FTR #581 Update on Japanese Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007
REALAUDIO
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 #562 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded July 23, 2006
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Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the pos­si­bil­ity of a mil­i­tary coup in the United States, the pro­gram fea­tures a panel dis­cus­sion of experts invited to dis­cuss the topic in an arti­cle in Harper’s. In this arti­cle, the pan­elists explore a num­ber of ways in which mil­i­tary influ­ence in soci­ety has been, and is, [...]

Germany’s Master Plan — The Story of an Industrial Offensive

How the Nazis took advan­tage of the bud­ding glob­al­ized econ­omy to restrict both their ene­mies’ strate­gic pro­duc­tion and their access to crit­i­cal raw materials.

FTR #553 The First Refuge of a Scoundrel, Part II

Recorded May 14, 2006
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See also FTR #430 The First Refuge of a Scoundrel, Part I
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Sup­ple­ment­ing FTR#’s 547, 548 (about links between fas­cism and Tibetan Bud­dhism), this pro­gram sets forth the long-standing rela­tion­ship between cer­tain schools of Japan­ese Zen Bud­dhism and mil­i­tarism, fas­cism and impe­ri­al­ism. Per­vert­ing some of the philo­soph­i­cal conun­drums inher­ent in the [...]

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 #441 Pecunia Nervus Belli, Part II

Eco­nomic rela­tion­ships between the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, the Bor­mann — Under­ground Reich milieu, and the Arab petroleum-producing states.

FTR #427 Guilding the Lily: The Japanese Looting of Asia in World War II

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NB: This RealAu­dio stream con­tains both FTRs #426 and #427 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
Fore­shad­ow­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented at greater length in FTR#428 and sup­ple­ment­ing infor­ma­tion pre­sented in FTRs 290, 291, 426, the pro­gram sets forth the fas­ci­nat­ing tale of “Golden Lily,” the name for the loot­ing of Asia by Japan [...]

FTR #74 The Civilian-Military Rift in American Society

The grow­ing divide between civil­ian and mil­i­tary sec­tors of Amer­i­can soci­ety, the poten­tial to destroy what remains of con­sti­tu­tional gov­ern­ment in the U.S