FTR #698 Echoes of Dealy Plaza (Update on the Assassination of President Kennedy)

CIA offi­cer who over­saw anti-Castro Cubans involved in killing JFK was liai­son to House Select Com­mit­tee inves­ti­gat­ing the killing; LBJ doubted offi­cial the­ory; so does FBI agent who saw the body.

FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave

William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japan­ese dom­i­nates the con­tem­po­rary eco­nomic land­scape; the engines of world polit­i­cal power turn in pre­ci­sion with these hid­den engines of wealth.

FTR #579 Gimme a Break! — Reflections on the Death of Gerald Ford

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The recently deceased Ger­ald Ford is remem­bered for his role in the Water­gate Scan­dal. Hav­ing been appointed by Nixon to replace Spiro Agnew as Vice-President, Ford announced, “Our long national night­mare is over.” He then par­doned Nixon of all crimes that he had com­mit­ted. Nixon’s polit­i­cal down­fall turned on his unwill­ing­ness to release the Watergate [...]

FTR #529 Nazi Roots and Fascist Flowers

Recorded Octo­ber 9, 2005
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This broad­cast details some of the fruits that have been borne by the col­lab­o­ra­tion between ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence and Nazi and fas­cist groups from World War II. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the Ukrain­ian fas­cist OUN/B and its affil­i­ated orga­ni­za­tion the ABN (Anti-Bolshevik League of Nations), the pro­gram high­lights the posi­tion of [...]

FTR #506 The Road to Lugano, Part II

Peak Oil con­tro­versy and the car­tel agree­ments behind syn­thetic fuel.

FTR #501 Norbert Schlei and the Strange Case of the “57’s”

Nor­bert Schlei, for­mer assis­tant attor­ney gen­eral under JFK, attempted to redeem Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds issued against the M-Fund, a slush fund from Japan­ese loot from WWII.

FTR #490 3rd Interview with Robert Parry

Recorded Decem­ber 12, 2004REALAUDIOCon­tin­u­ing our dis­cus­sion with ground-breaking jour­nal­ist Robert Parry, this broad­cast begins with the appar­ent sui­cide of inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Gary Webb, whose career was destroyed after he authored an inves­ti­ga­tion of the CIA’s com­plic­ity in the Contra/cocaine con­nec­tion. Parry eulo­gizes Gary Webb and dis­cusses the main­stream press’s shame­ful treat­ment of Gary and his [...]

FTR #489 2nd Interview with Robert Parry

Ille­gal and trea­so­nous GOP gam­bits dur­ing elec­tion years; politi­ciza­tion of intel­li­gence since George H. W. Bush’s tenure as CIA director.

FTR #486 Looking Back at the Kennedy Assassination

Recorded Novem­ber 21, 2004REALAUDIO
In obser­vance of the 41st anniver­sary of Pres­i­dent Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion, this pro­gram notes that it is pri­mar­ily the media that per­pet­u­ate the pre­pos­ter­ous fic­tion of Lee Har­vey Oswald the “lone nut” assas­sin. The War­ren Report (issued forty years ago) was con­structed pri­mar­ily to save the U.S. from severe polit­i­cal embar­rass­ment. In private, [...]

FTR #471 Death Trap

Recorded August 1, 2004REALAUDIODevel­op­ing a line of inquiry pre­sented in past pro­grams, this broad­cast exam­ines the Bush administration’s poli­cies in the war on ter­ror. Specif­i­cally, this pro­gram high­lights the pos­si­bil­ity that the Bush forces are delib­er­ately try­ing to lose the war, as a device for elim­i­nat­ing Amer­i­can democ­racy. It is Mr. Emory’s view that this [...]