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BOOKS BY JOHN W. WHITEHEAD


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MARCH 3, 2024

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Technocensorship: When Corporations Serve As a Front for Government Censors  

COVID-19 Tested Our Commitment to Freedom. Three Years Later, We’re Still Failing 

The Global Deep State: A Fascist World Order Funded by the American Taxpayer 

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

SCOTUS Fails to Hold Police Accountable for Firing Tear Gas at Onlookers Who Filmed Their Interaction with Protesters  

Rutherford Institute Challenges Government Efforts to Censor Speech and Pressure Tech Companies to Block, Ban, De-Platform and Restrict Users 

Supreme Court Gives Government the Green Light to Obstruct Citizens From Voting at Polling Places Based on the Content of Speech on Clothing 

Rutherford Institute Calls on Supreme Court to Uphold Laws Prohibiting Censorship by Tech Companies & Protecting Free Speech on Social Media

LEGAL FEATURES

Constitutional Q&A: American Community Survey 

Special Report: The Right to Be Let Alone: How to Safeguard Your Freedoms in the Face of the Government’s COVID-19 Power Grabs 

The Case Against Technofascism: When Big Tech Companies Censor Speech
MAKE THE GOVERNMENT PLAY BY THE RULES OF THE CONSTITUTION: DONATE TODAY

IN THE COURTS

Opening Door to Further Challenges, DC Circuit Rules Jan. 6 Sentence Improperly Lengthened 

New York Judge Denies Trump’s $100 Million Bond Offer for Stay of Civil Fraud Judgment 

Federal Judge Mostly Upholds Arizona Proof-of-Citizenship Voting Laws 

Montana Judge Declares 3 Laws Restricting Abortion Unconstitutional 

The Supreme Court Appears Torn About a Trump-Era Ban on Bump Stocks

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

Freedom Under Fire is a free weekly podcast available on SoundCloud and iTunes.

We’ve Already Got a Dictator-in-Chief: How Absolute Power Corrupted the President 

2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex 

Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do 

The White House's Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws 

Podcast Archive

VODCAST, RECENT INTERVIEWS

Counting the People (Interview with Financial Rebellion, CHD) 

Are You Being Watched? (Whitehead Interview with Good Morning, CHD) 

The Rise of the Security Industrial Complex: One America News 

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

NYPD Misconduct Settlements Have Cost the City Half a Billion Dollars in 6 Years 

Trump Says Local Police Will Play Key Role In His Mass Deportation Plan

OVERCRIMINALIZATION 

Florida House Passes Bill to Prevent Homeless People From Sleeping in Public

BEHIND BARS

Biden's Order to Ban Private Prisons Faces a Persistent Internal Challenge: The U.S. Marshals Service
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SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Here’s What the U.S. Government Knows About You 

US Airlines and TSA Partner on Expanded Use of Digital ID Through Face Biometrics 

US to Ask Court to Renew Domestic Surveillance Program Before April Expiration 

Here Are the Secret Locations of ShotSpotter Gunfire Sensors 

When Eyes in the Sky Start Looking Right at You

FREE SPEECH

He Cursed at a Police Officer. Now He’s Caught in a Free Speech Fight 

Almost a Third of Americans Say the First Amendment Goes 'Too Far' 

DOJ Gives College Nearly $1 Million to Track Spread of “Mis-, Dis-, and Mal-information”

TECHNOLOGY

Biometrics Entering Wider Use at Work and at Play 

Facial Recognition Tech Is Probably Coming to a Lot More Vending Machines 

How Scientists Are Using Facial-Recognition AI to Track Humpback Whales 

Smartphone App Uses AI to Detect Depression From Facial Cues

HEALTH & MEDICINE

California Looks to Private Firm to Run New State Psychiatric Hospital 

CVS and Walgreens to Begin Selling Prescription Abortion Pill Mifepristone

POLITICS

Oregon Legislature Passes Bill Package to Recriminalize Small Drug Possession 

Alabama Lawmakers Pass IVF Immunity Bills

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