The tag 'EU' is associated with 18 posts.

FTR #147 Background to the Conflict in Kosovo

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 4, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

Eth­nic and polit­i­cal divi­sions in Yugoslavia dur­ing World War II, Kosovo’s eth­nic Alba­ni­ans’ sup­port for Nazi inva­sion of Yugoslavia, pro­gram of exter­mi­na­tion of the Serbs.

FTR #144 Miscellaneous Stories and Updates

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 21, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

Analy­sis of grow­ing trade fric­tion between the United States and the Euro­pean Union.

FTR #136 Miscellaneous Stories and Updates

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 28, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

Ger­man body politic and “blame game”; oper­a­tion Con­dor, Chilean-directed assas­si­na­tion car­ried out in the U.S.; Ger­man and Amer­i­can cor­po­ra­tions’ use of slave labor dur­ing WWII.

FTR #127 German Domination of the European Economy

Posted by FTR ⋅ January 4, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

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As the Euro becomes a real­ity with the begin­ning of 1999, this pro­gram ana­lyzes how Ger­many came to dom­i­nate the economies of the other nations of Europe through a con­certed, decades-long pro­gram of con­quest in both war and peace. Begin­ning with a review of the Ger­man “cor­po­ratist” strat­egy of conquest [...]

FTR #126 The Euro, The Dollar, Currency Speculation and The World Economy

Posted by FTR ⋅ January 2, 1999 ⋅ Post a comment

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With the begin­ning of 1999, the Euro came into being as the cur­rency for much of con­ti­nen­tal Europe. This event took place as the pos­si­bil­i­ties of a global eco­nomic col­lapse con­tin­ued to loom large. In this pro­gram, a num­ber of aspects of global eco­nomic and polit­i­cal con­sid­er­a­tions are ana­lyzed, drawing [...]

FTR #100 European Monetary Union and the Creation of the Euro

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 13, 1998 ⋅ Post a comment

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With the intro­duc­tion of the Euro, the Euro­pean Mon­e­tary Union will begin the inte­gra­tion of all Euro­pean coun­tries into a sin­gle cur­rency sys­tem for the first time since the Roman Empire. This pro­gram explores some of the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic aspects of the intro­duc­tion of the Euro and the establishment [...]

FTR #85 The Coming of The European Monetary Union

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 6, 1998 ⋅ Post a comment

The nations of Europe will share the same cur­rency for the first time since the Roman Empire.

FTR #195 Update on Corporate Germany

Posted by FTR ⋅ February 8, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

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High­light­ing the Ger­man nation­al­is­tic approach to eco­nom­ics, this pro­gram under­scores the use of “cor­po­ratism” as an instru­ment of polit­i­cal aggres­sion.
Begin­ning with analy­sis of the takeover strug­gle between Voda­phone (a British mobile phone com­pany) and Man­nes­mann (a Ger­man heavy indus­trial firm which has branched out into com­mu­ni­ca­tions), the broad­cast discusses [...]

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