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Archives for 1995

FTR #26 Sons of the Gestapo

Lis­ten now: Side 1 | Side 2 | Side 3 This series focuses on events in and around the sab­o­tag­ing of an Amtrak train in Ari­zona in Octo­ber of 1995. The wreck killed sev­eral pas­sen­gers, injured many more and has gone unsolved. A note found at the site of the wreck took credit for it [...]


FTR #33 They Thought They Were Free

The expe­ri­ence of a Ger­man uni­ver­sity pro­fes­sor who lived through the rise of Hitler.


FTR #34 Hashude

Lis­ten now: One Seg­ment The grow­ing prob­lem of the poor and home­less in the United States is the back­drop against which this pro­gram sets forth the analy­sis of the SS’s “solu­tion” to the prob­lem of the “aso­cial.” Just as Amer­i­can reac­tionar­ies are call­ing for state insti­tu­tions to con­fis­cate the chil­dren of chron­i­cally poor “wel­fare mothers” [...]


FTR #31 Kamel Hussein and Iraqgate

West­ern nations, includ­ing and espe­cially the United States, and the arm­ing of Sadam Hussein.


FTR #38 Il Martello

Lis­ten now: One Seg­ment Attempts by Italian-American pub­lisher Carlo Tresca to inform the Italian-American com­mu­nity about the repres­sive nature of Mussolini’s “cor­po­rate state” gen­er­ated attempts at sup­press­ing Il Martello (Tresca’s Italian-language Amer­i­can paper). The sup­pres­sion appears to have been engi­neered by wealthy Amer­i­can inter­ests allied with Il Duce. Sem­i­nal Amer­i­can jour­nal­ist H.L. Mencken was one [...]


FTR #37 Roots of the Cold War

Lis­ten now: One Seg­ment The key events that pre­cip­i­tated the Cold War were well under way dur­ing the clos­ing stages of the Sec­ond World War. This pro­gram doc­u­ments early attempts to sab­o­tage the fledg­ling U.N.‘s efforts at ensur­ing world peace. These attempts were under­taken, not by the Soviet Union, but by those pow­er­ful cor­po­rate interests [...]


FTR #21 Louis Farrakhan and the Politics of Murder

Lis­ten now: One Seg­ment Draw­ing on infor­ma­tion from the book The Judas Fac­tor: The Plot to Kill Mal­com X by Karl Evanzz (Thunder’s Mouth Press, hard­cover, copy­right 1992), the pro­gram focuses on the behav­ior and rhetoric of Nation of Islam leader Louis Far­rakhan with regard to both the assas­si­na­tion of Mal­com X and the murder [...]


FTR #36 Tribute to George Seldes

George Seldes, America’s pre­mier inves­tiga­tive reporter.


UR-FASCISM

by Umberto EcoThe New York Review of Books In 1942, at the age of ten, I received the First Provin­cial Award of Ludi Juve­niles (avol­un­tary, com­pul­sory com­pe­ti­tion for young Ital­ian Fas­cists – that is, for every youngItal­ian). I elab­o­rated with rhetor­i­cal skill on the sub­ject “Should we die for the glory ofMus­solini and the immor­tal destiny [...]


FTR #29 Interview with John Loftus

Intel­li­gence community’s rela­tion­ship with the petro­leum indus­try and inter­na­tional fascism