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BOOKS BY JOHN W. WHITEHEAD


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APRIL 28, 2024

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

Divide and Conquer: The Government’s Propaganda of Fear and Fake News 

Down with Big Brother: Warrantless Surveillance Makes a Mockery of the Constitution 

Tyranny by the Numbers: The Government Wants Your Money Any Way It Can Get It 

The Government Wants to Play God. What Does That Mean for Our Freedoms? 

Rule by Criminals: When Dissidents Become Enemies of the State  

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Rutherford Institute Threatens First Amendment Lawsuit Over Censorship of Religious Content From High School Valedictorian’s Graduation Speech 

Rutherford Institute Defends Women’s Basketball Coach’s First Amendment Right to Religious Expression 

Rutherford Institute Denounces Oregon City Law Against Sleeping, Camping in Public as Unconstitutional Attempt to Criminalize Homelessness 

Rutherford Warns Florida ‘No Go Zone’ Law Could Chill First Amendment Activity, Thwart Citizen Journalists & Embolden Police Misconduct 

Court Fails to Hold Constables Accountable for Wrongfully Evicting Blind Man, Leaving Him Homeless During a Snowstorm 

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 
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IN THE COURTS

Supreme Court to Decide if Biden Administration Can Regulate ‘Ghost Guns’ 

Ninth Circuit: Seattle Police Cannot Arrest Street Preacher for Inciting Hostility  

Seventh Circuit: Convicted of Sex Offenses May Not Be Banned From Speaking on the Phone to Their Children 

California Supreme Court Rules That County Jail Kitchen Workers Can Go Unpaid 

Breadth of Homelessness Crisis Stumps Supreme Court 

Appeals Court Rules That Cops Can Physically Make You Unlock Your Phone 

Ballot Initiative Titles Are Government Speech, Tenth Circuit Rules 

Takeaways From the Supreme Court’s Oral Arguments Over Emergency Abortions

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

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

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

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   

Podcast Archive

ON TARGET VODCAST, INTERVIEWS

How to Stand Up for Freedom (Interview with Collapse Life)  

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

Ancestry Says It Fought Two Police Requests to Search Its DNA Database 

Killer in the Family Tree? DNA Sites Could Be Used to Track Down Suspects  

Cops Are Now Using AI to Generate Police Reports 

D.C. Officers Who Were Previously Disciplined Won’t Get Renewed Contracts

BEHIND BARS

Solitary Confinement Endures in Prison, Even For Youth 

Florida Bills Woman $127,000 After She Spent Only 10 Months Behind Bars
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NATIONAL SECURITY

Assange Extradition Case Moves Forward While The CIA Covers Its Tracks 

The FBI Was Monitoring 2017 Student Protests Against Ben Shapiro 

Too Much Power for Spy Agencies 

Senators Renew Scrutiny of Border Officers’ Authority to Search Americans’ Phones 

DHS Launches New AI Safety and Security Board

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Biden Signs Bill Extending a Key US Surveillance Program After Divisions Nearly Forced It to Lapse 

Richmond International Airport Begins Using Facial Recognition Technology  

SEC Hit With New Lawsuit Alleging ‘Mass Surveillance’ of Americans Through Stock Market Data 

Google to Pay $62 Million for Tracking Users Without Consent 

Supermarket Facial Recognition Fail: How to Avoid It Happening 

TSA Visited Apple and Google To Discuss Collaboration for Digital ID 

MTA Banned From Using Facial Recognition to Enforce Fare Evasion

FREE SPEECH / CENSORSHIP

Cancel Culture Comes for Colleges as Graduation Season Begins 

Journalist Jailed for Asking Police a Question 

Librarians Fear New Penalties, Even Prison, as Activists Challenge Books 

Student Protests Are Testing US Colleges’ Commitment to Free Speech

TECHNOLOGY

DNA Database to Help Fight Against Illegal Wildlife Trafficking 

Meta Oversight Board Reviews Handling of AI-Created Celebrity Porn 

You Actually Shouldn’t Use Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone. Here’s Why 

AI Can Predict Political Orientation From Blank Faces 

EDUCATION

Tennessee Passes Bill to Let Teachers Carry Guns, a Year After Mass Shooting 

HEALTH & MEDICINE

Florida’s Six-Week Abortion Ban Is Set to Take Effect

POLITICS

The Next US President Will Have Troubling New Surveillance Powers 

New Biden Rule Protects Privacy for Women Who Get Abortions 

DeSantis Signs Bill Limiting Book Objections in School Libraries 

17 States Challenge Federal Rules Entitling Workers to Accommodations for Abortion

FURTHER READING 

What You Need to Know About Qualified Immunity And How It Shields Those Responsible for Wrongful Convictions

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