Articles by John W. Whitehead

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All Hail the Police State

John Whitehead on the public schools.

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8/13/2013

The Cops

Are they just another militarized, occupying force? Article by John Whitehead.

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8/8/2013

The American Surveillance State


Can we evade it? Article by John Whitehead.

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8/2/2013

Kafka’s America

John Whitehead on secret courts, secret laws, and total surveillance.

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7/24/2013

Has Your Dignity Also Been Abolished?

By the American police state. Article by John Whitehead.

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7/17/2013

College Girls and Bottled Water

John Whitehead on the expanding police state.

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7/9/2013

The Illusion of American Freedom

John Whitehead on the land of the blind.

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6/25/2013

Orwell, the Non-Fiction Version

John Whitehead on privacy in ex-America.

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6/18/2013

Stand With Edward Snowden

To be branded a criminal by the government is an endorsement. Article by John Whitehead.

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6/12/2013

Mass Surveillance, Secret Courts, Death to Whistleblowers

John Whitehead on the real America.

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6/11/2013

You’re a Target

Of the American surveillance state, says John Whitehead.

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6/7/2013

Your Bodily Integrity

The state is abolishing it. Article by John Whitehead.

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6/5/2013

Welcome to the Electronic Concentration Camp

John Whitehead on what's in store for us.

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6/1/2013

American Authoritarianism

Government of the politicians, by the military, for the corporations. Article by John Whitehead.

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5/26/2013

The Psycho-Police State

John Whitehead on targeting Brandon Raub.

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5/22/2013

Does Surveillance = Freedom?

Only on the American animal farm, says John Whitehead.

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5/14/2013

Changing the World One Song at a Time

John Whitehead on Pete Seeger.

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5/9/2013

Troops for the Police State

John Whitehead on militarized cops.

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5/8/2013

‘Boston Strong’

John Whitehead on marching in lockstep with the police state.

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4/23/2013

Artificial Roaches, Mosquitos, and Other State Emblems

John Whitehead on mini-drones.

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4/17/2013

Roaches, Mosquitoes, and Birds: The Coming Micro-Drone Revolution

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4/17/2013

Childhood as a Sickness

John Whitehead on psycho-government indoctrination centers.

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4/9/2013

The Psycho-Therapeutic School System: Pathologizing Childhood

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4/9/2013

If the President Does It, It’s Legal

John Whitehead on the American dictatorship.

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3/20/2013

Attorney General Eric Holder: If the President Does It, It's Legal

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3/20/2013

The Vicious Persecution of Bradley Manning

It's an attack on all dissent, says John Whitehead.

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3/12/2013

The War Against Bradley Manning – A War Against All Who Speak Out Against Injustice

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3/12/2013

Move Over, Traffic Court, It's Time for a New Money-Making Scheme – School Truancy Laws Jail Parents and Levy Excessive Fines

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3/6/2013

The U.S. Supreme Court: Architects of the American Police State

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2/26/2013

Western Flicks and the Academy Awards: The Values We Live and Die By

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2/19/2013

Executioner in Chief: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Became the Head of a Worldwide Assassination Program

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2/15/2013

Executioner in Chief: How a Nobel Peace Prize Winner Became the Head of a Worldwide Assassination Program

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2/15/2013

Majoring in Minors: Turning Our Schools Into Totalitarian Enclaves

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2/5/2013

The Age of Neo-Feudalism: A Government of the Rich, by the Rich, and for the Corporations

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1/29/2013

Invasion of the Body Searchers: The Loss of Bodily Integrity in an Emerging Police State

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1/15/2013

The Magician's Con: Renewing FISA and the NDAA Under Cover of the Fiscal Cliff Debates

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1/8/2013

Government Violence: The Missing Link in the Gun Control Debate

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1/4/2013

Ten Great Christmas Albums To Help You Shake the Police State Blues

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12/11/2012

The Fight Against the Total Surveillance State in Our Schools

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12/4/2012

Obama's First-Term Track Record on Civil Liberties

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11/13/2012

Looking Beyond Election Day: The Issues That Threaten To Derail the Nation

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11/2/2012

Movies and Politics: Truth in Fiction

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10/23/2012

America's Schools: Breeding Grounds for Compliant Citizens

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10/16/2012

John Lennon: The Last Great Anti-War Activist

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10/10/2012

The Politics of Fear in America: A Nation at War With Itself

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10/3/2012

Guantanamo Bay: The Model for an American Police State?

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9/25/2012

Smile, the Government Is Watching: Next Generation Identification

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9/18/2012

Welcome to the American Gulag: Using Involuntary Commitment Laws To Silence Dissenters

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9/12/2012

Minority Report: Fiction Has Become Reality

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9/5/2012

The Prisoner: u2018I Am Not a Number. I Am a Free Man!'

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8/28/2012

The Corporate Surveillance State: How the Thought Police Use Your Cell Phone To Track Your Every Move

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8/23/2012

The Overcriminalization of America: Are We All Criminals Now?

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8/7/2012

London 2012 Olympics: The Staging Ground for the Coming Police State?

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7/28/2012

Everyday People

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7/3/2012

The Supremes’ Edict in the Arizona Case

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6/27/2012

Terror Tuesdays, Kill Lists, and Drones

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6/20/2012

That Cold, Cruel Monster, the State

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6/5/2012

The State Loves Them

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5/23/2012

New Frontiers in the Police State

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5/9/2012

Game of Drones

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5/1/2012

Caging Americans for Power and Profit

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4/12/2012

The Joke-Election Will Change Nothing

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3/24/2012

The Police State of New York City

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3/14/2012

The 12 Best War Movies

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2/29/2012

The Race War on Drugs

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1/11/2012

The Tightening Grip

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1/5/2012

Want Cancer?

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11/8/2011

The Fanatical War on Drugs and Freedom

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10/21/2011

The Government Death Penalty Must Be Abolished

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8/17/2011

Cointelpro on Steroids

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6/21/2011

War on Us

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6/14/2011

The American Police State

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5/24/2011

They Think They Own Your Children

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5/20/2011

Police State Update

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5/19/2011

The US Highway of Death

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5/5/2011

Armed Spy Drones Over Your House

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4/27/2011

‘Zero Tolerance’ in the Police State’s Schools

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2/17/2011

While America Sleeps

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1/28/2011

The Real Reason for Red-Light Cameras

John Whitehead on yet another excrescence of American totalitarianism.

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12/21/2010

Attention, Wal-Mart Shoppers

Big Sister wants you to spy on your fellow tax victims, Soviet style.

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12/10/2010

Are the X-Ray Body Scanners Dangerous to Your Health?

Of course, but the government couldn't care less.

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11/23/2010

The Total Control Society

It's here, says John Whitehead.

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11/16/2010

Invasion of the Body Scanners

John Whitehead on more tales of terror from the unfriendly skies.

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11/10/2010

One Man Against the Surveillance State

John Whitehead on our own Michael Roberts.

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10/27/2010

Michael Roberts: One Man Against the Surveillance State

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10/27/2010

John Lennon’s Dream

John Whitehead on his 10 best songs.

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10/5/2010

It’s ’1984′ in America

And we're living in Oceania, says John Whitehead.

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9/28/2010

The All-Seeing Eye of the State

John Whitehead on naked scanners and more.

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8/31/2010

The Body Snatchers

They're after all of us, and you're next, says John Whitehead.

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7/29/2010

Soldier Worship and Funerals

John Whitehead on the real meaning of the Westboro Baptist Church case.

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7/20/2010

Dissent, Rebellion and All-Around Hell-Raising

John Whitehead on influencing politicians.

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6/15/2010

The Census Takers

John Whitehead on a government against the people.

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5/25/2010

Getting After the Devil

John Whitehead on Obama vs. our civil liberties.

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5/18/2010

The Mark of the Beast?

John Whitehead on the national biometric ID card.

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4/20/2010

Peeping Feds Spy on Your Family

John Whitehead on the worst of the census.

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3/5/2010

Is Joe Stack a Wake-Up Call for America?

John Whitehead on a man driven to insanity by the tax police.

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2/20/2010

Obama and the Global Police

More friendly fascism?

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1/16/2010

America Under Barack Obama An Interview with Nat Hentoff

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12/24/2009

The Leader Principle

If the president does it, it's not illegal?

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8/16/2007

The Instruments of Tyranny

Ron Paul is right about the police state, says John W. Whitehead.

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8/4/2007

You Are an Enemy Combatant

Or could be, under this regime.

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6/21/2007

The Hitler Parallel

Is it too close for comfort?

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6/18/2007

Jesus and War

John Whitehead on why the Christian Right is wrong.

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5/10/2007

Tasers: Stop the Use of this Dangerous Weapon

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3/15/2005