The Project Censored Show

Mickey dedicates this show to Banned Books Week 2023 (Oct. 1-7). Now in its 41st year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting the freedom to read while opposing efforts to ban or censor certain books from libraries, especially in school settings. This past year has seen… The post Let Freedom Read: Banned Books Week for 2023 appeared first on Project Censored.

It all comes back to capitalism. In the first half of the show, economist, author, and show host Dr. Richard Wolff joins us to talk about empowerment beyond the strike, and how we can manifest true democracy in the workplace. He gives us a grotesque look inside the board room,… The post Capitalism: The Ultimate Anti-Life System appeared first on Project Censored.

You’ve likely heard a lot about Maui in recent weeks but chances are you haven’t heard a lot from Indigenous or frontline mutual aid activists working to protect and support their communities in the dearth of government support and protection. In the first half of the show, Native Hawaiian Kamiki… The post Unveiling Maui’s Unheard Voices: Indigenous and Mutual Aid Activists Speak Out appeared first on Project Censored.

Media scholar Steve Macek joins Mickey for a look at a case from Philadelphia, where media activists are challenging the broadcast-license renewal of the local Fox TV station. Macek says the abundant evidence that Fox executives ordered the airing of stories they knew to be false (notably the purported “theft”… The post Challenging Media Integrity and Labor Rights: Fox TV Renewal and Sex Work Perspectives appeared first on Project Censored.

’Tis the season of the bomb. Muckraking investigate reporter and author David Lindorff joins Mickey Huff to discuss his forthcoming book: Spy For No Country: The Story of Ted Hall the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World. Lindorff is also a producer of the documentary about Hall… The post The Untold History of the Start of the Nuclear Arms Race with Dave Lindorff; & Ongoing Attacks on Freedom of the Press Must Stop appeared first on Project Censored.

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain and people of Appalachia. Crystal Mello, mom and pipeline fighter joins the show to discuss the intense and exhausting process… The post Resilience Amidst Controversy: Unveiling the Struggles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Unearthing Adult Supremacy appeared first on Project Censored.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. As US-China relations worsen, independent journalist Danny Haiphong says what lies at the root is the desperation of a US ruling class that sees its world dominance ebbing away. He adds that the US sanctions against China actually hurt the US more… The post Imperialism and Neocolonialism Around the Globe: US-China Relations; West African Nations appeared first on Project Censored.

Earlier this year, members of the News Enlightenment Initiative (NEI-Germany) and Project Censored partnered to recruit an international jury of news professionals and media scholars to identify and highlight “News Neglect, Censorship, and Agenda Cutting Around the Globe.” In June, we unveiled our top selected international stories at the Deutsche… The post Media Freedom Matters: Exposing International News Neglect, Censorship, and Agenda Cutting Across the Globe appeared first on Project Censored.

Historian Peter Kuznick joins Mickey to discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie “Oppenheimer.” While his overall evaluation is positive, Kuznick notes that the movie fails to address the crucial fact that there was no military need to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Kuznick also reminds listeners that had Henry… The post Historian Peter Kuznick’s Take on Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” Movie & The Unaddressed Impact of Dropping the Atomic Bomb / Unveiling the Catastrophic Truth: the Harsh Realities of “Limited” Nuclear War appeared first on Project Censored.

On this week’s Project Censored Show: In the first half of the program, host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis. They talk about police accountability – or the lack thereof. From widespread corruption and theft to oppression and murder, police exist to sustain and protect… The post Police Accountability / Global Women for Peace United Against NATO Conference appeared first on Project Censored.

Raza Rumi, director of the Park Institute for Independent Media at Ithaca College in NY, joins Mickey for a wide-ranging conversation about the importance of non-corporate media and media literacy. Rumi notes that in most of the important social movements in US history, journalists played important roles within the movements,… The post The Importance of Independent Media and Critical Media Literacy Education in a Democratic Society appeared first on Project Censored.

In light of the recent Fourth-of-July holiday, Eleanor’s first guest – historian Gerald Horne – shares his analysis of a likely motive for independence on the part of colonial America’s white elite: the desire to preserve slavery in the colonies, despite the rise of abolitionism in Britain. He also looks… The post The Colonial Origins of the Concept of “Whiteness” / How Bisexuality is Treated Within Native Communities appeared first on Project Censored.

On the latest Project Censored Show, Mickey talks with independent journalist and author Norman Solomon about his new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine. They discuss the great costs of the so-called War on Terror after two decades and how little most Americans… The post The so-called “War on Terror” Featuring Norman Solomon / Lee Camp Discusses His Book “Dangerous Ideas” appeared first on Project Censored.

On this Project Censored Show Eleanor Goldfield interviews Venezuelan political analyst Leonardo Flores, who gives updates on the ongoing illegal imprisonment of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab by the United States. His crime? Seeking food and medicine for the Venezuelan people struggling under US sanctions. Flores also shares insight on these… The post The US’ Illegal War on Venezuela / Is Free Press Officially Dead Now? appeared first on Project Censored.

Kevin Gosztola returns to Project Censored to explain the latest developments in the Julian Assange extradition case, including the recent ruling from the UK’s High Court of Justice. He also comments on the Espionage Act charges brought against former president Donald Trump. Then, to honor the June 16 passing of… The post Latest Developments in the Julian Assange Extradition Case / Honoring the Late Daniel Ellsberg and His Work appeared first on Project Censored.

On this Project Censored Show Mickey and former Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer for MintPress News. He’s just written about a new phenomenon in US military recruitment: social media posts from “e-girls,” designed to catch the attention of young recruits. Also joining the… The post E-girls and Truth in Military Recruitment plus Gun Violence and the Intersections of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the US appeared first on Project Censored.

In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey speaks with three students campaigning against censorship in Texas, including Banned Books Week’s Youth Honorary Chair, Cameron Samuels. They’re associated with a group called SEAT (Students Engaged in Advancing Texas) and give updates on recent developments there aimed at more book… The post Censorship and Book Banning in Texas…and Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey appeared first on Project Censored.

On this week’s Project Censored show, Eleanor speaks with journalist and activist Morgan Artyukhina for a powerful and vital analysis of the vicious attack on trans rights. Morgan highlights how trans existence is resistance – to the patriarchal capitalist system, and why that necessitates such an extreme backlash from the… The post Trans Rights Activist Morgan Artyukhina, and Community Organizer Kamau Franklin appeared first on Project Censored.

On this week’s Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield recently spoke attorney Steven Donziger – the man caught in the crosshairs of one of the largest corporations in the world, Chevron – to discuss updates in his ongoing struggle to demand accountability for the people of the Amazon in Ecuador, and… The post Demanding Accountability From Chevron with Steven Donziger and the Struggle of Frontline Community Journalists with Matilda Bliss and Veronica Coit appeared first on Project Censored.

Program Summary: In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey and Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with investigative reporter Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. MacLeod explains that a number of former high-ranking US military and security officials are now executives or board members in the video-game industry, notably… The post National Security State Propaganda, the Fourth Estate’s Deadly Follies, and Why We Need a Truly Independent Press in Support of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression as we Celebrate Press Freedom Day appeared first on Project Censored.

On the latest program, we celebrate Daniel Ellsberg Week (April 24-30), co-sponsored by The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy & and RootsAction Education Fund, as we honor whistleblowers in support of a truly free press from Dan Ellsberg to Julian Assange. First, Mickey talks with journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of… The post Celebrating Daniel Ellsberg Week: A Special Episode of the Project Censored Show with Kevin Gosztola and Daniel Ellsberg appeared first on Project Censored.

Mickey hosts the first segment of the show. His guest Kenn Burrows describes an upcoming conference “From Polarization to Integration,” to be held April 21 on the San Francisco State University campus. The event will address strategies for overcoming issues of censorship around important but controversial matters. Also joining Mickey… The post Media Matters: Polarization and Propaganda; and Medicare and Ongoing Privatization of Healthcare in the US appeared first on Project Censored.

On this week’s program, we hear an array of ideas about the condition of American journalism and the state of our so-called free press: red flags about the decline of local reporting and news deserts, and the rise in censorship by Big Tech, but also encouraging signs in the growth… The post The State of Our So-Called Free Press: A Panel Discussion from St. Mary’s College appeared first on Project Censored.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts the program this week— Across France, millions of people are taking to the streets and blocking them in a rapidly escalating show of defiance and disdain for President Macron and his oppressive neoliberal policies. Kim, an organizer from Rennes in France, joins the show to talk about… The post Resistance to Neoliberalism in France and the Political Economy of the US Empire in Decline appeared first on Project Censored.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program, and in her first segment, she speaks with the Program Director of the National Priorities Project, Lindsay Koshgarian. They examine the Biden Administration’s proposed Pentagon budget, which — at $886 billion — would set a new record for annual military spending while the US… The post The US Addiction to War and Militarism Continues 20 Years after the Illegal Invasion of Iraq appeared first on Project Censored.

Over the weekend, demonstrations took place in several US cities to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and to demand that the US and NATO stop escalating the Russia-Ukraine war. On this week’s Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey Huff discuss both those conflicts.… The post Prospects of a US Led Peace Movement in Ukraine and Looking Back at The US War in Iraq 20 Years Later appeared first on Project Censored.

Mickey‘s guest for the first half-hour is Mnar Adley, CEO and editor-in-chief of MintPress News. She explains Israel’s everyday brutality against Palestinians and how most Western media fail to cover it. She also points out the powerful interests that aim to discredit and defund independent media like MintPress for their… The post The Importance of Independent Media when Reporting on Global Issues From Palestine to East Africa appeared first on Project Censored.

On this week’s program, two critical media literacy scholars join Mickey to examine a range of current events. First, Allison Butler addresses the notorious “past her prime” comments by CNN’s Don Lemon, his non-apology apology, and level of sexism and ageism in news media. Butler also discusses the book, Empire… The post Analyzing Current Events Through a Critical Media Literacy Lens: Don Lemon’s Sexism/Ageism at CNN, the Sackler Dynasty, Russiagate Propaganda, and More appeared first on Project Censored.

As we come to the end of Black History Month, Eleanor Goldfield recently talked with Pan-African theorist, organizer, and author Max Rameau about community control over policing – that’s not community policing. He highlights the importance of shifting power vs reforming institutions, organizing to take power, not ask for it,… The post Community Control Over Policing and the Crises in Peru appeared first on Project Censored.

This week’s program focuses on the ongoing case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In the first half of the program, Mickey speaks with Gabriel and John Shipton, brother and father of Assange, about the forthcoming documentary, “Ithaka.” This film approaches the Assange case from the perspective of family members trying… The post Guilty of Journalism: New Documentary Film Ithaka and New Book on the Political Case Against Julian Assange appeared first on Project Censored.

In the first half of the program, Shealeigh Voitl and Steve Macek look at how corporate-media coverage has failed over the course of years to adequately inform the public of corporate interference in matters of environment and human health in a segment dedicated to Project Censored’s Déjà Vu news research.… The post Censored Déjà Vu: Corporate Media’s Ongoing Failure to Cover Key Issues around Food Safety, Birthing, and Breastfeeding & Dark Money’s Pernicious Influence on Political Culture appeared first on Project Censored.

This week, Eleanor Goldfield addresses two radical frontline fights thousands of miles apart but deeply connected through their visions and struggles for a livable and just future. Eleanor sits down with Sasha Lorenz from the Lützerath Lebt movement to discuss the recent literal bulldozing of people’s lives for the sake… The post Germany’s Dirty Push for More Coal Mining and the Recent Murder of Forest Defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran appeared first on Project Censored.

On this week’s program, Mickey welcomes back author and media critic Alan MacLeod for the hour. MacLeod describes the close ties between the major Silicon Valley technology companies and the US military/security establishment. Among the examples he cites lucrative government contracts given to some of Elon Musk’s companies (Starlink); the… The post Silicon Valley’s Censorship by Proxy, State Propaganda, and the Military-Entertainment Complex appeared first on Project Censored.

It was recently Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and some may have noticed the US empire and its racist, capitalist, and imperialist cheerleaders were also cheerleading for Dr. King. If this made you angry, confused, or just curious as to what Dr. King’s legacy actually is in the context of… The post Dr. King’s Real Legacy and the Biden Administration’s “Updates” to Immigration Policy appeared first on Project Censored.

Kevin Gosztola returns to the program to explain the latest developments in the Julian Assange extradition case. Although Assange remains in a UK prison, there have been political developments elsewhere in the world that may influence the outcome of the case, including in Assange’s home country, Australia. He and Mickey… The post The Importance of Whistleblowers and Independent Journalists in Free Society- Kevin Gosztola and Sam Husseini appeared first on Project Censored.

With the U.S. having a military presence in nearly every African nation, Dr. Rose Brewer, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota and member of the Black Alliance for Peace, makes the case for “U.S. out of Africa.” Brewer faults… The post The Case for “U.S. Out of Africa,” and the High Childbirth Mortality Rate of African American Women appeared first on Project Censored.

The first Project Censored Show of 2023 is devoted to climate change, and the oil industry’s obstruction of policies that would seriously confront the climate crisis. The speakers on the program are former NASA scientist James Hansen, pioneering climate-change writer Bill McKibben, and Canadian environmental journalist Geoff Dembicki. They were… The post Climate Change and the Oil Industry’s Obstructionist Policies appeared first on Project Censored.

In the first half of today’s program, Mickey speaks with Project Censored’s Andy Lee Roth about some of the “Top 25” censored / under-reported news stories, as well as the common characteristics of these stories. Later in the show, Nolan Higdon and Mickey examine some of the developments since Elon… The post The Twitter Takeover of Elon Musk, Declassification of More JFK Documents, and The Top 25 Most Censored Stories of the Year appeared first on Project Censored.

Mickey, Eleanor and their guests spend the hour examining the background to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, going back to the eastward expansion of NATO, the 2014 Ukraine coup, and other factors. Their guests, both long-time peace activists, make the case for a cessation of arms shipments to Ukraine, and a negotiated… The post The War in Ukraine and Prospects for Peace with Phil Wilayto and Medea Benjamin appeared first on Project Censored.

This edition of the Project Censored Show we feature two of the country’s best-known peace advocates, each with a new book out. First, Medea Benjamin discusses the Russia-Ukraine conflict, emphasizing aspects that US corporate media are not covering. Then we hear a rebroadcast of a September interview with author Chris… The post What The US Corporate Media is Not Covering in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict appeared first on Project Censored.

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, your host Eleanor Goldfield discusses war and fascist violence – from the very personal history of a presidential candidate to the streets of Hebron. She first sits down with army veteran and investigative reporter/producer Mike Prysner to discuss his latest work digging… The post The Sordid Past of Ron DeSantis Revealed / The Delicate Topic of Zionism and Apartheid appeared first on Project Censored.

Mickey opens this week’s program in conversation with Aaron Good; they examine the post-WWII U.S. rise to global dominance, and how that underlies many of our current events, notably the Russia-Ukraine-NATO conflict. In the second half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Chris Garaffa about the prospects for stronger… The post The Post-WWII U.S. Rise to Global Dominance/Prospects for Stronger Net-Neutrality Protections appeared first on Project Censored.

The 2022 Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas took place in Oakland, CA in late October. This week’s Project Censored Show presents excerpts from the plenary roundtable that addressed shortcomings of corporate media, each from a different perspective, and explained how a more critically media literate public and robust… The post Critical Media Literacy Education is a Peaceful Means to Humanitarian Ends appeared first on Project Censored.

This week, Eleanor Goldfield looks at COP, climate, and change with the Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology of the Republic of Maldives, Khadeeja Naseem. They discuss the dire situation her home is in, a home that has been the vanguard not only of climate chaos but… The post The Climate Crisis, Its Global Impacts, and What Is To Be Done appeared first on Project Censored.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s episode, and spends the hour on conditions in Iran, where demonstrators have taken to the streets in response to the death of a young woman in the custody of the Iranian “morality police.” Leila Zand is an Iranian-American activist and scholar who joins the show… The post Contextualizing the Events of the Past Month in Iran appeared first on Project Censored.

On this Project Censored Show we discuss Media Literacy Week and more specifically Critical Media Literacy. We then discern the different approaches to media literacy which have been co-opted including corporate and a-critical media literacy. We explore this issue with experts Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon. The post Has Media Literacy Week Been Co-Opted? appeared first on Project Censored.

In this episode of the Project Censored Show Eleanor Goldfield looks at the potential for a Class I railroad strike. This struggle exemplifies the power of workers and how much corporations and their media lackeys fear collective power – particularly when that collective power represents some $2 billion a day… The post The Potential for a Class I Railroad Strike appeared first on Project Censored.

On this week’s program we hear a panel discussion held in observation of Constitution Day (mid September) at Diablo Valley College, where Mickey teaches. Three expert panelists examined the state of the media, the threats posed by book-banning campaigns and cancel culture, as well as the societal changes underlying these… The post The Importance of Academic Freedom in a Cancel Culture Obsessed with Curtailing Curricula and Banning Books appeared first on Project Censored.

This week, Eleanor Goldfield digs into mining – past and present. First, author and organizer Mitch Troutman discusses his latest book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners who Seized an Industry. Mitch shares the importance of remembering and sharing a radical past, as he puts it: nothing was ever inevitable and… The post The Past and Present of Mining appeared first on Project Censored.

For the first segment of this week’s show, Mickey talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges shares some of the stories from his newest book, The Greatest Evil Is War. The book is based on interviews with dozens of victims of war, including families of soldiers, wounded veterans, and… The post The Many Costs of War and the Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev appeared first on Project Censored.