Author: John W. Whitehead

“Taxman,” the only song written by George Harrison to open one of the Beatles’ albums (it featured on the band’s 1966 Revolver album), is

While Congress subjects the nation to its impeachment-flavored brand of bread-and-circus politics, our civil liberties continue to die a slow,

Once again, it’s been a hard, heart-wrenching, stomach-churning kind of year. It’s been a year of hotheads and blowhards and

By all means, let’s talk about impeachment. To allow the President or any rogue government agency or individual to disregard

War drives the American police state. The military-industrial complex is the world’s largest employer. War sustains our way of life while

By John W. Whitehead* “What happens to Julian Assange and to Chelsea Manning is meant to intimidate us, to frighten

“You see them on the street. You watch them on TV. You might even vote for one this fall. You

Twenty years ago, a newspaper headline asked the question: “What’s the difference between a politician and a psychopath?” The answer,

“You gotta remember, establishment, it’s just a name for evil. The monster doesn’t care whether it kills all the students

Eventually, all military empires fall and fail by spreading themselves too thin and spending themselves to death. It happened in