The FBI War on Tupac Shakur: The State Repression of Black Leaders from the Civil Rights Era to the 1990s
by John Potash
Since the first day after the tragedy was announced, controversy has surrounded the death of rap and cultural icon Tupac Shakur. In this work, preeminent researcher on the topic, John Potash, puts forward his own theories of the events leading up to and following the murder in this meticulously researched and exhaustive account of the story. Never before has there been such a detailed and shocking analysis of the untimely death of one of the greatest musicians of the modern era. The FBI War on Tupac Shakur contains a wealth of names, dates, and events detailing the use of unscrupulous tactics by the Federal Bureau of Investigation against a generation of leftist political leaders and musicians. Based on twelve years of research and including extensive footnotes, sources include over 100 interviews, FOIA-released CIA and FBI documents, court transcripts, and mainstream media outlets.
Beginning with the birth of the Civil Rights Movement in America, Potash illustrates the ways in which the FBI and the United States government conspired to take down and dismantle the various burgeoning activist and revolutionary groups forming at the time. From Martin Luther King Jr. to Malcolm X to Fred Hampton, the methods used to thwart their progress can be seen repeated again and again in the 80s and 90s against later revolutionary groups, musicians, and, most notably, Tupac Shakur. Buckle up for this winding, shocking, and unbelievable tale as John Potash reveals the dark underbelly of our government and their treatment of some of our most beloved Black icons.
About John Potash
John Potash has been featured on C-Span’s American History TV, A&E, The Reelz Channel, The Real News Network, and RT television networks. He has also been featured on hundreds of radio programs in the U.S, England and New Zealand, including Coast to Coast AM. He has published articles in Z magazine, Covert Action Quarterly, The Baltimore Chronicle, Rock Creek Free Press, and The Free Press. He has worked counseling people with mental health problems and addictions for over 25 years.
In May 2015, Potash released his book: Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon, Cobain, Tupac and other Activists. Potash completed graduate studies at Columbia University. He published his first book, The FBI War on Tupac Shakur and Black Leaders, in 2007.
Independant Inquiries
After Decapitating Radical Black Movement of the 1960s and 70s, FBI and CIA Then Went After the Next Generation
by John Potash | May 3, 2022 | Independent Inquiries
Published in Covert Action Magazine – 5/3/2022 On November 18, 2021, a judge exonerated two of the three men convicted of assassinating Malcolm X, partly due to newly revealed FBI documents implicating their paid informants at the scene and cover-up regarding...
Do Americans Really Want to Support the Neo-Nazi Filled Western Ukrainian Government?
by John Potash | Mar 30, 2022 | Independent Inquiries
Published in Covert Action Magazine – 3/30/2022 Americans have been inundated by a massive propaganda campaign since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, prompting 74% of Americans to support a no-fly zone that could ignite World War III. On March 10,...
Oliver Stone’s New JFK Revisited Disproves Official Story: Reveals U.S. Intelligence Involvement in Assassination
by John Potash | Dec 17, 2021 | Independent Inquiries
Published in Covert Action Magazine – 12/17/2021 Academy Award-winning director Oliver Stone has come out with a new documentary film, JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass, which offers excellent evidence of U.S. intelligence’s tragic assassination of...
The Real Anthony Fauci Details a Decades-long Build-up of the Bio-Security State
by John Potash | Dec 1, 2021 | Independent Inquiries
Attempted to publish December 2021 In his best-selling new book, The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. meticulously documents how Fauci, Gates, and pharmaceutical companies...
Was America’s Longest War for Opium, Oil and Propping up the Stock Market?
by John Potash | Oct 15, 2021 | Independent Inquiries
Published in Covert Action Magazine – 10/15/2021 On September 11, 2001—a day that will live in infamy in U.S. history—hijacked planes hit the World Trade Center in New York City and one side of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., which experienced destruction....
U.S. Intelligence Coverup? Newly Declassified FBI File on Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain Compounds Evidence Implicating his Wife’s Role in his Murder
by John Potash | Jul 21, 2021 | Independent Inquiries
Published in Covert Action Magazine – 7/21/2021 The grisly death of mega rock star Kurt Cobain in 1994 (by a shotgun blast to his head) was officially ruled a suicide by the Seattle police, but evidence quickly came to light that Cobain had actually been...
Tupac Shakur Would Have Turned 50 Today–If He Hadn’t Threatened Deal Between Drug Traffickers and U.S. Banks Making Billions Laundering CIA Drug Money
by John Potash | Jun 16, 2021 | Independent Inquiries
Published in Covert Action Magazine – 6/16/2021 Reprinted in GlobalResearch.ca a few days later On June 16, 2021, the late rap icon Tupac Shakur would have turned 50 had he survived a still unsolved drive-by shooting in Las Vegas 25 years ago. Few knew that...
Kurt Cobain’s FBI File Reveals Political Murder Cover-up
by John Potash | Jun 14, 2021 | Independent Inquiries
Published in FREE PRESS – 6/14/2021 In early May of 2021, the Department of Justice released 10 pages of their FBI file on former Nirvana singer-songwriter Kurt Cobain. Since the rock icon’s death in 1994, mainstream media has mostly repeated police statements...
The Black Panthers Movie’s Luster and Tarnish
by John Potash | Feb 12, 2016 | Independent Inquiries
The Black Panthers Movie’s Luster and Tarnish This article first appeared in Z magazine’s November 2015 issue. https://zcomm.org/zmagazine/the-black-panthers-movies-luster-and-tarnish/ A new movie on The Black Panther Party for Self Defense, The...
Drugs Used as Weapons Against Us
by John Potash | Nov 22, 2015 | Independent Inquiries
Drugs Used as Weapons Against Us New Movies Allude to CIA’s Use of Drugs Against Protesters, Activist Musicians including Lennon, Hendrix, Rolling Stones, Cobain and Tupac. This article originally appeared in The Free Press, October 2015. Kill the Messenger and...
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