Stories By John W. Whitehead
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Controlling the Herd
Battlefield America: The Ongoing War on the American People
August 22, 2018If you haven’t managed to read the writing on the wall yet, the war has begun.
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Controlling the Herd
From Boston to Ferguson to Charlottesville: The Evolution of a Police State Lockdown
August 14, 2018Whatever the threat to so-called security—whether it’s civil unrest, school shootings, or alleged acts of terrorism—government...
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Controlling the Herd
Institutionalizing Intolerance: Bullies Win, Freedom Suffers When We Can’t Agree to Disagree
August 7, 2018Here’s the thing: if Americans don’t learn how to get along—at the very least, agreeing to...
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Editor's Choice
Hiroshima Revisited: Memorializing the Horrors of War with 10 Must-See War Films
July 31, 2018Americans are fed a steady diet of pro-war propaganda that keeps them content to wave flags...
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Editor's Choice
No Doubt About It: The Deep State Is Real and Trump Is Its Latest Tool
July 24, 2018The Deep State—a.k.a. the police state, a.k.a. the military industrial complex, a.k.a. the surveillance state complex—does...
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Controlling the Herd
It’s All Fake: Reality TV That Masquerades as American Politics
July 17, 2018Americans have a voracious appetite for TV entertainment, and the Trump reality show—guest starring outraged Democrats,...
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Controlling the Herd
A New World Order: Brought to You by the Global-Industrial Deep State
July 11, 2018Indeed, to anyone who’s been paying attention to the goings-on in the world, it is increasingly...
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Controlling the Herd
The Danger Is Real: We Need a New Declaration of Independence for Modern Times
June 27, 2018In the years since early Americans first declared and eventually won their independence from Great Britain,...
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Controlling the Herd
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State
June 19, 2018Consider that on any given day, the average American going about his daily business will be...
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Camps and Detainment
Caging Children, Separating Families: Has the War on Immigration Gone Too Far?
June 13, 2018While illegal immigration is a problem that must be addressed, forcibly separating migrant children from their...
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Controlling the Herd
Whose Country Is This? Is the Constitution Even Welcome Here Anymore?
May 29, 2018If the freedoms enshrined in the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S....
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Controlling the Herd
When Things Fall Apart: A Graduation Message for a Dark Age
May 22, 2018Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young...
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Controlling the Herd
The Age of Petty Tyrannies
May 16, 2018We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the...
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Controlling the Herd
We’re All Trespassers Now in the Face of the Government’s Land Grabs
May 10, 2018That house you live in, the car you drive, the small (or not so small) acreage...
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Controlling the Herd
Dial T for Tyranny: While America Feuds, the Police State Shifts Into High Gear
May 1, 2018What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived...
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Controlling the Herd
Is the U.S. Government Evil? You Tell Me
April 24, 2018This is not a government you should trust with your life, your loved ones, your livelihood...
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Crime/Police State
Crimes of a Monster: Your Tax Dollars at Work
April 17, 2018We have no real say, but we’re being forced to pay through the nose, anyhow, for...
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Controlling the Herd
The Slippery Slope to a Constitution-Free America
April 9, 2018The lesson is this: once a free people allows the government to make inroads into their...
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Controlling the Herd
America Hasn’t Learned a Thing: Racism, Materialism and Militarism Still Reign Supreme
April 4, 2018Imagine what this country would be like if Americans put aside their differences and dared to...
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Controlling the Herd
Enough Is Enough: If You Really Want to Save Lives, Take Aim at Government Violence
March 26, 2018The systemic violence being perpetrated by agents of the government has done more collective harm to...
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Controlling the Herd
Tolerance Cuts Both Ways: Freedom for the Speech We Hate
March 21, 2018The most controversial issues of our day—gay rights, abortion, race, religion, sexuality, political correctness, police brutality,...
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Controlling the Herd
Say No to “Hardening” the Schools with Zero Tolerance Policies and Gun-Toting Cops
March 15, 2018Microcosms of the police state, America’s public schools already contain almost every aspect of the militarized,...
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Controlling the Herd
Armed and Dangerous: If Police Don’t Have to Protect the Public, What Good Are They?
February 28, 2018Why do we have more than a million cops on the taxpayer-funded payroll in this country...
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Editor's Choice
Merchants of Death: America’s Toxic Cult of Violence Turns Deadly
February 20, 2018So when you talk about the Florida shooting, keep in mind that you’re not dealing with...
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Economy and Finance
The Military Industrial Complex Strikes Again: War Spending Will Bankrupt America
February 16, 2018The problem we wrestle with is none other than a distorted American empire, complete with mega-corporations,...
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Editor's Choice
Little Barbies: Sex Trafficking of Young Girls Is America’s Dirty Little Secret
February 10, 2018Children, young girls—some as young as 9 years old—are being bought and sold for sex in...
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Crime/Police State
Little Barbies: Sex Trafficking of Young Girls Is America’s Dirty Little Secret
February 7, 2018It’s happening everywhere, right under our noses, in suburbs, cities and towns across the nation.
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Controlling the Herd
Things Are Getting Worse, Not Better: Round Ups, Checkpoints and National ID Cards
January 25, 2018We are not supposed to be living in a “show me your papers” society.
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Controlling the Herd
Justice Denied: The Government Is Not Going to Save Us
January 9, 2018It’s midnight in America right now. But the real question is, will there be a dawn?
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Controlling the Herd
A Tale of Two Americas: Where the Rich Get Richer and the Poor Go to Jail
January 5, 2018Sessions has given state courts the green light to resume their practice of jailing individuals who...