Excellent radio show on the history of fascism and its ties to US big business

ftr23532

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Fri Jan-12-07 01:50 PM
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Excellent radio show on the history of fascism and its ties to US big business

This may be a Dave Emory show from 1990, but the info he provides on the emergence of Mussolini's fascist state is probably even more relevant today. It also covers the love affair that US Big Business and the media had with Mussolini at the time and draws a number of parallels to the Reagan administration. It's broken up into three mp3 files, 105 minutes in all:

http://www.spitfirelist.com/Archives/M_42a.mp3">Part 1 | http://www.spitfirelist.com/Archives/M_42b.mp3">Part 2 | http://www.spitfirelist.com/Archives/M_42c.mp3">Part 3

Happy listening!

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no_hypocrisy

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:00 PM
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1. "Facts and Fascism" by George Seldes (1943) is a good

Edited on Fri Jan-12-07 02:01 PM by no_hypocrisy

read if you can find it.

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/George_Seldes/Facts_and_Fascism.html

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ftr23532

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:08 PM
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2. OMG, I literally read "Facts and Fascism" in your headline ...

... right when Dave read out the same title before reading an excerpt. Hehe, gotta love that synchronicity!

Here's a show all about Seldes for those interested:
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f036.html">FTR-36 Tribute to George Seldes http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/DX/dx-FTR-036.rm">Audio here

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shance

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Fri Jan-12-07 02:14 PM
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3. Good stuff. Thanks Ftr**

n/t

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ftr23532

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Fri Jan-12-07 03:03 PM
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4. thanks, and here's a related show

It just highlights the fiscal insanity pushed by the GOP and draws some historic parallels:
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f412.html">FTR 412�The Engineer Intends to Wreck the Train http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=7989">Audio here

The last part of the show talks about Banca del Gottardo, which is a rather naughty bank. There's lots more on that bank, it's ties to the P2 fascists of Italy, and the larger picture of money-laundering and offshore banking http://fortherecordessays.blogspot.com/2006/11/part-10-look-at-world-of-money_11.html">here

Enjoy!

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