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Alex Constantine is an American author, investigative journalist, radio commentator and musician. His work focuses on fascism, political corruption, Big Business and organized crime. His work provided the premise for several BBC documentaries. In 2005, he was a featured speaker (with Paul Robeson, Jr. and Afeni Shakur, the mother of Tupak Shakur) at the Congressional Black Caucus's annual Brain Trust conference. In 2009, Constantine hosted a program that aired on French television (also featuring comedian Paul Krassner, singer Country Joe McDonald and Black Panther Bobby Seale) about '60s opposition the Vietnam War. One of his less well-known books explored the possibility that O.J. Simpson was innocent and set up by the Mafia and LAPD.ref>Constantine, Alex (1995). The Florida/Hollywood mob connection, the CIA and O.J. Simpson. Los Angeles. ISBN B0006QD4DI. http://www.amazon.com/Florida-Hollywood-connection-Simpson-Constantine/dp/B0006QD4DI.</ref>
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He has contributed to LA Weekly, Hustler, Z magazine, High Times, Random Lengths (Long Beach, CA) and a variety of other magazines, as well as providing news and radio commentary for several California radio stations, including KAZU-FM in Monterey. Constantine has also appeared on various television shows related to music, mind control and political assassinations. His investigation of cults led to an opening Hard Copy segment that examined the chuldhood of late actor River Phoenix in the Children of God sect. He has hosted two BBC productions, one on the John Kennedy assassination and another on the death of Jimi Hendrix. The British newspaper The Observer included his book The Covert War Against Rock in their "The 50 Greatest Music Books Ever Written list."[1] Much of his writing focuses on fascism, which he says is inherently conspiratorial.
Constantine's band is called The Platitudes.[2]
One of Constantine's more popular articles alleges that the Central Intelligence Agency uses satanic cults to engage in trauma-based programming.[3] In his book The Covert War Against Rock Constantine claims that anti-fascist rock stars were murdered for political reasons.[4]