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Project Censored - 06.19.18

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. 

 

Notes:

 

Henry Giroux is a world-renowned educator, author, and public intellectual. He teaches at 

McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. His most recent books include The Violence of Organized Forgetting, 

Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, Disposable Futures, and America’s Addiction to Terrorism.

 

 

Project Censored - 06.12.18

Audrena Redmond of Beautiful Struggle joins the program to discuss social and political issues in the African-American community. 

Next, a conversation with Jessica Forrester about radio broadcasting for young people.

Project Censored - 06.05.18

Video and internet journalist Abby Martin makes a return visit to the program, and speaks with Mickey about how corporate media obfuscates the truth to serve U.S. power and its allies, in Palestine, Yemen, Venezuela and elsewhere. In the second half of the show, Chase Palmieri of Tribeworthy.com revisits the program, following a recent remark from celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk that there ought to be a way for the public to rate the work of journalists. Palmieri explains how Tribeworthy.com does exactly that, and summarizes how to use it.

Abby Martin hosts "The Empire Files" on Telesur TV, and is the founder of Mediaroots.org.  Chase Palmieri is cofounder of Tribeworthy.com; his background in the restaurant business inspired him to create a site where readers can evaluate news articles, in the same way as Yelp.com offers a place for restaurant ratings.

Project Censored - 05.29.18

Discussions on the corporate media's depiction of Russia, a new documentary about 'fake news,' and rising voter discontent.

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Hosts: Nolan Higdon, Nicholas Baham III, Desiree McSwain

Producer: Mitch Scorza

Project Censored - 05.22.18

For the first half of the show, Mickey's guests are Pratap Chatterjee and Khalil Bendib, co-authors of the new book Verax ('truth-teller'). 

A nonfiction graphic 'novel,' Verax examines the US electronic-surveillance programs, and the whistleblowers who exposed them.
Then, in the wake of the latest sexual-harassment scandals in Hollywood, media scholar Julie Frechette joins the program for a discussion of 

the #MeToo campaign and how corporate media portrays issues of sexual harassment and violence, within and beyond the entertainment industry. 

Pratap Chatterjee is Executive Director of Corp Watch, and a veteran investigative journalist. His books include Halliburton's Army and Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation.
Khalil Bendib is a political cartoonist and radio journalist.
Julie Frechette is Professor of Communication at Worcester State University in Massachusetts, and also co-president of the Action Coalition for Media Education.

Web sites mentioned on this week's program:
www.veraxcomic.net
www.corpwatch.org
www.bendib.com
www.acmesmartmediaeducation.net
www.juliefrechette.com  

 

Project Censored - 05.15.18

Susan Rahman hosts the first half of the show, and speaks with three students researching the history of Palestine, 

and the brutality of today's Israeli occupation. Then Mickey Huff interviews Heidi Kramer, whose new book -- 

"Media Monsters" -- documents the unprecedented levels of violence in modern children's media, including movies, 

TV and video games.

Project Censored - 05.08.18

A conversation about gender, race and class in media with Bill Yousman and Lori Bindig-Yousman. 

Also on the program, University of San Francisco student Sage Healy speaks about his work on 

a new Media Freedom Foundation documentary.

 

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Hosts: Nolan Higdon, Nicholas Baham III, Aimee Casey

Producer: Mitch Scorza

 

Project Censored - 05.01.18

Project Censored's annual "top 25 most censored stories" are gleaned from hundreds of stories nominated by students and faculty at participating campuses. On this week's show, four students from San Francisco State University discuss stories they've discovered and documented in their research; these stories involve issues ranging from clean energy to the propagation of gun culture in high schools. 

 

Project Censored - 04.24.18

On this week's show, we present a recent talk, "Giants - The Global Power Elite," given by Peter Phillips at Sonoma State University this past March. 

Extending the ideas of C. Wright Mills to the 21st century, Peter Phillips contends that a few hundred corporate managers and billionaires now control 

the majority of the world's wealth, and thus are today's ruling "transnational corporate class" ('TCC'). He identifies these corporations and individuals 

in a forthcoming; the speech is a summary of the ideas in the book.

Peter Phillips is Professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University, and a former director of Project Censored.  

 

 

Project Censored - 04.17.18

In this week's program, we hear a speech given in March by Mickey Huff as part of the annual Social Justice Week lecture series 

at Sonoma State University in northern California. Mickey's topic was "Fake News and the Truth Emergency." In his speech, he took note of 

the deep historical roots of the idea of 'fake news,' but also warned that new media technologies threaten to make it harder and harder 

to distinguish truth from fabrication. 

As well as hosting the Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored, and a faculty member in the History department 

at Diablo Valley College in Contra Costa County, California.