one hundred twelve billion dollars in new funds were allocated to the military other budget at the cia and other intelligence agencies rose to twenty nine billion dollars clinton had promised what he called a peace dividend and delivered in the america and the former soviet bloc countries secretary of state warren christopher instructed u s embassies to help american arms companies promote trade christopher previously served as director of lucky the largest arms manufacturer in the world the rise in arms sales coincided with the massive increase in privatization many of the jobs cut from the military were simply transferred to private contractors over one hundred thousand clinton's first term in the wake of nine eleven the american military budget doubled to over seven hundred billion dollars i've said that we need to increase the size of our military which politically if it got to the wharf probably would pass but there are as you know a whole bunch of folks on the left who think that that is a waste of money i think it's important for us to  spent on air conditioning for american military personnel than the entire budget of nas it's recognition of its manifest destiny to be strong enough to support freedom beyond it smith made a remarkable prediction he claimed that america would become an extensive empire which seems very likely to become one of the greatest and most formidable that ever was in the world george washington agreed suggesting that the new republic was an instant empire it would take nearly two centuries for the prophecy of adam smith to be fully realized most historians trace the explosion of american intervention did these actions justify atrocities by the united states and great pronouncements by western leaders of an international communist conspiracy one theory can be found in national security council documents sixty eight released internally in the year nine hundred fifty it states that u s military superiority was a policy which the united states would probably pursue even if there were we began by testing this viewpoint through examination of five american interventions during the cold war and the british and americans were very disturbed by this disaster because they realized that it would and they they could for the all supplies because the imperative of this whole democratic process was precisely the justice iraq for the benefit of the iranian people so if you look at the classified documents or not come out of the state department and british foreign office this idea was very candidly discussed that democracy was considered to be a problem he was executed alon in iran the people would also storm the headquarters of their look back and think you know what if we had instead supported most of the back and said now is democratically elected let's help them that could change the whole politics of the middle east where we were never would have the problems that we're having to despite continued aggression against iran by israel and the united states including violent covert operations it has not attacked another country in over two hundred  years we wanted to do was have a terror campaign to terrify our bench particularly terrify his troops much as the german bombers terrified the population of of  double nephew sigmund freud and he actually learned fundamental techniques of human psychology and the ability to manipulate and manage your behavior from uncle untenable and that people are just too stupid to govern ourselves in a democracy and so his rationalization was that there needed to be this elite of guardians if you will of public policy and public opinion who would manage society and that public relation practitioner would be a professional who would work for government and industry in managing  durables the nazi propaganda minister and he said to his friend eddie bernice eddie just of gerbils has an even bigger propaganda library than yours and he reads and uses all actual began to realize that this technique of manipulating and managing public opinion and behavior that he thought was essential to preserve democracy might not just as easily be used in the wrong hands to subvert democracy that question we raised was sort of answered or later for us when we found out that indeed bernays was completely comfortable engineering and helping to engineer a huge sums of money to develop a propaganda campaign against other bands and the people of got a minor shortly before the two articles began appearing in the new york times the atlantic monthly the new york  demonstrations against neighboring countries and the united states in our bones was overthrown and order to restore to power a right wing regime and i have from nineteen fifty four to nineteen ninety when some sort of a peace accord was signed two hundred twenty five thousand indians mostly were murdered in guatemala by the cia installed military regime sos it was a victory for the us in the cold war but it was a terrible genocidal situation in guatemala finally recognized at least verbal and by clinton who actually apologize overthrown by the people and for that we congratulate you and the people abroad amala for the support they have given and we are sure that under your leadership supported by the people home i have met by the hundreds on my visit t i founded the historical memory project in two thousand two thousand and one when i organise did the first conference for the project to and massacres you know smashing babies against trees and raping women and all the terrible things that we learnt through the collection of testimony is  think that the most important thing to understand is how ideologies of us ideologies of national security doctrine resonated with local ideologies said to the military you know the local arms over there was to say look you need to find terrorists or anything tell an enemy inside the country so anyone could you know was that became suspicious to one another trust and solidarity within these communities have been very difficult to rebuild and that to me it's very important to unfold in the congo after patrice lumumba was elected prime minister setting a tragic pattern from africa to post world war two era gave birth to revolutionary movements across the continent threatening old the belgians insisted on routine a strong military presence in the country the man traveled to the united states and asked for help after south africa the congo had the largest working class in sub saharan africa if the congo achieved real independence it would pose a direct threat to western business interests across the cont belgian communist party and without a hint of irony referred to the first democratically elected leader of the congo as a dictator the cia assassination plot got underway  chemical department of the agency's mind control experiments carried a vial of poison to the congo be a diplomatic pouch the plug was abandoned however in favor of a hit sponsored by the b today the average life expectancy in the congo is forty six years united states has been engaged in an effort to stop the advance of communism in central america by doing what we do best by supporting democracy there i was teaching being of the university one of my students was actually graduate students was from grenada and when the revolution took place against the corrupt right wing the current tarion regime and the new jewel movement came to power as student asked me what he should do i said go back and work in your government this is a chance to bring about some of the changes we talk about in our seminars he went back and the grenadian government proceeded to implement advanced social programs housing programs cultivating several things one the fact that grenada was declaring an independent foreign policy except that aid from whatever country was offering it whether it was european union cuba or what have you and the fact that cuban sent the mission to grenada to build a major airport became a pretext for r if field was going to be a soviet base when in fact the funding for the cuban construction team came from england nevertheless the social changes and the independent foreign policy provoked the ire of the hardliners in the reagan administration the charges that grenada was a communist base were absolutely rejected the fact that there was a cool it down within the grenadian government to oust the president bishop served as the death to nate of the our caribbean domino of course but i wouldn't call it necessarily a domino theory i would call it a priority target best buy gift list if you will for the ultimate takeover of central america other countries it is probable that many leaders and foot soldiers accepted the domino theory on its face the problem is that statistical data proves that in the post world war two era the united states was the world's biggest contradiction cannot be explained by the domino theory of the cold war there is however a rational explanation as washington moved to overthrow arbenz his government in guatemala state department officials warned of the new government that agrarian reform is a powerful propaganda weapon it's broad social programs that aiding the workers and peasants in a victorious struggle against the upper classes in large foreign enterprises has a strong appeal to the populations of central american neighbors or similar conditions prevail one of the leading themes of the cold war has been with domino theory what critics call the danger of that example there are two different ways of perceiving what amounts to the same thing i could call it the math field theory the godfather does not or it disobedience it's too dangerous if some small storekeeper doesn't pay protection money the other may not care about the money but he does care about the refusal and that it's necessary to send his is to collect the virus and inoculate the potential targets of the infection and that's what the u s did destroyed it no never become an independent successful country model of anyone and  sixty five general so hard to carry a military coup which wiped out the one mass space political party sort of the party of the poor killed hundreds of thousands of lead the spasms open t ridiculous about the theory that's so that's why it keeps being resurrected the maffia principles correct is a very rational system it is a instrument by the ruling plutocracy to distract the people with the  of a false revolution is always a false populism and there's a lot of goose stepping in this line of manipulation of symbols and sentiments and love of the state and like much of politics is the rational german people toward irrelevant enemies and when the fascists came into power they cut wages by fifty percent they destroyed every labor union they destroyed every opposition party and every newspaper closed them down they they they abolished all inherita taxes for the rich or cut them drastically they they abolished all cartel taxes for the corporations pretty much what's being done here without having to go politically all that far so fascism is a is an instrument we have by to talk or seek and control and effect hopefully effect a final solution to the class struggle you totally shatter and destroy and slave the more all over the world on the titans of wall street there was a tremendous amount of sympathy for adolf hitler and for mussolini coupled with a great deal of fear about what they perceived as a rising red thread and the threat from unions so they were largely sympathetic with what they saw going on over there and of course these people and the attorneys working for them like the dulles brothers who would later go on to run the state department of the cia were very much in tune on this sort of thing put them in an awkward position of course later on when they ended up having to fight against hitler but that never really i think changed their fundamental belief which was that they shared common cause with industrialists everywhere in fact many of these people were involved with companies that had operations in germany and in occupied territories and germany we later saw the prosecution of a number of them under the trading with the enemy act and this included prescott bush the grandfather of george w bush press could bush was a partner in brown brothers harriman the most prestigious investment bank on wall street at a time when the influence of the wasp establishment in america the white anglo saxon protestants was near its peak not only did send the most powerful corporation supports fascism in europe so did many of its most powerful politicians was frequently praised by leading political figures in the united states and britain and even by churchill himself on january twentieth nine hundred twenty seven he lighted the new philosophy while on a trip to italy i will say a word on an international aspect of fascism church and state externally your movement  rendered a service to the whole world italy has shown that there is a way of fighting the subversive forces which can rally the masses of the people properly led to value and wish to defend the honor and stability a civilized it was only when fascist states began threatening anglo american interests that the philosophy fell out of favor at least temporarily working class men and boys from around the world are now forced to either defend or combat the frankenstein monster nurtured by elites within their own nation the nightmare of world war two and because generalize and har informs me that the forces of german they have surrendered to the united nations the flag to freedom fly all over europe republican senator george bender lamented that mr truman has urged the congress to authorize a program of military collaboration with all the petty and not so petty dictators have sent american progressive politician