The Covert War Against Rock: What You Don't Know About the Deaths of Jim Morrison, Tupac Shakur, Michael Hutchence, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Phil Ochs, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, j

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Summary: Author is Way Ahead of his Times, its almost Revolutionary
Review: The revolution will not be televised, Alex Constantine is a writer who is exposing the right wing fasict (terrorist) intelligence agencies of the USA. Read this and you will be enlightened. And to those who call it Conspiracy theories??? These people are brainwashed by the corporate-owned media. ...

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Summary: 'Scuse me While I go and Die
Review: Think you've got the scoop on the deaths of Tupac Shakur and Notorious B.I.G.? If you're getting your info. from Corporate controlled media, what you've been fed is most likely more of the same canned lies dished out on a daily basis. However, thanks to the efforts of Alex Constantine, one of the foremost conspiracy writers going and author of such compelling titles as Psychic Dictatorship in the U.S.A. and Virtual Government, the mysteries behind the demise of these stars and others such as Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix and Bob Marley is cleared up once and for all.

Constantine unveils a music industry controlled by a Mafia with CIA, FBI and NSA connections so powerful that any maverick musician who dares to confront the powers that be ends up getting iced in the most unsavory of ways. The author exhibits much courage in describing the deaths of rebellious rock stars through the thoroughness of his research and documentation of the testimony provided by those who personally knew and worked with the musicians included in the book. One of the more harrowing chapters in The Covert War Against Rock is that devoted to Reggae superstar Bob Marley who passed away on May 11, 1980. Surviving an attempt on his life by a well armed death squad at his Hope Road home in Jamaica, Bob was later given a 'gift' of a new pair of boots by Carl Colby, son of the late CIA director William Colby. When the unsuspecting Marely put them on , something pricked his foot. He then reached into one of the boots and pulled out a piece of copper wire. Many of his closest friends suspected that the wire contained some carcinogenic substance as Marley contracted cancer shortly thereafter. It is a well known fact that the CIA has often employed such devious tactics to silence dissidents like the conspiracy researcher Mae Brussels for example, who contracted stomach cancer after her lifelong dedication to empirically exposing Project Paperclip, a U.S. Government sponsored program which insured that top Nazis scientists were smuggled into the United States shortly after WWII to work in mostly the aerospace industries. After a heroic bout of non stop touring in spite of the disease and Bob refusing to have his leg amputated based on Rastafari creed, he was eventually sent to a 'holistic' practitioner, Dr. Josef Issels, who, as it was later on discovered, worked at the Auschwitz Concentration camp alongside the infamous, as well as inhuman, Dr. Mengeles. How Marley got linked up with a known Nazi doctor is an irony beyond comprehension. Perhaps it was somehow his personal destiny to come face to face with archetypal evil in such a way. I'll spare the reader the horrorific things done to him by this so called Doctor in the name of eugenics (genocide) disguised as therapy and commend the author for bringing this disturbing information to the public domain. Over and over again, Constantine cuts through the malignant allure which veils the deaths of celebrities and continues to perpetuate a kind of morbid fascination that is fully exploited by mainstream media as a means to distract us from the more important political matters at hand. His book offers us a much needed, sobering perspective on the motives behind the murders of the rock stars themselves. While reading The Covert War Against Rock, it becomes harder and harder to ignore that the Military-Industrial complex is very much threatened by musicians dedicated to raising the political awareness of young people and will do whatever it can to stop them. The Covert War Against Rock should be used as a kind of assassination Field Guide for those who want to head for the front lines and 'Fight the Power'. Perhaps then the deaths of the musicians described within will not be in vain.

Jaye Beldo: [e-mail]

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Summary: Alex does it AGAIN!
Review: What a GEM! Alex delivers his evidence in his truly unimitable style once again. This is written by a true humanitarian who cares about our freedoms. There is an ability he possesses which shows where we will be headed if we continue to allow the various agencies to terrorize those it deems "dangerous". Even the arts are up for review! This book was riveting at each page and I recommend it highly.

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Summary: Disturbing but Courageous Reportage
Review: Why has it taken so long for this book to appear? Obviously, Jimi Hendrix did not perish from a heroin overdose, as the media-at-large had it at the time ... so why have so few journalists bothered to investigate the true cause of death? The same holds true for the "death by misadventure" of Brian Jones, founder of the Rolling Stones. Several witnesses to Jones's MURDER were intimidated into silence, told to keep their mouths shut or they would be next, but have nevertheless recently come forward -- yet the VICTIM is still blamed for his own tragic demise -- to the present day. We, as a culture, revel in bullying, scapegoating and lying to ourselves. This book -- highly informative and colorfully-written -- is a case study in fascist conspiracies and the ""Good Germans" in the press who have allowed them to thrive like poison toads in America's tumultuous cultural garden. The Left should seize upon this book as an indictment of a criminalized intelligence community, and a lesson in journalism.

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Summary: Get An Editor!
Review: With a writing style vaguely reminescent of Francis E. Deck, Alex Constantine has produced what is surely one of the most badly written books in publication today. I actually found myself howling with laughter at the sheer inelegance of it. There are many interesting allegations in this book, but most of the footnotes reference other books rather than actual source documents. Get an editor, Alex!!!!

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Summary: Get An Editor!
Review: With a writing style vaguely reminescent of Francis E. Deck, Alex Constantine has produced what is surely one of the most badly written books in publication today. I actually found myself howling with laughter at the sheer inelegance of it. There are many interesting allegations in this book, but most of the footnotes reference other books rather than actual source documents. Get an editor, Alex!!!!

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Summary: the truth is more UNSETTLING than fiction
Review: You will not find this book reviewed in the mainstream press. The fact of the government of the United States having an organized program to destabilize and assassinate (COINTELPRO,FBI; AND OPERATION CHAOS, CIA) individuals who the President, the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies deemed "threats to the national security," is so outrageous and horrific a thought to most Americans (and so completely contrary to the fairy-tale history we are taught in school) that it is quite often dismissed out of hand. For those who wish to learn the hidden history of the Cold War, this book is superb. The author's range of knowledge and study and his excellent integration of myriad strands of that hidden history are a tour de force. Very highly recommended.

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Summary: Dopey people on dope.
Review: You'll get no congratulations here on your book: This is just another paranoid attempt to slam the U.S. government, for the deaths of some dopey rockers on dope. Wake up" there should be no big mystery as to why these people died. They all lived lives of excess filled with drugs and alcohol, a bunch of fallen stars who burned out way before their time, except for lennon and topac who were shot to death, the others died the way they lived FAST" You see there's no big mystery to their deaths after all, just a few star struck americans who refuse to see their rock and roll idols, for what they really were.