FTR #646 Georgia on Everybody’s Mind

” . . . McCain adviser (and for­mer Geor­gian lob­by­ist) Randy Scheunemann’s efforts on behalf of the Project for a New Amer­i­can Cen­tury and the Iraq war . . . ”

Bush Fails to Win Saudi Help on Gas Prices

by Ter­ence Hunt
APRIYADH, Saudi Ara­bia — Pres­i­dent Bush failed to win the help he sought from Saudi Ara­bia to relieve sky­rock­et­ing Amer­i­can gas prices Fri­day, a set­back for the for­mer Texas oil­man who took office pre­dict­ing he would jaw­bone oil-producing nations to help the U.S.
Bush got a red-carpet wel­come to this desert king­dom, home to the world’s [...]

FTR #632 Update on September 11 and Related Matters

Cyndi Shee­han aids Mus­lim Broth­er­hood; Grover Norquist’s con­ver­sion to Islam; dis­in­te­gra­tion of the United States helped by chil­dren of SS officers.

Insight: Western banks face SWF backlash

by Gillian Tet­t­FI­NAN­CIAL TIMES
Pub­lished: Feb­ru­ary 7 2008 19:21 | Last updated: Feb­ru­ary 7 2008 19:21
Ear­lier this week, I chat­ted with a jet-lagged senior US financier. Like many of his ilk, he is flit­ting around the Mid­dle East and Asia try­ing to extract finance from sov­er­eign wealth funds and other invest­ment groups.
His lat­est trav­els have deliv­ered a [...]

Abu Dhabi Buys Stake In Sunnyvale-Based AMD

SUNNYVALE (AP)
With oil prices surg­ing and U.S. stock prices slump­ing, chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc.‘s sale of an 8.1 per­cent stake to the Abu Dhabi government’s invest­ment arm rep­re­sents the lat­est plunge by a wealthy Mid­dle East­ern nation into a trou­bled U.S. cor­po­ra­tion.
It also raises fresh ques­tions about the appro­pri­ate­ness of Mid­dle East­ern firms [...]

Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth

Iran, Rus­sia and Venezuela Feel the Ben­e­fits
By Steven Muf­sonWASHINGTON POST
High oil prices are fuel­ing one of the biggest trans­fers of wealth in his­tory. Oil con­sumers are pay­ing $4 bil­lion to $5 bil­lion more for crude oil every day than they did just five years ago, pump­ing more than $2 tril­lion into the cof­fers of oil [...]

FTR #567 The Socialism of Fools

He Who Tells the Truth Gets Chased out of Nine Vil­lages, Part IV
Recorded Sep­tem­ber 9, 2006
REALAUDIO
NB: This stream con­tains both FTR #s 567 and 568 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast.
A Euro­pean social critic termed anti-Semitism “the social­ism of fools.” In the wake of the Lebanon war, anti-Semitism has been more evi­dent than ever, [...]

FTR #564 Interview with John Loftus

He Who Tells the Truth Gets Chased Out of Nine Vil­lages
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There is an old Turk­ish proverb that goes: “He who tells the truth gets chased out of nine vil­lages.” In this pro­gram, Mr. Emory and John Lof­tus tackle the unen­vi­able task of dis­pelling some of the delib­er­ate dis­in­for­ma­tion con­cern­ing the recent Lebanon war, as well [...]

FTR #561 Economics 9/11, Part II

Recorded July 16, 12006
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Con­tin­u­ing dis­cus­sion of the eco­nomic impli­ca­tions of vio­lence in the Mid­dle East, this pro­gram iden­ti­fies the oil-price increases stem­ming from the blood­let­ting as being of para­mount impor­tance. The more vio­lent and unsta­ble the Mid­dle East becomes, the more wealth pours into the cof­fers of the oil com­pa­nies and the oil pro­duc­ing countries. [...]

FTR #560 Economics 9/11

Recorded July 9, 2006
REALAUDIO

Ana­lyz­ing the eco­nomic impli­ca­tions of the events of 9/11, this pro­gram exam­ines sig­nif­i­cant areas of com­mon­al­ity between the polit­i­cal and eco­nomic forces con­trol­ling the Bush admin­is­tra­tion, as well as al-Qaeda and its par­ent orga­ni­za­tion the Mus­lim Broth­er­hood. The broad­cast begins with dis­cus­sion of the free-market eco­nomic phi­los­o­phy of the Mus­lim Brotherhood—a philosophy [...]