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COINTELPRO specter haunts Black America
July 4, 2002The announcement by the FBI that it was propagating new guidelines that would extend far-reaching powers to its agents to monitor the internet, snoop in mosques and keep an eye on people everywhere from the local...
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Surveilling students: Same old, same old
July 4, 2002As an undergraduate at American University, I had the surprise of finding that the campus administration had handed over information on me to the South African embassy (I was a South African citizen at that time)....
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Letters
July 4, 2002Billions for Star Wars I spent a considerable part of today watching the Senate “debate” the amount of funding for “missile defense” in fiscal year 2003. The Senate is close to approving a $393 billion Defense...
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Editorials
July 4, 2002Make the polluters pay President Bush’s decision to cut funding for the cleanup of several toxic waste dumps is a severe blow to working-class communities across the country. And it is, in all likelihood, a sentence...
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One nation, under socialist ideals … who would have thunk it?
July 4, 2002As soon as I saw the ruling, I could see the headlines. It was a no-brainer. About as predictable as George W. calling everyone who doesn’t agree with him an “evil-doer.”
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