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Project Censored Show - 5-5-26

In the first segment I sit down with author Nicola Griffith to talk about her recent book release She is Here. Nicola digs into her work in understanding history as stories not hard, immovable fact, and that history depends on who tells it. She discusses writing history as an embodied experience, extracting ourselves from binaries and embracing nuance, how the lack of disabled perspectives in literature shapes our ableism, and more. 

Next up, I sit down with journalist Liam Syed and organizer Nikki Morse to talk about how Israels latest quasi-visa program targets foreign activists, more than a handful of whom are Jews, saying theyre either a security threat or immigrating illegally funny concept for an ethno-state built on illegal immigration, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

 

 

Notes: 

Nicola Griffith is the author of nine novels, including Hild, Spear, and Menewood. In addition to her fiction and nonfiction (New York Times, Guardian, Nature, New Scientist) she is known for her data-driven 2015 work on bias in the literary ecosystem and as founder and co-host, with Alice Wong, of #CripLit. Awards include the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Society of Authors ADCI Literary Prize, two Washington State Book Awards, the Premio Italia, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Otherwise awards, and six Lambda Literary Awards. She holds a PhD from Anglia Ruskin University, is married to writer Kelley Eskridge, and lives in Seattle"where in 2024 she was inducted into the SFF Hall of Fame. In 2025 she was named as SFWAs 41st Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master.

Liam Syed is an independent journalist and photographer. His work focuses on issues of conflict, human rights and activism.

Nikki Morse is an organizer with the International Solidarity Movement and a member of the Academic Council of Jewish Voice for Peace. 

Project Censored - 4-28-26

Eleanor Goldfield & Mickey Huff host this week’s program.This week, the violation and capitulation of higher education. 

First up, I sit down with Zachary Levenson to talk about the war on sociology and what happens when the academic governing body deems all existing sociology textbooks illegal to teach in the state of Florida. Zach highlights the purposefully vague verbiage of new policies, the anti-intellectualism fueling them, and why educators must never self-censor or comply in advance. 

Next up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with Nolan Higdon to talk about his latest book MAGAcademy on how corporatism paved the way for the hostile takeover of Higher Ed. Nolan discusses the neoliberalization of academia, the purposeful devaluing of professors and treatment of students as customers that all predate the current attacks on higher ed. Nolan also warns of the dangers of compliance in advance and the smooth rhetoric of corporate takeovers wrapped in social justice ideologies.

Notes: 

Zachary Levenson is associate professor of sociology at Florida International University. He is the author of the award-winning book Delivery as Dispossession (Oxford University Press, 2022).

Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author, host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored National Judge. Higdon’s areas of concentration include critical AI literacy, podcasting, digital culture, news media history & propaganda, and critical media literacy.

Project Censored - 4-21-26

Mickey Huff hosts this week’s program.This week on the program, we celebrate Independent Media and press freedom with Izzy Fest 2026 and the 18th annual Izzy Award named after the legendary muckraker, I.F. Stone. First up, we have documentary filmmaker Abby Martin of Empire Files who is sharing the Izzy Award this year for her documentary “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” about how the Pentagon is the world’s greatest polluter and why we must all act to reverse the global damage caused by US military. Next up Izzy judge and professor Victor Pickard discusses the state of our free press, the challenges journalists face from the current administration, and how independent media can light the way to a more informed and just world. 

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Abby Martin is an independent journalist, filmmaker, and host of The Empire Files. She is the director of the 2019 documentary Gaza Fights for Freedom and the 2026 documentary Earths Greatest Enemy.Victor Pickard is the C. Edwin Baker Professor of Media Policy and Political Economy at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he co-directs the Media, Inequality & Change (MIC) Center.

Project Censored Show - 4-14-26

While corporate media focuses on the 24-hour wartime news cycle, a lot falls through the cracks, entire continents actually. 

First up this week, we welcome back to the program journalist José Luis Granados Ceja to talk about the Greater America plan, and Operation Total Extermination, the latest US policy initiatives for Latin America. José Luis highlights media complicity in framing US relations with the Global South, how Mexico and its allies in the region are responding to these military threats and how the war in Iran is affecting this political landscape. 

Next up, journalist and organizer Edith Romero talks about corporate colonialism in Honduras, and how the likes of Peter Thiel are piggy-backing on decades of imperialist extraction to create their own sovereign nations not subject to any Honduran oversight or accountability, and how this connects to the oppressive surveillance and anti-human eugenicist manifestations of AI here in the US and globally.  

 

 

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José Luis Granados Ceja is an experienced journalist based in Mexico City, co-host of the Canal Once public affairs television program Sin Muros, as well as Soberana: The Mexican Politics Podcast. He covers Latin America for DropSite News, and has worked as a writer, editor, photographer, correspondent, radio host, TV producer, and as on-camera analyst, with a particular focus on social movements and labor unions throughout Latin America.

Edith Romero is a Honduran community organizer, researcher, writer, and a Public Voices fellow of The OpEd Project, The National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, and the Every Page Foundation.

 

 

Project Censored - 4-7-26

Eleanor Goldfield & Mickey Huff host this week’s program.

 

First up, journalist Afeef Nessouli joins the show to talk about the situation in Lebanon, and how corporate media deliberately flattens and dehumanizes in service of US-Israeli regional goals. Afeef explains the complex and interconnected networks of resistance and solidarity on the ground, the tangled web of imperialism, and how Lebanese journalists are, like their Palestinian counterparts, working together in impossible conditions to get the truth out about their situation in spite of compounding and violent censorship. 

Next up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with former Director of Student Media at Indiana University Jim Rodenbush to talk about his termination. Jim had the audacity to stand up for the renowned student newspaper the Indiana Daily Student when the powers that be didnt feel it should actually report the news anymore. Jim shares his story and warns of the implications this has on everyones access to a free press, from colleges to professional newsrooms.  

 

 

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Afeef Nessouli is a journalist with The Intercept and is host of With Afeef Nessouli" a weekly livestream and interview show about suppressed news.


For the past sixteen years, Jim Rodenbush has worked with award-winning student media organizations, helping to mentor the next generation of journalists. Most recently, he served as Director of Student Media at Indiana University and taught in The Media School. During his time there, theIndiana Daily Studentwon twelve Pacemaker Awards and was twice named College Media Outlet of the Year.  

 

 

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Project Censored - 3-31-26

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program.

 

First up, I sit down with educator and author Allison Butler to talk about her latest book:  The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture. Allison dissects this seeming contradiction of both centering and silencing women. We dive into some history to orient us in the present, consider the intersections of womanhood, the women in service to patriarchy, and more. 

 

Next up, Dr. Shir Hever comes back on the show this time to give us a perspective on the war on Iran that you won’t likely hear, even in alternative and independent media. Shir prompts us to consider what the actual goals of the war are through understanding modern warfare, the US/Israeli relationship, and the paradoxical stability of totalitarianism staring at us from this current apocalyptic war. 

 

 

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Allison T. Butler is Senior Lecturer and Associate Chair in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is the Vice President of the Media Freedom Foundation and the author of The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, published by The Censored Press.

 

 

 

Dr. Shir Hever is a scholar of Israel’s occupation, apartheid and genocide, born in Israel and now living in Germany. He is the managing director of the Alliance for Justice between Israelis and Palestinians and his latest book is The Privatization of Israeli Security.

 

 

Project Censored - 3-24-26

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program.

 

First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism - some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit with how much it actually defines our nation? Jared Stacy, a former Evangelical Pastor and author of the newly released book, Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis, joins the show to talk about the history and the present of this entwined relationship between the US and Evangelicalism, how conspiracy theories become gospel, and how if we want to address the fallout from this tangle, theological intervention is necessary. 

Next up, chief of advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation Seth Stern comes back on the show to dig into some of the most recent and egregious threats to the First Amendment - from classifying black clothing as criminal activity to journalistic malpractice in apocalyptic times, and more.  

Project Censored Show - 3-17-26

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program.In the first half of today’s show, I sit down with Michael Wriston and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analysis vis a vis DHS. They discuss their ICE Warehouse Tracker tool, and how ill-prepared these sites are to house tens of thousands of people. Michael and Em also discuss what the effects would be on communities surrounding these warehouses, and how we can use data to better understand the massive planned network of disappearing people, and thereby act to stop it. Next up, James Schneider with the Nuestra America Convoy joins us to discuss the planned aid drop on March 21st in Havana, bringing together citizens from around the world to stand in active opposition to the US’ escalated punishment against Cuba for being a good example. James highlights the importance of these coordinated actions, inspired by the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza, the importance of engaging with the world as if sovereignty and justice mattered, and providing ways for people to express their solidarity. 

 

Michael Wriston is a co-founder and investigative reporter at Project Salt Box. He brings over 20 years of military experience in analysis and reporting, with a specialization in contract and procurement analysis and data visualization, including the ICE Warehouse Tracker.
Em is a co-founder and immigration affairs expert at Project Salt Box. She brings years of on-the-ground experience working with asylum seekers and advocacy organizations, and helps shape the editorial and policy direction of the team's coverage.
James Schneider is the communications director for the Progressive International, one of the organizations behind the Nuestra América Convoy to Cuba.

Project Censored Show - 3-10-26

Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey Huff host this week’s program.First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of the horrific stories she’s uncovered through her investigative reporting including instances of gross medical neglect and how difficult it is to do that reporting from what she calls a black site of information, and the retaliation by guards against the children for speaking with press. 
Next up, my cohost Mickey Huff and I dig into some of the news that didn’t make the news with a focus on the US/Israeli illegal and unprovoked attacks on Iran. We discuss the nuance and multitude of facts that corporate media always miss or omit, the importance of historical context, the regional repercussions of these attacks, and more.

Stephanie Koithan is the Digital Editor of the San Antonio Current, where she covers politics, music, and other topics for the leftist alternative weekly. She also covers voter suppression, homelessness and ICE actions in the area, among other areas of focus. 

 

The Project Censored Show - 3-3-26

Program Summary: 

 

Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey Huff host this week’s program.

 

First up this week, Mexico City-based journalist José Luis Granados Ceja joins the show to talk about the recent Mexican operation that captured and killed a notorious cartel kingpin, and how US corporate media is twisting this story to not only give the US undue credit but to further the dangerous and dehumanizing rhetoric of Mexicans as villains. José Luis also digs into Mexico / US relations and how regional solidarity is needed in order to address the violent grandstanding by the US. 

 

Next up, Mickey sits down again with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into the latest in the Epstein files including the disturbing lack of accountability, the spectacle of the slow release of information, deconstructing propaganda around the files, and more. 

 

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José Luis Granados Ceja is an experienced journalist based in Mexico City, co-host of the Canal Once public affairs television program Sin Muros, as well as Soberanía: The Mexican Politics Podcast. He covers Latin America for DropSite News, and has worked as a writer, editor, photographer, correspondent, radio host, TV producer, and as on-camera analyst, with a particular focus on social movements and labor unions throughout Latin America.

 

 

Nolan Higdon is a political analyst, author, host of The Disinfo Detox Podcast, lecturer at Merrill College and the Education Department at University of California, Santa Cruz, and Project Censored National Judge. Higdon’s areas of concentration include critical AI literacy, podcasting, digital culture, news media history & propaganda, and critical media literacy.