FTR #698 Echoes of Dealy Plaza (Update on the Assassination of President Kennedy)

CIA offi­cer who over­saw anti-Castro Cubans involved in killing JFK was liai­son to House Select Com­mit­tee inves­ti­gat­ing the killing; LBJ doubted offi­cial the­ory; so does FBI agent who saw the body.

FTR #648 Arthur Who?

” . . . With the seg­re­ga­tion­ist icon Wal­lace out of the way, Nixon’s “South­ern Strat­egy” of sweep­ing the racist vote and the deep South in par­tic­u­lar was in a posi­tion to succeed. . . .”

FTR #638 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Bor­mann net­work con­trols major Ger­man cor­po­ra­tions; archive of Third Reich doc­u­ments; Rock­e­fellers push Exxon­Mo­bil to switch to renew­able energy; Stan­dard Oil cor­po­rate com­plex; vio­lence in the Mus­lim world effects global oil prices.

Bunge Agrees to Buy Corn Products for $4.2 Billion

by Mark Her­lihy and Choy Leng Yeong­Bloomberg­Bunge Ltd., the world’s largest oilseed proces­sor, agreed to buy Corn Prod­ucts Inter­na­tional Inc. for $4.2 bil­lion in stock to add corn-based sweet­en­ers as demand increases for soft drinks and processed foods in China and India.
Bunge will pay the equiv­a­lent of $56 for each share of Corn Prod­ucts, White Plains, [...]

The Death of Robert Kennedy: 40 Years After Assassination, Questions Persist

Were 13 shots fired? Was a secu­rity guard involved? Who wore the polka dot dress?
by Michael Tay­lor San Fran­cisco Chron­i­cle
The assas­si­na­tion was over in a few sec­onds. In the pho­to­graph of that moment, Bobby Kennedy, his eyes open and glazed, lies on his back on a hotel pantry floor, his head cra­dled by a [...]

FTR #620 Interview with Paris Flammonde about the ‘Masques of New Orleans’

Recorded Novem­ber 25, 2007
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Fol­low­ing on the heels of FTR#619, this pro­gram fea­tures author and radio pro­ducer Paris Flammonde’s account of the New Orleans inves­ti­ga­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy’s assas­si­na­tion. For­mer pro­ducer of the sem­i­nal late-night radio talk pro­gram The Long John Nebel Show, Flammonde’s 1969 book The Kennedy Con­spir­acy was one [...]

FTR #613 The Socialism of Fools, Part 2: American Dreyfus

Recorded Octo­ber 7, 2007
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Sup­ple­ment­ing FTR#567, this pro­gram high­lights the resur­gence of anti-Semitism in the United States and else­where. [The title of the pro­gram refers to a char­ac­ter­i­za­tion of anti-Semitism by a 20th cen­tury social critic as “the social­ism of fools.”] Of par­tic­u­lar sig­nif­i­cance in the pro­gram is the scape­goat­ing of [...]

FTR #612 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Recorded Sep­tem­ber 23, 2007
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Begin­ning with dis­cus­sion of Iran­ian pres­i­dent Ahmadinejad’s recent appear­ance at Ivy League Colum­bia Uni­ver­sity in New York, the pro­gram high­lights the dis­turb­ing sim­i­lar­ity to a past pres­i­dent of that university’s embrace of fas­cism. Just as Nicholas Mur­ray But­ler was dis­mis­sive of con­cerns that fas­cism could lead to [...]

FTR #597 Interview with Ed Haslam about Dr. Mary’s Monkey

AIDS as bio­log­i­cal weapon; Dr Alton Ochsner, Dr Mary Sher­man; polio vac­cine SV40 con­t­a­m­i­nant; covert oper­a­tions against Cas­tro; JFK assassination.

FTR #596 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Mur­der of Pak­istani cricket coach Bob Woolmer con­nected to Pakistan’s ISI; Bin Laden financ­ing Euro­pean neo-Nazis; Ibn Khal­dun an advo­cate of privatization.