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The tag 'Sun Myung Moon' is associated with 15 posts.

Dark Cloud on the Rising Sun

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ March 6, 2014 ⋅ 2 comments

In his sec­ond stint as Prime Min­is­ter of Japan, Shin­zo Abe is reboot­ing the right-wing polit­i­cal agen­da he pur­sued dur­ing his first term in the last decade. The grand­son of promi­nent Japan­ese war crim­i­nal Nobo­suke Kishi, Abe is imple­ment­ing revi­sion­ist pol­i­tics designed to obfus­cate Japan’s actions dur­ing World War II, includ­ing edit­ing text­books to change writ­ten his­to­ry of the war, imple­ment­ing a new secre­cy law, bring the respect­ed NHK tele­vi­sion net­work under gov­ern­ment con­trol and negat­ing accounts of Japan­ese war crimes.


Whither Japan? Divine Wind, Take 2?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ July 18, 2013 ⋅ 7 comments

In numer­ous broad­casts, we have cov­ered the sad real­i­ty that in post World War II Japan, the pub­lic per­cep­tion that the forces of fas­cism were erad­i­cat­ed is a delib­er­ate­ly cul­ti­vat­ed polit­i­cal myth. Japan­ese prime min­is­ter Abe has embarked on a pro­gram of mil­i­tarism, with one of his top defense advis­ers high­light­ing a cam­paign appear­ance by read­ing from the diary of a Kamikaze pilot, who died crash­ing his plane into an Amer­i­can war­ship. UPDATED ON 8/9/2013.


Winds of War Blowing over Northern Pacific Islands?

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ March 24, 2013 ⋅ 2 comments

There has been a sig­nif­i­cant uptick in real or alleged mil­i­tary con­fronta­tions over dis­put­ed islands in the North Pacif­ic. Con­ser­v­a­tive com­men­ta­tor Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has not­ed the pos­si­ble drift toward war between Japan and Chi­na over unin­hib­it­ed and dis­put­ed Islands. Japan has also accused Rus­sia of foment­ing con­fronta­tion over the dis­put­ed Kuriles.


Good Riddance to Bad Rubbish: Sun Myung Moon Exits Stage Far Right

Posted by Dave Emory ⋅ September 3, 2012 ⋅ 2 comments

A self-pro­claimed mes­si­ah who viewed the polit­i­cal sub­ju­ga­tion of the Unit­ed States as essen­tial, Sun Myung Moon head­ed the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church. With strong con­nec­tions to the Bush fam­i­ly and ele­ments of the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency, the Uni­fi­ca­tion Church appears to be an exten­sion of the Japan­ese patri­ot­ic and ultra­na­tion­al­ist soci­eties that brought fas­cism to Japan. The group’s pri­ma­ry fund­ing may well come from Japan­ese heavy indus­try, the Mit­subishi Cor­po­ra­tion, in par­tic­u­lar. Moon has final­ly passed away at age 92.


L‑4 Fascism, Gun Control and the Intelligence Community

Posted by FTR ⋅ May 26, 1996 ⋅ One comment

Refut­ing many argu­ments for gun con­trol, the pres­ence of firearms in soci­ety is not con­nect­ed to crime or homi­cide lev­els


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