the founding of the episode. on october fifth or in the past this plane was shot down in a car for the poor play dropping army. corps turf at reagan and private. and there was one crew member the parachuted to shake the. new regime props many of them for its. wisconsin cure me after we arrived in. the nick an arm when your dish or tribunals were to take i suppose out to the crash site and asked us to events we wanted to go on a helicopter with our supplies to the crash site house and question mark yours about all the points you've been on all these covert flights of army air corps and he would course angry because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration he was basically a covert operator mercenary he would proud 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 wrong. all secret but the house in question 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 more questions and it's just a second i'm going to ask a journey general meese to brief you on what we presently know what he has found in the united states why. somebody didn't tell us why. the revelations of the iran contra affair gave new momentum to the work of the peace activists some. evidence showed that the weapons were coming from the largest pentagon arms depot on the west coast california. it was conquered 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 from these bunkers that came out and crossed the 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 that are in store planning to start a forty day fast. of our hearts conscience of this what we were doing and why my son was there he's fourteen years old. brian and duncan murphy and david

duncan. placed themselves on the tracks. automat brain. shame 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 went over to the front gate of the name of the station inform them that we were blocking and there was already a train that we could see. this couple box cars with notions they had to. run to be sure that the engineer knew there was a dog or something on the rocks or a good friend. that 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 we understand. i mean violence here today. and we

said no no we're told people are not going to be doing any well. then they start walking back and they say. walking back the freight and start the local. train was obviously the main way faster than it ever observed a train at that stage. i turned around. ran over bryan and i saw him play. a few fly out. ryan's body back and forth in there that frame i watched out 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 in my car because i was on our as a midwife and i asked for someone to go get the idea that card nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first ambulance arrived because 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 this your. in this room. who are the body this is the would be able to unload the. brines action to really open up a lot of people. why. was going on there and why he was there and

how much he had sacrifice in order to save. the day because naval weapons station remained in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallied on behalf of the confirmation of the nickel occupy. protesters tore up the section the closest thing cracks were working from over by a train. this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to be there with. good luck if we will watch it. with you if. this is for me it's a little that. big and just wanted to get out of this. ryan 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 orders and vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized apply human sacrifice and his service to the people of nicaragua he received the mission. field says our son. just a few. this wasn't. just. a

train attack drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in the legal 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. as we gather today the main gate of fort benning. this is there a sacred moment is this the moment. cannot go about the business of killing without . change 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. the message is clear we are not made. up on it this is our asteroid star. i realize something that was factory made by the writers and often. played out to stand on our own war and now as it were all while we're all. right there is a bit silly other people at it that 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 to combat a small. to say not in our name. and what we found through the

freedom of information act was a school of assassins as we are now it's well known in latin america a school for dictators a school march. washington calls front page long to figure types hit a very big article that the torture and. 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. that. who went to latin america simply to request that the stops and the troops here and

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 announced that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas simply said something very important president say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less is for the east. to solve. this if. you cannot make force. 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 you pull up a piece of paper off his desk i just got this memo from the secretary 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 then we're going to move to syria lebanon libya somalia sudan and iran. i seventy seven countries in five years i says in a classified memo. yes sir i sure will don't short term. the united states and. its new use and its tax on other countries. economic sanctions or are often just the

beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries that you're talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country. is a responsibility for the head. and we need to make rules for the rest. because without us there will be. joining me every so speak on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport business i'm show business i'll see that.

the stand. alone one has. goods that are a lot of trouble rather stuff about the fourth. only and that competitor and i cut him a new cut. and. i don't think it is a china photo fault. not that i'm. living. below the. line michelle little subtle and. then let's. get this whole full plate choice on the i knew you didn't pay i think to a mysterious allays truth is she is

a. model for the will fuck around with mr if that for jim and lawyer but i hope that our friend in the court. 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 games on the ground when when i was growing up in it. as a young immigrant community and joined the us military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill i was a very political i read the news 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 just scare saddam hussein out of power and come back in no time i'll go back to school and everything will be 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. in the city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping they rather. 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 we were dealing with a ghost and we were going after the people who are killing so. 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. so i lost my my moral compass you could say i was still afraid to question i was too afraid to take a stand. until i went home and i to it for a lot 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 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 it. i mean if i spoke out against a war and surrender. you may not know or maybe you do know 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. if i. thought it is. as you it was all the.

other. under the treaties which we have thought. precedent which we are so we have to take more if you want to be a serious threat to society than 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. picture 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 you do we stand for the immediate withdrawal of all u.s. troops from iraq when i got out of jail in the first place is that as they said it

was not a foreigner where brian was living at the time from that moment on my association with brian 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 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 u.s. government has increased. its military budget plan yearly ninety percent since two . budgets now stands at seven hundred billion dollars per year. health costs plus interest from more than one point five million veterans and the us is paying one trillion dollars per year. and preparation. our government spends ten times more persistent on average for military costs

over industrialized. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure home or abroad. you know let's face it the weapons corporations in america always love the enemy and they always log. because they're able to sell more weapons that way the pentagon says our role in america under corporate globalization will be security exports which means endless war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. minerals from africa or whatever our job is going to be making weapons fighting wars and increasingly. communities in the 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 thousands of people before the next election will punish us if you try to cut

the military budget so we're. 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. two thousand and ten on. private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq airstrike video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter gunning down eleven on armed journalists can sniff. my model. for leaking classified video in related documents manning was charged with espionage

and abetting the enemy the sentence was thirty five years in the military prison. whoever leaked all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor if you want to have a democracy with even some democratic front some foreign policy have to have 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 apologize 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 they need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personal risk. 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 four contemporary military cemetery appears on santa monica beach in california it is an improvised protest to remind people of the cost and consequences of the rule is an instrument of american foreign looms. there's three was right there. see those three. over there you can see to hear those reduced to certain images of all these one do yeah american and iraqi like children that's for people that's the first thing they see and i think you touch something it starts. your own show because nobody is paying for the wars they think they're. having for the record. and

they're not paying for it the threat of. being devastated child taken in. this is an effort to be yemen shoots the two of them able people to feel something . about the cost of war to kill me. and the sound of the crowd. put it takes to remember. when you know you've seen it people who. people. then it turns to use drifting to war. and on the pleas. of them to. use them to. do both it and modern please. read it and it says. everybody has

a greater role to play the role they're playing right now people who are afraid to write great start out with a two paragraph letter to the editor and you'll see the words will start flowing people who are afraid 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 when it's cold and you confront your worst fears and you call the society out. and you said i love you enough to risk your wrath by opposing your point. and i didn't harm anyone . willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed are then surely we can risk some discomfort for. for pete's our lives and. our suffering other human

beings who are worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live. there people don't count. on the things. the president say this does are close enough. in the shadows of i won't. tell this thing. but then.

by. i mean i mean i did go where you know years. it's one of. those in one room you know most of it goes to billion euros a year which was notable to really good money but really you. please don't please please but then why did the white. people. use the media

to. get more of those. views you. know from the movie the new rules. from. the u.s. in order to guarantee obeyance by the population will engage in soft totalitarianism and that's clearly on the march and the population is ready for it you know they were those had to say i hope they go they get ready for their get ready to be controlled. and. i think syphilis only has a big achiles to when election. they have the election people are suffering from many things and they're. sick you are i think say for this them

begin to think that they can help the country and to make it to good to become sick and stable country so i think he has a big chance on the thing the people they've got a ninety per cent of the people they gonna be happy with the perception someone that action. danson r.t. donald trump has just announced he doesn't rule out sending troops to venezuela to support opposition leader. after washington imposed sanctions on president who warned the u.s. to back off and stop seeking regime checked.