The Dissenter
VIDEO: If Only More Media Had Spoken Up For Gaza Journalists
Host Kevin Gosztola discusses the role of Western prestige media organizations in the mass starvation and death that the world is witnessing now in Gaza. In particular, as with families and their children, the last remaining Palestinian and Arab journalists are at risk of dying due to lack of food,
Dissenter Update: Trump Administration's Reliance On Lie Detectors
Host Kevin Gosztola speaks with George Maschke, a former U.S. Army interrogator and reserve intelligence officer, about the Trump administration's reliance on lie detector tests to enforce secrecy. Maschke is the co-founder of AntiPolygraph.org, and he was falsely accused of being a spy after the FBI
Imprisoned For Exposing US-Israel's War Plans Against Iran
Chip Gibbons, policy director for Defending Rights and Dissent, joins host Kevin Gosztola to further discuss the case against CIA analyst Asif Rahman, who was convicted of violating the Espionage Act and sentenced to three years and a month in prison for releasing Israel's plans to strike Iran.
Dissenter Update: DIA Employee Arrested In FBI Sting
Host Kevin Gosztola discusses the FBI sting operation that led to the arrest of a Defense Intelligence Agency employee opposed to President Donald Trump's agenda, who allegedly agreed to trade state secrets for citizenship in Germany.
Headlines for this edition include an Australia appeals court rejecting Australia war
Navigating Our Algo-Controlled Media Landscape
Host Kevin Gosztola is joined by Andy Lee Roth, a Project Censored editor at large, for a conversation about Big Tech algorithms and how they determine what content we see. Andy goes on to share the work he has been doing on algorithmic literacy for the Reynolds Journalism Institute at
100 Days Of Attacks on Transparency And The Press
Host Kevin Gosztola marks President Donald Trump's first 100 days in his second term with this discussion of his administration's attacks on transparency and press freedom.
He is joined by two guests from the Freedom of the Press Foundation —Seth Stern, the advocacy director, and Lauren