Cointelpro

The Wisdom and Power of a Leaderless Resistance

Matthis Chiroux | Posted 12.31.2011

Read More: Oakland, Leadership, Misinformation, Cointelpro, Police, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Violence, Assassination, General Assembly, New York, Politics News
Matthis Chiroux

Have you ever been asked what a leader is to you? Of course you have; we're obsessed with the worship of these few. But the Occupy movement has no place for them, which the mainstream media just can't understand.

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Ending the SlutWars

Shira Tarrant | Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Jackson Katz, Feminism, Cointelpro, Slutwalk, Keli Goff, Rebecca Traister, Nancy Schwartzman, Crunk Feminist Collective, Slut Shaming, Rape, Jaclyn Friedman, Start by Believing, Kimberly Inez McGuire, Women News
Shira Tarrant

It's time to change our culture so that we would never dream of asking, "What was the victim wearing?" It is time that we hold rapists and assaulters accountable because the question is never what was she wearing but why is he raping?

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The New FBI Powers: Cointelpro on Steroids

John W. Whitehead | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Church Committee, John Boehner, Peace Activists, President Obama, Michael Mukasey, Minneapolis-Raid-on-Anti-War-Activists, Fbi, John Ashcroft, Valerie Caproni, Fourth Amendment, Tea Party, Cointelpro, Eric Holder, Police State, FBI Surveillance, Politics News
John W. Whitehead

Listen closely and what you will hear, beneath the babble of political chatter and other mindless political noises distracting you from what's really going on, are the dying squeals of the Fourth Amendment.

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Common and Michelle Obama's Bad Rap about Assata Shakur: The Hero Wore a Black Hat

Dr. Jonathan David Farley | Posted 07.15.2011

Read More: Kathleen Cleaver, Michelle Obama, Ericka Huggins, Fredrika Newton, Cointelpro, Tarika Lewis, Black Liberation Army, Assata Shakur, David Hilliard, Black Panther Party, Geronimo Pratt, Huey P. Newton, Common, Elaine Brown, Bobby Seale, J. Edgar Hoover, Politics News
Dr. Jonathan David Farley

Cue conservative outrage over Michelle Obama's inviting rapper Common to a White House poetry reading, because Common wrote one adulatory song about Black Panther Assata Shakur. The New Jersey state police protested.

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Minnesota and Chicago FBI Victims Get Worldwide Support

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Top Secret America, FBI Cheating, FBI Investigation of Anti-War Activists, Counter-Intelligence, Counter-Intelligence Program, FBI Hoax, Cointelpro, Fbi, William G. Hillar, Chicago News
Coleen Rowley

Maybe the FBI ought to be spending less resources going after anti-war activists and more time investigating their own "counter-terrorism" lecturers.

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How Top Secret America Misfires

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Underwear Bomb, Joint Terrorism Task Force, Al Qaeda, Mumbai Attacks, FBI Intelligence Bulletin 89, Committee to Stop FBI Repression, Church Committee, Cia, Attorney General Guidelines, Department of Justice Inspector General, Pre-Emptive Security, Anti-War Committee, Farouk Abdulmutallab, Fbi Raids, Military Commissions Act, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, DEA Informant, Humanitarian Law Project, Patriot Act, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Cointelpro, Whistleblower Protection, Mccarthyism, Top Secret America, Nidal Malik Hasan, Material Aid to Terrorism, Faisal Shahzad, Republican National Convention, Fbi, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

Why has Congress not yet awoken to the fact that since 9-11 we have been sailing into a perfect storm? Here are just some of the turbulent winds blowing and pushing officials in the wrong direction.

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Advice for General Petraeus on the Rules of Engagement: It's Neither/Nor, Not Either/Or

Tom Engelhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan Counterinsurgency, Coin, Stanley McChrystal, Cointelpro, Counterinsurgency, David Petraeus, World News
Tom Engelhardt

The present discussion of counterinsurgency in Afghanistan makes little sense. They are being presented as a kind of either/or option -- kill us or kill them -- when it would be more accurate to say that it's a neither/nor situation.

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Restoring the Fourth Amendment: How We the People Can Win Over Washington

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Congress, War on Terror, Ethnic Profiling, Warrantless Surveillance, Progressives, George W. Bush, President Obama, Fbi, Surveillance, Obama Administration, Obama, U.S. Constitution, Cointelpro, Civil Rights, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Arizona Immigration Law, Constitution, Dhs, Fourth Amendment, Bill of Rights Defense Committee, Profiling, Libertarian, Transpartisan, Barack Obama, Racial Profiling, Government Surveillance, Patriot Act, Bush Administration, Counterterrorism, Customs and Border Protection, Libertarians, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

With 2010 finding our government institutions tone deaf and disengaged on addressing our mounting constitutional crises, there have been few riper times for a transpartisan political offensive.

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1984 in 2010: Hijacking Democracy to Spy on Americans

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nsa, Russ Feingold, Patriot Act, Intelligence, Underwear Bomber, National Security, Congressional Oversight, Fbi, Surveillance, Harry Reid, Fisa, Constitution, Cointelpro, Barack Obama, Domestic Spying, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

With the White House and congressional leadership supporting unconstitutional abuses threatening the very fabric of our society, the Constitution appears to have few friends left in our nation's capital.

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Martin Luther King Jr.: Remembering With a New Cointelpro

Peter Christian Hall | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Marc Estrin, Church Committee, J. Edgar Hoover, Cognitive Infiltration, Conspiracy Theories, 9/11, Cointelpro, Extremist Groups, Obama Administration, Fred Hampton, Cass Sunstein, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Chat Rooms, Glenn Greenwald, Martin Luther King Jr., Harvard Law School, Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs, Journal of Political Philosophy, Fbi, Daniel Tencer, Dissidents, Politics News
Peter Christian Hall

This may be just the time to brush up on Cointelpro, the notorious program through which FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover vigorously disrupted the activities of American political dissidents.

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Frederick Douglass and Fred Hampton: Two Explosive New Books

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fred Hampton, Frederick Douglass, Cointelpro, Abolitionists, Slavery, Black Panther Party, Books News
Rick Ayers

Two new books will find their way into classrooms and are sure to force teachers into uncomfortable conversations, especially when young people can be unfettered by myths that keep us ignorant.

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Nothing but a Northern Lynching: The Death of Fred Hampton Revisited

Susan Rutberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cointelpro, Fred Hampton, Fbi, Black Panther Party, The Assassination of Fred Hampton, Chicago News
Susan Rutberg

Forty years ago, on December 4, 1969, 21-year-old Fred Hampton, a charismatic leader of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was murdered as he slept in his home on Chicago's West Side.

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Preventive Detention, at What Cost?

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo, Preventive Detention, Civil Liberties, War on Terror, Constitution, Guantanamo Detainees, Due Process, Cointelpro, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Whether called "preventive", "indefinite" or "prolonged," prevention detention schemes are essentially lawless, unconstitutional and un-American. At its root, detention without trial threatens democracy.

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Secrecy Sacrificing National Security

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Secrecy, Civil Liberties, First Amendment, Government Secrecy, Warrantless Surveillance, Rule of Law, Surveillance, Fbi, Democracy, Racial Profiling, Torture, FBI Surveillance, Nsa, Guantanamo Detainees, Michael Mukasey, Dianne Feinstein, Guantanamo, Cointelpro, Abu Ghraib, American Muslims, Guantanamo Bay, Fisa, Constitution, China, Terrorist Surveillance Program, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Our nation's most notorious criminals violate our most fundamental laws and remain not only free, but actively engaged in influencing our national security policies.

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No Victors in the War on Dissent

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miami Tactics, Amy Goodman Rnc, War on Terror, St Paul Protest, Rnc, Minnesota Patriot Act, Northcom, War on Dissent, Cointelpro, Civil Rights, Politics News
Coleen Rowley

The presence of armor-clad police officers at political demonstrations is a visible manifestation of the fascist threat, indicative that the "war on terror" has morphed into a "war on dissent".

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The Other Side of 'Deep Throat': He Spied on My Friends

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cointelpro, Watergate, W. Mark Felt, Deep Throat, Woodward and Bernstein, Deep Throat Dies, Mark Felt FBI, Mark Felt, Fbi, Mark Felt Dies, Politics News
Greg Mitchell

Journalists lionizing the former FBI official for his contribution in helping to bring down Nixon should not overlook the fact that Felt was one of the architects of the bureau's notorious COINTELPRO campaign.

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