The Project Censored Show

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 P...

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...

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 Issue...

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 Murde...

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...

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 fi...

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 i...

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...

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 Indu...

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 Document...

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 Med...

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...

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 Topi...

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/Prospect...

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 Peac...

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...

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 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 Proje...

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...

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...

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 Pr...

On this Project Censored Show, host Mickey Huff dedicates the hour to Banned Books Week 2022 (Sept. 18-24). Now in its 40th year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting the freedom to read, and resisting efforts to ban books from library shelves, especially in school settings.… The post Banned in the USA: Banned Books Week Celebrates its 40th Anniversary as Book Bans...

The latest Project Censored Show features a recording of a panel discussion from this summer’s Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival, held in Washington DC. Mickey and Project Censored’s Associate Director, Andy Lee Roth, moderated a discussion with journalist Kevin Gosztola and Rebecca Vincent of Reporters Without Borders. This panel, “Guilty… The post Whistleblower Summi...

On the first half of this week’s show Eleanor speaks with musician, producer, and songwriter Samantha Blanchard – talking to her about the exploitation of artists in today’s often cookie cutter market, the sad trope of paying dues, and the harsh clash between capitalism and art – which is in… The post Music, The Clash Between Capitalism and Art, and Solutions to the Student Loan...