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You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Us

Saturday, 8 June 2019, 10:47 am | John W Whitehead

You’re Under Arrest: How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak Truth to Power More >>

How the Police State Muzzles Our Right to Speak

Thursday, 6 June 2019, 3:19 pm | John W Whitehead

“History shows that governments sometimes seek to regulate our lives finely, acutely, thoroughly, and exhaustively. In our own time and place, criminal laws have grown so exuberantly and come to cover so much previously innocent conduct that almost ... More >>

Predator Cops, A Menace to Society

Wednesday, 1 May 2019, 10:37 am | John W Whitehead

Predator Cops, Guilty of Sex Crimes Against Women and Children, Are a Menace to Society More >>

Financial Tyranny: America's Pay-to-Play Fascism

Wednesday, 10 April 2019, 3:09 pm | John W Whitehead

We’re not living the American Dream. We’re in the grip of a financial nightmare. “We the people” have become the new, permanent underclass in America. We get taxed on how much we earn, taxed on what we eat, taxed on what we buy, taxed on where ... More >>

We’re All Lab Rats in the Government’s Secret Experiments

Thursday, 28 March 2019, 3:38 pm | John W Whitehead

The U.S. government, in its pursuit of so-called monsters, has itself become a monster. More >>

The Growing Epidemic of Cops Shooting Family Dogs

Thursday, 21 March 2019, 9:51 am | John W Whitehead

“In too much of policing today, officer safety has become the highest priority. It trumps the rights and safety of suspects. It trumps the rights and safety of bystanders. It’s so important, in fact, that an officer’s subjective fear of a minor wound ... More >>

Pity the Nation: War Spending Is Bankrupting America

Thursday, 14 March 2019, 3:10 pm | John W Whitehead

Our nation is being preyed upon by a military industrial complex that is propped up by war profiteers, corrupt politicians and foreign governments. More >>

The Age of Tyrannical Surveillance

Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 10:10 am | John W Whitehead

“We know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less know what you’re thinking about… Your digital identity will live forever... because there’s no delete button. ”—Former Google CEO Eric Schmid More >>

The Day the Music Died: Remembering Buddy Holly (1936-1959)

Tuesday, 5 February 2019, 9:27 am | John W Whitehead

The snow was heavy on that night 60 years ago. More >>

John W. Whitehead: Beware the Emergency State

Thursday, 10 January 2019, 5:40 pm | John W Whitehead

Beware the Emergency State: Imperial, Unaccountable and Unconstitutional By John W. Whitehead January 8, 2019 More >>

Know Your Rights or You Will Lose Them

Wednesday, 12 December 2018, 2:05 pm | John W Whitehead

We are approaching critical mass, the point at which all hell breaks loose. More >>

Red Flag Gun Laws: Yet Another Government Weapon for Complia

Thursday, 15 November 2018, 3:19 pm | John W Whitehead

In the right (or wrong) hands, benevolent plans can easily be put to malevolent purposes. More >>

America Is on the Brink of a Nervous Breakdown

Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 9:21 am | John W Whitehead

“As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air – however slight – ... More >>

Has America Become a Dictatorship Disguised as a Democracy?

Tuesday, 23 October 2018, 9:26 am | John W Whitehead

“The poor and the underclass are growing. Racial justice and human rights are nonexistent. They have created a repressive society and we are their unwitting accomplices. Their intention to rule rests with the annihilation of consciousness. We have been ... More >>

Creating a Suspect Society

Wednesday, 3 October 2018, 2:09 pm | John W Whitehead

It’s a given that Big Brother is always watching us. More >>

Are ‘We the People’ Useful Idiots in the Digital Age?

Wednesday, 26 September 2018, 11:20 am | John W Whitehead

“Back in the heyday of the old Soviet Union, a phrase evolved to describe gullible western intellectuals who came to visit Russia and failed to notice the human and other costs of building a communist utopia. The phrase was “useful idiots” and ... More >>

What I Don’t Like About Life in Post-9/11 America

Tuesday, 11 September 2018, 11:58 am | John W Whitehead

Life in a post-9/11 America increasingly feels like an endless free fall down a rabbit hole into a terrifying, dystopian alternative reality in which the citizenry has no rights, the government is no friend to freedom, and everything we ever knew and ... More >>

Criminalizing Childhood

Wednesday, 5 September 2018, 10:40 am | John W Whitehead

“Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. From metal detectors to drug tests, ... More >>

Warrior Cops Endanger Our Lives and Freedoms

Tuesday, 28 August 2018, 10:11 am | John W Whitehead

“There are always risks in challenging excessive police power, but the risks of not challenging it are more dangerous, even fatal.”—Hunter S. Thompson, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American ... More >>

Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics

Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 11:44 am | John W Whitehead

“Big Brother does not watch us, by his choice. We watch him, by ours…. When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, ... More >>

   

 
 
 
 
 

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