some may be killed. and so i come here with a cute sense of the costs of armed conflict. filled with difficult questions about the relationship between war and peace and our effort to replace one with the other . thomas a term. you know i need to make on tall. come sit through things tony. i stand before you tonight in my red taj chiffon evening

god. at. my face softly made up and my family had gently way. i. know with. them i think this extraordinary deal between the united kingdom and saudi arabia in which ronald reagan wanted to sell the saudis billions and billions dollars worth of equipment that these radios stopped it and congress wouldn't approve it because they feared the saudi would strengthen israel. reagan handed the deal is there effectively to his political soulmate sachin un seen nothing yet ah you are a very tough act to follow was.

when least stumbled on the saudi arms. deal we really started to stumble on a central feature of british politics over the last 30 years highness prince who has been at the heart of many of the great to bent's of the polish times i was always peace to see him when i was prime minister because he brought me and shortly insights unbowed proposal was. informed she considers saudi arabia as a strong friend and would be willing to support taking them with whatever the kingdom needs and of discussion from there on everything else was going to get he explained to mr thatcher this was a deal with saudi arabia and the full things were done differently. they

wanted $43000000000.00 with a weapon that was $6000000000.00 increment. the majority of most people understand this broad. we'll continue to work together against the terrorists who threaten the way of life a pacifist. one day i started crying and it was a mad tool. actually he said i've been working for a travel company and we had a kind of slush fund we used to distribute to saudis and other arabs when they came to britain for be all to help the past films deal with the law. and he tell these extra interest stories that when saudi military officers would come along he would present them with canteens of cut 3 that was something that they liked another thing they liked was girls so he. he would take about the town

get the girls. to be honest it's not quite small beer payments made some of them from rather on as nomic activities and chips to the talks about cool downs that sort of thing there's only 2 things that count in business my friend money and sex the rest you can write as much as you like is absolute garbage you can measure weapon beautiful the president's secretary. because the more distracted looking at your secretaries the you want to have your talking about. and that is sometimes all that is you need to be. able to use an escort agency called launches because of the specialties of the chief of staff of the army life long. you think. we had the secretary of the embassy come and review the photos she said i won this one i won this one out with this one i win this one i had the girls i

arrived one day before and i said girls i know you will be paid handsomely for this but do me a favor and if you get any people talk that is relevant please bring your cross because i could use it in 4 huge interest the information i will get out of 2000 euro bonus so it was 60 grand i signed the contract worth 3000000 so it wasn't ideal. m m i phone rang again. it was another whistleblower and he said you have no idea what it is that you're getting into here. and he said this slush fund is much much bigger than you realize our job was to look after the really high level those who used to come to england who were being bribed essentially by be a people of the level of the head of the saudi air force who was a royal prince or. we would fly the 2 of us angelica's and they would buy cars dresses and it wasn't shopping like you would i would think in the end when they gather together all the shop. we would charge an entire jumbo jet to fly it all

back to saudi arabia it was in the camp to try and trace through the bank accounts who the ultimate beneficiary saw that the case became really very serious as the trail appeared to lead towards senior members of the saudi royal family. the most outrageous example was that maybe a me i'd order to smooth the way with prince bandar at one point i made him a present of a huge commercial airliner all of his various which he promptly have painted in the gray and silver colors of the dallas cowboys and rees favorites a very good team i me is the flyer of him that quite cheerfully. the case stands on establishing the ultimate beneficiary of exceptionally knowledge amounts of money paid by the sharing space for consultancy said

decisions health thinks there's evidence that mark fashion of this is that your son got $12000000.00 in cash for his work as a fixer. think about politicians is a very much like prostitutes but only more expensive. politics is it dated by the whims of the arms industry politicians are nothing more than sales reps by their friends to have as much power as a middle ranking executive in law to martin ident of the day did with that old. what executive goes to broad a foreign official he says to herself look i've taken a lot of risk to take this $5000000.00 for them to the prime minister of actual a very good mixer arrangement. with prime minister of x y z. i'll hand over the

5000000 could you take half of that 5000000 and you send it to the following day to go to churchill and we'll share in this for. the 1st time an executive does and he collects $2500000.00 he says wow this is a good business to be and within moments of that realization he is no no longer in the business of selling airplanes he's in the business of selling bribes and he is now scouring the world for somebody to follow and to bribe. we. had to feel. the city can. chew through. it to. see what it. is out it says.

each child. each careful city. says. i t's. mine. when. i'm in the phone rang again. this was somebody who said you have no idea what you're getting into he said this whole be a thing is much much bigger that goes right to the very top what he had was something that you never see is this swiss bank records all of international call the payments going all over the world he showed me how be a set of a whole system with lloyds bank under which they channeled secret payments into the british virgin islands offshore companies called red diamond from red diamond them . money went into this guy's swiss bank account and he then used it to distribute

to the local politicians taking a big check himself of course we don't control the surely we do we believe those companies are all to the business of labor's policy as you suggest the laws of supply they do employees of government it is just both the way the business is done . we were actually able to publish what was the most dangerous story the prince bandar had been given not just the claim but over the years that proclaimed 1000000000 allan's we did not invent. corruption i mean adam and eve would have been and they had hanky panky and they had to go down to and so i mean this is this is human nature i salute you prince of state one and a friend. how do you agree. of course none of us are greedy it's only the other families greed. the world runs on individuals pursuing their

self-interest. all those people who believe that greed violence etc these primal so-called primal instincts other religious things and everything else is a social construction they've lost their mind and for the last 50 years at least policy has been made based on the assumption of greed and it's ruined the wouldn't . catch the next believe there is new nature of society so you have to nurture individual is i don't accept that at all i think there are very many good public policy initiatives for creating societies. in the beirut there's a load to you. there's a committees and a k $47.00 kalashnikov. the society that decides that the bulk of its budget is going to go to arms manufacturing building of a military eccentric this is made

a moral decision that militarism is more important then the creation of wellbeing for the population. this is not the world i want to live in i want to live in the real wood and the real world is peopled by real emotions including love and generosity. they didn't say. they.

were. wow feel it 2020 should be a whopping. thousands of american men and women choose to serve in the country's military and the decision. every song came to a complete. the day that i was right. you know told to shut up but they'd kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and he grabbed my arm and he write me with his birthing curia if you take into account that women don't report because of the extreme retaliation and it's probably somewhere near about half a 1000000 women have now been sexually assaulted in the us military is a very very traumatizing have happened but i've never seen trauma like i've seen women who are veterans who have suffered military sexual trauma reporting rape is

more likely to get the victim punished and be offended and almost 10 year career or chose very invested in and i gave a sex offender who was not even put to justice or put on the registry this is simply an issue of tower and violence male sexual predators for the large part of target whoever is there to prey upon whether that's men or women. my god if you want is freedom the freedom of human beings of individuals to pursue their own say is i think what they term freedom means is economic license and economic license and those who control property and those who control capital has in fact been a threat not only to equality but a threat to the freedom of peoples all over the world and not only in europe and the united states but nafta in asia and in latin america i want you to name me any society in which you have any large measure of that freedom where capitalism and

free enterprise has not been the predominant mechanism of the free enterprise system has spread through the force of on send notes on through wielded by governments that was government intervention under the name of the free enterprise system but a government intervention which destroyed the cretin's of many people not least of which are the people of chile. from the 1950 s. all the way through the 1970 s. the cia and the u.s. military were engaged in covert actions throughout central mad america throughout africa really throughout the world where they were assassinating populist leaders they were backing up right wing military juntas funding and arming death squads like the contras in nicaragua or battalion $316.00 and under us and i and there

were these spate of assassinations across the globe. in countries like mine people have been killed to be quiet to know that any day any time you're going to be killed you don't know how but it's coming. we were fighting in oligarch and still we are fighting you know body guards mines that don't want to work going inclusiveness they just pick. action is not only about taking from the earth but taking from the people. even to dreams take on the next. the last half of what is called the cold war i don't know it to be a very hard war for many parts of the wood. from the standpoint of want it badly and cause the victims or what i would think of really as of people trying to make their own futures. there was an attempt in the global south to create an

alternative imagination for people. but in the early 1970 is this attempt was destroyed and it was stopped through a real genuine attempt by the global lot to take over the institutions of the world including the world bank the i.m.f. . souls not simply that the people of the south were incapable of carrying forward their dreams. it was a very strong with these dreams were assassinated. it's not just the one off killings the cool year the cool there. it's the entire dream that had to be killed.

to be sure to read a book. on county for myself. but i asked him better than mere. mortals who are looser because on the end. of the sutras he not one just got a testimony most of it in me but he's. when i said kind of thing this year. the whole lead on. n t you cool enough to notice them and. you know build command. decency yeah that mindy. interrupting good to see.

the joint hearings of the house select committee to investigate covert arms transaction with iran. and the select committee on secret military assistance to iran in the neck iraq when opposition will come to order congress began to address what they perceive to be an insanely out of control series of covert actions with little to no congressional oversight we have been supplying lethal weapons to terrorist nation involving the us government in military activity in direct contravention of the law and lying to the congress now i believe that democracy cannot survive that kind of abuse.

and people like dick cheney and donald rumsfeld who are relatively new to government at the time did not like when congress had we need to step in and confront the national security state and what's become a very out of control kill program cheney then went on during the reagan years in the eighty's to serve in congress and when the iran contra scandal broke out into the open. cheney did not like congress being involved with anything that the executive branch was doing. and you had to see understand that emanated from the highest echelons of power and the reagan administration was acting as though it had nothing to do with it i've told you all that i know and you know the truth of the matter is for quite some long time all that you knew was when i told you to take. it with me you. are witness this morning is

mr robert mcfarlane the former national security advisor to the president. mr mcfarlane we welcome you to the committee and we look forward to your testimony. mr mcfarlane. did you have any discussion about the possibility. of in effect farming out the whole contra support operations in nicaragua to another country which will call country run yes that's correct and did you in fact succeed in obtaining money from another country. which we'll call country to. that's correct. i had they practice meeting periodic lee who was the official from country to about the systems we could provide some cases arms sales. and they intended to provide a contribution of

a $1000000.00 per month to the contras through the end of the year. you have no problems working with us we have no problem working with the united states government and unless the cia does not work for the government then i think we have a bigger problem there are many cases where some americans are question that you know well thank heavens those occasion was not in connection with saudi arabia. i think that there was a substantial shadow government. trying to run foreign affairs united states. these events have been characterized by some pretty strong statements we've heard talk of a grave constitutional crisis and even been treated to talk about a coup in the white house not only does cheney sort of defend iran contra but he

argues that iran contra is actually a model for how the u.s. should be conducting its national security policy he is a radical subscriber to this notion of the unitary executive effectively what you're doing is saying on certain parts of american policy we don't have a democracy we have a dictatorship as a matter of fact i was. very definitely involved in the decisions about support to the freedom fighters my idea to begin with. in my opinion there is no justification for further restrictions on the power and flexibility a future president. of the national security lead today is mostly composed of people who hit the revolving door multiple times during their last nomination of richard b. cheney to be secretary of the friends is going to. make a name for themselves in the private industry and then they come into the go. this

revolving door keeps the national security leak very small and very wealthy. and increasing its wealth as it goes up the journey to the extent that then when you get to the top as cheney did then you can become a member of the plutocracy that runs the country to this is an impressive crowd the haves and the have more. money commissioned a study by halliburton to find out how much more of the defense department could be privatized. to serve our troops and was he laid to get this $1000000.00 contract and of course returned a verdict that oh mr secretary lots more of it can be privatized. dick cheney leaves the defense department and goes and heads halliburton himself and he spends the entire 1990 s. building up the war empire well if we're going to talk about star wars we might as

well invite darth vader i. have to do except. when he comes back into power as vice president and then they start hiring how important to you know in advance even if u.s. troops going into iraq how a burden personnel and equipment was being deployed to the gulf it's hard to look at this and not say these guys had a very long term plan for how they were going to increase the powerful infrastructure of private companies. what we've essentially done is to create a network of corporations that have the fire power of small nation states that could you know overthrow some small governments around the world. in essence we in the united states have privatized the ultimate public function war.

on you know right now you know bombs have got a time limit don't like food. you know munitions and. so by the things. you can see. in iraq the f. 16 s and that's a tease we're firing 6000000 dollars within seconds coming back we army and going up again. there's no hope of any more because there's always a small cobble of people for more of the really really good business. it doesn't

matter that we're losing the war in afghanistan albertan could care less it's good for them good for profit. margins here and no no no no. i don't want this you have no knowledge of the. bad law i was hoping for you did not fit then i don't know your last year alone.

there's a lot of here is economy where china has caught up or surpassed us you know the mobile payments market 50 times the size of the us or over here still writing checks our banking system is not innovated 5 g. we've kind of recently walking up the last couple years and go wow we don't even have a company that can make 5 g. equipment it's been a win win for china and it's been a lose lose for the u.s. . but if she warned you and i did the dishes at the bazemore those jeans near the speech that she me we didn't you. know when you. can use i mean guys are that in france involved. a lot of you will see sawing your info as if parts of the 2 kids each other both.

by. ear and she could walk. 5 film days doing. a english lady a thing people who simply knew she would include in a little. time after time corporations repeat the same mantra sustainability it's very important it's accelerating the transition to sustainable transport sustainability. a more equitable and sustainable world. they claim their production is completely hama's. companies want us to feel good about buying their products why. the damage is being done far away this isn't just. looking.

under. the sun in the. most scary rings in the new year and a new decade bright lights and cheering crowds the streets of russia's capital welcome 2020. also the united states announces it will send 750 valtrex to the middle east in response to attack on the u.s. embassy in baghdad the events following american astronauts now rock in syria that killed 25 people at the weekend. although it's all the headlines and that's it for me andrew cuomo.