Unauthorized Disclosure

Unauthorized Disclosure

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Unauthorized Disclosure episodes

  • Mike Prysner Of 'Empire Files' On Red Hill Leaks And US Navy Poisoning Water In Hawaii

    For the last episode of 2021, Mike Prysner, a producer for "Empire Files," joins Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola to share his reporting on the Red Hill fuel leaks at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii.   


    Fuel tanks once again leaked petroleum and threatened the water supply of surrounding communities. The leaks poisoned military and non-military people, who rely on the same water. It is a problem that goes back decades and has likely resulted in hundreds of thousands of gallons of fuel leaking into the water since World War II.   

    Mike describes meeting with people impacted by the pollution and what indigenous communities are doing to fight back. He outlines the lies the U.S. Navy are telling Hawaiians and why they think they can get away with not shutting down the tanks, as even city officials in Honolulu are demanding.   

    Later in the show, Mike comments on U.S. sanctions in Afghanistan and links it back to the suffering unfolding in communities nearby by the Pearl Harbor-Hickam military base.

    1 hr 6 min
  • Highlights From Rania Khalek's Reporting In Ethiopia, High Court Moves Assange Closer To Extradition

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    Rania Khalek was in Ethiopia with a Breakthrough News team, and we look forward to bringing you an episode in the next week or so that digs into what she witnessed and uncovered about the conflict and violence and destruction by the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

    But we still wanted you to have an episode so this week Kevin Gosztola highlights some of Rania's reporting that she managed to share. He also shares some of his commentary on the British High Court decision, which granted the US government's appeal and moved WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange closer to extradition.

    39 min
  • Zoe Alexandra On Honduras Election and Struggle To End US-Backed 'Narcodictatorship'

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    Zoe Alexandra, a journalist with People's Dispatch, joins the show to discuss the election in Honduras, where left-wing presidential campaign of Xiomara Castro triumphed at the polls.  

    Going back to 2009, the United States backed a coup that forced President Manuel Zelaya out of power.
    The U.S. backed a fraudulent election in 2017. His wife, Xiomara, won in a free and fair election that somewhat astonishingly is not being contested by the U.S. government. That likely reflects just how corrupt and terrible 12 years of right-wing National Party rule has been for the people of Honduras.  

    Zoe describes the deeply entrenched problems fueled by outgoing President Juan Orlando Hernandez and the role of the U.S. in making the root causes of poverty and violence worse through neoliberal exploitation, expansion of policing, and militarization of the country.

    43 min
  • Radical Comedian Krish Mohan On Comedy In The Age Of Biden

    Krish Mohan, a radical comedian and the creator of "Road Reflections" and "Taboo Table Talk," joins Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola to talk about his work producing political comedy. We discuss how comedy actually got worse under Donald Trump and what it is like now with President Joe Biden.   


    Later in the show, Krish describes some of the topics he covers in his comedy, and the conversation veers into identity, representation, stereotypes, and people who disrupt comedians while they're on stage.

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    1 hr 5 min
  • Interview With Australian War Crimes Whistleblower David McBride On Afghanistan (Free Edition)

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    David McBride is a former military lawyer in the Royal Australia Regiment and Australia Special Forces. He completed two tours in Afghanistan and submitted an internal complaint against what he witnessed in the war. He immediately faced scrutiny and harassment.

    A few years later, David found journalists with the Australia Broadcasting Corporation who were willing to listen to him. They were interested in classified documents that showed the reality of Australia’s involvement in the war.

    What David had to reveal was published as “The Afghan Files.” It was a “quite a big story in Australia,” according to him. But the Australia government responded by raiding the ABC and targeting David with a prosecution for an espionage offense.

    In this episode from the “Unauthorized Disclosure” podcast, which Kevin Gosztola typically co-hosts with Rania Khalek, Kevin speaks with David about his deployments to Afghanistan. He shares his view on how the last several weeks, as the United States withdrew forces and then mounted an unprecedented evacuation effort with a mostly cooperative Taliban.

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    58 min
  • Human Rights Attorney Steven Donziger On Two Years Of House Arrest, Chevron's Lawfare, And A Push For New Trial

    Human rights attorney Steven Donziger joins the "Unauthorized Disclosure" weekly podcast to talk with Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola about the push for a new trial in the corrupt Chevron-backed case against him.     


    Steven was involved in a lawsuit that won (and was supposed to award) the indigenous people of Ecuador, who were victims of oil pollution, millions of dollars. Chevron turned around and targeted Steven, and this lawfare has been unfolding for over a decade.     

    He'll mark two years on house arrest on August 6 with rallies demanding his freedom and end to this corporate co-optation of the U.S. judicial system.

    50 min
  • Afghanistan War: US Military Withdrawal Is Sad End To Loathsome Occupation

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    Joining the "Unauthorized Disclosure" podcast this week is Ann Wright and Matthew Hoh.     

    Ann is a retired U.S. Army colonel and State Department diplomat who was part of the small team that reopened the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan in December 2001. She eventually resigned in protest against the Iraq War. Matthew served in the Marine Corps in the Iraq War and later worked for the State Department. He resigned from the State Department in protest against the Afghanistan War in 2009.     

    Hosts Rania Khalek and Kevin Gosztola discuss in great detail what led up to the U.S. military's withdrawal from Afghanistan.  Ann and Matthew respond to the panic around the Taliban and what will happen now that U.S. military forces are leaving. They speak about the sadness of what Afghans have endured and what is likely to come for them in the years ahead.   

    They also contemplate what the war will look like now without U.S. military forces on the ground in the Afghanistan.  

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    1 hr 19 min
  • Declassified UK's Matt Kennard On British Security State, Attacks On Journalism, And Latest In Assange Case

    Matt Kennard, journalist and head of investigations for Declassified UK, returns to the podcast to discuss some of his recent reporting on the British security state. He also responds to latest developments in the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.  


    He discusses how his media organization was blacklisted by the Ministry of Defense and highlights a report published at Declassified UK on the British anti-crime agency that trained Colombia's repressive police.  

    Matt also talks about documents Declassified UK obtained that show the British government "sought, in 2000, to integrate [Vladimir] Putin’s Russia into the Western-ruled economic system."  

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    1 hr 7 min

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