Stories By John W. Whitehead
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Editor's Choice
How to Recapture the True Spirit of Christmas in a Toxic Age
December 20, 2017Whether you do it as the Grinch did by reaching out to people with whom you...
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Controlling the Herd
The Deep State’s Christmas Present to America: Surveillance That Never Ends
December 13, 2017Mark my words: if Congress votes to make the NSA’s vast spying powers permanent, it will...
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Controlling the Herd
What Went Wrong in Charlottesville: At All Levels, Government Is Still the Problem
December 5, 2017We have been saddled with the wreckage of a government at all levels that no longer...
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Controlling the Herd
Nervous About Traffic Stops? I Am. You Should Be, Too
November 30, 2017Keep in mind, from the moment those lights start flashing and that siren goes off, we’re...
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Editor's Choice
Don’t Just Give Thanks. Pay It Forward One Act of Kindness at a Time
November 22, 2017Instead of just giving thanks this holiday season with words that are too soon forgotten, why...
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Controlling the Herd
America Breaks Down: The Anatomy of a National Nervous Breakdown
November 8, 2017So much is happening on a daily basis that the average American understandably has a hard...
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Controlling the Herd
Trick or Treat: One Year Later, Is Trump a Blessing or a Curse to the Deep State?
November 1, 2017The lesson is this: once a free people allows the government to make inroads into their...
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Controlling the Herd
Power Corrupts: A Culture of Compliance Breeds Despots and Predators
October 12, 2017It doesn’t matter whether you’re talking about a politician, an entertainment mogul, a corporate CEO or...
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Crime/Police State
Mass Shootings: The Military-Entertainment Complex’s Culture of Violence Turns Deadly
October 6, 2017Perhaps there’s no single one factor to blame for this gun violence. However, there is a...
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Controlling the Herd
Freedom Is a Myth: We Are All Prisoners of the Police State’s Panopticon Village
September 19, 2017Every move you make is being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and tabulated in order to...
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Controlling the Herd
Let’s Make America Free Again: 230 Years After the Constitution, We’re Walking a Dangerous Road
September 12, 2017What began with the passage of the USA Patriot Act in the wake of the 9/11...
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Controlling the Herd
What Country Is This? Forced Blood Draws, Cavity Searches and Colonoscopies
September 5, 2017Unfortunately, forced blood draws are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the...
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Controlling the Herd
Freedom for the Speech We Hate: The Legal Ins and Outs of the Right to Protest
August 23, 2017If ever there were a time for us to stand up for the right to speak...
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Controlling the Herd
Chaos in Charlottesville: No One Gave Peace a Chance, Including the Police
August 16, 2017Let’s be clear about one thing: no one—not the armed, violent, militant protesters nor the police—gave...
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Controlling the Herd
Execution by Firing Squad: The Militarized Police State Opens Fire
June 19, 2017Ironically, while America continues to debate who or what is responsible for gun violence—the guns, the...
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Controlling the Herd
Lynching Free Speech: The Intolerant State of America
June 15, 2017Here’s the thing: if Americans don’t learn how to get along—at the very least, agreeing to...
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Controlling the Herd
The Republic Has Fallen: The Deep State’s Plot to Take Over America Has Succeeded
May 23, 2017No doubt about it. The coup d’etat has been successful.
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Controlling the Herd
America’s Reign of Terror: A Nation Reaps What It Sows
May 17, 2017We’re not dealing with a government that exists to serve its people, protect their liberties and...
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Controlling the Herd
You Are the True Guardians of the Galaxy: A Graduation Message for a Tyrannical Age
May 8, 2017Wake up, stand up, and make your activism count for something more than politics.
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Controlling the Herd
Big Brother Is Still Watching You: Don’t Fall for the NSA’s Latest Ploy
May 2, 2017This is the creepy, calculating yet diabolical genius of the American police state: the very technology...
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Controlling the Herd
The Iron Jaws of the Police State: Trump’s America Is a Constitution-Free Zone
April 25, 2017Have we strayed so far from our revolutionary roots that we no longer even recognize tyranny...
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Controlling the Herd
Run for Your Life: The American Police State Is Coming to Get You
April 17, 2017Unfortunately, we’ve been marching in lockstep with the police state for so long that we’ve forgotten...
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Controlling the Herd
Beware the Dogs of War: Is the American Empire on the Verge of Collapse?
April 11, 2017Wake up, America. There’s not much time left before we reach the zero hour.
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Controlling the Herd
When Government Evil Triumphs, Freedom Falls
April 4, 2017Unfortunately, the American government has been the opposite of good for too long now.
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Controlling the Herd
Death at Your Door: Knock-and-Talk Police Tactics Rip a Hole in the Constitution
March 29, 2017Too often, the destruction of life and property wrought by the police is no less horrifying...
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Controlling the Herd
Stealing from the Citizenry: How Government Goons Use Civil Asset Forfeiture to Rob Us Blind
March 21, 2017What this adds up to is a paradigm in which Americans no longer have to be...
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Controlling the Herd
Rule by Thieves: One Week in the Life of the American Kleptocracy
March 15, 2017Magnify the impact of these events 52 times over, because they are taking place every week...
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Controlling the Herd
The Government Is Still the Enemy of Freedom
March 13, 2017We’re in trouble, folks. Freedom no longer means what it once did.
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Camps and Detainment
Ihre Papiere, Bitte! (Your Papers, Please): Are We Being Set Up for a National ID System?
March 1, 2017Whatever dangerous practices you allow the government to carry out now—whether it’s in the name of...
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Camps and Detainment
The Illusion of Freedom: The Police State Continues
February 21, 2017The American police state has continued to advance at the same costly, intrusive, privacy-sapping, Constitution-defying, relentless...
