FTR #550 Going Native

Recorded April 30, 2006
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This broadcast—like the pre­ced­ing three programs—might have been titled “Strange Bed­fel­lows.” In this pro­gram, we look at the use of native, “unrep­re­sented” peo­ples by polit­i­cal ele­ments that don’t appear to be gen­uinely con­cerned with the wel­fare of those pop­u­la­tion groups. Specif­i­cally, we look at a strange brew of Tibetan Bud­dhists, Islamists and [...]

FTR #536 Liechtenstein, Oh Liechtenstein

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Tack­ling an impor­tant but lit­tle known sub­ject, this broad­cast high­lights the tiny Euro­pean king­dom of Liecht­en­stein. Despite hav­ing a pop­u­la­tion of just over 30,000, this “con­sti­tu­tional” monar­chy is an epi­cen­ter of money-laundering and high-level finan­cial maneu­ver­ing, as well as some of the ills that come with that activ­ity. Ter­ror­ist financ­ing, drug traf­fick­ing and related activities [...]

FTR #75 SS Connections to the British Royal Family

In-laws and blood rel­a­tives of the British mon­archs were sym­pa­thetic to and, in some cases, deeply involved with the WWII fas­cist pow­ers of Europe.