As 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 editions of "State of the Free Press," and this year she worked on the 2025 edition as an editor. She also has contributed articles to Truthout, The Progr...
Dec 17, 2024•43 min
In 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 Books. It draws from FBI records obtained through numerous freedom of information requests.
Nov 26, 2024•55 min
Host 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 discuss the continued secrecy by the CIA around their confinement, the men who remain indefinitely at the military prison, and the disreputable militar...
Nov 19, 2024•58 min
Host 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 who show interest in the ongoing war in Gaza. Gideon also addresses attacks on press freedom within Israel, such as the shutdown of Al Jazeera. He reca...
Oct 25, 2024•42 min
Matthew 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 that Rania Khalek had with CODEPINK about Israel's war on Lebanon. Rania started this show with host Kevin Gosztola back in 2014, and she's a longti...
Oct 06, 2024•1 hr
Norman 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 Spinning Us To Death." In 2023, Norman discussed the book on the podcast. But it was released before Israel launched its genocidal war on Palestinians in Ga...
Sep 24, 2024•50 min
The 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 and challenges for grassroots independent media is Lara Witt, the editor-in-chief for Prism, and Maya Schenwar, Truthout's editor-at-large. Both are c...
Sep 16, 2024•57 min
Host 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 history that involves the partnership that the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) had with the CIA, the...
Sep 02, 2024•54 min
Kevin 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 Laws and why the coalition is marching against the DNC. He also addresses the rich history of Chicago police attacking protesters and trampling on peo...
Aug 18, 2024•47 min
On 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 new Juan Guaidó. Cira Pascual Marquina joined the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss the Venezuela election and its aftermath. Cira is based ...
Aug 05, 2024•57 min•Season 11Ep. 15
The 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 for the Prison Policy Initiative. Wanda describes this development as the product of a "decades-long fight for prison and jail communication justice....
Jul 30, 2024•39 min•Season 11Ep. 15
On 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 violence against Palestinians in Gaza. They discuss becoming a part of a long tradition of U.S. military resistance and dissent. Both interviews were rec...
Jul 25, 2024•49 min•Season 11Ep. 14
This 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, and media organizations. David and Kevin describe the absurd nature of this list and particularly how it blames nearly 400 individuals and groups fo...
Jun 18, 2024•38 min•Season 11Ep. 13
On this week's podcast episode, David Beito, the author of The New Deal's War on the Bill of Rights: FDR's Concentration Camps, Censorship, and Mass Surveillance, joined the show to discuss his book. David is a history professor at the University of Alabama, and he spent 15 years researching and compiling archival materials for this thorough examination of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's attacks on civil liberties. During the interview, David describes how historical accounts tend to downp...
Jun 10, 2024•46 min•Season 11Ep. 10
You probably know that Kevin Gosztola spends a lot of his time covering the political case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Given that Assange was granted an appeal hearing (the first positive development in a long time), he invited London-based journalist Mohamed Elmaazi on the show. *BECOME A PATRON: Patreon.com/UnauthorizedDisclosure *BECOME A SUBSCRIBER: Go to TheDissenter.org/#/portal/signup Mohamed covered the latest Assange hearing at the British High Court of Justice for The Dis...
May 27, 2024•45 min•Season 11Ep. 9
In this free edition of the "Unauthorized Disclosure" weekly podcast, Kevin Gosztola talks with CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin and Ann Wright, a retired Army colonel and former State Department diplomat. Medea discusses CODEPINK's actions on Capitol Hill against U.S. support for Israel's war on Gaza. Ann offers an update on efforts to break the siege with the Freedom Flotilla. Both Medea and Ann respond to the propaganda coming from President Joe Biden's administration that justifies genocid...
May 22, 2024•1 hr•Season 11Ep. 8
For this episode of "Unauthorized Disclosure," Kevin Gosztola speaks with Khawla Nakua, an organizer with the National Writers Union (NWU) and a criminal justice reporter. Nakua joins the show to discuss a report from NWU called "Red Lines: retaliation in the media industry during the war on Gaza." The NWU "tracked 44 cases of retaliation that impacted more than 100 media workers, who are disproportionately people of color," according to the report. Retaliation has particularly impacted media wo...
May 15, 2024•44 min•Season 11Ep. 9
Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola interview Cuban journalist Liz Oliva Fernández about two documentaries that cover United States policy toward Cuba. Liz, who worked with Belly of the Beast on the films, obtained a visa to travel to the U.S. and confront the very politicians, who are behind the embargo and other measures that disproportionately impact Black Cubans. She spent time in Washington, D.C., and New Jersey, where she spoke to a number of everyday Americans about their attitudes toward Cub...
May 06, 2024•38 min•Season 11Ep. 6
On this week's "Unauthorized Disclosure," Kevin Gosztola interviews Greek economist and author Yanis Varoufakis about his new book, "Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism." Yanis argues that "Big Tech has replaced capitalism's twin pillars—markets and profit—with its platforms and [cloud] rents. With every click and scroll, we labor like serfs to increase its power." Later in the show, Yanis outlines the impact this economic transformation has had or may have on geopolitics. He discusses China...
Mar 04, 2024•55 min•Season 11Ep. 5
For this week's episode, journalist Patrick Winn, who has lived in Bangkok for 15 years, joined the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss his new book , "Narcotopia: In Search of the Asian Drug Cartel That Survived the CIA." Patrick is a correspondent for NPR's The World and specializes in reporting on black markets and rebellion in Southeast Asia. He gained special access to the Wa people, who are "among the most vilified people in Asia if not the world." The Wa established a nation stat...
Feb 19, 2024•54 min•Season 11Ep. 3
Former CIA officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou returns to the "Unauthorized Disclosure" weekly podcast to discuss President Joe Biden's administration making an example out of IRS whistleblower Charles Littlejohn, the "terrorism enhancement" applied against "Vault 7" leaker Joshua Schulte, and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's appeal hearing on February 20. *Full episode available by becoming a subscriber at TheDissenter.org or a patron at Patreon.com/UnauthorizedDisclosure...
Feb 19, 2024•44 min•Season 11Ep. 4
FREE PREVIEW OF FULL EPISODE AVAILABLE TO SUBSCRIBERS We kick the year off with a show regular, Matthew Hoh, who is a former Marine, former State Department official, and the associate director for the Eisenhower Media Network, discusses the US government's attacks on Yemenis and how the Israeli government's war on Gaza is expanding to a wider regional conflict.
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 11Ep. 1
Each year, Project Censored puts out a yearbook called "State of the Free Press" that contains a list of the top censored stories of the past year. It also assesses prevailing and troubling trends in the United States news media Mickey Huff, the director of Project Censored, and Andy Lee Roth, the associate director, join the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss their latest yearbook, which is available from their website at Project-Censored.org BECOME A SUBSCRIBER: Support the show and ...
Dec 19, 2023•33 min
In this free edited version of the weekly "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast, Kevin Gosztola speaks with Azadeh Shahshahani. Azadeh is the legal and advocacy director for Project South and a past president of the National Lawyers Guild. In our conversation, Azadeh discusses the deactivation of Palestinian activist or solidarity groups on university campuses, legal scholars and law students facing repercussions for speaking out in support of Palestinians, and the cruel indifference of the Biden ad...
Dec 11, 2023•38 min•Season 10Ep. 16
Andy Worthington, a journalist known for his work chronicling the inhumane and unjust detention of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay military prison, returns to the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast. He's also involved in the Close Guantanamo campaign, which supports monthly vigils demanding the release of prisoners approved for release and that the United States detention camps be shut down. *For early access to full episodes and exclusive content, subscribe at TheDissenter.org
Aug 28, 2023•40 min•Season 10Ep. 15
Note: This is not an episode of "Unauthorized Disclosure," but rather an interview that co-host Kevin Gosztola recorded that he is sharing with listeners of this podcast. Tom Mueller, journalist and author of Crisis of Conscience: Whistleblowing In An Age Of Fraud , continues his work covering whistleblowers with his latest book, How To Make A Killing: Blood, Death, And Dollars In American Medicine. The book details the monopolistic nature of dialysis corporations and how clinics or treatment ce...
Aug 18, 2023•1 hr•Season 10Ep. 14
Get early access to episodes by subscribing at TheDissenter.org Micah Herskind, an organizer and writer who has been based in Atlanta, joined the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to discuss the movement and the efforts by Mayor Andre Dickens and other Democrats to engage in voter suppression and prevent a public vote on "Cop City."
Aug 15, 2023•44 min•Season 10Ep. 13
In this week's "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast, Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola speak with Zoe Alexandra, a contributor with People's Dispatch . Zoe discusses the turmoil that has been unfolding around Guatemala's elections, and more.
Jul 14, 2023•41 min•Season 10Ep. 12
(Free edition) Norman Solomon, co-founder of RootsAction.org, joins the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast to talk about his new book , War Made Invisible: How America Hides The Human Toll Of Its Military Machine .
Jul 06, 2023•59 min•Season 10Ep. 11
Returning to the "Unauthorized Disclosure" weekly podcast, CIA whistleblower John Kiriakou helps Kevin Gosztola what will happen next to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Many believe extradition to the United States could be imminent. John also reflects on his mentor and friend Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died last week. John shares an incredible story about Ellsberg from 2016. It involves a PEN America awards ceremony in Beverly Hills and acclaimed director Francis Ford ...
Jun 25, 2023•47 min•Season 10Ep. 10
