this is the kremlin that all of russian communism looking at russia we might see it as a country to be studied as we study other nations of the world yet we know that russia today is regarded as a grave threat to our nation to our freedom to the beat of the world why i thought what makes it a threat looking closer we see a clue public display a giant portrait of communist leaders made leaders by their actions across the world as band guide here in russia you see the reason why so many nations are building up their defenses in russia you see the reason why we are spending billions of dollars in defense production why your family is paying the higher taxes in our history the leaders of russia tell us their only concern  americas by terrorists by outside interference and those who are just aiming at el salvador but i think our aiming at the shuttle and our splitter south america and i'm sure eventually north america that's correct prior to the rise of the sandinistas members of the same family had ruled nicaragua for over forty years this emoticon and monopolized almost every industry in the country stealing millions from their own trained in neighboring condren us as well as back on in florida the contras would unleash a reign of terror on the people of nicaragua they focused heavily on economic targets missions included the blowing up  so i guess in a way they are counter read illusionary and god bless them for being that way and i guess that makes them contras and should make me a convert to long as there is breath in this body i will speak and work strive and struggle for the cause of the nicaraguan freedom fighters leader congressional intelligence committee revealed that the contras had rate tortured and killed an unarmed civilians including children and everybody covered the entire campaign but everybody ceased to cover the election itself because washington very cleverly changed the issue previously of democracy and nicaragua to the issue of  national security the united states says circumstantial evidence suggesting that as many as a dozen soviet make twenty one jets may have arrived today at the nicaraguan fort of  the first major test came from greece rejecting the participatory government created by the end hundred c resistance during the war both the british and americans chose to support fascist elements that the resistance had been fighting only months before come for anything else for many american leaders as well as military and intelligence officers the soviet union and the philosophy of communism were seen as real existential threats according to fill a baggie one of the first cia whistleblowers the reading list at the farm and advanced training facility for cia officers consisted almost entirely of critical books about the soviet union notably absent was any literature dealing with democratic or libertarian socialism or any text written by socialists themselves not even marx and self was part of the reading list according to aggy cia recruits were t one of the most interesting things about propaganda is the relationship between what the propagandists believes and what he or she has to say what we see is a system of propaganda in which the main propagandists believe what they are saying they believe in what they're doing or acting for the greater good of humanity or whatever their particular cause is and what happens in that kind of circumstance is a phenomenon that some people call blowback in other words you come up with messages that are aimed at etiologies or worldviews and you and you put them out and then the messages come back to you as though they were truthful wars in particular but self destructive actions of all sorts when the public sits back and looks at it literally so you know though ask yourself how did they get into this foolishness well part of it is this this cycle of self deception when i join unions i was a dedicated cold warrior who felt the ages out there fighting for liberty justice democracy and religion around the world and i believe were skeptical the king of the claim that soviet russia was determined to conquer the world republican senator roberts remarked that no russian military attack is threatened in western europe they certainly do not pretend to understand the token support to liberation movements in the third world soviet born policy would remain remarkably conservative throughout the cold war the soviet union contrary to what all americans were good change their main concern was to be on good terms with the west which would surprise most americans but we had good terms with the west was what they wanted they wanted to pursue what was known as socialism in one country  exaggerated by the western media were all communist conspiracy the soviet union was not in a position to bring communism around the world or people in their own countries who wanted communist revolutions the soviet union was not countries they created revolutionary movements when it created revolutionary movements all of this was attributed to the soviet union and so when the people in vietnam created their own nationalist movement first against the french in the united states well that way but they also knew something else and they said it in their secret memos which overall revealed if you read the pentagon papers you know the secret to france history of the of the vietnam war their real intent well to be a have a base and the base would be near all the rich the ten the robber and or the rich resources of that area of southeast asia and also to have a nother military base in the world the motives were not given to the american people but their motives were clear and the motors really had nothing do with a world communist conspiracy but with economic and military one such document speaking of american designs against syria notes that the u s s r show no intention of direct intervention in any of the previous mid eastern crisis and we believe it is unlikely that they would intervene and other and self destruction yet the voices of these men and women were a minority and there were far more powerful interests with a seat a train inside one of these was charles e wilson the president of general electric corporation e had garnered enormous profits during world war two and charlie wilson sir no reason why the prospect of peace should interfere with his prerogative he suggested what he called a permanent or economy it was sentiments was a chorus of voices in the corporate media business week spoke of military spending as a way to maintain and generally up return and inject new strength into the entire economy and jan twenty fifth  fifty president truman signed national security council document sixty eight it would not be released to the public for twenty five years but it military expenditures in the united states are the motor of the u s economy and they have been that ever since about one nine hundred fifty is worth reviewing the history because that's where this crisis i think comes from this sought for needed crisis hundred fifty there was extreme worry at the highest levels of the truman administration that the united states was likely to return to the conditions of the great depression of the one nine hundred thirty s and so early in hundred fifty the decision was taken that this domestic economic problem was going to be solved through militarism that is through rearmament in the united states and through u s financing of the rearmament of western europe particularly western germany the document which provides the analysis of the world at that time and the us place in the world and the internal situation in the you know in the united states was top secret for twenty five years in one hundred seventy five it was accidentally or through era released and published it is known as n s a sixty eight it was written by n s a standing for national security council it was written by paul nitze and it is a very detailed document the main operative conclusion though was this is a quote from the document the united states and other free nations w within a period of a few years at most experienced a decline in economic activity of serious proportions unless more positive governmental programs are developed where the solution adopted those more positive governmental programs was an expansion of the military he mustered all the hype and emotion he could and truman said among other things he said our homes our nation all the things that we believe in are in great danger this danger has been created by the rulers of the soviet union in his speech he also called for massive increases in military spending for u s and european forces quite apart from the need in korea well there was no threat from the soviet union they were still rebuilding from the rubble of world war two in which they had lost twenty million people they were no threat what they were manufactured from one thousand nine hundred eighty on from the time of korea on as a grave threat to the united states and that became the justification for this program which truman through manipulation of the korean war had been able finally to get through congress the result was that in the first two years that is the two years between one hundred fifty and one hundred fifty two the us military budget more than tripled from thirteen billion dollars in one thousand nine hundred fifty to forty four billion dollars in one thousand nine hundred two and during the same two year period u s military forces doubled to three point six million people under arms this was the beginning of the permanent war economy in the united states the korean war by the way went on for three more years after it could have ended in the end the thirty four thousand us where dad more or less more than one hundred thousand wounded and the total casualty count was in the millions is worth recalling that because from nine hundred fifty on the soviet threat was the justification the justification for the permanent work kind of me and the justification for mit it's almost impossible to miss i mean things like say computers and the internet company that software information technology lasers microelectronics pharmaceuticals it's developed and at mit and places like this under government funding that means at taxpayer expense and for a long period when the computers and the internet are supposed to be at the heart of the high tech economy you know we were in the public sector for about thirty years before they were handed over to private enterprise to make profit from the bill gates he was living off of public funding the basic structure of software computers internet and so on was developed and he managed to use it to create ways of monopoly the role of entrepreneurial initiative and consumer choices virtually nothing except that the marketing and the same is true of the pharmaceutical industr understands that so public funds are channeled to research and development for ultimate profit under the pretext that it's the defenders of us so therefore the public face of cost the way the system works i recently with the two thousand and eight the beginning of sunni meltdown of the american economy you know what ultimately happened is that we took care of those who were driving business interests we took care of wall street on the backs of main streets and we continue to do this today because we have bought in we have really persuaded ourselves that it's business that is the most protected sector and in many respects they're allowed to make mistakes and when they make mistakes these financial firms pays for it but we do you know the taxpayers and so when a worker makes a mistake and the worker pays for it he might lose his job or maybe he will get demoted but that's an individual result where is the at the business level this is all part of kind of feeding into these american ideals of who we are the business sector of the military sector they often work very much in our law and there's still no other country on the planet that is so militarized as military pro business type mentality that we have almost kneejerk support in that it's our surround sound and we're just we're just not aware of anything that's really countering that surround when we see it now its tentacles really just taken over it through into entertainment into virtually every sector of our society including education we've got a corporatization of education so that what results is that in everything you do there has to be a bottom line effect to it you know what's the profit from his how can we profit from this thing once we have declared cold war we and then trying to make the building blocks it was whose word this continuation what you have to happen is a lot of people will show up with their own vested interest in this in this industry it's almost like any industry can be the fashion industry entertainment industry this is already industry expertise as you know is cia marine corps three cia secret wars i had a position in the national security council in one nine hundred seventy five as the chief of the angola task force running the secret war and goal it was  third cia secret war i was part of the national security law creating the national security council and the cia as you know was passed in one nine hundred forty seven the cia was given this charter to perform such other duties and function as might be nest necessary to the national security interests and given of vague authority to protect its what the sources and methods and i think it was in the mid eighty's that i call in this frayed the third third world war because in my research i realized that we were not attacking the soviet union and the cia's activities we were attacking people in the third world and i'm going to just quickly in the interest of time just give you a little sense of what that what that means this third world war basically it's the third i believe in terms of loss of life and human destruction the third bloodiest war and all of history they undertake to run operations in every corner of the globe they also undertook the license of operating just totally above and beyond the u s laws they had a license if you will to kill but also they they took that to a license to smuggle drugs a license to do all kinds of things to other people and other societies in violation of international law our law and every principle of nations working together for a healthier and more peaceful world meanwhile again they battled to convert the us legal system in such a way that it would give them control of our society now we have massive documentation of what they call the secret wars of the cia we don't have to guess or speculate we had the church committee investigate them in one thousand nine hundred seventy five gave us our first really in depth powerful look inside this structure senator church said in the fourteen years before he did his investigation that he found they had run one hundred major operations and three thousand minor operations and if you extrapolate that over the whole period of the forty odd years that we've had to see you come up with three thousand major operations and over ten thousand minor operations every one of them illegal every one of them destructive of the lives and societies of other peoples and many of them bloody and gory beyond comprehension almost extensively we manipulated and organized the overthrow of functioning constitutional democracies in other countries we organized secret armies and directed them to fight and just about every continent in the world we encouraged ethnic minorities to rise up and fight people like the mosquito indians in nicaragua the kurds in the middle east the monks and in southeast asia we have organized and we still do and fund death squads in countries around the world like the treasury police in el salvador which are responsible for most of the killing of the fifty thousand people just in the eighty's and it was seventy thousand before that trying to summarize this third world war that the cia the u s national security complex with the military all interwoven at it in many different ways has been waging let me just put it this way the best heads that i coordinate with studying this thing we count at least minimum figure six million people who have been killed in this long forty year war that we have waged against the people of the third world these are not soviets we have not been parachuting teams into the soviet union to kill and hurt and maimed people especially not since one nine hundred fifty four when they developed actually capability of dropping atomic weapons on the united states these are all people of the third world there are people of countries like the congo vietnam come put shia and sunni shia nicaragua where conspicuously they nor their governments do not have the capability of doing any will hurt to the united states they don't have i c b m s they don't have armies or navies they could not hurt us if they wanted to there's really been any evidence that they really wanted to and that in fact is perhaps the whole point if they had had i probably wouldn't have done the things to him for fear of retaliation cheap shots if you will killing people of other countries of the world who cannot defend themselves under the guise of secrecy and under the  national life is made of this belief we believe in many things but believe that man is a responsible being bears out our own unique stamp as a nation procreate the land the natural resources the labor and the markets of another country have for the benefit of the rich the imperial and sometimes for the benefit form of colonize world in the powerful states and the elites that benefit and control those powerful states in this world system and depending on what moments in the last few centuries we've been talking about there's always been one or another way in which that contradiction has been  lly frames so it was if you logically framed as the manifest destiny disappearing already the anglo saxon races destiny to rule the world before there was any such thing as communism or the soviet union when we get in then it was framed as anarchists anarchists were going to create in north texas id before that still before the soviet union came into existence during the cold war the principle way in which the war of the rich and powerful against the poor majority of the world was fr a struggle against communism then the cold war comes to an end and it's a struggle against international drug trafficking and then we have nine eleven and now the principle winds of battle horrible idea logically expressed as a war against terrorism so there's no wonder another justification of the getting nation for the domination of a small minority of humanity over majority of humanity one has not changed is that system of domination what has changed it's how easy it is is justified and legitimated u s has intervened who the times have taken place worse of intervention have unfolded before during and after the cold war  we cannot attribute the nature of this will system to the mid twentieth century down to the two coniston in the capitalist system a lot of people seem to think that american imperialism is of recent vintage but actually it goes way way back if you can argue that it goes back at least certainly to these fantasy american war and the you take over the philippines cuba and puerto rico but you can also find it going much further back really its roots perhaps in the mo doctrine by the one nine hundred twenty s we see an article the nation magazine called the republic of brown brothers and this was about a bank that would later be one of its partners would be prescott bush the grandfather of george w bush and how they were using the u s government particularly for example in the military the marines would have had to go into various countries where the financial interests of private corporations where they were threatened and essentially neutralize or even remove governments so there's a long long history of this always we are being told serving the interests of the american people questionable whether it serve the interests of these corporations always  plantations which now spread all over the island of haiti and iran france and spain competed for control over haiti these french kicked out the spanish and turned into this gem of its colonial system the vast majority of the contest that but we've had various laws on the books in our country going back to the nineteen twenties it is illegal for the u s government to propagandize citizens in this way in my opinion this war could have never been sold if it were not for this sophisticated propaganda campaign and what we need is congressional investigation of not just this pentagon military analysts program but all the rest the deception and propaganda that came out of the bush administration and out of the pentagon that allowed well we want to sell and manage this war and well we want to keep this for the purposes of this is this discussion focused on on this particular  report you know the war in iraq goes forward for three four five years before questions that were obvious even before the war began begin to be discussed in the public debate  we live in a dirty in dangerous world there are some things the general public does not need to know and i believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep it secret and when the press can decide  to have airplanes dropped leaflets in the we see here and in the northern states of the united states say essentially warning this could be a bomb this could be a russian but we need to have people to sign up for what centers that will watch the skies for russian bombers and in this way we will protect ourselves call such and such a number and you can be you can join this team and they would dump millions of these leaflets on world communities and small towns and in the series of the country and then the scholars would go in there and see well how many people called the the watch center and what happened when kids picked it up to think did the kids take the leaflet to the parents or do the kids just throw it away if if a parent picked it up did they take it to their church or school or business where did they just keep it at home and so this is all studied out this was both a propagate it was it was a study of how propaganda works and it was also a propaganda event in its own right and that was aimed at the american public at the height of the cold war with a message of potential fear and devastation to see how they would respond the realities of warfare at that time or the russian planes could not reach europe often much less the united states they simply did not have that capability technically capability and the military organizations knew but nevertheless the projected fear of war was used to eventually push the bomber cap into becoming a major political issue of the arrow and a major source of funding for the that were due that were running this propaganda study in the united states continuously the american elite had to keep the american public frightened about the phone enemies in this question we have said that saddam hussein possesses biological and chemical weapons we know where they are there in the area around tikrit and baghdad soviet union has been busy they've been busy in terms of the level of effort they've been busy in terms of the actual weapons that they've been producing they've been busy in of expanding production rights they've been busy in terms of expanding their institutional capability to produce additional weapons at additional rates they've been busy in largely an exercise in propaganda they can be no doubt that military leaders were sincerely frightened of the soviet union in one essential aspect it was the one rifle that had the ability to approach the u s in terms of nuclear firepower i want to share these poems of my soul my poems are soft green my poems are also flaming the crimson my poems are like a wounded fong