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Project Censored - 09.24.19

Timed to coincide with the 17th annual Oakland International Film Festival, this week's Project Censored show explores the cultural value of film,

and offers brief descriptions of some of this year's OIFF offerings.  Also on the show, a conversation on the California roots of thrash-metal music, 

with the creator of a new documentary about the genre, a documentary that will be shown at the Festival.

 

Notes:

 

Web site mentioned on this week's show:
www.oiff.org  

Music-break information:
1) "Chemi-Kill" by Exodus
2) "Bonded by Blood" by Exodus
3) "Silent Scream" by Slayer

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Host: Mickey Huff

Producers: Anthony Fest & Dennis Murphy

 

 

Archives at 

www.projectcensored.org/category/radio

Project Censored - 09.17.19

In observance of Banned-Books Week (Sept 22 - 28) Mickey and his guests discuss 

some of the obstacles placed in the way of Americans' freedom to read and learn, notably conservatives' 

efforts to keep unfavored books out of school libraries, or even to cancel authors' speaking engagements.

 

Notes:

 

For more information, visit   www.bannedbooksweek.org   

 

Music-break information:

1) "Embryonic Journey" 

2) "Mann's Fate" 

3) "Water Song" 

    all by Hot Tuna

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Host: Mickey Huff

Producers: Anthony Fest & Dennis Murphy

 

 

Archives at 

www.projectcensored.org/category/radio

Project Censored - 09.10.19

Authors John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski are the guests for the hour; to speak about their recent book

The Watchdogs Didn't Bark. The product of years of investigation, it begins with the questions: why were

two of the September 11 hijackers, already in the US and on the FBI terrorist watch list, not apprehended 

long before the attacks took place, and why was no one in the US government held accountable? 

The authors find the answers in a complex web of spy agency rivalries and coverups. 

Project Censored - 09.03.19

Mickey and Chase spend the hour in conversation with Danny Haiphong, co-author of the new book 

"American Exceptionalism and American Innocence." He explains his assertion that throughout U.S. history, 

"fake news has been the only news disseminated by the rulers of U.S. empire.”

Project Censored - Overview of The Biases and Dangers of Corporate Media

This week's program is an overview of the biases and dangers of corporate media. Freelance journalist Chelli Stanley

explains why corporate media is not "mainstream." Then Nolan Higdon returns to the show to discuss the new

book he and Mickey have written, "United States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America."

Notes:

 

Links to the guests' publications:
www.counterpunch.org/2019/08/02/corporate-media-lets-remember-who-writes-those-stories
www.projectcensored.org/product/signed-pre-sale-united-states-of-distraction-media-manipulation-in-post-truth-america-and-what-we-can-do-about-it

Music-break information:
1) "Magnetica" by Quantic
2) "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon
3) "the Resistance" by 2 Cellos

Project Censored - 08.20.19

This week's guests are two investigative reporters:
First, Will Carruthers explores the surprising ties between a utility company lobbyist, 

a charitable foundation and a local newspaper.
Then, in the wake of Jeffrey Epstein's death, Whitney Webb shares the information she's gathered 

about his connections to politicians, spy agencies in the US and Israel, and organized crime. 

Notes:

 

Links to the guests' articles:
bohemian.com/northbay/juiced/Content?oid=9026523
mintpressnews.com/mega-group-maxwells-mossad-spy-story-jeffrey-epstein-scandal/261172

Music-break information:
1) "the Power of Gold" by Dan Fogelberg & Tim Weisberg
2) "Lucifer" by the Alan Parsons Project
3) "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Metallica 

 

Project Censored - consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader

On this week's program, we hear a speech by the legendary political activist and consumer-rights advocate 

Ralph Nader. Nader outlines some of the most critical problems facing Americans, including exorbitant military spending, 

out-of-control corporations, and thousands of annual deaths in the workplace, or from lack of health care coverage. 

But then he names some individuals who've made a difference in recent U.S. history, explains what students 

can accomplish on campus, and how voters can hold legislators accountable. Nader spoke on March 5, 2018 at 

Sonoma State University in northern California, as part of the campus's annual Social Justice Week Lecture Series.

Project Censored - Carol Anderson is Professor of African-American Studies at Emory University

Peter and Mickey spend the hour in conversation with Carol Anderson. 

Her book, "White Rage," chronicles the history of white resistance and obstruction

to African-American equality, from the Reconstruction period to modern times.

 

Notes:

 

Carol Anderson is Professor of African-American Studies at Emory University in Atlanta. 

Her previous works include "Eyes Off the Prize" and "Bourgeois Radicals."  

Project Censored - Henry Giroux

Author and public intellectual Henry Giroux returns to the program to discuss his newest book, 

"American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Facism." Among his observations, he explains 

why the rise of Donald Trump was not an aberration, but the outcome of forces that have 

been at work for decades. 

Project Censored - 07.17.19

This week's guest is author and law professor Dan Kovalik; he speaks about US interventions 

around the world, past and present, and the cost Americans pay to maintain the gigantic US military machine. 

 

Dan Kovalik is a retired labor-union attorney, and now teaches at the University of Pittsburgh Law School.
He is also a prolific author, and has recently had four books published on the Skyhorse label, all dealing with 

US interventions around the globe.