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Project Censored 11.25.25

In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss journalism as memory work, and the narrative as a battlefield upon which ever more advanced technology takes aim at Palestinian voices and lived experiences. Laura frames journalism as a commitment - to people and their stories, and talks about how the chasing of headlines and by-lines in the 24-hour news cycle leads to extractive journalism, and how and why movement media can be the antidote.

Next up, Economics PHD students Shakked Noy and Aakaash Rao discuss their recent report: The Business of the Culture War which links the contemporary culture wars to changes in media technologies as well as economic incentives for cable news. Shakked and Aakaash discuss how their research shows that the economic drive for viewership has incentivized corporate media to turn away from actual political news and towards sensational infotainment, and how the commodification of legitimate rage leaves us dumber and more divided than ever before. 

Project Censored 11.18.25

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program.

 

We start this week off with news that didn’t make the news from Sudan. Researcher and analyst Mosaab Baba joins us to contextualize the recent atrocities in El-Fasher, Sudan, highlighting decades-long power struggles not only inside the country but internationally as well. Mosaab explains the goals of these new imperialists and their genocidal beneficiaries, the importance of Sudan’s rich mineral and agricultural assets, and how the guns and money always lead to the familiar players of the UAE, Egypt, the US and Israel. 

Next up, John Collins of Weave News comes back on the program to discuss news abuse, using a specific example in upstate New York to highlight how even regional media that did previously stand up to power falls in line behind the fallacy conflating antizioinism with antisemitism. John also discusses the Palestinization of the globe, and prescriptions for both media and media consumers on how to stay critically media literate in these critical times. 

Notes: 

Mosaab Baba is a researcher and analyst on Sudan, and has been a lead consultant for the Ayin Network (@AyinSudan)

John Collins is emeritus professor of global studies at St. Lawrence University and editorial director at Weave News. He is the author of the 2011 book Global Palestine, which explores the globalization of Palestine and the Palestinization of the globe. 

Project Censored 11.3.25

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program.

 

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiographical work that details the lived realities, emotions, connections and contradictions of growing up in Gaza. Dr. Alijila remarks on the changing of academia, once the vanguard of progressive thought and action becoming ever more muted and intellectually impoverished. He speaks on the unending question of humanity, including how social media distorts our view, and the problem of dehumanizing by pedestaling what the occupation has buried beneath subhuman propaganda. 

Next up, co-founder of Mutual Aid Disaster Relief Jimmy Dunson comes back on the program to offer up a perspective you wont hear on corporate media: how the Israeli Defense Forces target Jewish and Hebrew-speaking people. Jimmy shares his own experiences with this as well as the experiences of a colleague on a Mutual Aid Disaster Relief boat that sailed with the Gaza Flotilla. Jimmy discusses how his Jewish faith leads him to actively oppose genocide, how we can better be in solidarity with Palestinians and with one another while connecting our struggles as well as our efforts to build a better world.  

Notes: 

Dr. Abdalhadi Alijla is a Palestinian Swedish social and political scientist and science advocate. He is the author of Trust in Divided Societies: State, Institutions and Governance in Lebanon, Syria and Palestine and the forthcoming book, which were here to talk about today: Fearful in Gaza. His main research interests are divided societies, Social Cohesion, Rebel Governance, Social Capital, Middle East Studies, and Comparative Politics.

Jimmy Dunson is a mystic, magic, warrior, healer, poet in love with all existence, cofounder of mutual aid disaster relief, and a volunteer with the international solidarity movement and ta'ayush in Palestine
 

The Project Censored Show 11.21.23

This week's Project Censored Show again focuses on the Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip.

To open the program, Eleanor's guest, Jacqueline Luqman, notes that the Black liberation struggle in the US has always supported the Palestinian cause as well, and explains the common ground between the two; she also debunks some Zionist talking points. Then in the second half-hour, Eleanor and Mickey analyze corporate media coverage of the Middle East, and the contextual information that isn't mentioned.

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For the first half of this week's show, Mickey brings on three guests to discuss the upcoming 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival in Washington, DC (www.whistleblowersummit.com). They also make the case for a broader public understanding of what whistleblowing is, and who is a whistleblower.

Then in the second half-hour, Eleanor Goldfield and her guest look at the recent election in Colombia, which saw leftist candidate Gustavo Petro

winning the presidency and Afro-Colombian environmental activist Francia Marquez the vice-presidency.

 

Notes:

Michael McCray and Marcel Reid are the co-founders of the International Association of Whistleblowers.

McCray is also General Counsel for the Federally Employed Women Legal Education Fund. Reid is a former member of the Pacifica Radio National Board.

Marsha Warfield is a nationally-known comedian and actress, and will be hosting some events at the Whistleblower Summit.
Gimena Sanchez is a staff member at the Washington Office on Latin America (www.wola.org).

Project Censored - 02.22.22

Program Summary:

 

New co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks first with Benjamin Norton, to learn how President Biden is "out-Trumping Trump" on immigration.

Norton also offers an update on political conditions in Latin America. In the second half of the show, Eugene Puryear explains racism's

deep roots in US history, and how it cannot be defeated by superficial actions. He also looks at the significance of Black History Month.

 

Benjamin Norton is an independent journalist who focuses on Latin America; he's also the founder of the news web site www.multipolarista.com.   

Eugene Puryear has been a peace-and-justice organizer since his high-school days; he's the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration

in Capitalist America," and he writes at www.breakthroughnews.org 

 

 

Notes:

Project Censored - 02.15.22

Program Summary:

Mickey spends the hour with historian Peter Kuznick, who examines the current

U.S. confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, summarizes the recent history of

Ukraine, and emphasizes the urgency of settling the crisis peacefully.

 

Notes:

Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University in Washington DC,

and also directs the Nuclear Studies Program at that institution.

He and Oliver Stone wrote the groundbreaking book The Untold History of the United States,

and also produced a Showtime documentary series based on the book.

More information can be found at www.untoldhistory.com.

Project Censored - 02.08.22

Program Summary:

After several visits as a guest, Eleanor Goldfield joins the program as co-host with Mickey Huff.

In the first segment of this week's show, Kevin Gosztola delivers a brief update about Julian Assange's case.

Then Jayeesha Dutta speaks with Eleanor about a possible future for the Gulf of Mexico that doesn't include

hazardous offshore oil drilling. In the final segment, Alan MacLeod looks at a purported fake-news watchdog,

Graphika, which actually is staffed by numerous retired military, CIA and NATO personnel, and dismisses

many domestic alternative media organizations as tools of foreign "enemies."

 

 

Notes:

Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of the news web site www.Shadowproof.com 

He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from the beginning,

as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases.
Jayeesha Dutta is co-founder of AnotherGulf.com; she also works with the Climate Justice Alliance.

Alan MacLeod is a media scholar and a senior staff writer at Mint Press News.

Project Censored - 02.01.22

Program Summary:

Eleanor Goldfield returns to the program to address several topics in media and world events, including the ongoing scandal of Julian Assange's imprisonment,

the folly of threatening Russia, and the shallowness of commercial media. Then media scholar Nolan Higdon revisits the program to explain how tech giants

are infiltrating the classroom by sponsoring carefully-tailored "media-literacy" course materials.

 

Eleanor Goldfield is a journalist, artist, and organizer; her web site is www.artkillingapathy.com She also produced a documentary, Hard Road of Hope,

about West Virginia communities confronting pollution from fracking (www.hardroadofhope.com). The Craig Murray article she mentions (about Julian Assange)

can be found at  consortiumnews.com/2022/01/25/craig-murray-your-man-in-the-courtroom-is-there-an-exit 

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. He's also the author of the book "The Anatomy of Fake News."

His recent article (co-written with Allison Butler) is titled "Time to Put Your Marketing Cap On." It appears in the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.

 

Project Censored - 01.25.22

Prof. Aviva Chomsky joined Mickey for a Zoom lecture in April 2021, an event presented by Project Censored and KPFA radio.

The occasion was the release of her new book, which revisits Central American history, especially the wars of the 1980s and

their ongoing consequences. This week's program presents excerpts from that event.

 

 

Notes:

 

This is a rebroadcast of a previously-aired Project Censored Show.

 

Aviva Chomsky, eldest daughter of Noam Chomsky, is professor of history at Salem State University in Massachusetts;

her field is Latin American studies. She's written extensively about immigration, and also has been involved in Latin American

solidarity work for over a quarter-century. Her book, Central America's Forgotten History, is published by Beacon Press.

 

 

 

 

Music-break information:
1) "Marwa Blues" by George Harrison
2) "Ride Across the River" by Dire Straits
3) "Phoenix" by Wishbone Ash