Kenyans outraged at MPs’ six-figure, tax-funded World Cup 2018 trip
"The MPs caught the attention of Kenyans when they posted selfies in a stadium."
Government Eyes Are Watching You
"There’s little room for indiscretions, imperfections, or acts of independence—especially not when the government can listen in on your phone calls, monitor your driving habits, track your movements, scrutinize your purchases and peer through the walls of your home."
Air Force guards at top-secret US nuclear missile base were actually a LSD ring
"Meet the service members entrusted with guarding nuclear missiles that are among the most powerful in America's arsenal."
John Whitehead: A Graduation Message for a Dark Age
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
Merchants of Death: America’s Toxic Cult of Violence Turns Deadly
"Niklas Cruz may have pulled the trigger that resulted in the mayhem in Parkland, Fla., but something else is driving the madness."
The Big Losers at the Olympics Are the Host Nations
"Politicians in the winning country are often not around when taxpayers foot the bill more than half a decade later. The Olympics exhibit many qualities which are endorsed by free-market capitalism, actively promoting individualism, international cooperation, and excellence through competition. Why, then, do we continue the tradition of outlandish public spending on them?"
Trump Is Not the First U.S. Politician to Use Humvees and F-16s as Props
"Trump is not the originator of this madness. We have spent decades preparing the slippery slope he is gleefully pushing us down."
Jacob Hornberger, America: a Military Nation
"It’s true that the federal government used to consist of three branches. Bu that quaint notion disintegrated when the federal government was converted to what is known as a 'national-security state' after World War II. Even though it was done without a constitutional amendment, that conversion effectively added a fourth branch of government to the federal government — the national-security branch, which consists of the NSA, the CIA, and the Pentagon. The addition of that fourth branch fundamentally altered the original three-branch concept, especially because the fourth branch quickly became the most powerful branch. The reason is because ultimately government is force, and the fourth branch is where the most force was concentrated within the new, altered governmental structure."
The State of Our Union: A House Divided, Enslaved & Mired in Past Mistakes
"The list of abuses being perpetrated against the American people by their government is growing rapidly: SWAT teams crashing through doors. Militarized police shooting unarmed citizens. Traffic cops tasering old men and pregnant women for not complying fast enough with an order. Resource officers shackling children for acting like children. Citizens being jailed for growing vegetable gardens in their front yards and holding prayer services in their backyards. Drivers having their cash seized under the pretext that they might have done something wrong. Brace yourselves. We are approaching critical mass."
John Whitehead: The Anatomy of a National Nervous Breakdown
"This breakdown—triggered by polarizing circus politics, media-fed mass hysteria, militarization and militainment (the selling of war and violence as entertainment), a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness in the face of growing corruption, the government’s alienation from its populace, and an economy that has much of the population struggling to get by—is manifesting itself in madness, mayhem and an utter disregard for the very principles and liberties that have kept us out of the clutches of totalitarianism for so long."