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Kevin Gosztola

Kevin Gosztola

Kevin Gosztols is the editor of The Dissenter and author of "Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange." He has spent more than 15 years covering press freedom, whistleblowing, and government secrecy.

FBI Raids Show Project Veritas Is Latest Target In War On Journalism (And It's Maddening)

An FBI logo, photographed in Washington, D.C. on July 16, 2012. (Flickr / J) “Unless the government had good reason to believe that Project Veritas employees were directly involved in the criminal theft of the diary, it should not have subjected them to invasive searches and seizures,” the American Civil

Pentagon And Its Overseers Suppressed Whistleblowers Who Challenged Massacre In Syria

U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Trevor T. McBride and in the public domain Whistleblowers in the United States military exposed a strike in Syria that resulted in the massacre of around 70 women and children, according to an investigation by the New York Times. The command responsible

FOIA Friday: FDA's Lax Oversight Of Vaccine Clinical Trials

Dissenter Weekly: USA Today's Year-Long Investigation Into 'Blue Wall Of Silence'

Plus, to avoid lawsuit, Belmarsh prison backs down. Julian Assange and Stella Moris are getting married.

US Government Urges Supreme Court To Protect 'State Secrets Privilege' In Lawsuit Against FBI Spying

Israel Slapped 'Terrorist' Label On Palestinian Human Rights Groups After They Uncovered Pegasus Spyware

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz (Photo: US Embassy Jerusalem and in the public domain) After the Israeli government designated six Palestinian human rights organizations as “terrorist” organizations, Jonathan Kuttab, the co-founder of Al Haq, one of the targeted organizations, suggested this showed Israel

Dissenter Weekly: Colorado Kept Mental Patient 'Unconstitutionally Confined'

Plus, New York state expands whistleblower protections for workers