The Project Censored Show

Sept 11 scholar Jon Gold returns to the show to explain some of the continuing lies, and lingering unanswered questions, nearly 18 years after the 9/11 attacks. Then we air Jon Stewart’s June 10 speech to a House committee, shaming it for neglect of 9/11 first responders’ illnesses. Finally, “flag… The post Jon Gold – The Continuing Lies and Unanswered Questions of th...

 On this episode, “Rallying Over Balloting: The Origins of Millennial Activism.” Nolan Higdon, university lecturer of media studies and history and cohost of the Along the Line podcast, joins the program again; he discusses his latest research with cohosts Mickey Huff and Chase Palmieri about the distinct approaches to politics and… The post Activism of the Millennial Generation...

This week’s Project Censored episode presents a continuation of the May 27 program, the interview of Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott together. The two scholars spoke with doctoral student Aaron Good in October 2018. On this week’s program, Ellsberg and Scott discuss issues ranging from the role of scientists… The post Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott Part 2 appeared firs...

On the latest Project Censored Show—  “The Transnational Capitalist Class, Global Economic Crisis, and Twenty-First Century Fascism,” former co-host Peter Phillips rejoins host Mickey Huff to discuss his work on the Global Power Elites with fellow political sociologist William I. Robinson. They ponder— what will be the consequences of a capitalist crisis… The post The Transnation...

On this Project Censored Show Mickey Huff interviews Aaron Good, with Scott/Ellsberg excerpts from the Media Freedom Summit 2.0. Daniel Ellsberg is most famous for leaking the Pentagon Papers and thereby exposing years of official deceptions about the Vietnam War.  Previously, he had established himself as a brilliant scholar and… The post The Deep State and the Doomsday Machine: A Conversat...

Veteran journalist Dave Lindorff is the first guest; he describes the misrepresentations and complete falsehoods that US corporate media has been presenting about Venezuela. Then New York activist Michael D. D. White explains how real estate and other private interests have been attempting to close or shrink some of New… The post Dave Lindorff and Michael D. D. White appeared first on Projec...

Author and history professor Andres Resendez speaks about “the other slavery” — the enslavement of millions of Native Americans from the time of Columbus to the 1900s, a subject often overlooked in history curricula. Resendez spoke in Berkeley, CA in April 2017; Mickey Huff was the host of that event.… The post The Other Slavery – With Andres Resendez appeared first o...

Co-host Chase Palmieri takes a turn as a guest, to explain his latest project – www.credder.com. On this site, readers can evaluate news stories, thereby creating a rating system for journalism akin to how restaurants are rated by customers on Yelp.  Notes:  Chase Palmieri is the co-host of the Project… The post Credder – The Future of Validated News? appeared first on Project Ce...

Historian Peter Kuznick returns to the Project Censored Show to discuss the newly released second edition of The Untold History of the United States. The new material covers the period from 2012 through 2018. In the interview on this week’s show, Kuznick addresses issues including nuclear arsenals, climate change, Trump… The post Historian Peter Kuznick appeared first on Project Censor...

At a time when media education is perhaps more vital than ever, Project Censored associates Nolan Higdon and Ben Boyington make the case that corporations and  their allies are working to redefine “media literacy” in ways that promote their interests, while screening out complete critical analyses of the influence of media in… The post Corporate Media Literacy? appeared first on...

Each year’s Project Censored volume includes a chapter on “junk-food news” — trivial or scarcely-significant stories that receive disproportionate coverage by the corporate media, thereby crowding out more-significant issues. This week’s Project Censored Show features three of the researchers for the junk-food news chapter, “Blurred Lines and Clickbait,” from Ce...

Nuclear-power experts Arnie and Maggie Gundersen return to the show to publicize the ongoing damage the Fukushima meltdown site is inflicting on Japan and the Pacific. They also rebut the idea that nuclear power is part of the answer to climate change. In the second half of the program, Bruce… The post Fukushima Meltdown Site With Arnie and Maggie Gundersen and US Military Plans to Dominate...

On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Mickey and Chase spend the hour with journalist Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof.com. They discuss how “Fighting Fake News” has become the new Trojan horse for corporate and social media censorship and go into detail about troubling recent examples and trends.  Related links… The post How “Fighting Fake News” Has Become the New Trojan Ho...

On this week’s program, we hear a speech by Abby Martin, delivered as part of Sonoma State University’s Social Justice Week activities. She describes and explains US corporate media’s parroting of Trump Administration propaganda, as Trump works to topple Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. She also asks why almost no Democratic… The post Abby Martin at Social Justice Week...

Kenn Burrows of San Francisco State University returns to the program to talk about SFSU’s annual Gandhi-King Season of Nonviolence. Then Neal Gorenflo of Shareable.net explains how his website aims to facilitate cooperative problem-solving around the world. Finally, historian Michael Morey introduces his new biography of David Fagen, the buffalo… The post Kenn Burrows, Neal Gorenflo,...

Mickey interviews two activists who work at the local and global levels, respectively. High School student Lucia Garay explains how she became motivated to work for social justice, and the challenges that young people face even in a “liberal” region. Then Steven Jay returns to the show to explain his… The post Activists at the Local and Global Levels appeared first on Project Cen...

Mnar Muhawesh of MintPress News explains the recent US Senate bill aimed at suppressing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement; she also looks at a new far-reaching establishment and corporate-media-backed initiative called NewsGuard that would “rate” websites for accuracy. Many conflicts of interest are discussed. Later in the program,… The post Abby Martin and Mnar Muha...

Author and editorial cartoonist Ted Rall is the first guest; he explains the latest developments in his legal battle with the Los Angeles Times, and the wider problem of how big corporations now use anti-SLAPP statues to stop less-powerful plaintiffs from having their cases heard by juries. In the second half… The post Ted Rall, Robert Manning, and Kenneth Dubroff appeared first on Project C...

Amid the ongoing corporate-media hue and cry about ‘Russian interference’ in the 2016 US election, media scholar Rob Williams reviews the evidence, and the unexamined assumptions made by promoters of the ‘Russian hacking’ position. Some of the discussion on the show revolves around Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s new book Cyberwar. notes:… The post Rob Williams and &#8...

This week’s show presents speeches and conversation from Project Censored’s 2018 Media Freedom Summit 2.0 The first 2/3 of the show is from the keynote panel, then we hear part of the “News Abuse” discussion. The panelists heard on the program are Abby Martin, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Eleanor Goldfield, John Collins,… The post Abby Martin, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Eleanor...

In the aftermath of the Facebook/Twitter purge of hundreds of pages, artist/journalist Eleanor Goldfield explains the need for an alternative to those sites. Then Bill Ottman describes his new social-media site, Minds.com, and how it differs from the giants. Notes:Web sites mention on this week’s program:www.artkillingapathy.comwww.minds.comwww.mintpressnews.com The post Eleanor Goldfield an...

Long-time investigative reporter Dave Lindorff explores the Pentagon’s financial mysteries, including massive unaccounted-for spending and decades of non-compliance with audit law. Later in the program, a look at the real record of the late President George H.W. Bush. Notes: Dave Lindorff is a widely-published independent journalist. His article on financial… The post Dave Lindorff Exp...

This week’s program presents excerpts from two of the panels at Project Censored’s recent “Media Freedom 2.0” conference. We also look at corporate media’s misleading stereotypes of working-class Americans, with Steve Macek and Robin Andersen. Then Kashmiri journalist Ifat Gazia relates some of the atrocities committed by Indian occupation troops… The post Ifat...

Our first guest, Dan Kinsley, presents a new approach to journalism, based on blockchain technology. His organization, the Civil Media Company, employs blockchain to raise funds for online-journalism enterprises, and also to empower those enterprises to collectively enforce high standards of reporting. In the second half of the program, independent journalist Peter Byrne… The post Journalism...

Mickey, Chase and their guests analyze the October 11-12 mass deletion of pages or accounts by Facebook and Twitter. The two social-media giants eliminated over 800 pages, many of them from independent-journalism or anti-establishment-politics sites.  Notes: Mnar Muhawish is editor-in-chief at Mint Press News, and is concerned that Mint Press might be… The post Social Media Censorship in the...