The tag 'Rev. Moon' is associated with 44 posts.

$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 [...]

FTR #551 Moonlighting

Sushi indus­try dom­i­na­tion in the United States by True World Group—a Moon proprietary

Sushi and Rev. Moon

How Amer­i­cans’ grow­ing appetite for sushi is help­ing to sup­port his con­tro­ver­sial church By Mon­ica Eng, Del­roy Alexan­der and David Jack­sonTri­bune staff reportersPub­lished by The Chicago Tri­bune April 11, 2006On a mis­sion from their leader, five young men arrived in Chicago to open a lit­tle fish shop on Elston Avenue. Back then, in 1980, people [...]

FTR #540 Moderates Like Us

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 5, 2006 REALAUDIO In late 2005 and early 2006, the Islam­o­fas­cist Mus­lim Broth­er­hood scored sig­nif­i­cant elec­toral suc­cesses in Egypt and in the Pales­tin­ian ter­ri­to­ries. Rep­re­sent­ing itself as “mod­er­ate” and “demo­c­ra­tic,” the Broth­er­hood has enjoyed the encomi­ums of an amen cho­rus in parts of the West. A polit­i­cal ally of Nazi Ger­many and Mussolini’s [...]

FTR #521 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded August 7, 2005 REALAUDIO NB: This stream con­tains both FTRs 520 and 521 in sequence. Each is a 30 minute broad­cast. Intro­duc­ing new sto­ries and updat­ing old ones, this pro­gram begins by not­ing a grow­ing body of infor­ma­tion sug­gest­ing that the sub­ject of “seis­mic war­fare” is not as whacky as it sounds. After noting [...]

FTR #501 Norbert Schlei and the Strange Case of the “57’s”

Nor­bert Schlei, for­mer assis­tant attor­ney gen­eral under JFK, attempted to redeem Japan­ese gov­ern­ment bonds issued against the M-Fund, a slush fund from Japan­ese loot from WWII.

AFA 5–7: Operation Mind Control

Suc­cess­ful attempts by U.S. intel­li­gence to develop tech­niques for manip­u­lat­ing indi­vid­ual behav­ior to sub­vert human will and consciousness.

FTR #491 4th Interview with Robert Parry

Recorded Decem­ber 19, 2004REALAUDIOAfter pre­sent­ing more dis­cus­sion about the death of inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Gary Webb, this inter­view fur­ther doc­u­ments the bizarre, trea­so­nous and some­times ille­gal prac­tices of the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church of Rev­erend Sun Myung Moon. A major power bro­ker within the Repub­li­can Right, the Moon orga­ni­za­tion is the very antithe­sis of the “Fam­ily Val­ues” to [...]

FTR #490 3rd Interview with Robert Parry

Recorded Decem­ber 12, 2004REALAUDIOCon­tin­u­ing our dis­cus­sion with ground-breaking jour­nal­ist Robert Parry, this broad­cast begins with the appar­ent sui­cide of inves­tiga­tive jour­nal­ist Gary Webb, whose career was destroyed after he authored an inves­ti­ga­tion of the CIA’s com­plic­ity in the Contra/cocaine con­nec­tion. Parry eulo­gizes Gary Webb and dis­cusses the main­stream press’s shame­ful treat­ment of Gary and his [...]

AFA 14: The World Anti-Communist League, Pt. 1

Despite rel­a­tive obscu­rity, the World Anti-Communist League played a sig­nif­i­cant role in the pol­i­tics of the sec­ond half of the 20th century.