Bush Family in the House of Moon

by Bill Berkow­itzTALK TO ACTION
George H.W. Bush to speak at the Rev. Sun Myung Moon-owned Wash­ing­ton Times’ 25th anniver­sary cel­e­bra­tion in mid-May
When for­mer Pres­i­dent George H.W. Bush takes the stage to deliver the keynote address in honor of the 25th anniver­sary of the ultra-conservative Wash­ing­ton Times news­pa­per in mid-May, it will not be the first [...]

FTR #588 The Aliens Are Coming, The Aliens Are Coming—Not

Polit­i­cal impli­ca­tions of the UFO phe­nom­e­non and the ET myth.

Why US Shields Japan’s WWII Denials

by Jerry Mel­donCONSORTIUM NEWSEditor’s Note: Over the years, we have writ­ten a num­ber of sto­ries about Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s influence-buying schemes inside U.S. con­ser­v­a­tive polit­i­cal cir­cles – and the fed­eral government’s odd refusal to aggres­sively enforce laws when Moon’s oper­a­tion is caught in legally ques­tion­able activ­i­ties. [See, for instance, Moon/Bush ‘Ongo­ing Crime Enter­prise’.]
In this [...]

FTR #581 Update on Japanese Fascism

Recorded Jan­u­ary 15, 2007
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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 #575 Interview with Robert Parry

Recorded Novem­ber 5, 2006
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Once again, Mr. Emory inter­viewed Robert Parry, who runs the “Con­sor­tium News” web site. The last pro­gram recorded before the 2006 elec­tion, this broad­cast exam­ines how George W. Bush has actu­ally worked with, not against, Osama bin Laden. Begin­ning with analy­sis of a 2004 video­tape released just before the pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, the [...]

The Ordering of a Superstate

GermanForeignPolicy.com
BERLIN/MAGDEBURG(Own report) — The medieval, Europe-wide Ger­man Reich is a valid model for the union of Euro­pean coun­tries today. So says the Berlin State Min­is­ter for Cul­ture, Bernd Neu­mann. Accord­ing to him, the mem­ory of the Holy Roman Empire of the Ger­man Nation reveals “an inner his­tor­i­cal con­sis­tency” with the found­ing and steady expan­sion of [...]

Gifts of Deceit

Sun Myung Moon, Tong­sun Park, and the Korean scan­dal, by Robert B. Boettcher

In the Shadow of the Moons

My Life in the Rev­erend Sun Myung Moon’s Fam­ily, by Nan­sook Hong

Combatting Cult Mind Control

by Steven Has­san, Exposes the trou­bling facts about destruc­tive cults: reli­gious, polit­i­cal, psy­chother­a­peu­tic, com­mer­cial, and educational.

$1 million Moonie Mystery

by RICK CASEY
It was a dark night in a city that knows how to keep its secrets.
The phone rang on my desk, wak­ing me from a reverie I don’t remem­ber.
“Casey,” I said, hop­ing to sound like a pri­vate eye.
The guy on the other end really was a pri­vate eye. Not Gar­ri­son Keillor’s “Guy Noir,” but a Virginia [...]