Project Censored

Project Censored - 10.10.17

Mickey and his guests spend the hour addressing election integrity: are US elections clean, and how can voters be sure? 

The guests suggest that there are serious doubts about the validity of some recent elections, and ask why corporate media have ignored these issues. 

 

Notes:

 

Richard Tamm and Jim Soper are are members of the National Voting Rights Task Force, and organizers of a national conference on election integrity

that was held in Berkeley, CA on October 7 and 8. Jonathan Simon is executive director of the Election Defense Alliance, and the author of Code Red, 

a new book about electoral manipulation. Mark Crispin Miller teaches at New York University, and is the author of Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election.

Web sites for organizations and individuals mentioned on this week's show:
www.nvrtf.org
www.codered2016.com
www.forbiddenbookshelf.com

www.markcrispinmiller.com

Project Censored - 10.03.17

Mickey and Peter devote this week's show to discussions about the media, including both critiques of corporate media 

and a briefing on the latest work from Project Censored. Their first guest, Rob Williams, speaks about fighting corporate fake news, 

and introduces his suggested additions to the 'propaganda model' set forth by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in 1988's "Manufacturing Consent." 

Then Telesur contributor Abby Martin explains the corporate media's gross misrepresentations of the conflict in Venezuela. Finally, Andy Lee Roth 

joins Mickey to discuss some of the stories and ideas in "Censored 2018," Project Censored's just-published compendium of the latest underreported stories. 

 

Notes:

 

Rob Williams teaches at the University of Vermont and also works with the Action Coalition for Media Education and the Global Critical Media Literacy Project. 

Abby Martin hosts "the Empire Files" show on Telesur, and formerly hosted "Breaking the Set" on RT. 

Andy Lee Roth teaches at Citrus College in Southern California. and was co-editor (with Mickey Huff) of "Censored 2018."

Project Censored - 09.26.17

This week's show coincides with Banned-Books-Week, and Mickey spends the hour with five guests, representing 

a variety of perspectives, but all in agreement on the need to defend peoples' right to read. The topics of discussion 

include the origin of Banned-Books-Week in the 1980s, the ongoing attempts to restrict what students may read in school, 

and the continuing importance of comic books and graphic novels in today's media world. 

 

Project Censored - 09.19.17

Latin America and Journalism: Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham speak with Kali Persall 

(recently returned from a visit to Cuba), and T.M. Scruggs (recently returned from Nicaragua).

Kali Persall writes for the Pioneer newspaper in Hayward, California (www.thepioneeronline.com). 

TM Scruggs is a co-founder of the Real News Network (www.therealnews.com)

Project Censored - 09.12.17

Marking the 16^th anniversary of the September 11^th attacks, Peter and Mickey speak with two scholars who've written extensively about Sept. 11. 

The first guest is David Ray Griffin, author of nearly a dozen books about Sept. 11; he contends the Bush Administration played the central role in the attacks. 

In this appearance on the Project Censored Show, he speaks about some of the ideas in his latest book, Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World.

For the second half of the show, Tony Hall speaks about Mossad and Sept. 11, and how he was fired from a tenured professorship at a Canadian university after expressing his views. 

 

Project Censored - 09.05.17

Mickey's guest for the hour is the academic, and prolific author, Henry Giroux of McMaster University in Canada. 
They discuss some of the consequences of neoliberalism and authoritarianism for the US, and how US political culture deteriorated to a level that allowed Trump to be elected.  

Project Censored - 08.29.17

Peter Phillips and Michael Sukhov spend the hour in conversation with scholar/activist William Robinson. Addressing a wide range of topics, their discussion begins with Venezuela and corporate-media  misrepresentations of conditions around Latin America, then segues to US politics and the necessity of resisting facism. Later, Robinson opines on three possible futures for humanity. 

Project Censored - 08.23.17

A conversation about surveillance and authoritarianism, with Kalemba Kizito.

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Hosts: Nolan Higdon, Nicholas Baham and Desiree McSwain

Producer: Mitch Scorza

Project Censored - 08.15.17

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."  

Project Censored - 08.08.17

Nolan, Nicholas and Desiree speak with long-time community journalist Louis Laventure about how journalism needs to adapt to serve today's young people.