The tag 'Japan' is associated with 84 posts.

FTR #615 Going Native, Part 2 German Foreign Policy and Its Implications

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 30, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Octo­ber 21, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis from FTR#550, this pro­gram looks at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Mon­go­lian Bud­dhists, Islamists [...]


Science museum bans DNA genius at centre of race row

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ October 18, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Daily Mail Nobel Prize win­ner Dr James Wat­son was this week banned today from speak­ing at London’s Sci­ence Museum after report­edly say­ing black peo­ple were less intel­li­gent than whites. In an extra­or­di­nary out­burst, the vet­eran aca­d­e­mic, 79, claimed he was “inher­ently gloomy about the prospect of Africa” because “all our social poli­cies are based on [...]


FTR #613 The Socialism of Fools, Part 2: American Dreyfus

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 16, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded Octo­ber 7, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Intro­duc­tion: Sup­ple­ment­ing FTR#567, this pro­gram high­lights the resur­gence of anti-Semitism in the United States and else­where. [The title of the pro­gram refers to a char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of anti-Semitism by a 20th cen­tury social critic as “the social­ism of fools.”] Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance in the program [...]


Strategies of Attrition (III)

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ October 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

GermanForeignPolicy.com[See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (II).] LHASA/BEIJING/ULAAN BAATAR/BERLIN(Own report) — Last week­end, par­lia­men­tar­i­ans of the Ger­mano­phonic minor­ity in North­ern Italy (“South Tyrol”) vis­it­ing the head­quar­ters of the Tibetan “exile gov­ern­ment” in India, declared Tibet’s being part of the People’s Repub­lic of China to be “ille­gal” and called for the secession [...]


FTR #611 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters — Caution: Networks at Work

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 2, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Explor­ing the eco­nomic and polit­i­cal net­works that both pre­cip­i­tated and exe­cuted the 9/11 attacks, this pro­gram high­lights the links between Islamist ele­ments involved at the oper­a­tional level and indi­vid­u­als and insti­tu­tions that dom­i­nate the global geo-political land­scape. These networks—belonging to elite indus­trial, finan­cial and [...]


Strategies of Attrition (II)

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ September 28, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

GermanForeignPolicy.com [See also Strate­gies of Attri­tion (I) and Strate­gies of Attri­tion (III).] BEIJING/LHASA/BERLIN(Own report) — Ger­man politi­cians have announced an esca­la­tion of the chancellor’s Tibet offen­sive. Accord­ing to com­ments made by the Prime Min­is­ter of Hesse, Roland Koch (CDU), Angela Merkel’s meet­ing with the Dalai Lama is only the begin­ning of large scale inter­fer­ence into [...]


Looking for a Scapegoat The world again turns to Jews.

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ September 17, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

by Vic­tor Davis Han­sonTri­bune Media Ser­vices Who recently said: “These Jews started 19 Cru­sades. The 19th was World War I. Why? Only to build Israel.” Some holdover Nazi? Hardly. It was for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Necmet­tin Erbakan of Turkey, a NATO ally. He went on to claim that the Jews — whom he refers to as [...]


FTR #601 You Gotta Be Kidding: 9/11 Update

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 3, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Mind-wrenching range of infor­ma­tion in con­junc­tion with the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic forces that pre­cip­i­tated 9/11.


FTR #600 The Axis Revisited: Changing the Past and Controlling the Present

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 26, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

Recorded June 10, 2007 REALAUDIO MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 Intro­duc­tion: Ana­lyz­ing the ongo­ing influ­ence of fas­cism in Germany’s Axis part­ners (Japan and Italy), the pro­gram illus­trates that, as nov­el­ist William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” Begin­ning with the acquit­tal of the accused mur­der­ers of former [...]


Roads To Riches

Posted by ftrsupplemental ⋅ May 8, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

by Emily Thorn­tonBUSINESS WEEK Why investors are clam­or­ing to take over America’s high­ways, bridges, and airports—and why the pub­lic should be ner­vous Steve Hogan was in a bind. The exec­u­tive direc­tor of Colorado’s North­west Park­way Pub­lic High­way Author­ity had run up $416 mil­lion in debt to build the 10-mile toll road between north Den­ver and [...]


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