asked congressional control and funded the contra insurgents through drug trafficking and secret arms sales to be wrong so secret but the house i'm going to shoot down. into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to tehran sir no and i'm not taking any questions or just a second i'm going to ask each journey general meese to brief you on what we presently know what he has found in the united states what. the revelations of the iran contra affair gave new momentum to the work of the peace activists. evidence showed that the weapons were coming from the largest pentagon arms depot on the west coast california's concord naval weapons station. all they were alan and i went out just to check out the situation. and discovered

that on one side of the road. were literally hundreds of buggers with all these weapons. there was a train track and these bunkers that came out and across the highway and then went out to the pier is where these balls were loaded on to the ships. we had a press conference in which that are in store planning to start a forty day fast. of our hearts a conscience is what we were doing and why my son was there he is fourteen years old. brian and duncan murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the tracks. train. jane not

a pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we shan't and then the train slows down and stops. a couple of people cross the road and went over to the front gate of the watson station inform them that we were blocking and there was already a train that we could see you know this couple box cars were going to show they had to. be sure that the engineer knew there was a dog or something. to the police would probably come at some point to remove them before they could move the train. we deliver the letter to the person at the base. that person or someone else said we understand there's going to be violence here today. and we said no no we're told when the people going to be doing any well. then they start walking back and they say.

walking back the crane started. it was obviously the main way faster than you'd ever observe the train of that state. that they turned around. and i saw him play. a few fly out. to brian body back and forth in there that are a lot i watched listening to my screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad. and i had medical training they even had i.v. equipment in my car because i was on a midwife and a master's. i'm going to go get the id card nine one one we had to wait at least

seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived because they refused to take him to the hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance. on. us as a few of the. good in this room. this is the with the. brains action to really open a lot of people to. what was going on there and why who should there and how much he had sacrifice in order to save. the day to conquer naval weapons station remains in the national spotlight as

protesters of past and present rallies on behalf of the n.d.p. conference mcnichol occupy. protesters tore up this section of the same tracks we're working with from over by a train. i visited this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to talk about the people there with. which. we will watch it. with you with. this and for me it's a little bit this. is just the beginning i just wanted to get out of this. ryan immediately wanted to get out into the right now to the tracks instancing you see in the surgeon that's in his heart immediately his compassion for the spotters on the train and doctors of the train he got it right away or other. people even

expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order just like they were given. diligence. in one thousand eighty eight or take those government recognized employees sacrifice and his service to the people of nicaragua to receive the nation's highest yield says our son deno. just to see the miracles this. was. just.

the train attack drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in illegal wars highlighting its role in training secret armies from other countries most of the covert training took place in fort benning georgia at the notorious school of the americas. for good. as we gather the main gate of fort benning. into portfolios they put the money this is there a sacred moment is this the moment. cannot go about the business of killing without . the changed we cannot come back from vietnam afghanistan and iraq and all those wars and go on with our lives as. you know all these suicides. the

p.t.s.d. that we reading so much about now the message is clear we are not made for. this is our s.o.i. wide stare right. i realize something that was. made by the writer and often. played on a stand alone at war in iraq as it were or why we're all. right here is a bit silly other people i know just because i was ordered to do it so i learned to be disobedient. five hundred twenty five salvadoran soldiers arrived at fort benning georgia to start training there in combat a small group of us went in to see not in our name. and what we found through the freedom of information act was a school assassin as we learned it's well known in latin america

a school for dictators a school march. washington calls front page long to figure. out a very big article of the torch and. there were a few news at the school of the americas a techniques of torture is society says serious. crimes against here. and it was time. to put out the word. who went to latin america simply to request that this stops and in the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries major city just pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay and venice way a lot. bolivia we went to ecuador with president rafael correa and at

that meeting he had not just that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas some he said something very important president say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less for the east. so let's face it. you can make your city. peaceful efforts to disarm the iraqi regime have failed because we are not dealing with peaceful man. intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. i went downstairs i was leaving the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want

you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq you pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the secretary to fence off that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and then we're going to move to syria lebannon libya somalia sudan and iran. i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo he said yes sir i said well don't short term. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it mean when the death penalty just because i think that's a fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is

terrifying news just newly hasn't been that we're even many victims' 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 and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. us producing a lot of oil and gas now or energy and abandonware as big as them in russia and saudi arabia but the oil as you're making there is that they're actually losing money on every back. to court sounding you know and i'm not.

i'm one of them but i think it's ended up by one local news we're buddies. one of them one night you should have been there so. put them to a little more or i can't as i may as well and mission statement of that i want to get out of yeah. boom get you killed and had a chicken dad to go lay in a field near them with a hold of that hero enough but otoh both were out of the. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter to us as over twenty trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crimes happen each day. eighty five

percent of global wealth you longs to the ultra 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 one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only boom but. right. brian lost his legs trying to stop a train from going to central america to finance the same kind of war that we were engaged in an iraq the same kind of war that was being wasted against

a nigger i want to be when i was growing up in it. as a young immigrant community i had joined the u.s. military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill i was a very political i read the new i didn't really question things. i had been in the military almost a year i was about to graduate from college i didn't want to put anything in jeopardy. so i said to myself i'll just go to this war. because maybe we will scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything will be fine. units first mission was to run a prisoner of war camp in al assad air base and there we used fear tactics that amounted to torture in order to keep prisoners to meet the right. to be

interrogated. in the city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping to run if. they were not interested in the well being of their own soldiers either. we started engaging their persistence in combat. which was basically hit and run operation for them. in order to retaliate since we were dealing with those then and we were going after the people are feeling. the situation was very intense we were being hit with mortar rounds improvised explosive devices rocket propelled grenades were moving targets which made it very difficult for anybody to question the morality of the war and. so i lost my my moral compass you could say i was too

afraid to question i was too afraid to take a stand. until i went home and i to with for a lot and then surely became clear to me that i could not in good conscience continue to be a part of the war at that point i became the first combat veteran to publicly refuse to go back to war. based on morality and based on my own assertion that the war was all driven. after a five month eery of being on the ground and being a wall and putting together a conscientious objector claim. i decided to surrender to the military. that made my case very political to the military commander. on the military installation. i was very scared of what the military would would do

to me if i spoke out against a war and surrender. you may not know or maybe you do know that they still have the death penalty for the service in a time war so i was really afraid of buck and i had no idea what would happen. so i mean it is. so far as you it was all the other national under the treaties which we have. precedents which we are so. so take for if you want to be a serious threat to society and find obedience to authority. you she didn't order it illegal intervene in order to commit a crime don't do it. quickly found guilty of. assertion and given up by bad conduct discharge the motion to stop sergeant the private.

sector of my pay and twelve months of incarceration in a military jail. there i became a prisoner of conscience after nine months i was released early because of good conduct and then i became an anti-war activist thank. i have a duty which stands for the immediate withdrawal of all u.s. troops from iraq when i got out of jail in the first place is that i base it on a foreigner where brian was leaving not the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes and ways that i had never imagined possible and i began to meet so many people that helped me understand so many different pieces of the web of. what has been us intervention throughout latin america and the world. there are over one million american military personnel stationed in one hundred seventy five countries the us government has increased its military budget plan

nearly ninety percent since two thousand and one budget now stands at seven hundred billion dollars per year. in health costs plus interest from more than one point five million veterans and the us is paying one trillion dollars per year for war and preparation for. our government spends ten times more persistent on average for military costs than most other industrialized nations. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure home or abroad. well you know let's face it the weapons corporations in america always love the enemy and they always log new instability because they're able to sell more weapons that way the pentagon says that our role in america under corporate globalization

will be security exploit which means endless war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. and minerals from africa or whatever that our job in america is going to be making weapons fighting wars and so increasingly we see communities addicted to military spending cutting the bill. it's a budget just a tiny little bit corporations are saying don't do that because we're going to lay off hundreds of thousands of people right before the next election will punish us if you try to cut the military budget so we're now held hostage people to think well we have to have a military in the world and say hey we're not trying to night there is danger we're also trying to point out that the way we conduct ourselves in the world makes us a lot of enemies and one thing that i think is important about militarism is that it values military power above all else. in april two thousand

and ten army private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq airstrike video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter gun him down eleven on our journalists and simply ask. my mom. for leaking classified video in related documents manning was charged with espionage and abetting the enemy the symptoms it was thirty five years in the military prison . where all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor who want to have a democracy with even some democratic control and some foreign policy after which will there's an interest in that will always be at risk because the government will always try to deter anyone from following their example. during sentencing manning apologized to the. i'm sorry for the unintended consequences of

my actions i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people not. to make too much pushing functionally to get the information we need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personally british. people who will. are using their powers of all for their powers in a corporation to effect bullshit. at dawn every sunday since february two thousand and fourteen contemporary military cemetery appears on santa monica beach in california it is an improvised protest to remind people of the cost and consequences. as an instrument of american foreign.

three panels right there see those three. over there you can see to here those are just those are images of all they say yeah american and iraqi like children it's for people that's the first thing they see and i think we touch something is touched the hero so because nobody is paying for it they think that they have paid for the record. and they're not paying with the threat of. being devastated childhoods taken in there is this is an effort to convey to him and shoots. would enable people to feel something. about the cost of war and to kill me and i think this. book. and the sound of the crowd. let's put it takes to remember. when

you know you've seen it before. then a ton cheese did. on the plates in the. news and then. that i'm a model. and so was. everybody has a greater role to play than the role they're playing right now people who are afraid to write right start out with a two paragraph letter to the editor and you'll see the words will start flowing people who are afraid to speak gallic start by convincing a friend and then those speaking in a church and then you'll find your voice you can do it with a measure of fear because it can be very frightening but it's equally when it's cold and you've confronted your worst fears and you call the shots and you said i

love you enough to risk your route by opposing your point. and i didn't harm anyone if we don't willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for our sins surely we can risk some discomfort for an easy nice for pete's our lives are dependent on. suffering others being beings who are worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live as if other people don't come. along to please. them. you can. say to. the president the same with

this illness are close enough. in the shadows of our own lives to. begin to count. tell this thing what it means but then.

i go to places like camp sundown to get for people that can't decide and they're like so the empire. is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand her daughter katie was diagnosed with a very rare son sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she doesn't feel patients are going to have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside there the stone gets thicker in the brain still small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscle all it down to the bone and there's no really. we're not sure this is

but just. it's 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 introduce an election cycle take your pick but one thing is for sure russia is deemed aggressive by the west even when defending its sovereignty. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be to the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying lose just know really hasn't been that we want even many of the dems 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. thank. you. headlining tonight the russian president calls sunday's maritime clash between russian and ukrainian vessels nothing but provocation describing anti moscow sentiment as a brand to sell these days ahead of you cranes general elections next year tell you all about that more plus two.