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Dhoruba bin-Wahad
Rise of Militarized Policing in Response to Black Dissent
08 May 2024
The United States continues to grow the police state to serve as a bulwark of counterinsurgency.
Dhoruba bin-Wahad
55th Anniversary of the NY Panther 21 Case
03 Apr 2024
The trial of the New York Panther 21 was the moment in the Black liberation movement that ushered in an era of intensified state repression and violence and increasingly aggressive tactics by radical…
Hanna Eid
Black-Palestinian Solidarity; Clearing the Fog
28 Feb 2024
While revolutionary Black organizations after the Panthers continued to support Palestine vocally, the realities of COINTELPRO and mass incarceration have had a profound impact on the organization…
David S. D'Amato
The FBI’s Long History of Criminalizing Dissent
10 Oct 2023
The indictment of the Uhuru 3 is part of a long history of persecution and prosecution of the Black liberation movement.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
The State's Constant Attack on Black Liberation
12 Jul 2023
Indictments, disruptions, arrests, defamation, incarceration and even assassination are the weapons used to discredit Black people who act in opposition to the system and who call for liberation.…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Durham Report Reveals the Real Threat to “Democracy” – The FBI Weaponized by Democrat Party Affiliated Elites
17 May 2023
Donald Trump calls Russiagate a "hoax" but it is in fact much worse. The manufactured scandal was part of successful efforts to intimidate, to censor, and to discredit opposition to state narratives…
Ajamu Baraka, BAR editor and columnist
Africans in the US are a Colonized People: A Comment on the Indictment of the African People's Socialist Party
03 May 2023
Red Scares, McCarthyism, COINTELPRO, "Black Identity Extremists" are all indicative of how the colonized are treated by the state.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist
How Comrades Revealed the Existence of COINTELPRO
08 Mar 2023
On March 8,1971 a brave group of people revealed the extent of FBI spying, harassment and even the killings of US citizens. More than 50 years later we would do well to remember the significance of…
Trevor Aaronson
The Snitch in the Silver Hearse: The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement
15 Feb 2023
COINTELPRO never ended. The FBI still pays informants to disrupt, to target organizers, and to spy on the movement.
John Kiriakou
J. Edgar Hoover’s Evil Brainchild
24 Aug 2022
The FBI has not revealed all of the dirty secrets of COINTELPRO, the Counter Intelligence Program. Congressman Bobby Rush has sponsored legislation to bring this horrible history to light.