New magazine of great promise

Prevailing Winds Magazine
Center for Preservation of Modern History
PO Box 23511, Santa Barbara, CA 93121, USA
Annual subscription is US$32
Reviewed by Jane Howarth Prevailing Winds is a new magazine with an ambitious agenda. Originally a catalogue, it is now a magazine and catalogue combined. The magazine section, of 64 pages, has high quality articles from an interesting collection of authors. In the current issue Michael Parenti, author of The Sword and the Dollar, Make Believe Media, writes on "Making the World Safe for Hypocrisy". Peter Dale Scott, film maker of Cover-up: the Iran-Contra Connection, exposes Gerald Posner's arguments in his book Case Closed on the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Posner was the Warren Commission's great defender. Parenti and Scott are regular contributors, and the magazine is worth getting for them alone. Also in the current issue, Dick Russell, author of The Man Who Knew Too Much, writes on "Non-Lethal Weapons", the term used to describe an array of advanced weapons of the future — including electronic means of affecting the mind and nervous system. Another article is the fascinating story of an unsolved mystery, a shooting at the CIA. The catalogue has 40 pages of books, articles, videos and audio tapes that can be purchased. The magazine is an outgrowth of Prevailing Winds Research, which grew out of a campus political awareness club. The publishers, the Center for the Preservation of Modern History, are a non-profit organisation. Under this umbrella, Prevailing Winds Research and its various projects, including the magazine, intend to support independent writers, journalists and investigators who probe and inform on issues neglected by the establishment press. The editors say the magazine will provide "hard-hitting investigative articles that probe deeply into matters that might otherwise become hidden history". An impressive advisory board with names such as Carl Oglesby, John Judge, Oliver Stone, Michael Parenti, Elizabeth Summers and an equally impressive list of editors, researchers and authors make this a magazine of great promise. Highly recommended.