Volume 24, Number 4, January 17, 1997
Interviews
Douglas McLean
An official of the air traffic controllers union in the U.K. speaks out against the plan to privatize Britain’s air traffic control systems.
Book Reviews
How the news media invented Whitewater
by Edward Spannaus
Fools for Scandal: How the Media Invented Whitewater, by Gene Lyons and the editors of Harper’s magazine; and Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries, by James B. Stewart.
Infiltrator rips the mask from Greenpeace in Europe
by Emmanuel Grenier
La face cachée de Greenpeace (The Hidden Face of Greenpeace), by Olivier Vermont.
Departments
Agriculture
by Marcia Merry Baker
Falling milk prices bankrupt farmers.
Editorial
The latest Middle East crisis.
Economics
New strides forward in Eurasian land-bridge policy
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
The “Developing 8,” a new economic and political union, came into existence in Istanbul on Jan. 45; it will pursue a “combative cultural-political aim” of development of Third World nations.
EIR on the Internet
Currency Rates
Bid to privatize air traffic control meets opposition in Great Britain
An interview with Douglas McLean.
Business Briefs
Feature
The media cartel that controls what you think
by Jeffrey Steinberg
A handful of companies dominates the airwaves, cable, and print media, through which the daily news is disseminated into every community in America.
White House report exposes media cabal
by Jeffrey Steinberg
I. The Science of Brainwashing
How the British use the media for mass psychological warfare
by L. Wolfe
Americans have become wired into an all-surrounding mass media network, whose pervasive power the British oligarchy carefully directs.
Tavistock’s language project: the origin of ‘Newspeak’
by L. Wolfe
Destroying the English language, in order to control “dangerous thought.”
For whom the polls toll
by L. Wolfe
Poll-taking has become a “black art,” used to shape opinion.
II. The Cartel in Operation
A case study: The news media robbed American citizens of an election
by Dana S. Scanlon
Lyndon LaRouche garnered 600,000 votes in the 1996 Democratic Presidential primary, but the media said that President Clinton ran “unopposed.”
How the news media invented Whitewater
by Edward Spannaus
Media covered up Bush’s cocaine connection
by Jeffrey Steinberg
How the British-controlled media have tried to keep the lid on the story that former President George Bush was the drug super-kingpin of the 1980s.
III. Corporate Profiles
Who’s who in the media cartel
A roster of the companies under direct British control, such as the Hollinger Corp. and Reuters, and those that are London’s fellow-travellers, such as the New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times.
New communications bill furthers cartelization
by L. Wolfe
The Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 eliminated most federal safeguards against the concentration of the media in the hands of a few conglomerates.
International
Laurent Kabila: London’s cutthroat in Zaire
by Christine Bierre and Linda de Hoyos
The French daily Libération exposes the puppet who’s involved in the insurrection against Zaire’s government.
Lenora Fulani: Where the concubine twineth
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
Support for Kabila comes from some strange circles.
Faris Nanic: Bosnia is fighting for its economic sovereignty
by Faris Nanic
A Bosnian leader addresses the FDR-PAC forum in Washington, D.C.
International Intelligence
National
LaRouche calls for new Bretton Woods system
Addressing the FDR-PAC, Lyndon LaRouche outlines a strategic orientation for the second Clinton administration, in a time of great international crisis.
LaRouche: ‘Don’t let Wall Street do what it did to Orange County’
by Marianna Wertz
The bid to privatize Social Security is being opposed by the AFL-CIO, but not strongly enough.
National News
