A show that provides regular updates and discussion of the United States government's war on whistleblowers, attacks on freedom of the press, and the extent to which officials go to hide their actions.
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Become a Paid Subscriber: https://anchor.fm/unauthorized-disclosure/subscribe "Unauthorized Disclosure" is a weekly podcast hosted by Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola. It focuses on issues and topics that are overlooked or pushed aside by the more mainstream media. The hosts champion adversarial journalism. Guests featured are often rarely heard or unheard voices. Or they are voices who we think can benefit from a space to have conversations, which allow for dissent and the unpacking of unpop ...
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Truthtelling can be an act of resistance. Join Defending Rights & Dissent policy director Chip Gibbons as he brings you the stories of whistleblowers and other truthtellers who expose civil liberties and human rights abuses committed under the guise of national security and the attempts to silence them.
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Tesla Whistleblower Wins Legal Victory, Calls Musk A 'Vindictive Monster'
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24:57Host Kevin Gosztola highlights the case of Tesla whistleblower Cristina Balan. She recently won an appeal against Tesla and the company's CEO Elon Musk. This victory in her legal battle could lead to a trial where Musk testifies in court. Headlines include Israeli military strike killing Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna and a U.S. judge …
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Host Kevin Gosztola highlights the crisis that is growing as offices that are supposed to fulfill Freedom of Information Act requests are dismantled or significantly impaired. He features a few clips from a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on FOIA reform that was held on April 8. Headlines include Israeli military forces attacking a media tent in…
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Boeing Says Attacks On Whistleblowers All Part Of The Past
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27:56In this edition of "The Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola focuses on the unbelievable claim put forward by Boeing CEO Kelly Ortberg that whistleblower retaliation at Boeing is entirely a thing of the past. Headlines include the disbanding of public records teams at the Health and Human Services Department and a watchdog group warning EPA emplo…
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Abducted For Writing An Op-Ed In A Student Newspaper
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31:35Host Kevin Gosztola focuses on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents abducting Tufts University PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk in Massachusetts and how standing up for Ozturk is important to freedom of the press. Headlines include several positive developments, like the state of Idaho signing a journalism shield bill into law and the United …
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While we're only 50 days into President Donald Trump's second term, we've already seen how the administration is expanding secrecy beyond what was observed under Biden—and even Trump's first term. Lauren Harper, the Freedom of the Press Foundation's Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy, joined the "Dissenter Weekly" to discuss this topic. [P…
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Fox News Whips Up Support For Prosecuting Reporters
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36:30In this edition of the "Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola focuses on the Fox News network's push for leak prosecutions against media sources at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Homeland Security Department (DHS). The network is furious that details about ICE raids are being shared with the press before agents conduct the raids…
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Trump Administration And The Weaponizing Of Distrust Toward US News Media
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59:30In this special edition of the "Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola talks with Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored about how President Donald Trump's administration has weaponized distrust toward the news media establishment to further attacks on the press.By Kevin Gosztola
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Trump Vs. Head Of US Whistleblower Agency
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26:33For this edition of "The Dissenter Weekly," host Kevin Gosztola outlines the battle that President Donald Trump is waging over the head of the Office of Special Counsel (OSC). Trump fired OSC chief Hampton Dellinger, and Dellinger sued. A United States district court and appeals court temporarily allowed Dellinger to return to the position while th…
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Host Kevin Gosztola focuses on a proposed bill [PDF] in the state of Hawaii that would effectively establish a star chamber for journalists. Now, the legislation calls it an "ethics review board," but let's be clear—it would arbitrarily penalize journalists when they do not follow the rules for "responsible journalism."…
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Chip Gibbons, the policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, joins host Kevin Gosztola to further discuss the Espionage Act prosecution against CIA analyst Asif Rahman. Rahman pled guilty to violating the Espionage Act in January. For The Dissenter, Chip reported on several strange details in the plea agreement, and he outlines some of the q…
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Tulsi Gabbard's National Security Sin, Kash Patel's 'Enemies List'
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36:14Host Kevin Gosztola responds to some key moments that occurred during the Senate confirmation hearings for Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard and FBI Director nominee Kash Patel.By Kevin Gosztola
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Kevin focuses on what Reporters Without Borders described as the "unprecedented scope of threats" posed by President Donald Trump's administration. He discusses what The Dissenter Newsletter will be tracking closely and comments on establishment media organizations, which have already yielded to Trump. (Note: The Dissenter Weekly is a project of Th…
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'The State Of The Free Press' As We Head Into 2025
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43:18As we come to the end of another season of "Unauthorized Disclosure," host Kevin Gosztola invited Shealeigh Voitl of Project Censored to discuss the 2025 edition of their annual book, "State of The Free Press." It includes the Top 25 Censored Stories of 2023-2024. Shealeigh is Project Censored's digital and print editor. She's worked on prior editi…
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Project 2025 & Trump's Pledge To Hunt Journalists And Their Sources (w/ Chip Gibbons)
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55:22In this episode of the podcast, host Kevin Gosztola is joined by Chip Gibbons to discuss Donald Trump, Project 2025, and what Trump's election means for journalists and their sources in U.S. government agencies.Chip is the policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent and the author of the (very) forthcoming book "The Imperial Bureau" from Verso…
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9/11 Plea Deals & the Neverending Shame of Guantanamo (w/ Andy Worthington)
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57:31Host Kevin Gosztola talks with journalist Andy Worthington about news involving 9/11 plea deals and President Joe Biden's legacy when it comes to the Guantanamo Bay prison. Andy has long been known for his work reporting on the nearly 800 men, who were detained, tortured, abused, and sent to Guantanamo as part of the global "war on terrorism." We d…
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A Rare Israeli Journalist Opposed To 'The Killing Of Gaza' (w/ Gideon Levy)
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41:34Host Kevin Gosztola welcomes Israeli journalist Gideon Levy to the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss his new book from Verso, "The Killing Of Gaza: Reports On A Catastrophe" (available here). He is a distinguished and well-known dissenting voice in Israeli media. During the conversation, he describes how there are very few journalists wh…
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US-Israel's War On Gaza Expands To Lebanon (w/ Matthew Hoh)
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59:56Matthew Hoh, a a former United States Marine, a former State Department official who resigned in protest against the Afghanistan War, and the associate director for the Eisenhower Media Network, returns to the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss the latest terrifying developments in the Middle East.We begin with clips from the conversation…
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A Year Of War In Gaza (w/ Norman Solomon)
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50:06Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org, returns to the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to talk about the afterword for his book "War Made Invisible: How America Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine," which is now available in paperback. The book is a follow-up to his 2005 book "War Made Easy: How Presidents And Pundits Keep Spinnin…
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Building Movement Media Power (w/ Lara Witt & Maya Schenwar)
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57:11The Movement Media Alliance is a newly-formed "coalition of grassroots-aligned social justice-driven journalism organizations." Each organization in the coalition is committed to growing support for "accurate, transparent, accountable, principled, and just media." Joining the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss the Movement Media Alliance …
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How US Labor Unions Partnered With The CIA To Undermine Workers (w/ Jeff Schuhrke)
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53:34Host Kevin Gosztola interviews Jeff Schuhrke, labor historian, journalist, union activist, and author of Blue Collar Empire: The Untold Story Of US Labor's Global Anticommunist Crusade. Renewed "great power" rivalries threaten billions of lives, along with a host of planetary crises. Within that context, Schuhrke provides an overview of labor histo…
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Protesting The DNC In Chicago (w/ Andy Thayer)
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46:30Kevin Gosztola interviews Andy Thayer, a longtime grassroots activist and organizer in Chicago. He is part of a coalition called Bodies Outside of Unjust Laws that obtained a permit for the first protest that will take place on Sunday in opposition to the 2024 Democratic National Convention. Andy discusses the formation of Bodies Outside of Unjust …
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Election Denial In Venezuela: US-Backed Opposition Rejects Maduro Win (w/ Cira Pascual Marquina)
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56:44On July 29, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was re-elected president in a democratic election. The United States government, however, immediately declined to recognize the result and then came out days later with a statement that erroneously claimed Edmundo González, the opposition candidate, had won. González is now effectively the country's n…
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Victory For Prison Phone Justice: FCC Caps Prison Phone Call Rates (w/ Wanda Bertram)
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38:55The movement for fair and equitable policies in United States jails and prisons notched a major victory a little more than a week ago: prison and jail calling rates were cut dramatically by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Joining the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss this victory is Wanda Bertram, a communications strategist…
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Two US Air Force Members Speak Out Against the War On Gaza
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48:56On this week's edition of the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast, host Kevin Gosztola talks with Juan Betancourt and Larry Hebert, who are both United States Air Force members who applied to become "conscientious objectors." Juan and Larry were moved to apply for "conscientious objector" status when they observed the Israeli military's genocidal vio…
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War Drags On In Ukraine As State Department-Linked Group Blacklists Antiwar Opponents (w/ Dave DeCamp)
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38:24This week, Dave DeCamp, the news editor for Antiwar.com and host of the daily podcast "Antiwar News", appears on "Unauthorized Disclosure" to discuss the latest in the war in Ukraine and a list that a United States State Department-linked group put together, which smeared Antiwar News and hundreds of foreign policy experts, politicians, journalists…
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