What a mess. Continue reading
Nearly 73 years ago, the United States unleashed atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing more than 200,000 individuals, many of whom were civilians. Continue reading
There are those who would have you believe that President Trump is an unwitting victim of the Deep State. Continue reading
Americans have a voracious appetite for TV entertainment, and the Trump reality show—guest starring outraged Democrats, power-hungry Republicans, and a hodgepodge of other special interest groups with dubious motives—feeds that appetite for titillating, soap opera drama. Continue reading
There are those who will tell you that any mention of a New World Order government—a power elite conspiring to rule the world—is the stuff of conspiracy theories. Continue reading
For those still deluded enough to believe they’re living the American dream—where the government represents the people, where the people are equal in the eyes of the law, where the courts are arbiters of justice, where the police are keepers of the peace, and where the law is applied equally as a means of protecting the rights of the people—it’s time to wake up. Continue reading
Imagine living in a country where armed soldiers crash through doors to arrest and imprison citizens merely for criticizing government officials. Continue reading
First broadcast in America 50 years ago, “The Prisoner”—a dystopian television series described as “James Bond meets George Orwell filtered through Franz Kafka”—confronted societal themes that are still relevant today: the rise of a police state, the freedom of the individual, round-the-clock surveillance, the corruption of government, totalitarianism, weaponization, group think, mass marketing, and the tendency of humankind to meekly accept their lot in life as a prisoner in a prison of their own making. Continue reading
Sometimes you have to draw a line in the sand. Continue reading
Someone needs to alert Donald Trump: there is no “Get Out of Jail Free” card just for being president. Continue reading
There are days I wake up and I’m not sure what country I live in anymore. Continue reading
Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. Continue reading
We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the name of the national good by an elite class of government officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions. Continue reading
What characterizes American government today is not so much dysfunctional politics as it is ruthlessly contrived governance carried out behind the entertaining, distracting and disingenuous curtain of political theater. And what political theater it is, diabolically Shakespearean at times, full of sound and fury, yet in the end, signifying nothing. Continue reading
The ease with which Americans are prepared to welcome boots on the ground, regional lockdowns, routine invasions of their privacy, and the dismantling of every constitutional right intended to serve as a bulwark against government abuses is beyond unnerving. Continue reading
I was sitting in a crowded bar, drinking a beer, when the news broke that Martin Luther King Jr. had been shot and killed. Continue reading
Just as police states have arisen throughout history, there have also been individuals or groups of individuals who have risen up to challenge the injustices of their age. Continue reading
Enough is enough. Continue reading
Just what we don’t need: more gun-toting, taser-wielding cops in government-run schools that bear an uncomfortable resemblance to prisons. Continue reading
I’m not a fan of Communist China. Continue reading
In the American police state, police have a tendency to shoot first and ask questions later. Continue reading
We are caught in a vicious cycle. Continue reading
Mark my words, America’s war spending will bankrupt the nation. Continue reading
They’re called the Little Barbies. Continue reading
History has a funny way of circling back on itself. Continue reading
No one is safe. Continue reading
I’m tired of liars, scoundrels and cheats. Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled: it will not hear the case of Young v. Borders. Continue reading
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From Boston to Ferguson to Charlottesville: The evolution of a police state lockdown
Posted on August 17, 2018 by John W. Whitehead
It has become way too easy to lockdown this nation. Continue reading →