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FTR #748 Update on the Rewriting of World War II History

Eston­ian cel­e­bra­tion of the Nazi inva­sion of World War II as ‘lib­er­a­tion’ and in Bel­gium, too, the past is being rewritten.


FTR #747 Bringin’ It All Back Home

GOP doing to Obama what CIA did to Allende in Chile; Repub­li­cans appear ready to destroy U.S., global economies to gain power; Bush admin­is­tra­tion deficits delib­er­ately struc­tured to force end of New Deal social pro­grams; Tea Party fas­cists pro­vid­ing “boots on the ground” for this effort.


FTR #746 Greek Tragedy

Urged to “aus­ter­ity,” Greece’s adop­tion of Ger­man pre­scrip­tions made its sit­u­a­tion worse; trapped by the Euro, Greece can nei­ther revalue its cur­rency nor impose tar­iffs to pro­tect domes­tic indus­try; GOP pro­poses the same medecine for the U.S. that Ger­many pre­scribed for Greece.


FTR #745 WikiFascism, Part 2

Wik­iLeaks’ res­i­dent fas­cist Jermas/Shamir piv­otally involved with estab­lish­ing Wik­iLeaks in Swe­den; Julian Assange a com­pul­sive Jew-baiter with a Dar­win­ian, eugen­ics phi­los­o­phy. Enlist­ing a mys­te­ri­ous “nanny” to run impor­tant func­tions for Wik­iLeaks, Assange may well be part of the San­tikine­tan Park cult.


FTR #744 The Shape of Things to Come

Pan­ul­ti­mate exam­ple of “off­shore,” the seasted­ding move­ment sees “free­dom and democ­racy” as incom­pat­i­ble. Those left on shore must accept dis­so­lu­tion of pri­vacy, free­dom and, yes, democ­racy. Hedge fund man­agers buy­ing up all arable land in antic­i­pa­tion of eco­nomic and social armageddon.


FTR #743 Interview (#8) with Russ Baker, Author of “Family of Secrets”

The Fourth Estate has become a Fifth Column–the media that should inform us deceive on behalf of those they should expose; Insti­tu­tion­al­ized power dimin­ishes the pub­lic­ity for “Fam­ily of Secrets.” The Inter­net allows cit­i­zens to fight back.


FTR #742 Body Count (Sweet Home Alabama)

An appar­ent turkey shoot under­way in Alabama, with peo­ple who could spill the beans on Karl Rove’s oper­a­tions there “com­mit­ting sui­cide” in record num­bers; was the wife of Obma’s liai­son to the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives mur­dered, the same week­end that Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Gabrielle Gif­fords was shot?


FTR #741 Bail, Bail, the Gang’s All Here

For­eign Banks bor­rowed exten­sively from Fed dur­ing the melt­down; aid to Dexia and Depfa needed to avoid muni­pal fis­cal armaged­don, stem­ming par­tially from Dexia’s appar­ent crim­i­nal activity.


FTR #740 Update on the Meltdown Part 6: The Wachovia File

Wachovia deeply involved with laun­der­ing money for Sinaloa car­tel; firm’s exec­u­tives com­plicit with cover-up; World’s major finan­cial insti­tu­tions depen­dent on drug car­tels for liq­uid­ity? Drug smug­glers may have bailed out those insti­tu­tions fol­low­ing crash of ’08.


FTR #739 Turkish Taffy, Part 3

Ter­ror­ist and fas­cist ele­ments poised to ben­e­fit from the Mid­dle East upris­ings? Alleged Turk­ish mod­er­a­tion given the lie by police cen­sor­ship of oppo­si­tion press. Is Wae Ghonim Google exec and Egypt­ian hero) an Islamist?