FTR #675 Interview with Lucy Komisar: No Such Thing as a Free Lunch

Food Ser­vices Giant Sodexo’s scams cost tax­pay­ers, school chil­dren big bucks; Tim­o­thy Gei­th­ner ignored U.S. Trea­sury bonds naked short sell­ing; Swiss Banks join­ing AIG in off­shore machinations.

Hitler, Mussolini and the Ikhwan: The Fascist History, Associations and Ideology of the Muslim Brotherhood

The Broth­er­hood is best under­stood as part of “the fas­cist inter­na­tional,” before, dur­ing and after World War II. It has allied with Ger­man and Ital­ian fas­cists from WWII to the present.

Repost: FTR #500 Conversation with Sander Hicks and Allan Duncan

Involve­ment of Pak­istani intel­li­gence in 9/11 and Mum­bai attacks; sting man Randy Glass learned in 1999 from R.G. Abbas that the attacks were imminent!

Repost: FTR #531 Interview with Lucy Komisar about Offshore

Insur­ance giant AIG’s pro­lific use of off­shore scams, cap­tive rein­sur­ance, ille­gal gam­bits and oper­a­tions, aided by high-level gov’t offi­cials and legislators.

FTR #633 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Mus­lim Brotherhood-Al-Taqwa link to Berlus­coni; Eliot Spitzer scan­dal viewed in com­par­i­son to Pal­frey mur­der case; pan-Turkist move­ment link to shoot­ing of the pope.

FTR #610 The Knights of Malta Revisited

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 16, 2007 MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO Recorded in late 1982, this pro­gram sets forth infor­ma­tion about a pow­er­ful, but lit­tle known, Catholic order known as the Knights of Malta. Formed dur­ing the Cru­sades, the orga­ni­za­tion draws together influ­en­tial polit­i­cal, mil­i­tary, intel­li­gence and busi­ness offi­cials who have (or are in a [...]

FTR #600 The Axis Revisited: Changing the Past and Controlling the Present

Recorded June 10, 2007 REALAUDIO MP3: Side 1 | Side 2 Intro­duc­tion: Ana­lyz­ing the ongo­ing influ­ence of fas­cism in Germany’s Axis part­ners (Japan and Italy), the pro­gram illus­trates that, as nov­el­ist William Faulkner said: “The past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” Begin­ning with the acquit­tal of the accused mur­der­ers of former [...]

Five acquitted over Calvi death

BBC NEWS A court in Rome has acquit­ted all five defen­dants of mur­der charges in the 1982 death of Roberto Calvi, known as “God’s Banker” for his Vat­i­can ties. Mr Calvi, the chair­man of a pri­vate Ital­ian bank, Banco Ambrosiano, was found hang­ing from scaf­fold­ing under London’s Black­fri­ars Bridge in 1982. A British inquest ruled the death [...]

The many secrets of ‘God’s Banker’by Chris­t­ian FraserBBC NEWS After 25 years, two inquests and a very lengthy trial — the mys­tery remains. The ver­dict of the court was that Roberto Calvi was mur­dered — but the evi­dence against the five accused, said the judge, was insuf­fi­cient and at times con­tra­dic­tory. Despite the var­i­ous motives [...]

FTR #595 European Vacation

As the Old World reju­ve­nates from cen­turies of dev­as­tat­ing reli­gious and polit­i­cal war­fare, Euro­pean polit­i­cal insti­tu­tions are man­i­fest­ing their old character.