The Yakuza’s Cleanup Crew: It’s Not What You Think But Still Alarming
It has long been known that the yakuza are an important component of Japan’s political power structure. It turns out that Japan’s nuclear power structure has a long history with the yakuza too. This became an important reality shortly after the Fukushima catastrophe. Serious challenges remain. Yakuza too.
FTR #584 Rewriting History
Listen: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 REALAUDIO 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 [...]
FTR #551 Moonlighting
Sushi industry domination in the United States by True World Group—a Moon proprietary
FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang
At the time of her death, Iris Chang was researching a book chronicling the experiences of survivors of the Bataan Death March.
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 [...]
FTR #446 Funds and Games
Recorded February 14, 2004 Listen: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 RealAudio Highlighting the postwar use of Axis treasure recovered by the Allies after World War II, this program talks about these Funds and the Games that were played with (and because of) them. Particular emphasis is on the postwar use of the massive amount [...]
FTR #428 Gold Warriors: An Interview with Peggy Seagrave
Listen: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 RealAudio Following directly and supplementing FTRs #426 and #427, this interview with Peggy Seagrave highlights many of the key points of discussion in the remarkable new book authored by Peggy and her husband Sterling–Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold. (The Seagraves authored The Yamato Dynasty, which [...]
FTR #291 From Kennebunkport to Pearl Harbor: Bush, Moon, and The Rising Sun
” . . .the broadcast further develops the relationship between the Bush family and . . . the Japanese patriotic and ultra-nationalist societies and the Moon outfit. . . .”
FTR #290 The Japanese Economy and the Kido Organization
The post-war Japanese economy is inextricably linked with the flight capital program set up by Koichi Kido, Hirohito’s principal assistant.
FTR #296 The Return of the Rising Sun, The Reemergence of Fascism in Japan
As in Europe and the United States, fascism was not eliminated in Japan at the end of the Second World War.
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