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meet france could become the permanent boss to the united nations the french ambassador to the u.s. cast doubt already on berlin's proposal saying it contradicts the u.n. charter indeed other french employees of also voiced concern this comes of course backdrop to this after the french president emmanuel mccrone announced his desire for an easy you wide army earlier this month in plans also about buying or merkel political analyst alexander rather told us that germany though is wrong to have made its un proposal public. putting together all the europeans in one concept and one mechanism is nearly impossible wave of germans have done so is exactly opposite to favorable issue. using a megaphone diplomacy to do it all the constraints of germany is one of the most efficient way to course in such a question has to be discussed. public delta very much
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such a sharing on european representation in the security council a new european institutions can be. created soley by a dialogue between germany and france and doing in doing it so so involved to making the necessary concessions to other europeans is a sure recipe for disaster. for a new in the smaller u.s. officials have confirmed that a deadly bombing raid earlier this week in afghanistan's helmand province was carried out by american warplanes according to local officials thirty civilians were killed along with sixteen taliban fighters this young boy was in the area at the time and survived the bombing seems he's in the severe condition in hospital yes trucks were called in by afghan government forces and the u.s. advisors after they came under fire from the taliban in a compound the afghan government though says local forces were not aware of any civilians in the area at the time well it is the people who died describe what
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happened. but you're back at around nine pm the first helicopter circled overhead and then a jet bombed a house there were thirty people in the family all of them gone one survivor is my nephew he was at my house is the only one who survived the others died a six month old baby among them. my demand to the government is to know. why do they kill innocent people. and this is not a shot of the main stories we're covering from this friday morning oh so much more just click away of course on the inside dot com for me kevin o. in thanks ever so much for watching our programs continue for you right after this break. you are producing a lot of oil and gas to our energy. in russia and saudi arabia but as you're making there is that they're actually losing money on every.
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a very conservative republican like every person in my farming 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. he 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 nine hundred 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
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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. the targets were inhabited fishing. second. i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bomb suspension a shock to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead
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or just about dead and they were all black it is burned from them if i watch 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 means 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 moderated 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.
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oh are they doing there. are we doing there. i want before more religious that we saw the same scene then i realized i don't need to do this if these are now pct. these are mothers. 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. of this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong. ballot dorrian honor society student council. all conference athlete.
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did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. 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 the best players. even training regimes believe all these years that there are enemies out there. keep it charged to protect yourself from me and see and realize we were the enemy. during bryant's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict think recently polarize the american public. on the lord and his commanders about
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atrocities he had witnessed his reports were. he emerged from the military. with a profound sense. to go to a country to. commit genocide and to still be with our. people . much more to what. the officers treated. people born on the fourth of july like brian run kovac received the bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being
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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 a profoundly change. like turnin my branstad to work on art i locked 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 on in l.a. stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop. states wage its unofficial war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg
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released the pentagon. the start of. we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing's going to. vietnam and felt that we 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 fifty 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
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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 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 but presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one
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nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government was overthrown sixty. chronically elected governments 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.
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. 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. three months to change the system because for one hundred years two hundred years. three dollars. for every dollar we've invested so it's been 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 samosa dynasty the family used land confiscation
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and political repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in seventy nine the samosa was 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 in one thousand nine hundred four daniel ortega was elected democratically this government implemented new social services for providing free education health care and land reform. reagan bens 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
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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. 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. their country is the devastating our country joined me everything on the alex salmond shill and i'll be speaking to us of the world of politics small business i'm show business i'll see that. politicians do something to. put themselves on the line they did accept or reject.
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so. you want to be president or injury or some want to preserve. it's a good life to be for us this is what will the for the last three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of my. quest. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i would i don't i'm serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in iraq about whether 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
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but no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid go only to those committed to democratic groups is. what i want to nag and i were nineteen a six i was a johnny come lately. more than the first week the contras these u.s. funded terrorists attacked three charming whopper chairs east arrest early 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 nice 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 country machine guns the
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sandinista government says that in the past six years over ten thousand civilians have been wounded kidnapped or killed in the country. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adult folks who would earlier worked as the cia informed the type of war we fight does not demand. street procedures. i discovered really for the first time my fish really interested the pattern. which was to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i'm not one of the power it is a fact that the policies of the united states of america are you know legal in both international and domestic law. and in fundamental standards of decency is understood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate
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a minute shall there anywhere that the people in my being men opposition to the power come out of my own country. oh. why are you walking against fear against your. own thing. because its main dangers player countries. yes their countries. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in more veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn billikins gathering proof of human rights violations by the u.s. back country whose. sole who do not need to state was. that noting extract the soul who made the station. in
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we both were. totally opposed to the war they talked to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast to the death. and opposition to the us backed consul. before i did the fast i decided that a significant. could be. you know there's very prestigious medal over 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 with brian and
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uncle george was. fast and nice 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 is many did to support the veterans gathered steps of the capitol and i remember the inspirational that i and others think. charlie and brian. murphy and george maestro. 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 it was. our foreign policy work and what it meant to those on the receiving.
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and how this was all being carried out with acts done in holland. last week. not. just. as a fast 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 there were. i. think.
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the question can come up relative to fasting well is is it a human life to take your own. our country my own life or if i want to want to know this my life for a better is dead fast. approaches. which led to the. domestic terrorist suspects. and identified five hundred solitary actions around the states that were in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy to change us. through organizing. actions were. we were to. move to classify the veterans fast as terrorism triggered a reaction from an unlikely source the f.b.i.
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agent assigned to invent. twenty two year bureau veteran jack. i was in charge of investigating for the f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i get a lead that says investigate. for. fasting on the steps of the capital jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for life. and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out. group veterans fast for a wife and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statute. clued the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further disappearing under review the bureau just came down on me with. the shotgun
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that i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down. those of you who voted for the i want to say. yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than beer bordering on the paranoia reminiscent of the. the idea that we were terrorists and. was is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever. i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. us producing a lot of oil and gas now or energy and abandonware as big as the bin russia and saudi arabia but the oil as you're making there is that they're actually losing
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money on every ballot. in fact a recent poll of gallup poll shows fifty seven percent of americans want a more cooperative relationship with russia so there is a disconnect that is smart politician democrat would understand needs to be seen because there's not a lot of hunger appetite for this kind of any russian politics is being fanned by a media political establishment. still trying to come says his meeting with president putin tradeable for the upcoming g. twenty summit knowledge and team later today over the recent sea crushes between russia and ukraine. b.l.o.b.'s protesters in france plan they say another soon.
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