FTR #696 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Japan­ese prime min­is­ter pub­licly dis­cusses the M-Fund, a deci­sive link between Japan­ese con­quest dur­ing World War II and its post­war pol­i­tics; Ital­ian prime min­is­ter Berlus­coni linked to the Mafia; Chris­t­ian fun­da­men­tal­ist orga­ni­za­tion The Fam­ily pro­mot­ing fas­cism from the 1930’s on.

Japanese politicians plundered bottomless state fund

Senior Japan­ese politi­cians used a secret bot­tom­less state fund to bribe oppo­nents and help fund their elec­tion cam­paigns, it has been disclosed.

by Julian Ryall
Telegraph.co.uk
For­mer offi­cials have come for­ward to describe a huge safe in the chief cab­i­net secretary’s office stacked with tens of mil­lions of yen that they were able to hand out without [...]

FTR #689 Interview with Sterling and Peggy Seagrave

William Faulkner noted that “the past is never dead and buried. It isn’t even past.” War Gold stolen by the Japan­ese dom­i­nates the con­tem­po­rary eco­nomic land­scape; the engines of world polit­i­cal power turn in pre­ci­sion with these hid­den engines of wealth.

FTR #658 Update on the Meltdown

Wal­ter Ben­jamin: With the upheaval of the mar­ket econ­omy, we begin to rec­og­nize the mon­u­ments of the bour­geoisie as ruins, even before they have crumbled.

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 #603 I Told You So Part III Update on the Subversion of Operation Green Quest

Recorded July 8, 2007
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Illus­trat­ing inves­tiga­tive and his­tor­i­cal method­ol­ogy, this pro­gram excerpts sev­eral of Mr. Emory’s broad­casts recorded from 2001 to 2004. The excerpts doc­u­ment the sup­pres­sion of the 9/11 money trail. Begin­ning with FTR#310, the pro­gram high­lights the con­se­quences of the appoint­ment of Robert Mueller as FBI direc­tor. In that [...]

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

Recorded June 10, 2007
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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 Vat­i­can finan­cial adviser Roberto [...]

Roads To Riches

by Emily Thorn­tonBUSINESS WEEK
Why investors are clam­or­ing to take over America’s high­ways, bridges, and airports—and why the pub­lic should be ner­vous
Steve Hogan was in a bind. The exec­u­tive direc­tor of Colorado’s North­west Park­way Pub­lic High­way Author­ity had run up $416 mil­lion in debt to build the 10-mile toll road between north Den­ver and the Boulder [...]

FTR #587 Update on September 11 and Related Matters

Odyssey of Sami al-Arian, Islamic ter­ror­ist and polit­i­cal asso­ciate of George Bush.

FTR #584 Rewriting History

Recorded Feb­ru­ary 4, 2007
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In Mein Kampf (his auto­bi­og­ra­phy and polit­i­cal man­i­festo), Adolph Hitler spoke of the big lie: “Most peo­ple tell lit­tle lies. They would be ashamed to tell big ones. They would never credit oth­ers with such great impu­dence as the com­plete rever­sal of facts. Even expla­na­tions would long leave them in doubt and [...]