The American police state has become America’s new crime boss. Thirty years after then-President Bill Clinton signed the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act into law, its legacy of mass incarceration, police militarization, and over-criminalization continues...
John W. And Nisha Whitehead
When Rights Become Privileges: Is the Constitution Becoming Optional?
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Dec 10, 2024 | Featured Articles
Disguising its power grabs in the self-righteous fervor of national security, the Deep State has mastered the art of the bait-and-switch. It works like this: first, the government foments fear about some crisis or threat to national security, then they capitalize on...
You’d Better Watch Out: The Surveillance State Is Making a List, and You’re On It
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Dec 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
You’d better watch out—you’d better not pout—you’d better not cry—‘cos I’m telling you why: this Christmas, it’s the Surveillance State that’s making a list and checking it twice, and it won’t matter whether you’ve been bad or good. You’ll be on this list...
Divide and Conquer: Political Riptides Threaten to Overwhelm the Nation
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 26, 2024 | Featured Articles
Once again we find ourselves approaching that time of year when, as George Washington and Abraham Lincoln proclaimed, we’re supposed to give thanks as a nation and as individuals for our safety and our freedoms. But how do you give thanks for...
This Is How It Begins: The Deep State Wants to Terminate the Constitution
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 21, 2024 | Featured Articles
This is how it begins. This is how it always begins, justified in the name of national security. Mass roundups. Raids. Indefinite detentions in concentration camps. Martial law. The erosion of habeas corpus protections. The suspension of the Constitution, at...
Post-Election Truths: The Things That Won’t Change (No Matter Who Wins)
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Nov 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
“If voting could ever really change anything, it’d be illegal.”— Thorne, Land of the Blind (2006) After months of handwringing and mud-slinging and fear-mongering, the votes have finally been cast and the outcome has been decided: the Deep State has won....
The Politics of Fear: Laying the Groundwork for Fascism, American-Style
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
America is in the midst of an epidemic of historic proportions. The contagion being spread like wildfire is turning communities into battlegrounds and setting Americans one against the other. Everywhere you turn, those on both the left- and right-wing are fomenting...
The Danger Is Real: The Deep State’s Plot to Destabilize the Nation Is Working
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
If the three-ring circus that is the looming presidential election proves anything, it is that the Deep State’s plot to destabilize the nation is working. The danger is real. Caught up in the heavily dramatized electoral showdown between Donald Trump and Kamala...
Brace Yourselves: A Tsunami Approaches
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
Brace yourself: a tsunami approaches. While we squabble over which side is winning this losing battle to lead the country, there is something being concocted in the dens of power, far beyond the public eye, and it doesn’t bode well for the future of this country....
Disinformation Isn’t the Problem. Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 9, 2024 | Featured Articles
In a perfect example of the Nanny State mindset at work, Hillary Clinton insists that the powers-that-be need “total control” in order to make the internet a safer place for users and protect us harm. Clinton is not alone in her distaste for unregulated,...
America Is Falling Apart: Our National Priorities Are in Dire Need of Restructuring
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Oct 2, 2024 | Featured Articles
“You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.”—Bob Dylan A water main breaks every two minutes somewhere in the U.S., resulting in contaminated drinking supplies and boil water notices. One out of three bridges in the U.S. needs...
Hidden Agendas: Beware of the Government’s Push for a Digital Currency
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 25, 2024 | Featured Articles
he government wants your money. It will beg, steal or borrow if necessary, but it wants your money any way it can get it. The government’s schemes to swindle, cheat, scam, and generally defraud taxpayers of their hard-earned dollars have run the gamut from wasteful...
Don’t Trust the Government. Not with Your Privacy, Property or Your Freedoms
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 18, 2024 | Featured Articles
Public trust in the government to “do what is right” understandably remains at an all-time low. After all, how do you trust a government that continuously sidesteps the Constitution and undermines our rights? You can’t. When you consider all the ways “we the...
Children of Big Brother: What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Sep 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and comes at you from every direction, especially when Big Brother is involved. Out on the streets, you’ve got the menace posed by police officers who shoot first and ask...
Technofascism: The Government Pressured Tech Companies to Censor Users
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 29, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Internet platforms have a powerful incentive to please important federal officials, and the record in this case shows that high-ranking officials skillfully exploited Facebook’s vulnerability... Not surprisingly these efforts bore fruit. Facebook adopted new rules...
The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 22, 2024 | Featured Articles
What you smell is the stench of a dying republic. Our dying republic. We are trapped in a political matrix intended to sustain the illusion that we are citizens of a constitutional republic. In reality, we are caught somewhere between a kleptocracy (a...
American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Aug 8, 2024 | Featured Articles
“You shall have no other gods before me.”—The Ten Commandments “Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won’t have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore.”—Donald Trump...
The Right to Not Be Lied To: Making the Case for Truth in Politics
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 31, 2024 | Featured Articles
Q: “How can you tell if a politician is lying?”A: “When his lips are moving.” The First Amendment assures us of a right to free speech. It does not, unfortunately, explicitly assure us of a right to not be lied to by our government and its various officials. Any hope...
A Time of Shame and Sorrow: When It Comes to Political Violence, We All Lose
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jul 16, 2024 | Featured Articles
“Whenever any American's life is taken by another American unnecessarily—whether it is done in the name of the law or in the defiance of law, by one man or a gang, in cold blood or in passion, in an attack of violence or in response to violence—whenever we tear at the...
What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way
by John W. And Nisha Whitehead | Jun 5, 2024 | Featured Articles
“I did not know Israel was capturing or recording my face. [But Israel has] been watching us for years from the sky with their drones. They have been watching us gardening and going to schools and kissing our wives. I feel like I have been watched for so...
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