minot wisconsin cure me after we arrived in. the nick unarmored your dish or tribunals take house of cards out of the crash site and ask us vets who want to go on a helicopter with us to the crash site cause of a shock yours about all the flights you've been on all these covert white army corps and he would course angry because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration he was a baby because greater immersion he would grow out 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 ron paul secret but the house and the shoot down blew it out into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to tehran sir no and i'm not taking any questions it'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 in the united states what. some of. 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 as 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's a train track and these bunkers that came out and across they are. highway.

and then went out to the piers where these small meals were loaded onto the ships. we had a press conference in which the veterans or planning to start a forty day fast. out of our hearts conscience and 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. brain. jane not a pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we stand and then the train slows down and stops. a couple of people lost the road and went over to the front gate of the no watson station inform them

that we were blocking and there was already a train that we could see you know this couple box cars with munitions they had to . run to be sure that engineer knew there was a dog or something on the rocks or just out right. to the police would go out with comments i'm going to remove them before they can 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 are not going to be doing any well. and then they started walking back and there's they all walking back the train started. the train was obviously the main way faster than it ever observe the train of events.

i turned around. ran over bryan and i saw him play. fly out. ryan's body back and forth that for a while i watched listening to my father and screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad. i had medical training i even had i.v. equipment in my car because i was on ours and that's why. i asked 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 they refused to take him to the hospital and they said no he's not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance.

on. well this is a school. in this room what do you. do. with the able to unload the. bryans action to really open up a lot of people to. know what was going on there and why you should there and how much he had shuttle flights in order to save. mabel station remained in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallies on behalf of the n.d.p. come from limiting the global. protesters to a perception of the same facts will come from obama by train.

i visited baghdad this morning. i wanted to get. the feeling for him because i will be there with. good luck we will watch it. with you if. this is for me and so little that i. began and just wanted to get out of this. brian 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 or other people even expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order just like they were given vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized apply and

sacrifice them to his service to the people of nicaragua he received the mission. field goal says our son you know. i want to also. just see you. also. just. cut. the train attacks drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in the 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. looks awful there for good. as we gather today at the main gate of fort benning. this is there a sacred moment is this the 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 stick p.t.s.d. that we reading so much about now the message is clear we are not made. up on it this is our asteroid wide star right. i realize something that was a factor made by the writer and often. played out to stand on our own

war now as it were all while we were all. right there is a bit silly other people i did not know just because i was ordered to do it. so i did learn 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 sassy sweetheart it's well known in latin america a school for dictators a school march. and of course front page long to figure. it is very big article.

there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of torture is society says serious. crimes against humanity here. and it was time. to put out the word. this. who went to latin america simply to request that the stops and the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries major cities just pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay venezuela. bolivia he went to ecuador where you met with president rafael correa and at that meeting he announced that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas simply said something very important president according to say that it will have made it because he said

this school should not exist. unless. the east. to solve. this if. you cannot make course. 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 an officer from the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq he pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the secretary to fences off that says we're going to attack and destroy the governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and then we're going to move to syria

lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran i seventy seven countries and five years i says in a classified memo he said yes sir i said well don't show it jim. us producing a lot of oil and gas now or energy independent where as big as in russia and saudi arabia but as you're making there is that they're actually losing 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's a disconnect that

a smart politician democrat would understand needs to be seen because there's not a lot of hunger or appetite for this kind of any russian politics is being fanned by a media political establishment. i mean i didn't find most unwelcome even even in the slightest event i never thought . and i've been doing this instance the late ninety's that there is no doubt about the transformation of most good so far the city center and increasingly those are the. most is an incredible achievement it's a it's one it's a very expensive achievement mosco has become at least in the sims a move was it a livable place to use this kind of job it also meant in the long term effects of this of an improvement will take a will it will take a long time to be measured because these are really just beginning.

bryan 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 what's being wasted against a nigger i went before when i was growing up in nicaragua as a young immigrant community. i joined the u.s. military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill i was some 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 in 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 for us

mission was to run a prisoner of war camp and 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 that. 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 dealing with it goes down 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 so afraid to take a stand. until i went home. not to with furlough 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 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 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. true as you it was authorized other international under the treaties which we have. precedents which we are so. have. take more if you want to be assured practice i didn't find obedience to authority.

you she didn't order it 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 stop sergeant a private. for the chair of my pay and twelve months of incarceration in a military jail. there i became. prisoner of conscience. after nine months i was released early because of good. and then i became an anti-war and thank. god i have a duty which stands for the immediate withdrawal of all us troops from iraq when i got out of jail in the first place is that i base it on a foreigner where brian was maybe not the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes some 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 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 time 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. our government spends ten times more for citizens 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 stracke 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 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're now held hostage people to think well we have to have a military in the world and say. we're not trying to in tonight 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 consider the. final moment. for leaking the 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. 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. i'm sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people. not hurt. to make democracy function to get the information we need we need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personally i wish. people who will risk their reelection are 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 looms. there's three families right there see those three. over there you can see two here those are just those are images of all the basic wounded yeah american and iraqi like children it's a people that's the first thing they see and i think you touch something is touched that. so because nobody is paying for the war they think that they. have to pay for the record. and they're not paying with the threat. of being devastated this child been 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 seen it before. the. then turn to use grid. on them. and use them. to vote on the model please. read it and it says. everybody has a greater role to play than the old is 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 speak in your church and then you'll find your voice you can do it with a measure of fear because you can be very frightened but it's equally liberal when it's cold and you've confronted your worst fears and you call the society out 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 all for our sins surely we can risk some discomfort for. for pete's our lives are dependent on our suffering to other human beings who are worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live as if other people don't count. this. at all on the please.

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small. the pain is indescribable it's feels like a really really bad chemical burn but it goes through your skin in your muscle always down to the bone and there's no really. we're just not sure this is but it's just. donald trump cancels a meeting with president putin scheduled for the g twenty summit in argentina over the recent parritch strait clash between russia and ukraine. the yellow vest movement in france plans another series.