The Political Matrix Sustains the Illusion of Freedom
John & Nisha Whitehead
“When a population becomes distracted by trivia, when cultural life is redefined as a perpetual round of entertainments, when serious public conversation becomes a form of baby-talk, when, in...
American Theocracy: Politics Has Become Our National Religion
John & Nisha Whitehead
Politics has become our national religion. While those on the Left have feared a religious coup by evangelical Christians on the Right, the danger has come from an altogether...
The Right to Not Be Lied To: Making the Case for Truth in Politics
John & Nisha Whitehead
“In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that...
Engineering a Crisis: How Political Theater Helps the Deep State Stay in Power
John & Nisha Whitehead
A failed assassination attempt on a presidential candidate. An incumbent president withdrawing his re-election bid at the 11th hour. A politicized judiciary that fails to hold the powers-that-be accountable to...
A Time of Shame and Sorrow: When It Comes to Political Violence, We All Lose
John & Nisha Whitehead
“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...
Project Total Control: Everything Is a Weapon When Totalitarianism Is Normalized
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The biggest mistake I see is people waiting for A Big Sign that’ll tell them that things have gone too far. One Big Thing that police or lawmakers or...
Supreme Court Makes the President a Dictator for Life
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.” Justice...
Mission Creep: How the Police State Acclimates Us to Being Modern-Day Slaves
John & Nisha Whitehead
“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted....
Timely Lessons About Tyranny from the Father of the Constitution
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Take alarm at the first experiment on our liberties.” James Madison James Madison, often referred to as the “Father of the Constitution,” once predicted that the Bill of Rights...
What’s Next for Battlefield America? Israel’s High-Tech Military Tactics Point the Way
John & Nisha Whitehead
“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...
A Nanny State Idiocracy: A Tale of Too Many Laws and Too Little Freedom
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Whether the mask is labeled fascism, democracy, or dictatorship of the proletariat, our great adversary remains the apparatus—the bureaucracy, the police, the military.” Simone Weil, French philosopher We are...
Virtual Home Invasions: We’re Not Safe from Government Peeping Toms
John & Nisha Whitehead
“The privacy and dignity of our citizens is being whittled away by sometimes imperceptible steps. Taken individually, each step may be of little consequence. But when viewed as a...
How Freedom Dies from A to Z
John & Nisha Whitehead
“As I look at America today, I am not afraid to say that I am afraid.” Former presidential advisor Bertram Gross The American governmental scheme is sliding ever closer...
Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News
John & Nisha Whitehead
“It is the function of mass agitation to exploit all the grievances, hopes, aspirations, prejudices, fears, and ideals of all the special groups that make up our society, social,...
The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms?
John & Nisha Whitehead
The government wants to play god. It wants the power to decide who lives or dies and whose rights are worthy of protection. Abortion may still be front and...
Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State
John & Nisha Whitehead
“In these days of worldwide confusion, there is a dire need for men and women who will courageously do battle for truth<.” Martin Luther King Jr When exposing a crime is...
The Language of Force
John & Nisha Whitehead “If the state could use [criminal] laws not for their intended purposes but to silence those who voice unpopular ideas, little would be left of...
The State of Our Nation No One’s Talking About: Tyranny Is Rising as Freedom Falls
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Never has our future been more unpredictable, never have we depended so much on political forces that cannot be trusted to follow the rules of common sense and self-interest—forces...
The Great Election Fraud: Manufactured Choices Make a Mockery of Our Republic
John & Nisha Whitehead “Dictators are not in the business of allowing elections that could remove them from their thrones.” Gene Sharp, political science professor The U.S. Supreme Court was...
Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors
John & Nisha Whitehead
“Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly...
