i started out as a very conservative republican like jerry thurston in my farming community in 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 i try and. it was actually not that unusual and lie down for those attitudes to prevail. because i was a good athlete good in school and good in my church and a good boy scout my town 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 a as an inductee. and then i got my orders to become an air

force granger officer commanding a unit of forty minute. 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 mom problems. were inhabited fishing. shack and they were all i defended. fishing. these villages were bombed at two hundred fifty to three hundred feet five hundred pound bombs in china shop at night off. so everybody needs

filesystems either dead or just about dead and they were all black it didn't burn from the napalm. i watched as far as i could walk before the bodies were a show thick i could walk any further and look down at my feet. and i saw a young woman holding three children in her arms her eyes are open her eyes are just staring i was looking at my sister. when i looked into his eyes and it was all a lie 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 if. are they doing there or we doing there.

i want to for more religious that we saw the same scene. then i realized i don't need to do this if these are not p.c. . these are mother. these are small children. and if you elderly. they were killing villagers in villages. and calling in from the sea. i said i was on the wrong side. i said how could this be good for you i'm on the wrong side i. validate dorian honor society student council. all conference athlete.

you did everything right. and it was all wrong. why must this nation. has already received 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 this. training regime leave all the fears that there are enemies out there. and charge to protect ourself from aids and realize we were the enemy. during bryant's four years in the air force the vietnam conflict increasingly polarized the american public. and the lord as his commanders about atrocities he

had witnessed his reports were ignored he emerged from the military vietnam with a profound sense of alienation. to go to a country that we knew nothing about committing genocide and to still be with our. people. much more two of. the officers will. be of the people born on the fourth of july like brian ron kovac received the bronze star for valor and the purple heart after being rude . did leading an attack in vietnam. even though i was paralyzed in viet nam

in many ways i see that it was a blessing in disguise i have been able to recognize. that peace is so much more important in war. of an understanding 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 hard i lock my leg in vietnam am i totally opposed this war or carrying on over there i'm stuck to what they've got going and tell a stop telling your brothers they're the traitors stop all. night states wage its own official war for nearly a decade. one nine hundred seventy one former military analyst daniel ellsberg

released the pentagon. then he started. i know we were in the course of dropping many times the top of world war two. i came back from vietnam understanding that there was going to be no kind of success. felt that we should get out of concealment of this information for twenty five years has not 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 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. north vietnam richard nixon i knew was to sit in

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 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 the presidents have consistently found ways to wage war without congressional approval. between one

nine hundred fifty and two thousand the us government has overthrown sixteen democratically elected government dropped bombs on over thirty nations and attempted assassinations of over sixty foreign leaders. millions die in these undeclared wars. i was just a kid probably seventy years old and i was looking at. pictures and a look at the earth war. i said to myself what a crazy way to try to solve it. and as the years are gone by i. became even more can vent that that seven year old. was right fear of communism remained at fever pitch in the early. one thousand nine hundred eighty

six. 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 that already. in the country. system because for one hundred years to those who is safe and three dollars. for every dollar we've invested is sort of the source code for those to for forty years the united states received first choice on the ninety percent of nicaraguan exports in return the u.s. government supported a dictatorship of the some most of. the family used land confiscation and political

repression to rule over the nicaraguan people. in one thousand nine hundred seventy nine the samosa as were driven out after a long war waged by the popular sandinista party led by daniel ortega. one thousand nine hundred two. to 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 for daniel ortega it was elected democratic government implemented new social services for providing free education health care and land reform. 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 to aid to the mercenary soldiers. known as the conquests 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. for changes new sandinista government turned to the american peace activist for help. we've been the favorite quotes no no no or tell us what to bring people down she says look i don't. republicans democrats but we want people to know. their country. our country. donald trump firing shots of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like a big deal given the already polls states of affairs between the two countries of the manner in which it was counselled 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 murder would it mean to win the death penalty just because they think that's a fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying is just no really hasn't been that we want even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished. 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 saying. we've been through this this isn't the way.

we should start the game with this because where we can call put the chance of american runs has said we have built up a lot of riches between germany and europe and russia and to this devoid of greed truth is quite easy and betty foster. but the looper of the month paid to have a lot of fun. i knew that other u.s. americans were going to make out i went out and 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 the and so on reagan was forced to admit that the u.s. 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 wanted system civilian control over all military forces that no human rights abuses are tolerated that any financial corruption to be rooted out that american aid to go only to those committed to democratic principles is. what i want an egg and i want 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 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 use 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 kidnap. the contras also known as the nicaraguan democratic force maintained affronted by a civilian adolfo calero who would earlier worked as the cia informed by before we . reached. what i discovered really for the first time my fish oleander stood the pattern of u.s. policy. to destroy people power movements and i was one of the people i'm now with 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. in fundamental standards of decency centers do

it but people all over the world and i wanted to demonstrate mine a solitary with the people and my being men opposition to the power coming out of my own country. oh for. if. you walk in against fear against your. own things it's me down with him because his main dangerous player country. is in one thousand eighty six and one nine hundred eighty seven brian and the other veterans participated in more veteran peace action teams of the past teams walked through nicaragua's war torn villages gathering proof of human rights violations by the u.s. back on. do not need to stay too.

strict. only one. united states. terrorists from the states. in the course of. the truth. we were talking about the situation of what we could do to protest u.s. foreign policy and clearly in central america. people. came away from their. mark on true.

so. we started. because there were a number of who were alarmed about what was happening. and charlie. murphy. decided to bring attention to the issues. particularly. on sunday evening president reagan urged the american people to support his aid package to the nicaraguan rebels the contras 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 you know who they are fighting and why they are the moral people of our founding fathers and the brave men and women of the french resistance we cannot turn away. right. right versus wrong on what was two twenty one to nine hundred dollars for the cold. i was depressed the closure leadership. stood up which you're not supposed to do it. now. down to a rally in washington d.c. and then up to me.

and. we both were. totally opposed to the war they talk to me about charlie they're. planning to do a path to the death. and opposition to the us backed contras. before i do this right now so i decided that a significant i could be. you know those very prestigious medal over the water and in protest of u.s. foreign policy in central america. is the most powerful statement that i felt that i could make outside of actually some way given you know your life well then following up on that came the fast brian and uncle. 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. i mean we. 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 there. charlie and brian. murphy and george maestro. they were doing something that was martin. we were talking about nicaragua and what we were doing there but it was bigger than the karate purcel salvador and central america it was latin america and of course himself. and work and what it meant to those on the receiving. and how this was all being carried out with our expert. walk this

excerpt. ocracy over these years president class. we want congress to not. see their strong not against communism. in the face of justice and liberty as the fast got on to 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 usual. things.

can come up relative to fasting it is is the human life to take your own. i can to my own life if i want to want to know my life better as did fast the steps of the capitol ninety six approach. which led to the f.b.i. identify us as the best terrorist suspects. identified five hundred solitary actions around and in states that were acting in concert with us. it was a conspiracy conspiracy to change us. organizing violent. actions were. we were just well fast on. 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. their fasting on the steps of the capital jack ryan reviewed the veterans fast for a 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 disappearing years putting them under review the bureau just came. to. killing off

a flea with a shotgun yet i was fired ten months shy of getting a pension but they came down big. to those of you who voted for the country i want to say and i have yet to receive an explanation that speaks from a place other than beer bordering on a paranoia reminiscent of them a guide to the idea that we were terrorist and. was is ridiculous. in a terrorist has no regard for human life whatsoever in the trash like there are i don't see how they can possibly be construed as hurting someone else. going to please god can set down again for people that can't decide and they're like so the empire can. like a safe house i guess they don't have to talk about what they go through with us because we understand our daughter she was diagnosed with

a very rare son of condition if i get sunburned i hear she doesn't feel patients when they have problems with the want to talk to her son the brains of her actually shrinking inside the stove 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 in your maslow down to the bone. there's no really. we're not sure this is the story. is finding this out we need blood. and our eyes are hard to harder but i can guardian council. yas this diagram park. to.

break. the law has a funny. right down the bank fall from grace walker chemical lies and this is going to go to new treatment international market know that these industries. ignored your money and mother. and the mother of the mentally lost even this. donald trump following doubts of a meeting with vladimir putin doesn't seem like

a big deal given the already poll state of affairs between the two countries of the manner in which it was cancelled over twitter may sting the kremlin more than the consolation itself is the mythical truth in a bromance is finally over. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy to. let it be an arms race. spanning dramatic development only mostly exist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time to sit down and talk. you know world of big partners. a lot and conspiracy it's time. to dig deep.

to hit the stories that made history 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. today's news and the week's top stories from our see the g. twenty in argentina with a potential in the bruising trade war between the u.s. and china plus we'll look at the much anticipated conversation between presidents from completely on the sidelines. if there is when there is.