the reagan administration was a. very rich and he was proud of. his capture would reveal a complex web of covert operations run by us colonel oliver north reagan's administration had bypassed congressional control and funded the contra insurgents through drug trafficking and secret arms sales to be wrong so all secret but the house and the shoot down. into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to tehran sir no and i'm not taking any questions there's just a second i'm going to ask each journey general meese to brief you on what we presently know what he has found. 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 they 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 afforded if asked. of our hearts. what we were doing and why my son was there he's fourteen years old

. and murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the tracks. in shame not a pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we stay on 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 done we can block in and there was already a train that we could see. box cars of munitions they had to. run to be sure that the engineer knew there was a dog or something i. prayed. 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. and that person or someone else said we understand there's going to be violence here today. and we said no no we're told people going to be doing any well. and then they start walking back and they say. walking back the train started. it was obviously the main way faster than it ever observe the train of that state. turns around. and i saw. a few fly out. brian. back and forth. that frame i watched

listening to my father and screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad. and i had medical training and i even had i.v. equipment in my car because i was on ours and they drive. my ass for someone to go get the id card nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived because baby used to take him to the hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we had to call another ambulance. on. us is a few of the. good in this room. with the able to unload the. bryans action it really opened up

a lot of people to. know what was going on there and why who should there and how much he had sacrifice in order to save. the concert naval weapons station remains in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallies on behalf of the n.d.p. conference of mechanical occupy. protesters tore up the section of the same tracks will see the ground 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 if. this is for me it's a little bit. just for me again and just wanted to get out of. ryan. immediately wanted to get out into the right back to the tracks.

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 for other people even expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order just like they were given orders and vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized employees sacrifice them to his service to the people of. the receive the nation's highest. says our son. could also.

just see here because this. was. just. a train attack drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in the legal 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. i think. is. the main gate of fort benning. this is there a sacred moment. cannot go about the business of killing without. changed

we cannot come back from vietnam afghanistan and iraq and all those wars and go on with our lives as before. you know all these suicides still p.t.s.d. that we reading so much about now the message is clear we are not made for. this is areso a wide stare right. i realize nothing that was factory a survey by the right and often. play on a stand alone at war now 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 schooner assassins as we are and it's well known it came to light in america a school for dictators a school march. washington course front page long to. hit a very big article that the torture and. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of torture is syria says serious. crimes against here. and it was time. to put out the word. coup when. to latin america simply to request that the stops and the troops here

and i'm happy to report that five countries may just say should just pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay venezuela. bolivia he 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 is 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 hours later 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 they were going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo. yes sir i said well don't. you know world a big part of the lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig

deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smart we need to stop slamming the door on the back 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. negatively is called camp sundown to get free people that can live and their like so the empire can this is like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand our daughter g.d. was diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i hear she does or she'll patients when they have problems with the walk to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside their skull gets weaker 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 muscles down to the bone. there is no relief. we're just not too sure this is just over. joined me every thursday on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. 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 in iraq the same kind of war that was being wasted against a nigger i want to be home when i was growing up and. as a young immigrant community and 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 but 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 just scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything will be fine. my 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 get the right. to be

interrogated. in city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping the iraqi people. 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 you were the. with the ghost enemy we're going after the people who are willing to. 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 it for a long and eventually 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 driven. after five months the area 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 mean if i spoke out against a war and surrender. you may not know or maybe you do know and that they still have the death penalty for the searchers in a time of war so i was really afraid of buck and i had no idea what would happen. so i made it is. so far as you know it was all arise other international under the treaties which we have. precedents which we are so. well so takes more if you want to be a great society to find obedience to authority. she didn't order is illegal intervene in order to commit a crime don't do it. quickly found guilt the. assertion. and given up by bad conduct discharge the motion to staff sergeant the private.

market share 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. and then i became an anti-war and thank me duty which stands with the immediate withdrawal of all u.s. troops from iraq when i got out of jail in the first place is that i base that it was not a foreigner where brian was living at the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes in ways that i had never imagined possible i began to meet so many people that helped me understand so many different pieces of the web of. what has been and still is u.s. intervention throughout latin america and the world. there are over one million american military personnel stationed in one hundred seventy five countries the

u.s. government has increased its military budget play nearly ninety percent since two thousand and one the 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. our government spends ten times more per citizen on average for military costs than most other industrialized nations. this increased military spending has not made the. us more secure home. 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 our role in america under corporate globalization will be security exports which

means and war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. minerals from africa or whatever our job in america is going to be making weapons fighting wars and increasingly we see communities addicted to military spending cutting the military 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 before the next election will punish us if you try to cut the military budget so we are now held hostage. and say. we're not 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.

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 down on our journalists and beat. him up. for leaking classified video and related documents manning was charged with espionage and abetting. the symptoms it was thirty five years in the military prison. where all those stayed. documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor if you want to have a democracy with even some democratic front some foreign policy after was labeled as an interest and 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 court. i'm sorry for the unintended

consequences of my actions and i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people not hurt. to make democracy functional to get the information we need they need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personally i wish. people who will risk their reelection using their powers of office 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 was right there three. over there you can see two here those are just those are images of all the ways it wounded. the iraqi like children it's a people that's the first thing they see and i think. something is touched. that you know so because nobody. or they think that a. record. and they're not going with the threat. being devastated a child taken in there is this is an effort to be any. it's the world i'm able to feel something. about the monster for me to kill me i've been with just. the room. and the sound of the crowd. let's put it takes to remember. when you know

you've seen it in full. and it done she used it. and on the plates. of them and use them to. do both at home and modern fully. aware that the answers come. everybody has a greater role to play 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 prayed 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 over and you've confronted your worst fears and called the society out and you said

i love you enough to risk your wrath by opposing. and i didn't harm anyone if we don't willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for all for our sins surely we can risk some discomfort for us for pete's our lives are dependent on our suffering to other human beings who are worth more. then the question. can you justify continuing to live as other people don't count. at all on the please.

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a photo of the one that he i want to go to both were out of the. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamped each dish. eighty five percent of global wealth you longs to be ultra rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent from its 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 show you can afford to miss the one and only.

when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder. made me known in the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right . i think research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no really that 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 their way.

from. us the senators demand an end to military support for saudi arabia in the long running war in yemen. but in europe which in accuses ukraine's president of introducing that martial law to boost his ratings for the upcoming election and says the recent dispute in the tariff strait was nothing but a provocation like you also the song. nice neat.