cartel controls READ The Eurasian Land-Bridge The "New Silk Road" - locomotive for worldwide economic development including studies 0(: Anew • Iligh.technolog) inrmslructure dc\clopmcllt corridors special report from • China :lIld Europeas Eumsia's dc"elopment poles • Crucial inrmslruclurc I)rojccts in China Executive • 111C EI1I11sian L:lIld.Bridge and de"elopment .nound the great ocC:lIl b:lsins Intelligence • Financing an cconomie mir.lclc: 11:lluiltonian credit gencmtion Review • 'nle Eurasian L.1nd·Bridge and the ccollomic reconstruction orthc United Slates Availablefrom: EIR ews Service 1'.0. Box 17390 Washington, D.C. 200-11-0390 Founder and Contributing Editor: Lyndon H. LaRouche. Jr. Editorial Board: Melvin Klenetsky, Alllon\' From theAssociate Editor Papert. Gerald Rose, Dennis Small, Edward Spannaus, Nancy Spannaus, Je/frey Steinberg, Webster Tarpley, Carol White, Christopher White Associate Editor: Susan Welsh Many people will tell you that they hate "the media," Yet, they Managing Editors: .lohn Sigerson, Ronald Kokinda watch an average of 1,340 hours of television every year, according Science and Technology: Carol White to the U.S. Bureau of Census; and, they rely on a small clique of wire Special Projects: Mark Burdnwn services and newspapers to find out what their "opinion" is on the Book Editor: Katherine Notley Advertising Director: Marsha Freeman issues of the day. "I'm an independent thinker," your neighbor will Circulation Manager: Slanley Ezrol say. "I have my own opinion." He does not even realize, that his INTELLIGENCE DIRECTORS: opinions have been carefully crafted by the psychological manipula­ Agriculture: Marcia Merry Baker Asia and Africa: Linda de Hoyos tion experts of the media cartel. Counterintelligence: Jeffrey Steinberg, Our Feature gives a comprehensive picture of how this works; Paul Goldstein Economics: Christopher White how America's "hometown" newspapers and other media are con­ European Economics: William Engdahl trolled, top-down, by the British oligarchy and its fellow-travellers Ihero-America: Robyn Quijano, Dennis Small Law: Edward Spannaus in the U.S. establishment. Russia and Eastern Europe: Rachel Douglas, Konstantin George As we go to press, it is good news to see that the Clinton White United States: Kathleen Klenetsk.\' House has issued a 331-page report, striking out at the British-run INTERNATIONAL BUREAUS: press cabal (see highlights on p. 17). Bogota: .lose Restrepo Bonn: George Gregory, Rainer Ape! A most egregious example of how the media operate, is the case Buenos Aires: Gerardo Teran of Lyndon H. LaRouche. On our cover, you see the media mob turned Caracas: David Ramonet Copenhagen: Poul Rasmussen out in force for his sentencing, on Jan. 27, 1989, following the railroad Houston: Harley Schlanger trial that condemned him to 15 years in prison (he was released, on Lima: Sara Madueno Mexico City: Hugo LOpez Ochoa parole, in 1994). The "Get LaRouche" task force could never have Milan: Leonardo Servadio succeeded, without the role played by the media. As far back as 1974, New Delhi: Susan Maitra Paris: Christine Bierre the New York Times issued a front-page attack on LaRouche, before Rio de Janeiro: Silvia Palacios most people had even heard of him. In 1986, some 8,000 libellous Stockholm: Michael Ericson Washington, D.C.: William .lones attacks against him appeared in the national press, and the epithet Wiesbaden: Goran Haglund "political extremist" was glued to LaRouche's name, by universal agreement of the media moguls. 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Domestic subscriptions: 3 months-$125, 6 rnonths-$225, I year-$396, Single issue-$1 0 Postmaster: Send all address changes to EIR, P.O. Box 17390, Washington, D.C. 2004\-0390. ITillContents Interviews Economics Feature 8 Douglas McLean 4 New strides forward in An official of the air traffic Eurasian land-bridge controllers union in the U.K. speaks policy out against the plan to privatize The "Developing 8," a new Britain 's air traffic control systems . economic and political union, came into existence in Istanbul on Jan . 4- 5; it will pursue a "combative Book Reviews cultural-political aim " of development of Third World 32 How the news media nations. Press hounds at the courthouse in Alexandria. Vir­ ginia, on Jan. 27, 1989, for the sentencing of Lyndon invented Whitewater LaRouche after his railroad trial. Fools /or Scandal: How the Media 5 EIR on the Internet Invented Whitewater, by Gene 12 The media cartel that Lyons and the editors of Harper 's 6 Currency Rates controls what you think magazine; and Blood Sport: The A handful of companies dominates President and His Adversaries, by 8 Bid to privatize air traffic the airwaves, cable, and print James B. Stewart. control meets opposition in media, through which the daily Great Britain news is disseminated into every 69 Infiltrator rips the mask An interview with Douglas community in America. Jeffrey from Greenpeace in McLean. Steinberg reports . Europe La/ace cacMe de Greenpeace (The 10 Business Briefs 17 White House report Hidden Face o/Greenpeace), by exposes media cabal Olivier Vermont . Departments I. The Science of 7 Agriculture Brainwashing Falling milk prices bankrupt farmers . 18 How the British use the media for mass 80 Editorial psychological warfare The latest Middle East crisis . Americans have become wired into an all-surrounding mass media Photo and graphic credits: Cover, network, whose pervasive power pages 13,34,37,38,44,48,66, the British oligarchy carefully EIRNS/Stuart Lewis. Page 19, directs. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Page 21, 22 Tavistock's language NASA. Page 27, New Federalistl Michael Leppig . Page 57, EIRNSI project: the origin of Carlos Wesley. Pages 65, 66, 68, 'Newspeak' EIRNS/John Sigerson . Destroying the English language, in order to control "dangerous thought. " 26 For whom the polls toll Poll-taking has become a "black art," used to shape opinion. Volume 24, Number 4, January 17, 1997 In ternational National II. The Cartel 62 Laurent Kabila: London's 74 LaRouche calls for new in Operation cutthroat in Zaire Bretton Woods system The French daily Liberation Addressing the FOR-PAC, Lyndon exposes the puppet who's involved LaRouche outlines a strategic 29 A case study: The news in the insurrection against Zaire's orientation for the second Clinton media robbed American government. administration, in a time of great citizens of an election international crisis. Lyndon LaRouche garnered 64 Lenora Fulani: Where the 600,000 votes in the 1996 concubine twineth 76 LaRouche: 'Don't let Wall Democratic Presidential primary, Support for Kabila comes from Street do what it did to but the media said that President some strange circles. By Lyndon H. Orange County' Clinton ran "unopposed," LaRouche, Jr. The bid to privatize Social Security is being opposed by the AFL-CIO, 32 How the news media 65 Faris Nanic: Bosnia is but not strongly enough. invented Whitewater fighting for its economic sovereignty 78 National News 37 Media covered up Bush's A Bosnian leader addresses the cocaine connection FOR-PAC forum in Washington, How the British-controlled media D.C. have tried to keep the lid on the story that former President George 72 International Intelligence Bush was the drug super-kingpin of the 1980s. III. Corporate Profiles 40 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. 40 New communications bill furthers cartelization The Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 eliminated most federal safeguards against the concentration of the media in the hands of a few conglomerates. �ITmEconomics New strides forward in Eurasian land-bridge policy by Muriel Mirak Weissbach In a period in which organizations, alliances, and structures Velayati recommended that the D-S develop new strategies are crumbling under the impact of economic and financial in the context of the globalized economy, and that it crises, it is lawful that new institutions should arise, as the strengthen the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), result of effortsto build stable foundations for the future. Such which groups more than 50 Islamic nations. Velayati said that is the case of the new union which came into being on Jan.