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John W. Whitehead

Freedom Under Fire with John Whitehead™, available free of charge, provides listeners and radio stations alike with insightful, relevant and provocative commentary on popular culture and constitutional issues.

  1. Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

    08/28/2025

    Burning the Flag or Torching the Constitution: Only One Destroys Freedom

    President Trump’s flag burning fight is a constitutional bait-and-switch--a culture-war diversion to distract from the Deep State's authoritarian power grabs.

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

    03/14/2024

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

    COVID-19 was a test to see how little resistance the citizenry would offer up to the government’s power grabs when made in the name of national security. “We the people” failed that test spectacularly. Four years later, we're still failing.

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

    02/28/2024

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

    Any presidential candidate who promises to be a dictator on day one, if elected, will be a dictator-in-chief for life. Then again, the president is already a dictator with permanent powers: imperial, unaccountable and unconstitutional.

    8 min
  4. 2024 Is the New 1984: Big Brother and the Rise of the Security Industrial Complex

    02/21/2024

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

    Forty years past the time that George Orwell envisioned the stomping boot of Big Brother, the police state is about to pass off the baton to the surveillance state. 1984 has become an operation manual for the omnipresent, modern-day surveillance state.

    8 min
  5. Who Pays the Price for Botched SWAT Team Raids? We Do

    02/14/2024

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

    SWAT team raids have become a thinly veiled, court-sanctioned means of giving heavily armed police the green light to crash through doors in the middle of the night.

    8 min
  6. The White House's Secret Surveillance Program Breaks All the Laws

    02/07/2024

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

    The government wants us to believe that we have nothing to fear from its mass spying programs as long as we’ve done nothing wrong. Don’t believe it.

    8 min
  7. Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List

    01/31/2024

    Watchlisted: You’re Probably Already on a Government Extremism List

    According to the FBI, you may be an anti-government extremist if you’ve purchased a Bible or other religious materials; used terms like “MAGA” and “Trump”; shopped at Dick’s Sporting Goods, Cabela’s, or Bass Pro Shops; or purchased tickets to travel by bus, cars, or plane.

    8 min
  8. Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent

    01/24/2024

    Digital Kill Switches: How Tyrannical Governments Stifle Political Dissent

    Communications kill switches have become tyrannical tools of domination and oppression to stifle political dissent, shut down resistance, forestall election losses, reinforce military coups, and keep the populace isolated, disconnected and in the dark, literally and figuratively.

    9 min
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