The media appear to provide unbiased information. But the reality
is that mainstream media information is monstrously biased through
omission, selection and promotion of policies that benefit the
financial and corporate elite. There’s an immense conflict-of-interest
at the heart of media ownership. Any examination of media boards of
directors shows that they closely interlock with arms, oil, financial
and other corporations that profit from war.
BY: ANDREW G. MARSHALL
Today, the majority of the population of North America are under the impression that those who provide us with our information, the mainstream media, tell us everything we need to know and provide us with sound, factual news. However, those who have dared to venture away from the mainstream media and seek information elsewhere have come to believe something strikingly different; that our media not only do not provide us with all the information we require, but that they purposely spin and manipulate the information they do provide us, and more importantly, outright lie, deceive and hide incredibly important issues from public view. The media no longer serve the purposes of providing the public with information, but rather espouse disinformation and what's worse, provide no information in order to hide the realities of the world order in which we are living. They do this in subservience to their corporate puppet-masters, who, like ventriloquists, control the actions of the puppet and move its mouth to fit the words they, themselves are speaking. The corporate controllers do this in order to hide the true agenda being pursued by the broader corporate world, of using the process of globalization to shape a new global order.
In North America, the media are controlled by the military-industrial complex, or MIC. It is first necessary, before looking into the direct connections and proof of this, to identify what the MIC is. President Dwight D. Eisenhower coined the term, 'military-industrial complex," in his farewell address to the nation in 1961, in which he discussed this concept as being the relationship between the military establishment, the arms industry and government, about which he stated, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. "' The problem with this influence was largely about how it created a war industry; in which great profits are made in war, and therefore large financial enterprises have vested interests in going to war. Mixed with this, is the relationship between the financial interests and the government itself, with a revoking door between public officials and corporate executives. Today, the revolving door is so prevalent that no one person can be seen to have a "conflict of interest", as it i the entire system itself, which is a conflict of interest.
The profits of war are primarily fed into the large military security, aerospace, engineering and oil corporations. These make up the industry of war. However, there is a hierarchy to the order, and it is the large international banks which control all industries, and that leads many to term it as the "Military Industrial-Financial-Complex”, however, for the sake of this article, it will be referred to simply as the MIC. 1 do feel that it is absolutely necessary to make this distinction, however of the MIC itself, being controlled by an international network of banks and banking interests. Much control in the corporate world is wielded through those who make up the board of directors of a company, as they are able to sit on several boards of many different corporations, and therefore are able to wield influence across a spectrum of companies and business sectors.
INTERLOCKING DIRECTORSHIPS
It is useful to use some short examples of how the banks own the MIC. Often, the banks are linked up through their corporate and executive boards with representatives of this oil industry, who are, in turn, on the boards of the military industry, and from there, on the boards of the media industry So it is not simply a case of the media being controlled by the MIC, but rather that they are an integral part of the MIC. For example, in the United States, one of the largest banks is JP Morgan Chase (which represents the merging of the Morgan and Rockefeller financial dynasties). On the International Advisory Council of JP Morgan Chase, then are such individuals as George P. Schultz. former Secretary of State under Reagan who currently sits on the board of Bechtel, an engineering firm that makes huge profits in the "war on terror," as well as being a member of several prominent think tanks (which are the policy makers in the United States), such as the Hoover Institution and the American Enterprise Institute. Other members of the (JH Morgan Chase International Council) board include Riley Bechtel, the CEO of Bechtel, Andre Desmarais, Co-CEO of Power Corporation of Canada, the CEO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and former Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney who "opened' Canada for business with NAFTA.
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