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In this wide-ranging discussion, Prem Thakker, a reporter at Zeteo News, examines questions surrounding Bari Weiss’s media influence, her public stance on free speech, and allegations of selective censorship within legacy news organizations. Thakker also discusses the unaired 60 Minutes segment on Venezuelan migrants deported to El Salvador’s CECOT prison, including footage that CBS declined to broadcast.
The program then turns to Pakistan, where Dr. Moeed Pirzada, a British-Pakistani geopolitical analyst living in exile in Washington, D.C., provides an update on the sentencing of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, the government crackdown on dissent, and the role of Pakistan’s military leadership amid international pressure.
In the final segment, Due Dissidence co-host Russ Dobular joins the show to analyze what the recently released Epstein files reveal — and what remains obscured — as well as how accusations and media narratives are used to manage public perception.
The conversation explores the intersections of media power, political repression, and elite impunity across the United States and abroad.
Katie Halper
Katie Halper is a writer, filmmaker and host from and based in New York City. She is the host of the podcast, YouTube show and WBAI radio show “The Katie Halper Show,” and po-Host of the podcast and YouTube show “Useful Idiots.” Katie was first censored by The Hill TV and then fired from its morning broadcast, “Rising,” after writing a monologue in which she stood up for US Representative Rashida Tlaib and stated that Israel was, indeed, an apartheid state. She is currently working on a documentary about Jewish Holocaust survivors speaking out against the genocide in Gaza and is is the director of the forthcoming award-winning documentary “Commie Camp”, about Camp Kinderland, a summer camp founded by secular Jewish socialists in the 1920s which still exists. She was the recipient of the Women’s Institute for Freedom of the Press’s Women and Media Award in 2022, and the American Muslims for Palestine’s Leadership Annual Award in 2023.
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