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/ March 23, 2014 / 6 Comments

Podcast: British Citizens Are Being Stripped Of Citizenship, Then Killed In US Drone Strikes

This week marks our 10th episode of Unauthorized Disclosure. To celebrate, Kevin Gosztola and I spoke with independent journalist Aviva Stahl about her killer piece at The Nation on how the UK is stripping dual citizens of their British citizenship in an arbitrary and secretive process called citizenship deprivation. Some of those subjected to citizen deprivation, […]

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Civil Liberties, Drone Strikes, News, Racism, two-teired justice, Unauthorized Disclosure, war on terror
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/ March 16, 2014 / 2 Comments

Podcast: Oakland Spy Center Has Setback (Yay!), Drone Strikes From Yemen to Gaza And CIA Torture

For this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure, my co-host Kevin Gosztola spoke with Nadia Kayyali, an activist with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, about the Domain Awareness Center (DAC), a surveillance hub being constructed in Oakland, California. (I was traveling last week, so I was unable to participate in the interview portion, but listen to it anyway!) Funded by […]

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/ March 9, 2014 / 7 Comments

Podcast: US-Installed Iraqi Government Is Slaughtering Civilians In Fallujah With US Arms

On this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure, Kevin Gosztola and I interviewed Truthout staff reporter Dahr Jamail about his latest article on the ongoing crisis in Fallujah, where the US-installed Iraqi government headed by Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is slaughtering civilians. Jamail, one of the only American journalists still reporting on Iraq, highlights the parallels […]

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/ March 2, 2014 / 8 Comments

What US Media Isn't Telling You About The Protests In Venezuela

On this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure, Kevin Gosztola and I speak with Eva Golinger—an American-Venezuelan lawyer and author of The Chavez Code—about what the US media isn’t telling you concerning the protests in Venezuela. While the protesters we’ve been hearing so much about certainly have legitimate grievances, says Golinger, the opposition leaders at the […]

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/ February 23, 2014 / 2 Comments

Podcast: Jordan Davis, Colorblind Prosecutions And 'Presumed Guiltiness of Black Bodies'

On this week’s episode of Unauthorized Disclosure, Kevin Gosztola and I speak with independent journalist and filmmaker Raven Rakia about the Michael Dunn verdict, Jordan Davis’ defiance of respectability politics, the lack of outrage over police killings, and how structural and implicit racism work together to perpetuate what Raven calls the “presumed guiltiness of black […]

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/ February 16, 2014 / Leave a comment

Podcast: Nima Shirazi On Iran's Nuclear Deal, Decades Of Propaganda And AIPAC's Massive Fail

We finally have a name! Kevin Gosztola and I have decided to call our podcast, now into its fifth episode, Unauthorized Disclosure. It has a nice “fuck the system” ring to it, don’t you think? This week we speak with US foreign policy analyst Nima Shirazi about three decades of propaganda surrounding Iran’s nuclear program, the harm […]

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