Marc Steiner

“It's really a bit of a clown show… I think the US administration is quite committed to brokering this ceasefire with Iran, but Israel will not allow for it”

“People think that there's a ceasefire and it's over, but it's not,” Sharif Abdel Kouddous of DropSite News tells us. “We can't normalize what happened. We can't start talking about peace and reconstruction. There has to be accountability, otherwise this will go on forever.”

Journalist Michael Fox examines the past and present of US intervention and revolutionary resistance in Central America.

“American Jews and Jews in general are safer in countries where everybody is treated equally under the law,” Peter Beinart tells TRNN. “The principle of Jewish supremacy, and Christian supremacy, and Hindu supremacy, and Islamic supremacy—all of those things are wrong.”

“[Israeli] settlers have continued their attacks since the beginning of March. 13 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank during settler raids on Palestinian villages, some of them by civilians, some of them by settlers who serve in the army.”

“For the first time in my life I'm contemplating the physical end of Palestine. That's something I never, ever thought would happen.”

“These journalists and these editorial boards—they need to be held accountable… I have fantasies of somebody holding my book at the Hague and calling out the media at the International Court of Justice.”

From abolitionists to muckrakers, civil rights organizers to student activists, many communities have carried the banner for free speech and demanded that their voices be heard. This is Episode 2 of The Battle for Free Speech.

Trump and his allies are rolling out censorship in the name of free speech through the deployment of media mergers, social media, and AI. This is Episode 3 of The Battle for Free Speech podcast.

“You have to do everything to not let go of power, and you have to make it seem like everything that will happen—the killings, the kidnappings—are all being done by the communists.”