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The tag 'Yakuza' is associated with 27 posts.

FTR #509 The Death of Iris Chang

Posted by FTR ⋅ May 17, 2005 ⋅ One comment

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ December 21, 2004 ⋅ One comment

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ March 26, 2004 ⋅ Post a comment

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ October 23, 2003 ⋅ 2 comments

Lis­ten: MP3 Side 1 | Side 2 RealAu­dio   Intro­duc­tion: 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, […]


FTR #291 From Kennebunkport to Pearl Harbor: Bush, Moon, and The Rising Sun

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 11, 2001 ⋅ Post a comment

” . . .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

Posted by FTR ⋅ June 1, 2001 ⋅ 15 comments

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

Posted by FTR ⋅ April 29, 2001 ⋅ One comment

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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