this year the nato alliance is seventy years old is it time now to shut down this cold war relic also liberal media can say sorry and choke on russia again. so after reading trash for life and a stick to the nicaraguan. invited us factory for the twenty fifth anniversary of 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. cork occur at reagan and privately. and there was one crew member the parachute to shake the.

usually awesome props many of them for a. minute wisconsin cure me after we arrived. the nikken armored your dish or tribunals take cost of course out to the crash site and ask us about we want to go on a helicopter with supplies to the crash site wasn't a shock to us about all the points you've been on all these covert flights of course and he would course angry because he had been abandoned by the reagan administration he was basically a covert operator mercenary he was 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 it's all secret but the

house i'm going to shoot down. into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to say wrong sir no and i'm not taking any questions or just a second i'm going to ask each journey general meese to brief you on what we presently know what jesus from and editor in the united states 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 was a train track from these bunkers that came out and cross 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. are planning to start a forty day fast. of our hearts a conscience is 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. train. ajay niagra pretty sure thing you know we just go out there and we shannon and the train slows down a stop. who said

a couple of people lost the road on over to the front gate of the ne watson station inform them that we were done we couldn't block in and there was already a train that we could see you know this combo box cars were going to show they had to. be sure that the engineer knew there was a dog or something on drugs or use our brains. 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. and then they started walking back and they say . walking back the crane started loading.

that was obviously the main way faster than you'd ever observe the train of that state. if i turned around the car a brand brian and i saw him play put a few fly out. and ryan body rode back and forth in there that are a lot i watched listening to my son screaming they killed my dad they killed my dad . and i had medical training even had i.v. equipment in my car because i was on ours and midwives and my asked for someone to go get the id record nine one more and we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first. the ambulance arrived because they refused to take him to the

hospital and they said now is not our jurisdiction and then we have to call another ambulance. on. us is this your. in this room before you go over the. body this is the with the. bryans action to really open a lot of people to. what was going on there and why he was there and how much he had sacrifice in order to save. the concert naval weapons station remained in the national spotlight as protesters of past and present rallies on behalf of the conference mcnichol occupy. protesters

tore up this section of the same practice we're working with from over by a train. i visited this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to talk about the people there with. which. we will watch it. with you with. this and for me it's a little that i. begin to just wish to get out of this. brian immediately wanted to get out into the right now to the tracks instancing you 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 expressed anything like that no doubt they were given an order just like they were . diligence.

in one nine hundred eighty eight or take goes government recognized brian sacrifice and his service to the people of nicaragua he received the nation's highest honor the old goose still says our son deno. just to see the miracles this. was. just.

the train attacks drew attention to the u.s. military's involvement in 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. for good. as we gather today the main gate of fort benning. into portfolios the point that many 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 the p.t.s.d. that we reading so much about now. the message is clear. we are not made

for. this is areso a wide stare right. i realize something that was. made by the right and often. played alistair warren our as it were or why we're all. right here is a bit silly other people i know just because i was ordered to do it so i don't. 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 say 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 calls front

page long to figure. it is a very big article of the torch and. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of torture is so says serious. crimes against here. and it was time. to put out the word. who went to latin america simply to request that the stops and in the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries major cities just pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay and venice away a lot. he went to ecuador where you met with president rafael correa. and at

that meeting he had not just that ecuador it was swelling out of the school of the american system he said something very important that according to say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less for the east. so let's face it. you can make your city. 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 i was leaving 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 secretary to fence

it 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 he said it yes sir i said well don't short term. when lawmakers manufacture consensus instinct of public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. in the final merry go round lives only the one percent. we can all middle of the room six. million real new.

bests drug where cocaine is were four bucks for the under fifty it's the everybody use cocaine crack cocaine you can smoke it this is worth fifty thirty. twenty. score came to this is about a fifteen dollar bet and people smoke this one bigger second sweetie you can find these drugs in any city in the united states that you walk along as you or want to get it about the. i make money. and that's what i do every day.

where i am lost his legs trying to stop a train from going to central america to find out. and it's 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 won't be home when i was growing up and. 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 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 to. be interrogated. in the 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. 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 heard feelings of. the

situation was very intense we were being hit with mortar rounds improvised explosive devices rocket propelled grenades were moving targets which made a very. difficult for anybody to question the morality of the war and. so i lost my my moral compass you could say i was still afraid to question i was so afraid to take a stand. until i went home i had to with her alone and mentally 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 of war so i was really afraid of buck and i had no idea what would happen. so i made it is that so far as you know it was authorized other national under the treaties which we have. precedents which we are so. so

takes more if you want to be a great society and find obedience to authority. you she didn't order is illegal intervene in order to commit a crime don't do it. quickly found guilty. assertion. and given up by bad conduct discharge the motion to stop sergeant the private. market share 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 and thank me duty which stands for the immediate withdrawal of all u.s. troops from iraq when i got out of jail in the first place is that i visited what's called a foreigner where brian was leaving that the time from that moment on my association with brian began to open my eyes in ways that i had never imagined possible and 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 u.s. government has increased its military budget time nearly ninety percent since two thousand and one that 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 u.s. is paying one trillion dollars per year for war and preparation. our government spends ten times more percent of some on average for military costs than most other industrialized nations. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure at 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. it says that our role in america under corporate globalization will be security export which means analysts war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil stracke minerals from africa or whatever that our jobs and americans are 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 right before the next election will punish us if you try to cut the military budget so we're now held hostage people do you think we have to have a military in the world and say. we're not trying to. 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. in april two thousand and ten army private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq air strikes video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter gun being down eleven on our journalists and beat. my mom. for leaking 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 foreign policy. was labeled as an interesting that will always be at risk because there 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 early 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 these it 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 you know 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 a child taken in there is this is an effort to get him into it's. to enable

people to feel something. about the cost of war. that this. is. and the sound of the cry. let's put it to remember. when you know that you've seen it before. you will be. then turn to used rid. of them and use them. to vote so that out in modern fully. aware that the answers come. 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 afraid to speak gallic 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 it can be very frightening but it's equally when it's cold and you've confronted your worst fears and called the society out and you said i love you enough to risk your route by opposing. 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 an easy for pete's our lives are dependent on our suffering to other human beings who are worth much. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live as if other people don't count.

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that. after the previous stage of my career was over everyone wondered what i was going to do next the ball different clubs on one hand it is logical to sort of go from fields where everything is familiar on the other i wanted a new challenge and the fresh perspective i'm used to surprising us all or not seriously. i'm going to talk about football narvi or else you can think i was going to go.

by the way ways of the fly here. seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. i mean you get to shape out these days become educated and engaged with equals betrayal. when so many find themselves worlds apart when she's to look for common ground. or the nato alliance is seventy years old is it time now to shut down this cold war relic also liberal media can say sorry and choke on russia. if.

the us ramps up the pressure on iran does a canadian elite military force the revolutionary guard as a terrorist organization the move is welcomed by israel's prime minister who is facing a tough election race on tuesday some see it as donald trump's latest gift to benyamin netanyahu after the u.s. leader recognized jerusalem and the golan heights as a sovereign israel. and combative interior minister forms an alliance of right wing at nationalist parties saying he aims to shake up the e.u. after next month's elections. kevin owen joins you next hour with the latest from around the world crosstalk is next on international but in the.