Dubai, or Not Dubai?

Com­ment: The recent media flap about the assas­si­na­tion of a Hamas offi­cial in Dubai has obscured much about the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic real­ity of that small king­dom. Recently a threat to default and col­lapse the global finan­cial sys­tem (until its res­cue by a fel­low Emi­rate), that coun­try was one of the con­duits for money to [...]

Al Qaeda Linked to Rogue Aviation Network

In early 2008, an offi­cial at the U.S. Depart­ment of Home­land Secu­rity sent a report to his supe­ri­ors detail­ing what he called “the most sig­nif­i­cant devel­op­ment in the crim­i­nal exploita­tion of air­craft since 9/11.”

FTR #696 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Japan­ese prime min­is­ter pub­licly dis­cusses the M-Fund, a deci­sive link between Japan­ese con­quest dur­ing World War II and its post­war pol­i­tics; Ital­ian prime min­is­ter Berlus­coni linked to the Mafia; Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist orga­ni­za­tion The Fam­ily pro­mot­ing fas­cism from the 1930’s on.

FTR #693 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Black­wa­ter secu­rity out­fit plots to kill whistle­blow­ers; deadly pathogens miss­ing from Ft. Det­rick; viruses mutat­ing to infect other species; the bailout hasn’t assured eco­nomic secu­rity and has made the insti­tu­tions that are “too big to fail” even bigger.

Japanese politicians plundered bottomless state fund

Senior Japan­ese politi­cians used a secret bot­tom­less state fund to bribe oppo­nents and help fund their elec­tion cam­paigns, it has been disclosed.

by Julian Ryall
Telegraph.co.uk
For­mer offi­cials have come for­ward to describe a huge safe in the chief cab­i­net secretary’s office stacked with tens of mil­lions of yen that they were able to hand out without [...]

FTR #690 Update on the Meltdown, Part 5: Who and What was Roland Arnall?

At the cen­ter of the sub­rime melt­down, Roland Arnall went to his grave a vir­tual unknown. All he wanted peo­ple to know was his alleged Jew­ish­ness. Might he have been work­ing for the Under­ground Reich and the Bor­mann network?

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 #688 Darkness in the Vaults

Global finan­cial sys­tem pred­i­cated on tril­lions of dol­lars in wealth stolen by the Axis in WWII; “vic­to­ri­ous” allies shared in the spoils; the rule of law is totally dis­carded in order to pre­serve the sta­tus quo and the secrecy that sur­rounds it.

FTR #665 Update on the Meltdown, Part 2

With much infor­ma­tion undis­closed, mind-boggling scope of finan­cial melt­down might pre­cip­i­tate resur­gence of fas­cism; Mad­off affair truly massive.

FTR #658 Update on the Meltdown

Wal­ter Ben­jamin: With the upheaval of the mar­ket econ­omy, we begin to rec­og­nize the mon­u­ments of the bour­geoisie as ruins, even before they have crumbled.