Terrorists are manipulating stock exchanges to raise funds: NSA

TIMES OF INDIANEW DELHI: Manip­u­la­tion of stock exchanges is the new modus operandi used by ter­ror­ist groups to raise funds for their oper­a­tions and fic­ti­tious com­pa­nies have oper­ated in the Mum­bai and Chen­nai stock exchanges.
Reveal­ing this, National Secu­rity Advi­sor M K Narayanan has said some of these com­pa­nies were later traced to ter­ror­ist groups.
“Iso­lated instances [...]

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 #579 Gimme a Break! — Reflections on the Death of Gerald Ford

Ger­ald Ford’s role in aid­ing the cover-up of Water­gate and, by exten­sion, the assas­si­na­tion of Pres­i­dent Kennedy.

U.S. and Allied Efforts To Recover and Restore Gold and Other Assets Stolen or Hidden by Germany During World War II

II. The Safe­haven Pro­gram
A. Ori­gins of the Safe­haven Pro­gram
As the tide of bat­tle shifted in favor of the Allies in 1943, eco­nomic war­fare goals began to take into account the con­cern that Ger­many would try to hide gold and other assets abroad so they would not be included in war repa­ra­tions and could be used [...]

FTR #578 Darkness at Sunrise

The Inter­dic­tion of Oper­a­tion Safe Haven
Recorded Novem­ber 26, 2006
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Intro­duc­tion: Doc­u­ment­ing neu­tral­iza­tion of the pro­gram to block the Nazi flight cap­i­tal pro­gram dur­ing and after World War II, this pro­gram high­lights the machi­na­tions of Allen Dulles in assur­ing the suc­cess of Oper­a­tion Eagle’s Flight. (Dulles, as well as his brother John Fos­ter, were attor­neys for the powerful [...]

FTR #576 Voteschwitz—So Near, yet so Farben

Recorded Novem­ber 12, 2006
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Intro­duc­tion: Sup­ple­ment­ing pre­vi­ous pro­grams about the per­ils of elec­tronic vot­ing, this broad­cast high­lights the new pro­pri­etors of the Sequoia elec­tronic vot­ing tech­nol­ogy. Pre­vi­ously run by ele­ments con­nected to orga­nized crime and the GOP, sequoia was recently pur­chased by Smart­matic. Because Smart­matic is linked to the Venezue­lan gov­ern­ment of Hugo Chavez, Smartmatic’s purchase [...]

FTR #573 Alfa Males—One Helluva Conspiracy Theory, Part II

Recorded Octo­ber 15, 2006
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Con­tin­u­ing analy­sis of what British Prime Min­is­ter Tony Blair described as a “global net­work” behind the 9/11 attacks, this pro­gram details evi­den­tiary trib­u­taries between the pow­er­ful, well-connected and crim­i­nal Alfa con­sor­tium and peo­ple and insti­tu­tions con­nected to the events of 9/11. A Russ­ian com­pany with what Mr. Emory describes as “more connections [...]

FTR #556 Update on 9/11 and Related Matters

Recorded June 11, 2006
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MP3 Side 1 | Side 2
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This pro­gram sup­ple­ments pre­vi­ous pro­grams about the 9/11 inves­ti­ga­tions. Of pri­mary sig­nif­i­cance is the fail­ure of the United States to pro­vide Swiss author­i­ties with infor­ma­tion about the A.Q. Khan nuclear smug­gling net­work, as well as the fail­ure of the inter­na­tional com­mu­nity to suc­cess­fully inter­dict the Mus­lim Brotherhood’s [...]

The Secret Treaty of Fort Hunt

[Orig­i­nally pub­lished in Covert Action Infor­ma­tion Bul­letin, Fall, 1990]
An arti­cle by Carl Oglesby

William Shirer closed his 1960 mas­ter­piece, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, with the judg­ment that the Nazi regime “had passed into his­tory,“1 but we can­not be so con­fi­dent today. On the con­trary, the evi­dence as of 1990 is that World [...]

Strapped States Try New Route, Lease Toll Roads to Foreign Firms

by Amy Gold­stein
ELKHART, Ind. — Its offi­cial state motto is “the cross­roads of Amer­ica.” Yet Indi­ana is about to turn over its entire toll road for the next 75 years to two for­eign com­pa­nies, mak­ing it more expen­sive to drive.
The deci­sion to hand the Indi­ana Toll Road to an Aus­tralian and Span­ish team for $3.8 billion [...]