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JANUARY 24, 2021

WHITEHEAD: ON THE ISSUES

The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes 

A Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law 

What to Expect in 2021: Madness, Mayhem, Manipulation and More Tyranny

RUTHERFORD: ON THE FRONT LINES

Rutherford Institute Defends First Amendment Rights of Firefighter Fired for Criticizing Defaced Public Monuments 

Rutherford Institute Takes Issue With Drug Laws That Disproportionately Deliver Harsher Prison Sentences to African-Americans by 100–1 Ratio 

Rutherford Institute Asks Supreme Court To Ensure Justice for Military Cadet Raped at West Point 

TRI IN THE NEWS

Is America Becoming a Techno-Corporate State, Verging on Martial Law?
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IN THE COURTS

Satire Is Still Protected Speech Even If The Government Doesn't Get The Joke 

Texas Supreme Court Rejects Alex Jones' Request To Throw Out Sandy Hook Defamation Suits

PODCAST: FREEDOM UNDER FIRE

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

The Deep State’s Stealthy, Subversive, Silent Coup to Ensure Nothing Changes 

A Nation Imploding: Digital Tyranny, Insurrection and Martial Law 

What to Expect in 2021: Madness, Mayhem, Manipulation and More Tyranny 

Podcast Archive

VODCAST: ON TARGET

The Path to Total Dictatorship: America’s Shadow Government & Its Silent Coup

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COVID-19

BWI Airport Embraces LiDAR To Enforce Social Distancing 

FEMA Would Operate Up to 100 Federally Run Mass Vaccination Sites Under Biden Plan 

Biden Orders Masks To Be Worn on Airplanes, Trains, and Public Transportation

AMERICAN POLICE STATE

Chicago Police Lieutenant Says Team Uses ‘Illegal’ Arrest Quotas 

How The FBI Is Tracking Down Protestors

OVERCRIMINALIZATION 

Key West Wants to Ban People From Feeding Roaming Chickens

AMERICA AT WAR

Looted by Defense Contractors: The US Spent $60 Billion Rebuilding Iraq, There Is Virtually Nothing To Show for the Money 

America’s Shadow Death Row: Drone Strikes 

Military Veterans Overrepresented In Those Charged In Jan. 6 Capitol Riot 

The New Domestic War on Terror is Coming 

Biden Orders Review of Domestic Violent Extremism Threat

BEHIND BARS

Illinois to End Cash Bail and Limit Use of High-Tech Incarceration
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NATIONAL SECURITY

Is The USPS Creating A National Biometric Criminal Background Check Program? 

How Do You Get on the No-Fly List? How Do You Know if You Are on the List? How Do You Get Off? 

No-Fly Lists: Major Airlines Reveal How Many Passengers Are Banned From Their Flights 

Time to Trash the Terrorist Watch List, a Police-State Frankenstein Gone Off the Rails 

12 Army National Guard Troops Dropped From Capitol Security, Including 2 for Ties to Right-Wing Militias

SURVEILLANCE & PRIVACY

Germany Expected To Put Right-Wing AfD Under Surveillance For Violating Constitution 

Amazon Ring App Found To Be (Again) Exposing User Locations, Home Addresses 

Don’t Let The Riots Legitimize Facial Recognition Tech 

Oakland’s Progressive Fight to Protect Residents from Government Surveillance 

FREE SPEECH

Does the First Amendment Restrain Big Tech? 

If Martin Luther King Jr. Were Alive Today, Big Tech Would’ve Already Banned Him 

The Historical Case Against Censorship

TECHNOLOGY

Smart Homes Can Easily Be Hacked and Most Internet of Things Devices Don’t Have Any Security Standards 

Scientists: No Way To Control Super-Intelligent AI

ECONOMY

In Trump’s Last Week, Unemployment Claims Remain Above Pre-Pandemic Levels

SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Remember When Pfizer Paid Out $2.3 Billion To Settle the Largest Healthcare Fraud Case in History?

POLITICS

Here Are 18 Ways Trump Did the Opposite of Drain the Swamp During His Presidency 

Trump Proves His Weakness By Not Pardoning Julian Assange  

Here Are All the Executive Orders Joe Biden Signed on His First Day in Office 

Can The Senate Try President Trump Once He Leaves Office?  

Executive Orders Aren’t a Solution. They’re a Symptom

FURTHER READING 

Why Calling China's Genocide What It Is Really Matters 

Learning From Burke in 1968

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