of the city center an increasingly this. is an incredible achievement it's one it's a very expensive achievement has become at least in the. livable place to use this kind. of this. will take a long time to be measured because it is only just beginning. 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 enters an election cycle take your pick but one thing is for sure russia is deemed aggressive by the west even when defending its solver.

thanks. soups. didn't really get it right when. i started out as a very conservative republican like every person in my army community and upstate new york in the fifty's. my father was

a member of the john birch society he was very opposed to the new deal labor unions catholics jews and. it was actually not that unusual and my dad for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good boy scout of my time i was really proud of. in one thousand sixty-six as the u.s. military began ramping up its forces in vietnam brian wilson was drafted. i enlisted in the air force for a four year program to go into the army as an induction. and then i got my orders to become an air force sure ranger officer commanding. a unit of forty men.

and so soon i found myself in vietnam my duty was to go and assess the success or failure bombing missions. and in one week. we went visited five targets in problems. all the targets were inhabited fishing game. checkers. i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet. five hundred pound bomb suspension shot to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all blocked it does burn finish 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 bean mees woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are opened her eyes are just staring up at i was looking at my sister. when i looked into his eyes and it was all odd 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. oh are they doing there. are we doing there.

i want to four more villages that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are now pct. these are mother. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in receipt please please please. i said i was on the wrong side. as to how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong saeed. jalili story an honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong.

why must this nation. has and its interest and its power. for the sake of a people so far away. i think because we must fight. if we are to live in a world. where every country can shape its all the best player. in the training regime believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep them in charge to protect ourself from you and and realize we are the enemy. during brian's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict think recently polarize the american public. on the lord and his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were. nord emerged from the military.

with a profound sense of. to go to a country to. commit genocide and to still be with our. people . much more two of. the officers treated. people one on the fourth of july like bryan 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. many ways i see that it was

a blessing in disguise i had been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war. standing 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 branstad to work on art i lock my leg and yet now i'm not totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm struck by what they've got going until i stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop. states from unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg released the pentagon. the start of. him. well we were in the course of dropping many times the tanishaa of world war two yet i came back from

vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to bloody still. vietnam and felt the wish should get out of concealment this information for twenty five years has now 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 fifth 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 laos and north vietnam richard nixon i know was to see them much the same way and 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. the united states has been at war under every president since nine hundred forty. 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 but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one nine hundred fifty and two thousand the u.s. government has overthrown sixty. craddock lee elected government dropped bombs on

over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty four in the leaders . millions die in these undeclared wars. years old and i was looking at. pictures in a book. i said to myself what a crazy way try to solve it. and as the years have gone by. even more bent. that seven year old. fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early one nine hundred eighty s. . common president reagan turned his focus to the resource rich countries of central and south america central america 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. through. the system because for one hundred years two hundred years. three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so is for the tremendous source oh then go for the . 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 dynasty the family used land confiscation and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one. hundred seventy nine the samosa is were

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

became the most ambitious paramilitary and political actions mounted by the cia since vietnam. ortega's new sandinista government turned to the american peace activists for help and. we've begun that if that requires them to know 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 that. your country is devastating our country. in a world of big partisan new things a 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 smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the path 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 again for people that can't live and they're like so tired. 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 katie was diagnosed with a very rare sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she does there's real patients when they have problems with want to talk to some of the brains that are actually shrinking inside their head the skull 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 the way down to the bone and there's no really. we're just not sure this is

but it's just so. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i were an observer in the war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in nicaragua they would come home and speak in their churches right up to 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 but no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid go only to those committed to damage. what i

want to know god when one thousand and six i was a johnny come lately. within the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs each to rest a leader and killed eleven eleven accomplice chinos. i saw five of those compazine i was coming in on a horse drawn wagons to this to the rest of the cemetery in 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 had. 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 worked as the cia informed the more we fight. what i discovered really for the first time my fish only interested the pattern of us 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 scenes of the united states of america legal both international and domestic law. in fundamental standards of decency centers to. people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my solidarity with the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country.

you walk in against fear again you. think it's because his main dangers prior countries. are walking centuries is in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven the other veterans participated in the path towards veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the u.s. back home to some. soul who do not need to stay to assume. that noting abstract he still who made the station. in the sound of the war in central america. anything is going to happen to you because it's going to be responsible. if there's only one country that's at war in its

united states we are there farming. areas. and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of my. true for what we were doing to. ensure to emerge through. i met brian wilson. we were talking about the situation about what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and clearly in central america. we're going to show i was 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. who were. so treated by so.

we started. because there were a number of. alarmed about what was happening in central america and charlie. murphy. decided to bring attention to the issues. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to the nicaraguan rebels the 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 them they're fighting and. they are the people of our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the french resistance we cannot turn away from. is not right.

it is right versus wrong. to twenty one. hundred may recall. i was depressed because your leadership. stood. up to me. and. we both were. totally. opposed to the war. plan. to do it fast to the death. and opposition to the u.s.

back consul. before i did the fast i decided that a significant. could be. you know there's very prestigious medal for the water and in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. the most powerful statement but i felt that i could make. outside of actually some way giving up your life well then following up on the game the fast brian and. fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective of this found was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. you see

people. i went to in washington is many did to support the veterans gathered steps of the capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others think. charles bryan. charged by so. they were doing something that was born. 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 tax. cuts are. so obviously over these you present.

not. as a fast thirty five in 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 there were still. the question can come up relative to fasting well is is that it gets to human life to take your own. way i can to my own life if i want to want to know this my life for

a better is dead fast. approaches. which lead to the. domestic terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around in states that were seen in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. actions were. we were just old fashioned. the move 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 the f b. i. foreign counterintelligence and i get

a lead that says investigate. for their fasting on the steps of the capital jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for a life. and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out. 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 disappearing years putting them under review the bureau just came. to. flee with a shotgun that i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down. to those of you who voted for the 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. the idea that we were terrorists and. was it is ridiculous. and a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how that can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. 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 as ukraine's interest in elections take your pick but one thing is for sure russia is deemed by the west even when defending its solver.

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and. make. up what he got. was the. u.s. senators demanded an end to military support for saudi arabia in the long running war and. a lot of near putin accuses ukraine's president of introducing martial law to boost his ratings ahead of the upcoming election and says the recent dispute in the carriage strait was.