Investigative journalist Alex Constantine is the author of Blood, Carnage and the Agent Provocateur (about the L.A. riot and Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. Mr. Constantine also con- tributes to various publications such as L.A. Weekly, Hustler and has appeared in other journals such as The Coast Weekly of the Monterey Peninsula, Prevailing Winds Magazine, Random Lengths and Amok Press. The Constantine Report originated as a feature on The Lighthouse Report in 1989 on Public Radio KAZU FM now continues as a regular in THE LIGHTHOUSE REPORT ZINE.
Soulless corporations do, of course. Corporations with grinning, double-breasted executives, interlocking directorates, labor squabbles and flying capital. Dow. General Electric. Coca-Cola. Disney. Newspapers should have mastheads that mirror the world: The Westinghouse Evening Scimitar, The Atlantic-Richfield Intelligentser . It is beginning to dawn on a growing number of armchair ombudsmen that the public print reports news from a parallel universe - one that has never heard of politically-motivated assassinations, CIA-Mafia banking thefts, mind control, death squads or even federal agencies with secret budgets fattened by cocaine sales - a place overrun by lone gunmen, where the CIA and Mafia are usually on their best behavior. In this idyllic land, the most serious infraction an official can commit