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Repost: The REAL Memorial Day

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ May 25, 2020 ⋅ Post a comment

Due to the shel­ter-in-place restric­tions, it is not pos­si­ble for Mr. Emory to do his annu­al Memo­r­i­al Day marathon pro­gram­ming about the deci­sive con­nec­tions between Amer­i­can indus­try and finance and the Axis pow­ers of World War II. How­ev­er, we re-post the descrip­tion and pro­gram links from last year’s spe­cial for view­ing and use of the listening–and reading–audience: “In the decades since the end of the Sec­ond World War, much has been writ­ten about the war and fas­cism, the dri­ving force behind the aggres­sion that pre­cip­i­tat­ed that con­flict. Unfor­tu­nate­ly, much of what has been said and writ­ten has failed to iden­ti­fy and ana­lyze the caus­es, nature and method­ol­o­gy of fascism—German Nation­al Social­ism or “Nazism” in par­tic­u­lar. A deep­er, more accu­rate analy­sis was pre­sent­ed in pub­lished lit­er­a­ture, par­tic­u­lar­ly vol­umes pub­lished dur­ing, or in the imme­di­ate after­math of, the Sec­ond World War. . . . . Fas­cism (Nazism in par­tic­u­lar) was an out­growth of glob­al­iza­tion and the con­struc­tion of inter­na­tion­al monop­o­lies (car­tels). Key to under­stand­ing this phe­nom­e­non is analy­sis of the Webb-Pomerene act, leg­is­lat­ed near the end of the First World War. A loop­hole in the Anti-trust leg­is­la­tion of 1914, it effec­tive­ly legal­ized the for­ma­tion of cartels—international monopolies—for firms that were barred from domes­tic monop­o­lis­tic prac­tices. Decry­ing what they viewed as exces­sive and restric­tive “reg­u­la­tion” here in the Unit­ed States, U.S.-based transna­tion­al cor­po­ra­tions invest­ed their prof­its from the indus­tri­al boom of the 1920’s abroad, pri­mar­i­ly in Japan and Ger­many. This process might well be viewed as the real begin­ning of what is now known as “glob­al­iza­tion.” This rein­vest­ment of the prof­its of the Amer­i­can indus­tri­al boom of the 1920’s in Japan­ese and Ger­man strate­gic heavy indus­try was the cap­i­tal that drove the engines of con­quest that sub­dued both Europe and Asia dur­ing World War II. On Sun­day, we will high­light the Amer­i­can-Ger­man indus­tri­al axis and its var­i­ous man­i­fes­ta­tions. On Mon­day, we will explore the Amer­i­can-Japan­ese indus­tri­al axis.”


Repost: FTR #602 The Plot to Seize the White House — Interview with Jules Archer

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 30, 2008 ⋅ 3 comments

Lib­er­ty League, indus­tri­al­ists, financiers orches­trat­ed the 1934 coup plot; Gen­er­al Smed­ley But­ler betrayed the plot; media sup­pressed accu­rate reportage.


FTR #602 The Plot to Seize the White House: Interview with Jules Archer

Posted by FTR ⋅ July 10, 2007 ⋅ One comment

Lib­er­ty League, indus­tri­al­ists, financiers orches­trat­ed the 1934 coup plot; Gen­er­al Smed­ley But­ler betrayed the plot; media sup­pressed accu­rate reportage.


FTR #586 Miscellaneous Articles and Updates

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 20, 2007 ⋅ Post a comment

GM prof­it­ed hand­some­ly from its asso­ci­a­tion with the Third Reich.


FTR #511 Uncle Sam & The Swastika: 25 Years Later

Posted by FTR ⋅ May 31, 2005 ⋅ 2 comments

Rela­tion­ships between Ger­man and Amer­i­can firms that were instru­men­tal in the rise of the Third Reich.


FTR #448 The Coup Attempt of 1934

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 8, 2004 ⋅ One comment

Lib­er­ty League at the core of the 1934 coup plot; Dou­glas MacArthur’s role in assist­ing the plot­ters; Gen­er­al Smed­ley But­ler betrayed the plot; media sup­pressed accu­rate reportage.


FTR #445 The Bush Family & the Intelligence Community

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 4, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

Kevin Phillips’ book ‘Amer­i­can Dynasty.’


FTR #313 Update on Germany

Posted by FTR ⋅ September 17, 2001 ⋅ Post a comment

ECHELON sys­tem and the NSA/GCHQ facil­i­ty at Men­with Hill; Tory MP charges Ger­many using Euro to wage eco­nom­ic war.


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