The Unfettered Speech Podcast

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 Wh

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,

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 e

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,

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 s

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 Pe

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 a

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

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 “tru

“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 ho

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 fr

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 w

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 unpa

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 wh

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 sur

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

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 n

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

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

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 wa