they agreed a mission he was proud of. hossam forces capture would reveal a complex web of covert operations run by u.s. 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. into the open to make a mistake it's really hard to tehran sir no and i'm not taking any profession change 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.

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 called a 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 is fourteen years old. brian. murphy and david duncan. place themselves on the tracks. 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 cross the road line over to the front gate of the watson station inform them that we were done we can block in and there was already a train that we could see you know this couple blocks cars were going to show they had to. be sure to engineer a new dog or something. to the police would probably come and 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. it was obviously the main way faster than moved ever observe the train of that state. turned around. and i saw. a few fly out. of ryan's body back and forth that are a lot i watch. and listening to my father and screaming they killed my dad they

killed my dad. and i had medical training and i even had i.v. equipment in my car because i was on ours and that's why. i asked for someone to go get the id card nine one one we had to wait at least seventeen minutes after the first 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. this is a few of the. good in this room. this would be able to unload them would he go to. ryan's action to 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 or maybe in the national spotlight as protesters are past and present rallied on behalf of the n.c. conference of mechanical occupy. protesters tore up the section of the same tracks we're working with brown from over by a train. i visited this morning. one to two a. few minutes we're going to get out the people there with. goods. we will watch it. with you. for this and for me it's a little bit. just begin and just waiting to get out of. ryan immediately. i wanted to get out into the right back to the traps 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 vietnam to bomb diligence. in one nine hundred eighty eight or take those government recognized employees sacrifice them to his service to the people of nicaragua he received the nation's highest honor the old school 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 legal wars highlighting its role in training secret armies for other countries most of the covert training took place in fort benning georgia at the notorious school of the americas. for good i think. as we gather today the main gate of fort benning into. this is there a sacred moment if this woman. cannot absorb. now 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 still 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 realized something that was that a right and often. a play on a stand alone at war now 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 learned 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 say not in our name. and what we found through the freedom of information act was a school of assassins as we are and it's well known in latin america a school for dictators a school march. on washington course front page long particular types had a very big article of the torch and. there were a few news at the school of the americas techniques of harsh mississippi says serious. crimes against here. and it was time. to put out the word. yet. who went to latin america simply. to request

that the stops and the troops here and i'm happy to report that five countries may just say should just pull out. those countries to be in argentina uruguay and venice away a lot. he went to ecuador with president rafael correa and at that meeting he had not just that ecuador it was going out of the school of the americas he said something very important is that according to say that it will have made it because he said this school should not exist. less is 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. by 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 defense's office 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 in a classified memo he said yes sir i said well don't short term.

the rules of the gate have to be changed and we are still living with this sort of the legacy sophie doesn't see. most of the. legal frameworks invest in all of them are decided for industrial face of the stick watch and now we are moving and i think the problem is that our concepts are behind.

bests drugs where cocaine is where four bucks for the under fifty. everybody use cocaine. cocaine you can smoke it this is worth fifty thirty. twenty. two this is about a fifteen people smoke this one go figure so. you can find these drugs in any city in the united states was a long as you want to get it about the. make money. and that's what i do every day. of the trial has a list of. all the. people in the film of the hospital that is about there's no no.

nothing. 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 the nigger i want to be when i was growing up in nicaragua as a young immigrant. i had joined the u.s. military in part to pay for a college education through the g.i. bill i wasn't very political i read the new 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 test 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 to. be interrogated. in city of ramadi it became evident. that our military commanders were not interested in helping they run.

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 you were dealing with a ghost enemy we're going after the people who are feeling. 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 too afraid to question i was too afraid to take a stand. until i went home and i 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. 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. i was very scared of what the military 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 servers and the time war so i was really afraid about that i had no idea what would happen.

if i. thought it is. true as you it was all the. other. under the treaties which we have some. of the friends of it which we are so we have to take for if you want to be a direction shy to find obedience to authority. you she didn't order it 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 a private. teacher 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 i visited what sounded foreign and where brian was noting that 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. the u.s. government has increased its military budget nearly 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 u.s. is paying one trillion dollars. and preparation.

government spends ten times more prestigious on average for military costs over industrialized. this increased military spending has not made the us more secure home. 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 exports which means endless war to benefit the corporations so we can extract oil. minerals from africa or whatever our job in america is going to be making weapons fighting wars and increasingly. communities that dictate 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 thousands of people before the next election will punish you if you try to cut the military budget so we're held hostage. and say hey we're not trying to. play now the way we conduct ourselves in the world makes us a lot of enemies and one thing that i think is important. in april two thousand and ten army private manning sent to wiki leaks the iraq airstrike video collateral murder which shows a u.s. helicopter gunning down eleven on army journalists can sniff. my model. for

leaking classified video and related documents manning was charged with espionage and abetting the end of the sentence it was thirty five years in the military prison. whoever leaked all those state department documents to the wiki leaks website is a traitor who want to have a democracy with even some democratic influence on 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 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 they need whistleblowers who expose the truth that personal risk. people who will risk there were reelection using their powers of office their powers in

a corporation to affect 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 costs and consequences of the rule as an instrument of american foreign loops. there's three panels right there see those three. over there you can see to hear those reduced to certain images of all these when do . the iraqi children the sort of people that's the first thing they see and i think just nobody is paying for or they think that they. have paid for the record. and

they're not paying for it the threat of. being devastated child taken in. this is an effort to be to him and to the world i'm able to feel something. about the cost of war to kill me i'm just so out. of it. and the sound of the crowd. let's put it takes to remember when you know you've seen it people who. then it turns to use drill. down on the police to. use them to. say that i'm a model. and says.

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 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 over and you confront your worst fears and then call the society out and you said i love you enough to. 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 our then surely we can risk some discomfort or. for deeds. and. our suffering to other human

beings who are worth more. then the question is how can you justify continuing to live as if other people don't count. the things. you can. the president say this does are close enough. to share. i won't. tell this new book.

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when the law makers manufacture consent instinctive public wealth. when the ruling classes protect themselves. with the financial merry go round. no one posts that were told. to ignore middle of the room signals. i mean real news is really the way. the business model of facebook is to pressure p. continue communicating through facebook and giving facebook personal information this is what makes facebook a surveillance monster show facebook does not have users facebook has used people that facebook use it's.

that word. in the stories that shaped the week wiki leaks co-founder julian a song all rested off to spending almost seventy years holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london. as the rest grab global attention and spot concerns over a song just possible extradition to the united states. also this hour a u.s. republican senator urges military help for venezuela to prevent what he calls genocide by president smith claims an invasion is being discussed behind closed doors. and a military coup in.