On this edition of Parallax Views, drone whistleblower Daniel Hale is about to face sentencing under the Espionage Act.  Since the recording of this episode Daniel has been sentenced to 45 months in prison. Hale blew the whistle on U.S. drone program under conscientious grounds. Now he faces  9 years or more imprison f

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak about the dystopian show trial going on against political prisoner Julian Assange with journalist Kevin Gosztola, who is covering the UK court hearings to potentially extradite the WikiLeaks publisher to the US. We discuss the major threat this case poses to the freedom of the press

ep 225 is here https://www.patreon.com/join/thekatiehalpershow/signup?ru=%2Fjoin%2Fthekatiehalpershow%2Fcheckout%3Frid%3D881089%26 Rania Khalek & Kevin Gosztola join us to discuss the first of the July Democratic Debates. Find the rest of our debate commentary at Patreon.com/TheKatieHalperShow

Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of editor of Shadowproof. We talked about his article on the FCC under Ajit Pai relaxing the rules on cross-media ownership, and Kevin mentioned in particular this piece by John Oliver about the potential dominance of the Sinclair Broadcast Group: Over the past couple of weeks, Bit