FTR #591 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates
Jeremiah Duggan, young British Jew murdered in Germany after traveling to Wiesbaden to attend an event staged by the Schiller Institute.
Bush Family in the House of Moon
by Bill BerkowitzTALK TO ACTION George H.W. Bush to speak at the Rev. Sun Myung Moon-owned Washington Times’ 25th anniversary celebration in mid-May When former President George H.W. Bush takes the stage to deliver the keynote address in honor of the 25th anniversary of the ultra-conservative Washington Times newspaper in mid-May, it will not be [...]
Japan revises role in WWII Okinawa
Textbooks will no longer say army ordered civilians to commit suicide as conflict ended by Norimitsu OnishiTHE NEW YORK TIMES (04–01) 04:00 PDT Tokyo — In another sign that Japan is pressing ahead in revising its history of World War II, new high school textbooks will no longer acknowledge that the Imperial Army was responsible for a [...]
No Apology for Sex Slavery, Japan’s Prime Minister Says
by Martin FacklerTHE NEW YORK TIMES TOKYO, March 5 — Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Monday that Japan would refuse to comply if the United States Congress demanded an apology for his nation’s use of foreign women as sexual slaves during World War II. Japan has already lobbied against a resolution, under consideration in the House of [...]
CIA papers reveal 1950s Japan coup plot
by Joseph ColemanASSOCIATED PRESS TOKYO — Declassified documents reveal that Japanese ultranationalists with ties to U.S. military intelligence plotted to overthrow the Japanese government and assassinate the prime minister in 1952. The scheme — which was abandoned — was concocted by militarists and suspected war criminals who had worked for U.S. occupation authorities after World War [...]
FTR #585 Update on Biological Warfare and Lyme Disease
Lyme disease, biological warfare research, American employment of Nazi scientist Erich Traub following World War II,
Why US Shields Japan’s WWII Denials
by Jerry MeldonCONSORTIUM NEWSEditor’s Note: Over the years, we have written a number of stories about Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s influence-buying schemes inside U.S. conservative political circles – and the federal government’s odd refusal to aggressively enforce laws when Moon’s operation is caught in legally questionable activities. [See, for instance, Moon/Bush ‘Ongoing Crime Enterprise’.] In [...]
CIA files show how postwar ‘spies’ snookered U.S. intelligence
by Joseph ColemanAP TOKYO — Col. Masanobu Tsuji was a fanatical Japanese militarist and brutal warrior, hunted after World War II for massacres of Chinese civilians and complicity in the Bataan Death March. And then he became a U.S. spy. Newly declassified CIA records, released by the U.S. National Archives and examined by The Associated Press, document [...]
FTR #584 Rewriting History
Listen: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO In Mein Kampf (his autobiography and political manifesto), Adolph Hitler spoke of the big lie: “Most people tell little lies. They would be ashamed to tell big ones. They would never credit others with such great impudence as the complete reversal of facts. Even explanations would long [...]
Terrorists are manipulating stock exchanges to raise funds: NSA
TIMES OF INDIANEW DELHI: Manipulation of stock exchanges is the new modus operandi used by terrorist groups to raise funds for their operations and fictitious companies have operated in the Mumbai and Chennai stock exchanges. Revealing this, National Security Advisor M K Narayanan has said some of these companies were later traced to terrorist groups. [...]
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