The tag 'LDP' is associated with 7 posts.

FTR #581 Update on Japanese Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 580 and 581 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
High­light­ing recent trends toward reviv­ing the ultra-nationalism and his­tor­i­cal revi­sion­ism of Japan’s fas­cist past, this pro­gram sets forth the polit­i­cal agenda being pushed by Shinzo Abe, the newly elected Prime Min­is­ter. The grand­son of Japanese [...]

FTR #551 Moonlighting

Recorded May 7, 2006
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NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 551 and 552 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
For fur­ther back­ground on the “King of Peace” con­tro­versy, see:
King of Peace video, YouTube.com
“Moon Over Wash­ing­ton” by John Goren­field; The Gad­flyer, June 9, 2004

Sup­ple­ment­ing numer­ous pro­grams fea­tur­ing infor­ma­tion about Sun Myung Moon’s Uni­fi­ca­tion Church, [...]

FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

Recorded May 1, 2005REALAUDIOIn Novem­ber of 2004, author and inves­ti­ga­tor Iris Chang was found dead of an allegedly self-inflicted gun­shot wound. This pro­gram exam­ines the cir­cum­stances sur­round­ing her death. Ms. Chang was research­ing a book chron­i­cling the expe­ri­ences of sur­vivors of the Bataan Death March—the bru­tal per­se­cu­tion of Amer­i­can POW’s cap­tured in the siege of [...]

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 #451 Petals from the Golden Lily

Recorded March 21, 2004
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Pur­su­ing the sub­ject of the fab­u­lous amount of wealth stolen by the Japan­ese dur­ing World War II under Golden Lily (the for­mal name of the Japan­ese loot­ing pro­gram), this broad­cast sup­ple­ments dis­cus­sion pre­sented in FTR#’s 290, 426, 427, 428, 446. Hav­ing secreted over $100-billion (in 1940’s dol­lars) worth of pre­cious met­als and [...]

FTR #446 Funds and Games

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 14, 2004
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High­light­ing the post­war use of Axis trea­sure recov­ered by the Allies after World War II, this pro­gram talks about these Funds and the Games that were played with (and because of) them. Par­tic­u­lar empha­sis is on the post­war use of the mas­sive amount of Japan­ese Trea­sure looted by the Japan­ese dur­ing Operation [...]

FTR #296 The Return of the Rising Sun, The Reemergence of Fascism in Japan

As in Europe and the United States, fas­cism was not elim­i­nated in Japan at the end of the Sec­ond World War.

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