Vatican Lawyer for Abuse Case Defended the Vatican Bank in Holocaust Suit

Com­ment: In the recently re-aired FTR #508, we exam­ined the ascen­sion of Pope Bene­dict, whose elec­tion came at a time when unfold­ing Vat­i­can scan­dals threat­ened to unravel, reveal­ing that institution’s darker side for the blood-soaked hor­ror show that it truly is. Avail­able evi­dence sug­gests that Ratzinger/Benedict is a prod­uct of the Vatican/fascist axis so exhaustively [...]

New Archbishop of L.A. a Spanish Member of Opus Dei

Com­ment: With Latin influ­ence in the U.S. ris­ing with the growth of the Amer­i­can Spanish-speaking pop­u­la­tion, it is both inter­est­ing and sig­nif­i­cant that the Pope selected a mem­ber of the reac­tionary, fascist-connected Opus Dei to be the Arch­bishop of Los Ange­les. This appoint­ment con­tin­ues a pat­tern of con­ver­gence between the Vat­i­can and Opus Dei dating [...]

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 #677 Update on Global Fascism

The old SS giv­ing rise to new fas­cism in Aus­tria and Ger­many; Mussolini’s heirs move into the Ital­ian main­stream; Con­ti­nu­ity of for­eign pol­icy between the “new” Ger­many and the Third Reich.

FTR #556 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Recorded June 11, 2006
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This pro­gram sup­ple­ments pre­vi­ous pro­grams about the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tions. Of pri­mary sig­nif­i­cance is the fail­ure of the United States to pro­vide Swiss author­i­ties with infor­ma­tion about the A.Q. Khan nuclear smug­gling net­work, as well as the fail­ure of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to suc­cess­fully inter­dict the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s net­work of off­shore companies—companies apparently [...]

FTR #559 The Opus Dei Code – The Vatican Rag Pt. III

Recorded June 18, 2006
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The movie “The Da Vinci Code” has focused pub­lic atten­tion on the Opus Dei order, a reac­tionary Catholic orga­ni­za­tion with strong his­tor­i­cal links to fas­cism. High­light­ing its influ­ence on the cur­rent pope and his pre­de­ces­sor, this pro­gram sets forth some of the areas of influ­ence of this secre­tive orga­ni­za­tion. Play­ing a significant [...]

Is Brownback Bringing Opus Dei Into The Senate?

by Bob Geigerhttp://www.democrats.com/node/9220

The United States Sen­ate is often called “the great­est delib­er­a­tive body in the world” which usu­ally raises the bar on the tenor and intel­lec­tual con­tent of speeches given on the floor and for the offi­cial record.
Not so for Sen­a­tor Sam Brown­back (R-KS) who took to the Sen­ate floor last week to deliver [...]

God’s Senator

Who would Jesus vote for? Meet Sam Brownback

At the Vet­er­ans Day parade in Empo­ria, Kansas
Nobody in this lit­tle church just off Times Square in Man­hat­tan thinks of them­selves as polit­i­cal. They’re spir­i­tual — actors and ath­letes and pretty young things who believe that every word of the Bible is inerrant dictation [...]

FTR #529 Nazi Roots and Fascist Flowers

Recorded Octo­ber 9, 2005
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This broad­cast details some of the fruits that have been borne by the col­lab­o­ra­tion between ele­ments of U.S. intel­li­gence and Nazi and fas­cist groups from World War II. Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of the Ukrain­ian fas­cist OUN/B and its affil­i­ated orga­ni­za­tion the ABN (Anti-Bolshevik League of Nations), the pro­gram high­lights the posi­tion of [...]

Thou shalt not drool

Georg Gän­swein is the poster boy of Catholic con­ser­vatism. The Ital­ian press com­pares him to George Clooney and Hugh Grant; his crit­ics describe him as the ‘Black For­est Ado­nis’. But how did he end up as the new Pope’s right-hand man? And is he the right per­son for the job?
By Luke Hard­ing and Bar­bara McMa­honTues­day August [...]