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Defending Rights & Dissent

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Truthtelling can be an act of resistance. Join Defending Rights & Dissent policy director Chip Gibbons as he brings you the stories of whistleblowers and other truthtellers who expose civil liberties and human rights abuses committed under the guise of national security and the attempts to silence them.
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The world at war, thousands of miles away...but is the home front really safe? Follow the adventures of Helen Meeker, a special agent working for President Franklin Roosevelt to fight against Nazi espionage on American soil during World War II. Helen and her team must face an enemy that seems to lurk in every corner of the United States -- armed with diabolical technology, ruthless schemes, and a determination to overthrow all that is good. Armed with the support of a president and the dedic ...
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”Israel Lobby Damage Assessment” is a podcast of the Institute for Research Middle Eastern Policy. IRmep is a Washington-based nonprofit organization that studies US-Middle East policy formulation. Founded in 2002, IRmep is non-partisan and does not support or oppose candidates for public office. IRmep’s Center for Policy & Law files Freedom of Information Act requests and lawsuits to create warranted transparency and reveal the functions of government. It also examines how balanced and vigo ...
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Nerds Incoming

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Welcome to the Nerds Incoming podcast, where great things happen. We will have all kinds of topics from music, pop culture, all the way to Twitch streamers and gamers! You can also catch Nerds streaming live on Twitch in real time!
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Consortium News

Joe Lauria: Consortium News editor-in-chief and journalist

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Consortium News is the podcast for Consortiumnews.com, a home for important, well-reported stories that challenge the dominant mainstream news media of our day. We focus on international and domestic policies, as well as political and media developments in the United States and abroad. Consortium News was founded in 1995 as the first investigative news magazine on the internet by Robert Parry, one of the reporters who helped expose the Iran-Contra scandal for The Associated Press in the mid- ...
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How and why did a 25-year-old with a Pikachu bedspread become the #1 terrorist in the United States? In 2017, REALITY WINNER, a highly decorated former Air Force linguist was charged with leaking proof of Russian interference in the 2016 election to the media. Her goal – to help protect Democracy. Reality received the longest sentence ever imposed for unauthorized release of government information - five-years, three-months – for her patriotic efforts. THIS IS REALITY captures the unfolding ...
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Grant F. Smith, the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the influential American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Smith has written several books on AIPAC. which was started with $60 million in foreign funding, largely from Israel, but eluded U.S. efforts to register it as a foreign agent. While it's tre…
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On this January 18 episode of Corporations and Democracy Steve Scalmanini and Annie Esposito discussed "The Israel Lobby vs The Innocents of Gaza" with Norman Solomon, Executive Director of the Institute for Public Accuracy and author of “War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine” and twelve previous books, and Gr…
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It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Today's information war against individuals and media who do not adhere to the Western-government-enforced narrative on Ukraine is part of a long history in the U.S. of officially crushing dissent. With the advances of technology for both surveillance and censorship, we might…
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The West, led by the United States, declared economic war against Russia last month in response to the invasion of Ukraine, imposing perhaps the harshest sanctions against any nation in history. President Joe Biden has said that the aim of this economic warfare is to turn the Russian people against its government. Sanctions against Russia’s Central…
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Helen and the FBI find the person they think they're looking for, but has the real Reggie Fister eluded them again? The Meeker sisters return to Washington, where a shocking turn of events awaits them. The Long Highway Players will return for Season 3 of In The President's Service later in 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor…
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In this episode Nerds express that he is Jewish he is not going to get on board with anti Semitic nonsense and he finds it offensive that Christians are disguising themselves as Jews to try converting them to Christianity --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nerdsincoming/message…
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Helen fights the elements and armed crooks to rescue Ellen Shellmeyer. Lives are saved and lives are lost in upstate New York, as the series comes to a close with two other lives very much at stake. The Long Highway Players will be back in the second series from In the President's Service on June 15, 2023. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…
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Helen is torn between her dedication to saving Wilbur Shellmeyer's life and the romantic advances of Reggie Fister. She seeks help from at least one "higher authority" in discerning what to do. A call with her sister Allison reveals what may be the key to the entire mystery... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Helen and Henry elude an assassination attempt and get back to Washington. Helen has dinner with Reggie, who has more on his mind than a date. Nigel warns Helen not to trust Reggie, and Reggie warns Helen the same about Nigel. Helen comes face to face with Wilbur Shellmeyer to find out why he confessed to crimes he didn't commit. Hosted on Acast. S…
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Helen meets Nigel at a formal dinner, and shares in the shock of all present when they see Reggie Fister alive and well. Fister explains his escape from the Nazis. Helen and Henry go looking for Mrs. Shellmeyer, and find her frightened for her life and her husband's. On their return to Washington, Helen and Henry's car has major problems -- and the…
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Helen resolves the hostage issue at the bank and helps the robbers find what they think they're looking for. On the way to Georgia, Helen and Henry reminisce about their past, and Helen gives Henry a project. They meet with Sheriff Brice Johnson in Shady Grove, where Johnson agrees to help them exhume a body from the local cemetery -- and Henry bre…
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In occupied France during World War II, a British squad comes under fire and must leave its commander behind. Back in Washington, Helen Meeker asks President Roosevelt for permission to investigate a suspicious case -- but also gets assigned a task she'd rather not have. An emergency arises, and Helen races to downtown Washington to assist the FBI …
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60 years ago today, the Senate uncovered $60 million in Israeli and foreign seed money had been laundered into the US to set up AIPAC. What really happened and what has been the impact? Grant F. Smith gives an overview of the 1963 Senate investigation of Jewish Agency money laundering into the US, why the Senate Foreign Relations Committee investig…
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James Bamford’s new book Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs, and the Collapse of America’s Counterintelligence devotes nine chapters to the impunity of Israel, its spies and U.S. lobby. Bamford is best known as America’s premiere chronicler of the ultra-secretive National Security Agency in his books The Puzzle Palace and The Shadow Factory. …
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On Friday explosive news broke that China had successfully concluded a secret peace agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia. The plan aims to restore diplomatic relations by reopening embassies within two months. They also agree to restart their April 2001 Security Cooperation. Also back on the front burner is a 1998 General Agreement covering econ…
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2024 will mark the fourth decade since AIPAC and the Israeli Minister of Economics stole classified American industry data to aid passage of America’s worst bilateral trade deal. Among all bilateral “Free Trade Agreements” (NAFTA and CAFTA are multilateral) the 1985 U.S. Israel deal has produced the highest inflation adjusted cumulative merchandise…
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The Israeli company Energix Renewable Energies has been lavishly subsidized by U.S. solar energy tax credits and the cadmium telluride solar panel manufacturer First Solar. But Energix has also been listed by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights as a category g human rights violator over its resource theft in the Israeli occupied West Bank and…
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The ADL has been trying to liaise with the FBI by offering ADL investigators as informants, offering to exchange files to “avoid duplication of investigation” and “train” FBI and law enforcement personnel since the 1940s. What have been the negative consequences for human rights activists? IRmep presents findings from years of Freedom of Informatio…
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Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III was the perfect keynote speaker at the January 10, 2023 AIPAC Political Leadership Forum. Austin prioritizes Israeli over American defense priorities, advocates illegal land grabs that benefit Israel, inserts Israel into places it does not belong, and uses cultish, reverential language. Most important, he is…
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2022 US Middle East policy review and 2023 forecast. US Middle East policy continued its downward spiral in 2022. The president and Congress aided and abetted illegal Israeli objectives over better policies preferred by overwhelming majorities of American voters. In poll after poll, Americans have signaled they would like to cut U.S. foreign aid to…
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Micah Lee, a computer security engineer who develops technology to protect whistleblowers, gives his unique thoughts in this episode. He shares why he believes whistleblowers are important to our democracy and how the Espionage Act of 1917 reveals the imbalance in the American justice system. MICAH LEE - BIO Micah Lee is First Look Media’s Director…
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Journalists Marcy Wheeler and Joe Conason share their thoughts on the documents seized by the FBI at Mar A Lago and how Trump could potentially face charges under the Espionage Act, the same charge Reality was brought under. GUEST BIOS Joe Conason is editor-at-large of Type Investigations. He is also founder and editor-in-chief of The National Memo…
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Journalists Trevor Timm and Kevin Gosztola explore why Reality’s case highlights a larger conversation about why freedom of the press is essential to democracy, connecting the dots with Russia’s war on Ukraine. Visit bpn.fm/ThisIsReality for more info, to sign Reality's petition for clemency, and to get tickets to any productions of Is This A Room.…
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In this podcast episode I talk to Zachary Smith and Zach Carpenter from T.E.A. Little Rock AR local punk band that's making big moves with Professional sound and an energetic act on stage these dudes are dropping bangers and hitting the road with new raw talent the punk scene needs --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…
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Journalists Trevor Timm and Kevin Gosztola explore why Reality’s case highlights a larger conversation about why freedom of the press is essential to democracy. Reality’s lawyer Alison Grinter Allen adds a legal perspective. Visit bpn.fm/ThisIsReality for more info, to sign Reality's petition for clemency, and to get tickets to any productions of I…
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Apologies for the audio dropout in Joe Lauria's introduction. This is what he said: "The Russian intervention in Ukraine is now one week old and the situation on the ground is subject to an information war that makes it hard to assess what is happening. Western media is saying that things are going badly for Russia, while Russian President Vladimir…
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As a ruling by the High Court in London is imminent in the U.S. appeal seeking to overturn an order not to extradite imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, we look at the High Court's options and examine the parallel history of the U.K. Official Secrets Act and the U.S. Espionage Act, under which Assange has been charged. Our guests are Jam…
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"Doctors for Assange began writing to governments in late 2019 warning that Julian Assange was in a fragile state of health, and could die in prison. We have repeatedly called for his release on urgent medical grounds. Since then, medical experts who examined Julian Assange testified in court to the seriousness of his medical condition. They explai…
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Acclaimed journalist and filmmaker John Pilger on the changes that have come over Palestine since the making of his film ‘Palestine is Still the Issue’, released in 1974 & 2002. We will start by screening the film. The past two decades have seen an extreme turn to the right in Israeli politics with grave consequences for Palestine and its quest for…
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There have been two dramatic developments in the U.S. case against imprisoned WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange within the past two weeks. The Icelandic newsmagazine Stundin on June 26 revealed that a key U.S. witness in the indictment of Assange for conspiracy to commit computer intrusion had changed his story. And on Wednesday the High Court in …
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New CN Live! host John Kiriakou invites Richard Becker, author of the book 'Palestine, Israel and the U.S. Empire' and West Coast Coordinator for the Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, to discuss the situation in Gaza. Journalist Kevin Gosztola will update us on the plight of drone whistleblower Daniel Hale; and Rights Defense C…
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With Margaret Kimberley from 'Black Agenda Report' and Garland Nixon, political analyst, talk show host and former police officer. They will discuss what the Chauvin verdict means moving forward in the big picture and Democrats exploiting the situation for their political ends. Can racism be "ended" as politicians suggest? Is it enough to punish it…
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