From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
Subject: "who are these people?" -- radio "free" america
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Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 00:52:15 GMT

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Topic 183	Who are these people?	2 responses 
caribdesk	media.issues	 7:39 am  Nov  8, 1992 
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From: Bob Thomson <caribdesk> 
Subject: Who are these people? 
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/* Written  4:37 pm  Nov  5, 1992 by odin@world.std.com in igc:p.news */ 
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From: Hank Roth <odin@world.std.com> 
Subject: Who are these people? 
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Date: Thu, 5 Nov 92 01:20:16 PST 
From: RICHARD HAREL <RHAREL@FAB8.intel.com> 
To: odin@world.std.com 
Subject: Who are these people ??? 

RADIO FREE AMERICA 
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HEARD ON SHORTWAVE 7.435 MHZ AT 02:00-04:00Z IN JERUSALEM WITH A 5-7 SIGNAL  
USING A MOTOROLA MICOM-X AND A 1/2 WAVE DIPOLE FOR 40 METERS. 
SIGNALS FADED AFTER 04:00Z. 
FIRST HOUR WAS A SHOW CALLED "FOR THE PEOPLE" HOSTED BY CHUCK CARTER.  
MAINLY DOWN ON THE EXISTING POLITICAL SYSTEM AND PREACHED POLITICAL AND  
ECONOMIC REFORM. 
TEL. (800) 888-9999. 
MAILING ADDRESS:3 RIVER ST. 
WHITE SPRINGS, FLORIDA 32096. 
BROADCAST ORIGINATED FROM TN. STATION WWCR - ALSO KLVE. 
2ND HOUR WAS HOSTED BY TOM VALENTINE - ALONG THE SAME ECONOMIC, POLITICAL  
LINES BUT WITH A WHITE SUPREMACY THEME. CALLERS GAVE THEIR OPINIONS  
(THE SHOW IS OBVIOUSLY RECORDED) ABOUT THEIR FEARS OF "THE JEW CONTROLLED  
MEDIA" AND "COMMUNIST JEW SOCIALISTS" DESTROYING THE VALUES OF "REAL AMERICANS" 
THE "CHRISTIAN FAMILY STRUCTURE," ETC. 
THE AGENDA ALSO GOT INTO THE "ZIONIST ENEMY", DANGERS OF CERTAIN PRO-ISRAEL 
SENATORS...BUT CLARIFIED THAT NOT ALL JEWS ARE ZIONISTS. 
BOTH SHOWS EVERY SO OFTEN GAVE OUT THE 800 NUMBER TO PROMOTE THE SALES OF 
VARIOUS PROPAGANDA PUBLICATIONS. THE FIRST SHOW'S NEWSLETTER IS CALLED "FOR THE 
PEOPLE" AND VALENTINE'S MESSAGE IS THROUGH A MAGZINE CALLED "SPOTLIGHT". 
JAMMING TOOK PLACE ON THE SAME FREQUENCY BUT SIGNALS WERE WEAK COMPARED WITH  
R.F.A. PERHAPS THE SIGNAL WAS BEING BEAMED TOWARDS A DIFFERENT AREA. 
SEARS WAS THE ONLY COMMERCIAL ADVERTISER DURING THE PROGRAM. (ALUMINUM SIDING). 
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What's their beef ? Who are these people and how popular/big is their  
audience ? Is this station associated with the "Liberty Lobby" ?  
Who exactly are they intending their shortwave broadcasts to be heard by ?  
Are these stations operating under license of the FCC ?  
They also have a link via 2 geo-sychronous satellites.  

- Rich 
Jerusalem 

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Topic 183	Who are these people?	Response  1 of  2 
caribdesk 
media.issues	 7:39 am  Nov  8, 1992 

From: Bob Thomson <caribdesk> 
Subject: Who are these people? 

/* Written  5:01 pm  Nov  6, 1992 by pcrumhorn@igc.apc.org in igc:p.news */ 
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   "Radio Free America" is a syndicated program.  The Spotlight folks buy 
time on a US commercial shortwave station called WWCR.  The views do not 
necessarily reflect the views of the station, as WWCR broadcasts many very 
different programs from many different sources.   Yes, they are licensed 
by the FCC.   "Radio Free America" is also broadcast by several domestic 
AM broadcasters, so it is not a "clandestine" operation. 
   You should try to pick up RFPI...Radio for Peace International.  They 
transmit from Costa Rica, mostly in English. Like WWCR, they carry a wide 
range of programming, very little of it produced in-house.  Unlike WWCR, 
RFPI programs are generally from a liberal-to-leftist end of the spectrum, 
with the occasional new-age program thrown in. 
   RFPI is on 7375 USB, 13630 USB, and 15030 most hours of the day & night. 
Try them when propagation is best at your end. 

Conf?  

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Topic 183	Who are these people?	Response  2 of  2 
caribdesk 
media.issues	 7:40 am  Nov  8, 1992 

From: Bob Thomson <caribdesk> 
Subject: Who are these people? 

/* Written 12:42 am  Nov  8, 1992 by pnews@igc.apc.org in igc:p.news */ 
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[Forwarded from Usenet] 
From: Chip Berlet 
  
Radio Free America is a syndicated program of Liberty Lobby, a  
quasi-Nazi outfit that specializes in using  radical-sounding  
"populist" rhetoric to attract an audience. They have managed to  
fool a lot of people by avoiding overtly racist language. They  
are quite skilled at this deception.  
  
According to an order list for audiotapes from Liberty Lobby's   
syndicated Radio Free America 2-hour daily radio talk-show,  
on September 5, the program was an interview with Fred   
Leuchter, who falsely claimed to be an engineer and   
published a pseudo-scientific study alleging that he had proved   
that there were no homicidal gas chambers at "Auschwitz, Mydanek   
and Birkenau."  
  
Along with interviews with Populist Party candidates and David   
Duke supporters, here are some other featured guests:   
  
On June 21, 1990 the guest was "Alyn Denham, former mercenary   
from Rhodesia, talks about the problems of South Africa."  
  
On July 26 1990 the guest was Samuel Blumenfeld, long an ally of   
the John Birch Society, talking on his "stand against socialistic   
control of education" by the National Education Association.  
  
On July 12, the issue was October Surprise with Barbara Honegger.  
  
June 14, Bo Gritz "continues his fight against narco-corruption   
in high places."  
  
May 22, 1990 "Liberty Lobby founder and treasurer Willis A.   
Carto."  
  
May 24, 1990 "Dr. Paul Cameron, director/founder of Family   
Research Institute of Washington, discusses dangers posed to   
society by militant homosexuality."  
  
February 21--"A self-confessed FBI hit man tells how he rubbed   
out one of the shooters in the JFK assassination."  
  
January 23, 1991 "Was Bush's War actually a "Secret Team"   
operation? Col. Fletcher Prouty, expert on this government within   
a government, argues that it has all the earmarks."  
  
August 29, 1990 the program was "Former Rep. David Bowen (D-  
Miss.), executive director of the Center for the National   
Interest, talks about the power of the Israel lobby and how it   
has to be curbed."  
  
  
David Duke has this to say:  
  
   " 'Spotlight' started Radio Free America...I think it's a   
fantastic project. It's one more chink in the armor of the enemy.   
I think it will enable us to penetrate and reach more and more   
people in this country.  
   "I must say this: there are Jews that I respect like Alfred   
Lilienthal who works against Zionism. But, I don't have respect   
for Zionism, and frankly, I do not have respect for Judaism.   
Because it is a very vile, anti-Christian faith."  
  
Among the most influential ultra-right groups in   
the U.S. is the virulently anti-Jewish Liberty   
Lobby. With its newspaper <Spotlight>, Liberty   
Lobby spreads racialism across the U.S., and   
serves as a bridge to the paramilitary and   
neo-Nazi right. The <Washington Post> has   
described <Spotlight> as a "newspaper containing   
orthodox conservative political articles   
interspersed with anti-Zionist tracts and   
classified advertisements for Ku Klux Klan   
T-shirts, swastika-marked German coins and   
cassette tapes of Nazi marching songs." That   
description is actually mild.   
  
<Spotlight> claims it is neither anti-Jewish nor   
pro-Nazi, but one article referred to the Waffen   
SS, the elite corps of ideological Nazis, as a   
"multinational anti-communist mass movement,   
which was, in fact, the largest all-volunteer   
army in history." The <Spotlight> also celebrates   
neo-Nazi skinheads and the apartheid government   
of South Africa.   
  
Liberty Lobby, <Spotlight>, the International   
Revisionist Conference, the Institute for   
Historical Review (IHR), Noontide Press, and   
IHR's <Journal of Historical Review> are all   
projects of Willis Carto, one of America's most   
influential racial theorists. Carto is described   
by the London-based anti-fascist magazine   
<Searchlight> as the "leading U.S. publisher of   
anti-semitic, racist and pro-nazi material."   
  
Carto and Liberty Lobby were influential in   
creating the racialist Populist Party and were   
primarily responsible for elevating David Duke to   
national attention as an electoral candidate. In   
the spring of 1985 the Populist Party held a   
major meeting in Chicago where the armed and   
confrontational activities of racist and   
anti-Jewish groups in rural America were saluted   
as "heroic," according to persons who attended   
the meeting. One group of rural farm activists   
from the midwest left the meeting after   
complaining that too many of the attendees were   
obsessed with Jews. (A series of political and   
financial schisms has ended the relationship   
between Liberty Lobby and the Populist Party,   
although both groups still share many of the   
fundamental anti-Jewish and racist theories.)   
  
The pseudo-scholarly Institute for Historical   
Review is a "revisionist" research center and   
publishing house that popularizes the calumny   
that the historical account of the Nazi Holocaust   
is a Jewish hoax, an idea central to Carto's   
worldview. According to researcher Russ Bellant,   
early in his career Willis Carto produced the   
magazine <Western Destiny>, which grew out of   
the Nordicist <Northern World> and a vociferously   
anti-Jewish magazine called <Right>. <Right>   
recommended support for the American Nazi Party   
and was edited by E. L. Anderson who was   
associate editor of <Western Destiny>. Critics   
and co-workers of Carto claim E. L. Anderson was   
a pseudonym for Willis Carto.   
  
Liberty Lobby staff and supporters helped stage   
the 1978 meeting of the World Anti-Communist   
League, a group that networks fascist movements   
around the globe. According to the <Washington   
Post>, Liberty Lobby workers distributed   
publications including <Spotlight> at the WACL   
meeting. A few years later, after a change of   
leadership and some mostly-cosmetic housecleaning   
to oust a few ardent Nazi groups, WACL came under   
the leadership of retired General John "Jack"   
Singlaub. Singlaub used WACL to raise money and   
support for the Contras, and Singlaub and WACL   
were implicated in the Iran-Contra hearings for   
having served as a cover and money laundry for   
the activities of Oliver North.   
  
While the John Birch Society trumpets jingoistic   
patriotism laced with conspiracy theories,   
according to scholar John Mintz, the Liberty   
Lobby voices "racist and anti-Semitic beliefs in   
addition to conspiracism."   
  
Mintz explains:   
"Structurally, the Lobby was a most unusual   
umbrella organization catering to constituencies   
spanning the fringes of Neo-Nazism to the John   
Birch Society and the radical right. It was not   
truly paramilitary, in the manner of the Ku Klux   
Klan and Nazis, but was more accurately an   
intermediary between racist paramilitary factions   
and the recent right. "  
  
Former staffers at both the Liberty Lobby and   
LaRouche's group claim both outfits have   
cooperated closely on several projects. In the   
March 2, 1981 issue of its newspaper <Spotlight>,   
Liberty Lobby cynically defended the relationship   
this way:   
  
"It is mystifying why so many anti-communists and   
`conservatives' oppose the USLP [U.S. Labor   
Party--LaRouche's original electoral arm, ed.].   
No group has done so much to confuse, disorient,   
and disunify the Left as they have...the USLP   
should be encouraged, as should all similar   
breakaway groups from the Left, for this is the   
only way that the Left can be weakened and   
broken. More recently, <Spotlight> has distanced   
itself and Liberty Lobby from the LaRouchians   
over the issue of the LaRouchians' questionable   
and illegal fundraising activities. "  
 * * *  
  
For more information see the  
Peacenet Conference "Publiceye"  
Topic: Right Woos Left  
  
-Chip Berlet  
Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive