Cointelpro

COINTELPRO Comes to My Town: My First-Hand Experience With Government Spies

Dave Zirin | Posted 07.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Department of Homeland Security, Death Penalty, Maryland, Spying on Citizens, Cointelpro, Ehrlich, Politics News
Dave Zirin

Our seditious crimes, as "Lucy" reported, involved planning to set up a table at the local farmer's market and writing a petition. We can only assume that this surveillance was to garner Homeland Security grant money.

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Forty years later the FBI Still Has Some Explaining to Do About King's Murder

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 04.01.2008 | Home

Read More: Murder, Martin Luther King Jr., Racism, Cointelpro, Fbi, King Assassination, James Earl Ray, j.edgar Hoover, Home News
Earl Ofari Hutchinson

"Dangerous," "evil," "colossal fraud," were the choice terms that then FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and other top FBI officials routinely spit ...

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Tom Brokaw Does 1968 (Poorly)

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.17.2007 | Politics

Read More: George Wallace, Grover Norquist, Curtis LeMay, Paul Wolfowitz, Tom Brokaw, Richard Nixon, George W. Bush, 1960s, Civil Rights Movement, Greatest Generation, Tom Brokaw Boom, Hippies, Civil Rights, The Sixties, 1968, Vietnam War, Racism, Vietnam, Cointelpro, Politics News
Joseph A. Palermo

At least in 1968 young people could dream of a better planet and a better future. Brokaw comes down on the side of the stern father shaming those unruly children for their "excesses."

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