Project Censored

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. 

 

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.  

 

 

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. 

On this week's program, we hear a recent speech by the legedary 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 at 

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

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Web sites mentioned on this program:
www.nader.org 

Authors Peter Dale Scott and David Talbot join Mickey for a discussion of the now-popular phrase "deep state," 

and its implications. They also share their thoughts on the best way forward for the left in the Trump era.

Peter Dale Scott is a retired diplomat and prolific author on politics and history; among his books are "Deep Politics 

and the Death of JFK," and "Drugs, Oil and War." David Talbot is the founder of Salon.com, and now a columnist for 

the San Francisco Chronicle; his most recent book is "The Devil's Chessboard."  

 

This is a rebroadcast of the Project Censored program of March 13, 2017

Notes: 

Web sites mentioned on this program:
www.peterdalescott.net 
www.whowhatwhy.com

What is 'radical sociology'? Why is it important for scholars, and for activists? Michael Sukhov and Peter Phillips explore these questions, 

and more, with three social scientists: Michael Thompson, Frances Fox Piven, and William Robinson. 

 

Michael Thompson teaches in the Political Science Department at William Paterson University in New Jersey. 

Frances Fox Piven is Professor Emerita at the City University of New York, and is internationally known 

for her writings on poverty and welfare. William Robinson teaches Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. 

Jamie de Silva and Daniel MacGuire, writers for the Pioneer newspaper, are the guests; 

they take part in a discussion about youth journalism and the Me Too movement. 

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

Notes:

 

This is a rebroadcast of the Project Censored Show of November 6, 2017.

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

 

For the first half of the show, Chase Palmieri explains the latest developments at Tribeworthy.com, 

the web site where readers critique and rate journalistic articles for others to see.

Then, answering the corporate-media obsession with "Russiagate," veteran reporter Dave Lindorff 

summarizes how the US has interfered in foreign elections (including Russia's), and how paid US-government 

"trolls" attack alternative-media sites.  

 

Chase Palmieri is a cofounder of Tribeworthy.com

Dave Lindorff has been a journalist for 40 years and contributed to many publications; 

he's also the founder of the news site Thiscantbehappening.net

 

Web sites mentioned on this program:
www.henryagiroux.com
www.counterpunch.org
www.truthdig.org
www.truth-out.org

www.salon.com

Author/scholar Henry Giroux is this week's guest for the duration of the program; 

he and Mickey discuss the historical forces that paved the way for a Trump presidency, 

and how to resist the threat of facism in the years ahead, especially by way of education. 

Henry Giroux teaches at McMaster University in Canada, and is the author of more than 

60 books on education, politics, and society.

 

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web sites mentioned on this program:
www.henryagiroux.com
www.counterpunch.org
www.truthdig.org
www.truth-out.org

www.salon.com