Cointelpro 2.0
Shahid Buttar
August 2, 2010

The week before last, The Washington Post concluded a two-year investigation of our government’s domestic spying activities, revealing a lack of accountability pervading its far-flung and vast operations. Last Wednesday, FBI Director Robert S. Mueller testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee, confirming that the FBI is violating the constitutional rights of Americans en masse — as it…

What the FBI’s Murder of a Black Panther Can Teach Us 40 Years Later
By Jeffrey Haas, The Nation
Posted on December 2, 2009,

December 4 marks the fortieth anniversary of the raid on a Black Panther apartment in which Chicago police shot and killed Fred Hampton in his bed. Hampton was the charismatic young chairman of the Chicago Black Panther Party, and under…

Spies, lies, and war

by Sherry Wolf
International Socialist Review, September/October 2006

Surveillance and infiltration are weapons in the arsenal of the state machinery-from dictatorships like Egypt to Western democracies like the United States. How else could minority elites hope to monitor and stifle dissent among their exploited and oppressed majorities? Especially in times of war, when the nothingçade of diplomacy is lifted and…

Missing History in Action

The media coverage of the case seems to be factually correct. The claims that were reported were in fact made. However, the coverage also omits massive amounts of relevant contextual information-information which undermines the claims which were reported.

In 1969, the year that the shooting in question took place, eleven black youths from Chicago’s south side were killed by police. A…