Dissenter Update

Host Kevin Gosztola is joined by guest Adam Rose, who is the press rights chair for the Los Angeles Press Club. He discusses court victories in lawsuits against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The Los Angeles Press

Host Kevin Gosztola is joined by guest Jeff Cohen, the founder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), the co-founder of Roots Action, and author of “Cable News Confidential: My Misadventures in Corporate Media.” We discuss corporate media capitulation during Donald Trump's second presidential term and "censorship

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,

Host Kevin Gosztola talks with Tina-Desiree Berg, a Los Angeles-based reporter for Status Coup, about ICE and the threat this ultra-secretive police force poses to freedom of the press. Tina-Desiree and other journalists recently won an injunction in a lawsuit against the LAPD. A federal court ordered the police to

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

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.