9/11 Cinema: 'The Siege' Foreshadowed America's Dark Transformation
With each attack, the message of the movie is that traditional law enforcement will not stop the violence coming from within Arab and Muslim communities.
Kevin Gosztola
Listen To The Sixth Episode Of 'Primary Sources' With Thomas Drake (Exclusive For Paid Subscribers)
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In the sixth episode of the “Primary Sources” podcast, NSA whistleblower Thomas
Drake joins host Chip Gibbons to discuss how he became the United States Justice
Department’s “signature case” for resurrecting the Espionage
Twenty Years In A Security State: After Failing To Stop 9/11 Attacks, FBI Invented Terrorists
"[W]e try to identify plots in the earliest stages possible because we don’t know what we don’t know about a terrorism plot," Attorney General Alberto Gonzales declared, referring to the FBI.
Australian Military Whistleblower Who Faces Prosecution Shares Perspective On End To Afghanistan War
"We knew it was a debacle. Everybody knew. There was a culture of silence to cover it up, and the politicians were never really trying to win the war."
Dissenter Weekly: Australian Witness In Afghanistan War Crimes Inquiry Was Bombed—Plus, Ag-Gag Laws
In this edition of “Dissenter Weekly,” Kevin Gosztola goes through whistleblower
stories from the week of August 26, 2021.
We cover an investigation by the Australia Broadcasting Corporation that found a
witness in an Afghanistan war crimes inquiry was relocated after their home was
bombed.
The show highlights Representative Ilhan
Ag-Gag Laws Suppressing Whistleblowers Experience Defeat As Iowa Expands Law To Target Video Recording
The Animal Legal Defense Fund warns Iowa's new law "threatens increased penalties for recording even in public places and locations" long used for advocacy.
Dissenter Weekly: Whistleblowing In South Africa, Covid App Fiasco In UK (Exclusive For Paid Subscribers)
In this edition of “Dissenter Weekly,” host Kevin Gosztola goes through
whistleblower stories from the week of August 19, 2021.
We highlight a report from Corruption Watch in South Africa on thousands of
whistleblower complaints against municipalities (or local governments) over the
past nine years.
The show also covers an