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Athan Theoharis, Chronicler of F.B.I. Abuses, Dies at 84 He found his way through the formerly unobtainable files of J. Edgar Hoover, whom he called “an insubordinate bureaucrat in charge of a lawless organization.” Image Athan Theoharis in his office at Marquette University in 1991. He used Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover secrets about the F.B.I.Credit...Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Athan Theoharis, a pre-eminent historian of the F.B.I. whose indefatigable research into the agency’s formerly unobtainable files produced revelations about decades of civil liberties abuses u...

 by jay janson During this time in which many of us are still mourning the recent passing of former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark it seems appropriate to reflect on Ramsey’s many warnings to humanity like, ‘The government of Americans will lie, deceive, kill, do whatever it must to dominate - investors in war who control it insanely insensitive to the beauty of life and planet.’ —The Editor, The Greanville Post                                                                                                            ‘ The gov...

Congressman Bobby Rush Introduces Legislation to Disclose COINTELPRO Records The bill would also eradicate J. Edgar Hoover's name from FBI headquarters. Hoover was head of the FBI when its counterintelligence program was involved in Fred Hampton's assassination. Congressman Bobby Rush | Photo by Ralf-Finn Hestoft/Corbis via Getty Images Congressman Bobby Rush introduced legislation yesterday that would disclose records from the Counterintelligence Program, known as COINTELPRO. The bill would establish both a COINTELPRO Records Collection and a Review Board and eradicate J. Edga...

Walter Mondale campaigning for the presidency in 1984. Former Vice President Walter Frederick Mondale died Monday at age 93, his family said in a statement. “It is with profound sadness that we share news that our beloved dad passed away today in Minneapolis, Minnesota,” reads the statement. “As proud as we were of him leading the presidential ticket for Democrats in 1984, we know that our father’s public policy legacy is so much more. The Fair Housing Act of 1968 was one of his proudest ― and hardest fought ― achievements. ...We are grateful that he had the opportunity to see th...

King’s True Story Very few Americans are aware of the truth behind the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the United States’ celebrated civil rights icon.  Few books have been written about it, unlike other significant assassinations, especially JFK’s. For more than fifty years there has been a media blackout supported by government disinformation to hide the truth.  And few people, in a massive act of self-deception, have chosen to question the official explanation, choosing, rather, to embrace a mythic fabrication intended to sugarcoat the bitter fruit that has resulted f...