all of these covert white army corps and he would corps angry because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration he was a baby because. he would grow out of the. house and forces 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 wrong so all secret but the house and the shoot down. in 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. what. 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's 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 bloggers with all these weapons. there's a train track and these bunkers that came out and across they highway and then went out to the pier is where these balls were loaded on to the ships. we had a press conference in which. veterans are planning to start

a forty day fast. of our hearts. conscience is what we were doing and why my son was there he is fourteen years old. and murphy and david duncan. placed themselves on the trucks. train. here 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 led over to the front gate of the ne watson station inform them that we were blocking and there was already a train that we could see. box cars with munitions they had to. run to be sure that to engineer a new dog or something. to the police would probably come at some point to remove them before they could 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. then they started walking back and they say. walking back the phrase. that was obviously a mean way faster than it ever trained for that stage. they turned around. and i saw him. play. if you

fly out. ryan friday we're right back and forth for that frame i watched and listening to my father and screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad. and i had medical training they even had i.v. equipment on my car because i was on ours and they drive. my ass for someone to go get the id card nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived he says baby used to take him to the hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance. on. this is a few of the. good in this room before you. go to work. this is the would be

able to unload the money go to. ryan's action and really open up a lot of people to. know what was going on there and why you should there and how much he had sacrificed in order to save. the concert naval weapons station remains in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallied on behalf of the n.d.p. conference but in the global. protestors told destruction of the same facts will from the ground from obama by train. i visited this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to go before the with. which. we will watch it. with you if. this is for me it's a little bit. big just wanted to get out of this.

brian immediately wanted to get out into the right back to the track see 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 orders and 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 to receive the nation's highest on the field says our son deno. can also.

just see the miracles this. was. just. a train attack 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. for good i think. is. the main gate of fort benning. loans they put the money 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. on it this is areso a wide stare right. i realized something that was that made by the writer and all of you. play on a stand alone at war now as it were all while we're all. right here is a bit silly other people i 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 assassins as we are and it's well known in latin america a school for dictators a school march. washington course front page long to. get a very big article of the torch and. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of harsh mississippi sisk serious. crimes against here. and it was time. to put out the word. that.

yeah. we went to latin america simply to request that the stops and the troops here i'm happy to report that five countries made decisions to 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 had not just that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas some he said something very important president say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less for the east. to solve. this if. you can make your sick. 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 iraqi regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. i went downstairs hours later the pentagon and the joint staff called me into his office and said i want you to know he said sure we're going to attack iraq you pull up a piece of paper off his desk so i just got this memo from the sector to fence off that says we're going to attack and destroy their governments and seven countries in five years we're going to start with iraq and they were going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i seventy seven countries in five years i says at a classified memo. yes sir i said well don't. need

to quote me. i'm one of them but i think. we're buddies. one of them one night he should have been there so. i don't want or i can just let me ask and nation to know that out of here that yeah i'm kind of cool he gets killed and he had a chicken dad's going i made a move out of the one that you know enough to build one i don't think.

we should starve if you do this cuz we're read can put chancellor merkel runs who said we have cleared up a lot those who choose between germany and europe and russia. through the story of groucho's who is quite easy in gravity force. but through proof would take a whole lot of. politicians to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and. somehow want to rest. which is going to be close to what the four three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the lawyers in the i'll. translate should.

brian 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 that was being wasted against a nigger i want to be home when i was growing up in it. as a young immigrant community and joined the u.s. military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill i was a 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 to this war. because maybe we will just scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything is fine.

my units first mission was to run a prisoner of war camp in al assad air base and there we used fear tactics that amounted to torture in order to keep prisoners sleep deprived. to be interrogated. i. in city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping the iraqi people. they were not interested in the well being of their own soldiers either. wished. guarded engaging their persistence in combat. which was basically hit and run operation for them. in order to retaliate since we were dealing with a ghost and we were going after the people who are killing. 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 too afraid to take a stand. until i went home i had to with for a long 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 oil driven. after five months the 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. and 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 searchers in a time of war so i was really afraid of buck and i had no idea what would happen. so i mean it is. it was authorized. under the treaties which we have thought. precedence which we. have. takes more if you want to visit a great society than to find obedience to

a tyrant. you she didn't order is 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 staff sergeant a private. marketer of my pay and twelve months of incarceration in a military jail. there i became a prisoner of conscience. after nine months i was released early because of good. and then i became an anti-war activist thank one of the first places that i visit it was not a foreigner where brian was living at the time from that moment on my association with brian and began to open my eyes in 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 and still is u.s.

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 play nearly ninety percent since two thousand and one that budget now stands at seven hundred billion dollars per year. add in health costs plus interest for more than one point five million veterans and the us is paying one trillion dollars per year for war and preparation for. our government spends ten times more for citizens on average for military costs than most of the. realized. 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 our role in america under corporate globalization will be security export which means endless war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. and minerals from africa or whatever that our jobs and americans are going to be making weapons fighting wars and increasingly. 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. in the world and say. we're not 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. in april two thousand and ten army private manning sent to wiki leaks to iraq air strikes video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter down on our journalists and the. leaking classified video in related documents manning was charged with espionage and abetting. the symptoms. it was thirty five years in the military person. whoever leaked all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor you want to have a democracy with even some democratic front 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 court. i'm sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions and i made these decisions i believed i was going to help people not hurt. to make democracy functional really to get the information we need we need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personally british. 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 costs and consequences of them. as an instrument of american foreign looms. there's three great there are three. over there you can see two here those are just those are images of all the ways it won't do american and iraqi children it's people that's the first thing they see and i think. something is touched. that you know so because nobody is paying for it they think it a. unifying force. and they're not going with the threat now. devastating child taken in. this is an effort to be to him and to the world i'm able to feel something. about the monster born to kill me i've been. out of. the room.

and the sound of the crowd. let's put it takes to remember. when you know that you've seen it people over. the. then it turn to use drill. down on the least of them. to vote it out in modern place. read it. and she has done. everybody has a greater role to play the role they're 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 out start by convincing a friend and then those speaking in

a 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 a nice. for pete's our lives are dependent on our suffering other human beings who are. it's worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live as if other people don't know. this is. no longer

a place. you can. present the same with this illness are close enough. and in the shadows of i was. beginning to listen would be but then. i'm.

going to place close campsite down again for people that can't decide and they're like so vampire to have. safe housing as 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 hear she does or she'll patients who have problems with the doctor talk to her. in the brains of actually shrinking inside 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 close so we're just not to sure this is just. 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 most of the manner in which it was cancelled over twitter may sting the kremlin more than the cancellation itself is the mythical trump truth in a bromance finally over. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race is often spearing dramatic to follow only closely i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very

critical time time to sit down and talk. join me every first day on the alex i'm unsure and i'll be speaking to get us to the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then. when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer it be to the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine execution. one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying news just knew it hasn't and that we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have just to get pell here is because that's

what murder victims' families want to that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. we. interact in. the week's top stories here on our team to national the g. twenty wraps up in argentina with a truce in the u.s. trying to tar a for a shorter than expected conversation between presidents trump and putin. also this hour is imposed in ukraine after russia seizes three ships off the coast of crimea .