we should start. to discuss where we can put chancellor merkel once has said we have built up a lot of religious between germany and europe and russia. to destroy a bridge this is quite easy and very far. but to me proof would take a whole lot of. thanks.

loops. i didn't really get it right but. i started out as 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. 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. 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 a shock to take off. so everybody needs filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all black 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 lies 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 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 said i was on the wrong side of. this is how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong sorry. valedictorians honor society student council. all conference athlete. did everything right. and was all wrong. why must this nation. is 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 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 increasingly polarized the american public. on the lord and his commanders about atrocities he had witnessed his reports were. he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of. to

go to a country that about committing genocide. can still be with our. people . much more two of. the officers treated. people one on the fourth of july like brian run kovac received a bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being wounded leading an attack in vietnam that. even though i was paralyzed. in many ways i see that it was a blessing in disguise i've been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important than war. 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. we were in the course of dropping many times the tonnage of world war two yet i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success and nothing

going to. vietnam and felt the wish you'd get out of concealment of 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 his 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 to see that much the same way with 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 asked 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 us government was 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. the effect of 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 it's been tremendous source oh then go for the you know. for forty years the united states received the first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the u.s. 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 thousand one. 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 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 the government implemented new social services for providing free education healthcare 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 aid 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 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 bring people down she says look i don't care who you bring republicans democrats but we want people to know who. their country is devastating our country. i don't think the numbers mean something they matter to us of the earth one trillion dollars and. more than ten white collar crimes happy. eighty five percent of global wealth you long for the old for rich eight point six percent market saw thirty percent. i slashed your thumb with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and point rose to forty thousand dollars. china's building two

point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need to remember is one one business shows you can't afford to miss the one and only. donald trump firing shots of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already polls state of affairs between the two countries most of the manner in which it was cancelled over twitter may sting the kremlin more than the consolation itself is the mythical trump truth in a bromance finally over. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer it be when the death penalty just because i think that's the 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 is just no really hasn't been that we want even many a victim's 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 want to 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. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to they're going to i wound up serving in a war zone and we literally sent thousands of people to see the war in nicaragua they would come home would speak of murder. search is right up the 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 democratic groups is. what i want to nag and i were nineteen eighty 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 of west 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 in open caskets and horse drawn wagons. the main contra targets of consistently been civilian homes busses

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 kidnapped in the country. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adult. who would earlier worked as the cia informed the type of war we. can reach prisoners. but what i discovered really for the first time my fish only interested the pattern of us policy. push right to destroy people our movements and i was one of the people i now. power is a fact. of the united states of america are you a legal both international and domestic. in fundamental

standards of decency is understood by people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate my shall there anyway the people in my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. walking against fear against. those things. because its main dangers prior country. in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian m. and other veterans participated in. the veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn diligence gathering proof of human rights violations by the us back country whose. sole who do not need

to state was. that noting extract. who made the station. in central america. anything is going to happen to you it was going to use for food going to be responsible for the. fish only one country that's already in its united states we are there funding. terrorists and so i think the terrorists from the states are responsible in the course of. the truth for what we were doing to. her through. brian wilson. we were talking about the situation of the. to protest foreign policy and.

so. we started. to bring it to the issues. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to.

the contras he asked for one hundred million dollars seventy million of which is military. government. beachhead in north america. international the truth. is not right. it is right. for culture. to pressure the leadership. i. see and this up to me.

and there's. never a good. and. we both were. totally opposed to the war he talked to me about. charlie. was planning to do a fast. and offers addition to us back consul. before i did this last i decided that a significant. could be. you know this very prestigious medal of honor and in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make outside of actually some

way give you know your life well then following up on that came the fast brian and . fast needs to have strategic objectives. brian was really determined that the objective of this fast was to change u.s. foreign policy toward nicaragua. and people so. i went to washington as many did to support the parents. steps of the capitol and i remember the inspiration of. charlie bryan. george my. they were doing something the. morning. they were talking about. what we were doing here but it was bigger than.

central america. of course himself. and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this was all being carried out with. this. president last week. not. just. as a fast thirty five and forty days and that's approaching the time when people began from fast like this and although they were being monitored they were getting weaker and weaker and we were quite alarmed by there were.

things. like. question can come up relative to fasting well is is it a human life to take your own. are can to my own life if i want to want to know this my life for a better fast. approaches. which led to the. terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around states that were acting in concert whether. it was called conspiracy conspiracy. you organizing. the. actions were. we were just old fashioned from.

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 for the f.b.i. . foreign counterintelligence and i get a lead that says investigate. for fast terrorist there fasting on the steps of the capitol jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for life case files and also those of other u.s. nationwide solidarity groups the investigation wanted to find out who was this group veterans fast for a life and they were called terrorists under the sabotage statutes.

and concluded that the fasters were nonviolent and refused to investigate further is superior putting them under review the bureau just came down on me when i likened it to killing a flea with a shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down. to those of you who voted for. i want to say that i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of the macgyver the idea that we were terrorists and. that it was it is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever in a crash like this i don't see how that can possibly be construed as. hurting someone else.

i go to a place called camp sundown to get for people that can't decide and they're like so tired. 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 sun sensitive condition if i get sunburned i heal she doesn't feel patients are going to have problems with the walk the talk to your son the brains that are actually shrinking inside the skull gets taken 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 into your muscle all the way down to the bone. there is no relief. so we're just not sure this is going to stop.

people also give up she comes in for just twelve euros fifty per month. today's news in the week's top stories from r.t. the g. twenty wraps up in argentina with a potential for a bruising trade war between the u.s. and china look at the much anticipated conversation between president putin on the sidelines. russian border patrol seizes three ukrainian ships near crimea after moscow said they violated its territorial was.