Episodes
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EP59: Is Journalism Dead? with Jonathan Alter
One decision can wipe out a decade of diplomacy and one crisis can bury a lifetime of competence. We sit down with journalist, author, and longtime Newsweek editor Jonathan Alter to wrestle with the Carter paradox: a president who delivers historic foreign policy achievements and still becomes a...
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EP:58 - Jim Webb : What If Diplomacy Is The Only Real Defense?
The fastest way to lose a war is to tell yourself you can’t lose one. We sit down with Jim Webb, a Marine Corps veteran, journalist, and independent podcast host, to unpack how America’s forever wars are sustained by incentives that reward career safety, defense contractor profits, and message...
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EP:56. Maureen Weston : The New Rules of Sports: Gambling, NIL, and the End of Amateurism
Sports used to be the escape. Now it is also a frictionless marketplace where you can bet on almost anything, anytime, from a phone in your pocket. We talk with Professor Maureen Weston, a nationally recognized expert in sports law, arbitration, and dispute resolution, to unpack how we got here…
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EP:57 Unfettered Speech: The Conversations They Don't Want You To Hear
Patrick Sullivan and Leonard Goodman host this Unfettered Speech Podcast episode covering the latest current events. When our scheduled guest was sidelined by a hurricane, we decided to keep the show moving. This episode is an unscripted conversation between the two of us, allowing us to speak...
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EP:55 Michael Farris : How Groupthink Becomes The Deep State
“Who is they?” sounds like a throwaway line until you try to answer it out loud. We sit down with Michael Farris, host of Coffee and a Mike, to get specific about what people mean by “the deep state” and why it often looks less like a secret board meeting and more like institutional groupthink:...
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EP:54 Katie Halper - When "Safety" Becomes The Most Dangerous Word
“Never again” is supposed to be a universal warning, but it’s increasingly used as a political weapon. We sit down with writer, podcaster, and filmmaker Katie Halper to talk about her documentary Never Again, which follows Holocaust survivors who are protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and rejecting...
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EP: 53 - William (Bill) Black - The Real Reason Banks Fail
You can’t understand the 2008 crash until you understand the scam that came before it and why it kept coming back. We sit down with William K. Black, former federal bank regulator, leading expert on financial fraud, and author of The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One, to map the through-line...
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EP:52 Melissa Witte 'The Village Crazy Lady' - How Christian Zionism Grew into a Foreign Policy Force
Scripture gets quoted on the campaign trail like it’s a strategy memo and that should make every citizen, religious or not, pause. We talk with returning guest Melissa Whittier (known online as the Village Crazy Lady) about her new research series on the history of Christian Zionism and why it...
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EP:50 - Jenin Younes : Journalist Max Blumenthal detained by CPD. Younes on the case!
Free speech in the United States is often celebrated as a settled principle, but this conversation shows how quickly the First Amendment gets bent when fear, geopolitics, and executive power collide. Civil liberties attorney Jenin Younes describes a “Palestinian exception” to free speech, where...
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Steven Donziger : How An Oil Giant Turned A Lawsuit Into A Weapon
Steven Donziger joins the Unfettered Speech Podcast to lay out a modern environmental justice and corporate accountability saga that begins in the Ecuadorian Amazon and ends in a New York courtroom. He describes representing roughly 30,000 Indigenous and farmer villagers who say Chevron, after...
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Patrick Henningsen : Inside Iran: The Story Western Media Won't Tell
The Unfettered Speech Podcast sits down with journalist Patrick Henningson of 21st Century Wire for a wide-ranging conversation about the US-Iran war narrative, blowback, and how modern conflicts get sold to the public. We start with a big historical question: is Washington walking into a…
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Populist Pushback And Progressive Pitfalls. / Anya Parampil Exposes the Free Speech Trap
A country can survive a coup attempt or survive sanctions, but what happens when a catastrophic earthquake hits at the exact moment state capacity is at its weakest? We sit down with journalist Anya Parampil to trace how Venezuela’s double earthquake turns into a high-stakes geopolitical opening,...
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Omali Yeshitela: From FBI Raids to Censorship: The Cost of Speaking Out
Neutral journalism is a comforting myth until you ask who it protects. We sit down with Omali Yeshitela, political activist, author, and longtime leader of the African People Socialist Party, to trace how Black journalism has functioned as a tool of liberation rather than a referee for “both...
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UnchainedTV: Jane Velez-Mitchell's Free Speech Mission
The fastest way to understand what our media system rewards is to watch which stories never get finished. Veteran journalist Jane Velez-Mitchell joins us to explain why animal rights reporting so often disappears unless activists “get naked or get arrested,” and why she believes that kind of...
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Alan MacLeod : The AI Security State, When Big Tech Merges With Government Power
AI is starting to look less like a helpful tool and more like a new layer of governance: it can rank what you see, summarize what you’re “allowed” to know, and accelerate decisions that used to require human judgment. We sit down with investigative journalist Alan McLeod (MintPress News) to trace...
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Kevin Gosztola : The Whistleblower’s Dilemma
War lies do not spread on their own. They move through incentives: access, career safety, secrecy laws, and a media culture that treats “official” as synonymous with “true.” We sit down with Chicago independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, editor of The Dissenter and author of *Guilty of…
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“Don’t platform dissidents.” He did it anyway. Tucker Carlson on Free Speech and Independent Media.
You can feel when a society loses its ability to talk and starts reaching for labels instead. Unfettered Speech brings on Tucker Carlson for a frank conversation about how he went from the top of corporate news to independent media, and why the most punished questions are often the most important...
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EP:41 [Guest] Wyatt Reed : A Week In Iran And Two Weeks Under Bombs In Lebanon
A ceasefire that gets violated every day isn’t a ceasefire, and that’s where our conversation starts. We’re joined by Wyatt Reed, an editor at The Grayzone, calling in from Beirut after spending about a week reporting inside Iran. He walks us through what he’s seeing in Lebanon right now: ongoing...
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EP:40 [Guest] Melissa Witte "The Village Crazy Lady" - Follow The Money!
American politics isn’t just polarized, it’s profitable. We sit down with Melissa Witte (known online as Village Crazy Lady) to pull on the thread that connects forever wars, lobby power, and the strange reality that “safe” politicians still raise mountains of cash they don’t need to win. If…
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E:39 - [Guest] Trevor Timm : If Truth Can Be Prosecuted What Comes Next?
A single phrase can shut down scrutiny: national security. We sit down with Trevor Timm, co-founder and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, to unpack how the modern secrecy system works in practice and why it so often protects power instead of the public. From...
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EP:38: Prof. Richard Wolff: What Happens When The World Stops Trusting The Dollar
The US dollar doesn’t just buy things, it buys time and power. We sit down with economist Richard Wolff to unpack the real mechanics behind reserve currency status and why it has allowed the United States to run massive national debt, import oceans of goods, and finance wars without asking...
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EP:37 [Guest] Matt Johnson : Inside America’s Beagle Testing Pipeline And The Fight To Rescue Them
A court finds probable cause for felony animal cruelty, the public shows up to help, and the response is riot police, rubber bullets, and tear gas. That’s the reality surrounding Ridgeland Farms, a major beagle breeding and testing facility in Wisconsin, and it raises an unsettling question: what...
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EP:36 [GUEST] Aaron Maté. : When Propaganda Gets Sloppy The Truth Leaks Out
A ceasefire gets announced, markets breathe for a second, and then Lebanon is hit like the deal never existed. That’s where our conversation with investigative journalist Aaron Maté begins, because the details aren’t a sideshow, they’re the whole story. We walk through what was said publicly…
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EP:35 [GUEST] Daniel McAdams - How War Narratives Are Built And Sold
You’re not “misinformed” you’re being managed. Daniel McAdams breaks down how color revolutions work, who funds them, and why the same playbook shows up at home. Listen now and tell us: what tipped you off first? War doesn’t just happen overseas, it gets built at home through incentives,...
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EP:34 [GUEST] Michael Farris of 'Coffee and a Mike'
Something feels off in the air again, the same slow-motion pressure that preceded lockdowns in 2020, except the trigger now is war, energy, and supply chains. We sit down with Mike Farris from the ‘Coffee and a Mike’ podcast and try to name what so many people sense but can’t quite pin down: the...
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EP:33 [Guest] Ali Abunimah of Electronic Intifada - When Free Speech Becomes A Border Crime
The headlines rarely explain how displacement actually works, so we asked Ali Abunimah to spell it out. From Jordan, the Electronic Intifada founder walks us through what he reports on the ground in the West Bank: settler violence, military restrictions, and a paper trail of “state land” claims...
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EP:32 [GUEST] Karen Gadbois - How To Build A Local Investigative Newsroom
A lot of people say they want “accountability,” but they don’t want the paperwork, the pushback, or the long, exhausting recovery years when the real deals get cut. We wanted to talk to someone who has done that work anyway, so we invited Karen Gabois, the founder of The Lens, a nonprofit...
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EP:31 [GUEST] Trita Parsi : Inside The Iran Conflict: Misjudgment, Sanctions, And Shifting Goals
A war without a map is a war that makes its own weather. We sat down with Trita Parsi to unpack how a cascade of bad assumptions, breathless narratives, and wishful thinking turned a coercive gambit into an open-ended conflict with Iran—one where objectives, talking points, and timelines keep...
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EP:30 - [GUEST] COL. Jacques Baud: Sanctioned For Analysis: A Colonel’s Fight With EU Censorship
A Swiss colonel sits down with us and lays out a chilling reality: one morning you can speak, the next you can’t bank. Jacques Baud, a former strategic intelligence analyst and UN mediator, explains how the EU sanctioned him for his public analysis of the Russia–Ukraine war—without charges,...
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EP:29 [GUEST] Jimmy Dore : Mask Off: Power, Media, And Medicare For All
Leverage only matters if you use it. We sit down with Jimmy Dore to revisit Force the Vote, the moment progressives could have withheld support for Nancy Pelosi to demand a Medicare for All floor vote during the peak of COVID. The goal wasn’t guaranteed passage—it was sunlight, debate, and a roll...
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P:28 [GUEST] - Max Blumenthal - Inside Iran & The Gaza "Master Plan"
Power doesn’t just move through parliaments and battlefields; it flows through boardrooms, data centers, and media brands. We dig into a glossy “master plan” for Gaza unveiled in the Davos orbit—an investment pitch that rebrands occupation as redevelopment, with coastal resorts and AI...
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EP:27 [GUEST] Ben Freeman - Inside America’s Trillion Dollar War Machine
What do we actually buy when we spend a trillion dollars on the Pentagon? Ben Freeman, director at the Quincy Institute and co-author of The Trillion Dollar War Machine, joins us to track the cash, the influence, and the narratives that keep America on a war footing while everyday security slips…
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EP:26 [GUEST] : Gabriel Shipton - When Governments Fear Speech, People Find Their Voice
A prison visit changed everything. Gabe Shipton walked into Belmarsh as a filmmaker and left as a brother on a mission, determined to fight the dehumanization of Julian Assange and defend the future of journalism. What followed was a masterclass in narrative warfare, grassroots organizing, and…
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EP:25 [GUEST] - LtCOL. Karen Kwiatkowski - Year-End Reality Check and what's next in 2026?
Year-end reflections tend to blur optimism and fatigue, and this conversation makes that line painfully clear. The promises attached to a noninterventionist reset—troop withdrawals, constitutional restraint, and a focus on domestic renewal—collide with a year marked by ad hoc tariffs, confused...
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EP:24: [GUEST] Dr. Robert Malone : Censorship, Vaccines, And The Battle Over Public Trust
What if the rules of public health were rewritten by advertising money and platform levers rather than open debate? We sit down with Dr. Robert Malone to unpack how information control, corporate pressure, and crisis messaging collided with science across 2020–2022—and what that means for medical...
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EP:23 [GUEST] Chas Freeman - We Forgot How To Negotiate And Keep Paying For It
Power doesn’t persuade on its own—people do. Ambassador Chas Freeman joins us for a rare, unflinching look at how the United States drifted from negotiation to coercion, swapped empathy for slogans, and ended up trapped in conflicts with no off-ramps. We dig into the mechanics of real diplomacy,...
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EP:22 [GUEST] John Kiriakou : Inside The CIA: Torture, Coverups, And Consequences
He told the truth about CIA torture—and went to prison. Hear John Kiriakou explain why “official channels” failed, how secrecy is weaponized, and what blowback really looks like. Listen/Watch now and tell us: should the CIA even exist? If the guardrails are the problem, where do you turn for the...
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EP:21 [GUEST] Glenn Greenwald - Whistleblowers, Independent Voices, and Shifting Power
Imagine watching the gate swing open after decades of being told the path was closed. That’s what the information landscape feels like right now, and Glenn Greenwald joins us to chart how it happened—and why the old guard is scrambling to bolt it shut again. We trace the journey from early…
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EP:20 [GUEST] Rod Blagojevich - From Wiretaps To Warrants The Blagojevich Case Unpacked
A senator’s seat opens, the phones are tapped, and a single line—“this is fucking golden”—becomes the headline that swallows the story. We sit down with former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich to unpack the wiretaps, the legal standards around campaign contributions, and the policy trade he says...
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EP:19 [GUEST] Matt Smith : Debt, War, And The Price Of Stability. What is “institution-speak” ?
Your grocery bill isn’t just a headache—it’s a signal. We sit down with financial analyst and entrepreneur Matt Smith to unpack a hard truth: the U.S. debt load is on a parabolic path, and the most likely political solution is to inflate it away. What does that mean for the dollar, your wages…
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EP:18 [GUEST] Matthew Hoh - The Marine Who Walked Away from America’s Forever Wars
A Marine-turned-diplomat who walked away on principle, Matt Hoh joins us to pull apart two decades of war, myth, and money. He takes us inside the Iraq “surge,” arguing it wasn’t counterinsurgency wizardry but a political settlement that finally addressed Sunni grievances and severed ties with...
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EP:17 [GUEST] Alex Christoforou : How EU Missteps, Sanctions, And War Policy Are Unraveling The West
Europe keeps choosing spectacle over strategy, and the bill is coming due. We sit down with Alex Christoforou of The Duran to unpack how a string of elite decisions—seizing Nexperia, betting on shock-and-awe sanctions, flirting with Tomahawk escalation—has triggered supply chain chaos, legal...
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EP:16 [GUEST] Robert Scheer on Gaza, Free Speech, and the Fate of the Left
Peace rarely arrives with a parade. We invited Robert Scheer—journalist, editor, and stubbornly independent voice for six decades—to help us make sense of the Gaza ceasefire and the forces that could make it stick or snap. He doesn’t sugarcoat the damage: an occupation born in 1967 hardened into…
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EP:15 [GUEST] Kelley Vlahos - Weapons, Wealth & Washington
What if the loudest “experts” on foreign policy are funded by the very industries that profit from endless war? We sit down with Kelley Vlahos, Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute and Editorial Director at Responsible Statecraft, to trace the money, status, and narratives that keep Washington…
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EP:14 From Maritime Worker to Anti-War Journalist: Dave DeCamp's Journey
Dave DeCamp, News Editor at Antiwar.com and host of the Antiwar News podcast, takes us behind the carefully constructed narratives that drive American foreign policy and perpetuate endless wars across the globe. What begins as Dave's personal journey from maritime worker to anti-war journalist...
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EP:12 [GUEST] Glenn Diesen : Why Peace Advocates Face Censorship
What happens when a society refuses to entertain alternative perspectives on war? Glenn Diesen, a Norwegian professor of international relations, has experienced this firsthand as he faces relentless attacks for advocating diplomatic solutions to the Ukraine conflict. The war in Ukraine has…
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EP:13 - From Fox News to Judging Freedom: Judge Napolitano's Media Revolution
What happens when one of America's most respected judicial minds breaks free from mainstream media constraints? Judge Andrew Napolitano's journey from Fox News analyst to independent media powerhouse reveals the startling limitations of corporate news and the hunger for authentic discourse in...
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EP:11 [GUEST] - Scott Horton : The Anti-War Voice
Anti-war activist Scott Horton pulls back the curtain on how America got locked into its cycle of endless wars—and the political shifts that made it possible. He shares his own political awakening during the first Gulf War, then connects the dots through decades of U.S. militarism that still…
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EP:10 [GUEST] Max Blumenthal : Genocide in Slow Motion
What happens when one of America’s boldest investigative journalists pulls back the curtain on what he calls “one of the most propagandized societies in human history”? On this episode of the Unfettered Speech podcast, Max Blumenthal joins us to talk about what he witnessed firsthand while living...
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EP:9 - [GUEST] James Howard Kunstler - The Fabric of America Is Coming Apart
EP:9 - [GUEST] James Howard Kunstler - The Fabric of America Is Coming Apart American society is unraveling — and we can’t even agree on what’s happening, let alone why. In this thought-provoking interview, Patrick Sullivan and Luis Diaz-Perez sit down with acclaimed author and social critic…
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