the cia informed the type of war we fight. what i

discovered really for the first time my fish only understood the pattern of u.s. policy. which was to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i now with the power it is a fact that. the united states of america legal both international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency center stood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate mine a solitary with the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. oh. yeah against against your. own things.

because his main dangers prior countries. are watching us start centuries. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in the path for veteran peace action teams of the path teams walked through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the u.s. back on tues. and so do not need to stay to assume. that noting abstract he still who made those statements will work in the sound of the war in central america. anything is going to happen to you it was going to be responsible for the. well there's only one country that's a war in its united states we are there fighting. still so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my. true for

what we were doing in. terms of murder. i met brian wilson. we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and clearly and swim to america. with her and to door and. so the door of this. was measured her in its own people i mean i came away from that discussion to my country with doing this to poor people. saying they were. so treated myself we got talking about what are we going to do which. barbara we started to say you know we know there's a school injury coming up and you. know i met brian because.

and charlie. murphy. decided to bring it to the issues. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to the nicaraguan contras he asked for one hundred million dollars seventy million of which is military aid. to government a cancer and nicaragua a soviet beachhead in north america and a command post for international terror you know the truth about. their fighting and. our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the french resistance we cannot turn away. is not right. it is right versus wrong. to. me because.

i was depressed the leadership. stood. up to me. and. we both were. totally. opposed to the war. and opposition to. back. before.

decided that a significant. could be. you know this very prestigious medal for the bottle of water and in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make. outside of actually someway giving up your life well then following up on that came the fast brian. fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. you see people. i went to in washington as many did to support the veterans gathered steps

of the capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others. charlie and brian. murphy charged my so. they were doing something that was part. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing but it was bigger that we cannot wait to sell south central america it was right there and of course result our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this is all being carried out with our tax. so obviously over these years we want president. not. to say there. is a final song. in the face of all of you. as

a fast to thirty five and forty days and that's approaching the time when people began dying from fast like this and although they were being monitored they were getting weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed by the original. question can come up relative to fasting is. when life could take your own. i can to my own life if i want to want to know this my life for a. fast. approaching. wish led to the. terrorist suspects. i five hundred solitary actions around states were

in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. actions were. we were. moved to classify the veterans fast as terrorism triggered a reaction from an unlikely source the f.b.i. agent assigned to investigate them twenty two year bureau veteran jack ryan. i was in charge of investigating for the f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i get a lead that says investigate. for their fasting on the steps of the capitol. jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for

a life. and also those of other us nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a wife and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statute. concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further his superiors put him under review the bureau just came. to. flee with the shotgun that i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down on those of you who voted for country i want to say i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the guide to the idea that we were terrorists and.

was it is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever in the past like i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. when you know what i think.

and. you know that the united. kingdom kind of. going. to move. to. its ukraine versus russia again a minor maritime incident on the current strait is said to be anything between a major international crisis to a cheap campaign trick as ukraine interesting election cycle take your pick but one thing is for sure russia is deemed aggressive by the west even when defending its sovereignty.

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