74 Articles

Monday, June 30, 2008
COINTELPRO prosecution of Black Panthers haunts Nebraska justice system while policeman's killers go free
FBI dirty tricks under COINTELPRO let policeman's killers go free in order to convict Black Panther leaders

Sunday, June 15, 2008
Ominous ruling by Nebraska Supreme Court against Black Panther in COINTELPRO case puts new trial request in doubt
(4 comments) Nebraska Supreme Court denies parole bid by Black Panther Ed Poindexter imprisoned in COINTELPRO case for 38 years

Saturday, April 12, 2008
Imprisoned Black Panther Ed Poindexter was absent from his day in court
(2 comments) Imprisoned Black Panther in 1970 COINTELPRO case seeks parole for crime he says he did not commit, not heard in court

Monday, March 31, 2008
Three days of deceit by FBI and Omaha Police against Black Panthers ended search for caller who lured policeman to trap
(1 comments) Deception in COINTELPRO case against Black Panthers resulted in policeman's killer going free to convict Panther leaders for crime

Sunday, March 16, 2008
15 year-old killer "turned" Black Panthers in COINTELPRO case to escape threatened execution in Nebraska murder trial
(4 comments) Killer of Omaha policeman expressed remorse for blaming two Black Panther leaders who were targets of the FBI's secret COINTELPRO operation

Monday, March 10, 2008
Dynamite supplier for bomb that killed Omaha policeman walked free in COINTELPRO case against Black Panthers
Prosecutors let the supplier of dynamite used to kill a police officer get away with murder in a case against two Black Panther leaders raising the question did an informant supply the explosives

Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Justice Dept. overruled ATF agent aiding FBI over unreliable informant in COINTELPRO plot against Omaha Black Panthers
(1 comments) J. Edgar Hoover's war against the Black Panthers was aided by agents of ATF and "questionable" adolescent informant in Omaha 1970 COINTELPRO case

Sunday, February 24, 2008
Omaha Police detective's "evidence" in Black Panther murder case disappeared without a trace raising perjury question
1971 COINTELPRO case to be reveiwed by Nebraksa Supreme Court and false trial testimony by police will be examined

Friday, February 8, 2008
Five Omaha policemen implicated in deception and false testimony in COINTELPRO case against Black Panthers
Omaha Police assisted FBI in COINTELPRO case against Black Panthers in 1970 with false testimony to convict two Panther leaders to life prison sentences

Sunday, February 3, 2008
J. Edgar Hoover informed by Omaha FBI of cover-up of evidence in Black Panther case during COINTELPRO and took no action
(2 comments) Director of FBI implicated in COINTELPRO cover-up of crucial evidence in 1971 Black Panther murder case in Omaha, Nebraska

Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Conflicting dynamite testimony by police detailed to Nebraska Supreme Court raises doubt in 1971 Black Panther case
(1 comments) Appeal of COINTELPRO case raises question of perjured police testimony that led to life sentences for two Black Panthers

Thursday, January 24, 2008
Nebraska Supreme Court to review 1971 COINTELPRO case against Black Panthers
(1 comments) FBI dirty tricks under COINTELPRO operation to obtain independent review by state court after 37 years

Monday, January 21, 2008
Florida law school to help U.S. Virgin Islands draft constitution
Delegates go forward in the fifth effort to adopt a constitution for the U.S. Virgin Islands after a lack of voting rights stalled the other four attempts

Friday, January 18, 2008
Prison Interview: Black Panther Mondo we Langa talks about dynamite "found" at his home
(1 comments) COINTELPRO target serving a life sentence convicted on perjured police testimony speaks out about the evidence against him

Tuesday, January 8, 2008
White House Watch: The question the candidates aren't asked and won't answer
(4 comments) Electronic voting machine insecurity threatens our form of government but the candidates are silent

Friday, November 23, 2007
BOOK REVIEW: The Black Panther is an African Cat--Poems of Exploration and Testimony
(1 comments) Prison poetry of Black Panther Mondo we Langa, thirty-seven years behind bars of a life sentence for a crime he denies

Friday, September 28, 2007
New laws in "War on Drugs" target an obscure desert sage plant, Salvia Divinorum, with criminal penalties
The War on Drugs just got bigger as legislators rush to criminalize a psychoactive sage plant

Wednesday, September 26, 2007
U.S. Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention stalled in delegate election dispute over voting machine ballot design
The fifth attempt to adopt a Constitution in the Virgin Islands is stalled over a voting machine ballot design dispute

Monday, September 24, 2007
Constitutional convention in U.S. Virgin Islands to convene in October in fifth attempt to approve a constitution
Fifth attempt to approve a constitution for the U.S. resort colony may fail over no voting rights

Friday, September 14, 2007
Omaha judge rebutted by former Nebraska governor Frank Morrision in COINTELPRO case against Black Panthers
Judge who denied new trial to Black Panther leader Ed Poindexter, despite new evidence and conflicting police testimony, is corrected from the grave by late governor.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Judge says false dynamite testimony by police "immaterial" in Omaha Black Panther case
(2 comments) Judge denies convicted Black Panther leader Ed Poindexter a new trial despite contradictory police testimony in 1970 COINTELPRO case

Wednesday, August 29, 2007
The FBI's secret war against the Black Panthers is under close scrutiny in Omaha COINTELPRO case
(3 comments) Two Black Panthers wait 36 years for justice--targets of COINTELPRO they were denied a fair trial in police bombing case

Friday, August 10, 2007
Lawsuit seeks to declare Taiwan residents as U.S. "nationals"; 10th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Taiwan may be a U.S. possession

Thursday, August 9, 2007
The Ninth Amendment is the People's Amendment to protect from government tyranny
The Ninth Amendment protects the rights of the citizens, in this Patriot Act era it is time to use the Ninth

Wednesday, August 8, 2007
Where is the Ninth Amendment hiding?
(3 comments) The Ninth Amendment protects rights retained by the people, it is time to plead the Ninth

Tuesday, August 7, 2007
Restore health to America's elections and pull the plug on SDD virus threat
(1 comments) The only way to protect the honesty of America's elections is to hand count paper ballots in public

Thursday, August 2, 2007
Judge delays Constitutional Convention in U.S. Virgin Islands; 9th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Election dispute over changed ballot delays start of Constitutional Convention

Monday, July 30, 2007
Virgin Islands helps Mariana Islands with sweatshop woes; 8th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
America's resort colony helps America's sweatshop colony.

Friday, July 20, 2007
Saipan and the Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas; 7th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
(2 comments) America's newest colony is home to sweatshops and worker exploitation.

Thursday, July 12, 2007
Judge asked by ACLU to consider COINTELPRO frame-up of two Black Panthers in 1970 murder
FBI dirty trick operation still has two targets in prison after 37 years

Tuesday, June 19, 2007
White House Watch: Unity08 is a "little jolt of reality" to GOP and Democrats
(5 comments) Unity08 is a bi-partisan plan to remake America's method of selecting President in 2008

Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Puerto Rico voting ban lands USA in international court: 6th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
(2 comments) Voting ban in Puerto Rico against U.S. citizens to be reviewed by Organization of American States

Thursday, June 7, 2007
American Samoans lack U.S. citizenship; 5th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Unable to vote and lacking citizenship, the residents of American Samoa have no means to end their colonial status

Friday, June 1, 2007
Omaha judge to rule on prosecutorial misconduct in 1971 COINTELPRO case against imprisoned Black Panther leaders
Two men imprisoned 37 years were targets of COINTELPRO and may have been framed by police with planted evidence and witness manipulation

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Cindy Sheehan and Andrew Bacevich did not fail their sons
(7 comments) It is the moral duty of the American public to end the war in Iraq

Friday, May 25, 2007
1970 murder retrial hearing resumes next week after contradictory police testimony against Black Panther Ed Poindexter
Conflicting police testimony suggests two imprisoned Black Panther leaders were framed

Thursday, May 17, 2007
Federal appellate court denies voting rights in U.S. Virgin Islands; 4th in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Even though voters in the District of Columbia move closer to representation in Congress, U.S. citizens residing in the territories remain second-class citizens in federal appellate court ruling

Friday, May 11, 2007
Retired Omaha detective contradicts trial testimony about dynamite in 1970 case against Black Panther Ed Poindexter
(1 comments) Conflicting testimony over dynamite by police suggests a frame-up of imprisoned Balck Pather leader for 1970 bombing murder

Thursday, May 10, 2007
Expert testifies voice on 911 tape is not that of confessed killer in case of Black Panther leader Ed Poindexter
Imprisoned Black Panther may have been framed, voice on 911 tape does not match that of his accusor

Wednesday, May 9, 2007
Black Panther Ed Poindexter gets hearing over 911 tape in 1970 bombing murder
COINTELPRO target imprisoned for 36 years may get a new trial after lost 911 tape surfaces

Friday, May 4, 2007
Guam, only current U.S. colony ever occupied by foreign troops; 3rd in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Second-class citizenship of residents of America's colonies gives no voice in national affairs; third in a series

Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Democrats tighten noose on Nader and Greens in punitive attack on "Third Party" candidates
(1 comments) New strategy of Democrats to keep Third Parties and Independents off the ballot is aided by a Pennsylvania judge

Friday, April 27, 2007
Mondo we Langa, Nebraska's imprisoned poet
Imprisoned Black Panther remains confined 36 years despite possible frame-up and confession of another.

Thursday, April 26, 2007
U.S. Virgin Islands, United States resort colony, bought for $25 million; 2nd in a 21st Century American Colonies series
Residents of the U.S. Virgin islands still lack the right to vote in national elections despite citizenship

Tuesday, April 24, 2007
SDD threat to health of U.S. elections
(1 comments) Software Driven Devices threaten honest elections, hand-count paper ballots, in public, now.

Friday, April 13, 2007
Puerto Rico, United State's largest island colony, was taken by force; 1st in a 21st Century American Colonies series
First in a series on America's modern-day colonies explores the conquest of Puerto Rico

Monday, April 9, 2007
Virgin Islands 2007 Constitutional Convention may force Congress to confront lack of presidential vote & representation
(3 comments) Constitutional Convention delegates to meet in July to debate self-determination of island territory and may force Congress to address lack of vote for U.S. citizens

Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Nebraska murder case may be reopened for imprisoned Black Panther leader
Imprisoned Black Panther leader may get new trial after 36 years following discovery of "missing" 911 tape and FBI memo

Friday, March 30, 2007
Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights calls for Congressional oversight of Justice Department for lax enforcement
The Bush administration has seriously undermined the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department with partisanship resulting in discriminatory outcomes which call for Congressional oversight.

Tuesday, March 27, 2007
International observers find fault with 2006 United States election and call for Congressional reform
(1 comments) The "Helsinki observers" have called for broad election reforms in the United States following an international monitoring team review of the November 2006 election

Monday, March 26, 2007
Federal court ruling over ex-Bush campaign manager forces first test following firing of 8 U.S. Attorneys
(1 comments) High profile GOP "dirty tricks" in 2002 New Hampshire election are now the first test of courage for federal prosecutors following political firing of 8 U.S. Attorneys

Wednesday, January 24, 2007
EAC's "New York Brother" and "Sis" responsible for NASED's certification of banned test lab Ciber, Inc.
Current EAC leadership is responsible for NASED approval of banned voting machine test lab Ciber

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Insider trading stock sell-off by Ciber execs during EAC secrecy over voting machine test lab ban
(2 comments) While the EAC kept America in the dark about its ban on voting machine test lab Ciber, top company execs engaged in insider trading dumping stock

Monday, January 22, 2007
One dozen legislators versus the Democrat-Republican duopoly
(3 comments) One dozen independents and minor party legislators defeated the combined forces of the Democrat and Republican parties to gain public office

Friday, January 19, 2007
Two NASED approved voting machine test labs fail to gain a NIST recommendation to EAC
New NIST recommendations cast doubt on the quality of work of two test labs that certified the majority of America's voting machines

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Voting machine test lab merger despite EAC ban on Ciber puts Wyle lab partnership in question
Banned voting machine test lab Ciber merger with EAC approved lab calls into question both labs meanwhile the Defense Department has its own Ciber problem

Wednesday, January 17, 2007
EAC: The "E" doesn't stand for ethics
The Election Assistance Commission lacks ethical guidelines and is avoiding investigating a conflict of interest by one of its voting machine test labs.

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Ciber-sleuthing in the secret world of voting machine accreditation
Despite Florida's denial that banned test lab, Ciber, had any role in the Sarasota "undervotes" the state's reliance on Ciber raises questions on the actual testing of Sarasota's voting equipment

Monday, January 15, 2007
EAC scandal grows--Sarasota's "undervote" voting machine model certified by banned lab, Ciber, before untested upgrades
(1 comments) Banned test lab, Ciber, certified Sarasota voting machine models before untested upgrades were added; Ciber controversy reaches Congress and brings future of EAC into question

Saturday, January 13, 2007
Banned test lab certified electronic voting machines used by 68.5% of nation's registered voters in 2006 elections
(2 comments) Ciber, Inc. the decertified testing company, approved electronic voting machines used by 68.5% of registered voters in 2006

Friday, January 12, 2007
Former M.I.T. weapons designer abandoned war and now offers a plan for peace
(2 comments) Former weapons designer studies roots of war and agrues we must stop the belief in the depravity of human nature and make decision-making for the common good to guide human behavior.

Thursday, January 11, 2007
Supreme Court hits Ralph Nader with $89,821 bill for his 2004 Pennsylvania ballot bid upholding first-of-kind ruling
(4 comments) The Supreme Court has penalized Ralph Nader for seeking the Pennsylvania ballot in 2004 upholding a first-of-kind ruling.

Wednesday, January 10, 2007
U.S. Justice Department in tug of war with Alabama Supreme Court over Voting Rights Act enforcement
The U.S. Justice Department has found the Alabama Supreme Court to have violated the Voting Rights Act.

Friday, January 5, 2007
Pennsylvania has more unconstitutional election laws than any other state
Pennsylvania is the worst state in the nation for unconstitutional election laws on the books in defiance of federal court orders.

Tuesday, January 2, 2007
Why Paper Ballots Are Not Good Enough
(2 comments) Paper ballots, without hand-counting, still leaves us at the mercy of optical scan vote counting machines capable of being rigged with self-deleting malicious software code.

Sunday, December 24, 2006
Trading Alphabet Soup for Code Words
The Paper Ballots being advocated by the "election integrity" movement are code words for riggable electronic vote counters instead of a secure hand counted paper ballot system.

Saturday, December 23, 2006
Reflections on Christmas by Robert Ingersoll, the "Great Infidel"
19th Century agnostic Robert Ingersoll on the history of Christmas and his wishes for the future.

Thursday, December 21, 2006
Leading RFK assassination researcher died with unanswered questions
(2 comments) The RFK assassination researcher who built the world's largest collection of documents on the crime died leaving many unaswered questions about RFK's murder.

Tuesday, December 19, 2006
After six year delay the denial of voting rights of U.S. citizens in the Virgin Islands to be heard by appellate court
The denial of voting rights to U.S. citizens living in the Virgin Islands goes to federal appellate court after a six year delay in the district court. At issue are the racist Insular Cases handed down by the Supreme Court in the early 1900's.

Thursday, December 14, 2006
David Dill Unpluggd: Computer glitch leaves electronic voting machine advocate without a script
(4 comments) A computer glitch left electronic voting machine advocate David Dill without a script leading to a candid, confusing, contradictory Q&A session about electronic election fraud.

Friday, December 8, 2006
The Perfect Crime
Electornic voting machines and malicious self-deleting software code now make it possible to commit the Perfect Crime, one that cannot even be detected.

Tuesday, December 5, 2006
What Election Fraud Looks Like
Modern election fraud looks like "undervotes" and failure to recognize it dooms us to more of it.

Sunday, December 3, 2006
Why Elections Do Not Matter
This brings us back to the business of elections not mattering anymore. If we are going to let the machines, and their unseen hackers, control the outcome of our elections then we have surrendered our democracy and the elections simply do not matter. Why vote if your vote will be stolen or changed? There is a solution. Take back the control of our voting from the hackers. Hand count paper ballots.

Sunday, December 3, 2006
The obsolete Voting Machine
Self-deleting software code has rendered the modern electronic voting machine obsolete.