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Archives for 2008

WFMU RealAudio 2008

WFMU’s 2008 archives of Dave Emory’s “For The Record” in RealAu­dio format.


Repost: FTR #602 The Plot to Seize the White House — Interview with Jules Archer

Lib­erty League, indus­tri­al­ists, financiers orches­trated the 1934 coup plot; Gen­eral Smed­ley But­ler betrayed the plot; media sup­pressed accu­rate reportage.


Scenic Pakistani valley falls to Taliban militants

by Nahal ToosiAP ISLAMABAD, Pak­istan – Tal­iban mil­i­tants are behead­ing and burn­ing their way through Pakistan’s pic­turesque Swat Val­ley, and res­i­dents say the insur­gents now con­trol most of the moun­tain­ous region far from the law­less tribal areas where jihadists thrive. The dete­ri­o­rat­ing sit­u­a­tion in the for­mer tourist haven comes despite an army offen­sive that began [...]


FTR #657 Targeting the Centers of Finance

The “ter­ror front” exploded with a major, headline-garnering attack on Mum­bai, India’s finan­cial and cin­e­matic center.


Economic death and millionaire taxes

by David Siro­taSan Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle For most of us, Ben­jamin Franklin’s words in 1789 still apply: “Noth­ing is cer­tain but death and taxes.” How­ever, mil­lion­aires, by def­i­n­i­tion, are not most of us. While they can’t stave off the grim reaper, they can per­suade law­mak­ers to shield them from the tax­man and bal­ance bud­gets on the backs [...]


Repost: FTR #500 Conversation with Sander Hicks and Allan Duncan

Involve­ment of Pak­istani intel­li­gence in 9/11 and Mum­bai attacks; sting man Randy Glass learned in 1999 from R.G. Abbas that the attacks were imminent!


FTR #656 The Obama File, Part III: Badjacketing Obama, Part 2, The Headscarf Incident

Exam­in­ing the “head­scarf inci­dent” and Mus­lim Broth­er­hood ele­ments in the United States.


Bush Insider Who Planned To Tell All Killed In Plane Crash: Non-Profit Demands Full Federal Investigation

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 PRNewswire-USNewswire — Michael Con­nell, the Bush IT expert who has been directly impli­cated in the rig­ging of George Bush’s 2000 and 2004 elec­tions, was killed last night when his sin­gle engine plane crashed three miles short of the Akron air­port. Vel­vet Rev­o­lu­tion (“VR”), a non-profit that has been inves­ti­gat­ing Mr. Connell’s activities [...]


FTR #655 The Obama File, Part II: Badjacketing Obama

We should be mind­ful of the polit­i­cal and psy­cho­log­i­cal war­fare strat­a­gems that were used to smear Obama.


Political establishment trashed consumer protections — and look what we got

by David Siro­taSan Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle Please, for­give me for say­ing it. I know it’s a tad annoy­ing, but it has to be said to America’s rul­ing class in this hum­ble col­umn space. Because if it’s not said here, then you can bet it won’t be said any­where else, and it needs to be said somewhere [...]