Project Censored

Project Censored - 01.31.17

Guest co-hosts Nolan Higdon and Desiree McSwain, and senior correspondent Michael Levitin, 

open the program with a discussion about several recent under-reported stories. Then the talk turns to "fake news," 

as Chase Palmieri and Jared Fesler explain their web site -- Tribeworthy.com -- where readers can collectively evaluate 

the validity of news stories. Finally, Quinton Sankofa of Movement Generation explains the connections between 

environmental concerns and racial justice. 

Project Censored - 01.24.17

 

Recorded on Inauguration Day, this edition includes interviews with three organizers 

of opposition or resistance to the new Trump regime. Also on the program, the hosts 

discuss recent important stories not reported -- or misreported -- by corporate media. 

 

Nolan Higdon and Desiree McSwain are guest co-hosts on this week's program; they're joined by 
senior correspondent Michael Levitin. Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips will return in two weeks.

 

Web site mentioned on the program:
www.indivisibleguide.com 

Project Censored - 01.17.17

Peter and Mickey spend the hour with journalist and media scholar Brian Covert, 

discussing the too-close relationship between the CIA and U.S. media, as well as other issues, 

including the Obama Administration "pivot" toward Asia. 

Brian Covert is an independent journalist, and a lecturer at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.

His chapter on the CIA and the media, "Played by the Mighty Wurlitzer," appears in the Censored 2017 yearbook.

Project Censored - 01.10.17

For the first half of the program, Peter and Mickey speak with sociologist William Carroll, 

about his latest research into the "transnational corporate class" -- top corporate board members 

and executives -- who wield vast influence over public policy.

 

Then Sunsara Taylor and Rafael Caderas make the case for "stopping the Trump regime before it starts;" 

they advocate mass protests on the scale of the anti-Mubarak uprising in Egypt. Their web site is www.refusefascism.org.

Project Censored - 01.03.17

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

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

and obstruction to African-American equality, from Reconstruction to modern times.

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 - 12.20.16

For the first half of the program, Peter and Mickey discuss the conflict in Syria; their guest is independent journalist Eva Bartlett, 

who recently returned from Aleppo and is now on a U.S. speaking tour. She explains why most corporate media coverage of Syria 

doesn't depict the actual situation there. In the second half of the program, the guest is Joey Johnson, whose burning of a flag 

in 1984 became a U.S. Supreme Court free-speech case. Johnson is facing charges again over the burning of a flag outside 

the 2016 Republican National Convention. 

 

Web sites mentioned on the program:

www.ingaza.wordpress.com

www.syriasolidaritymovement.org

www.handsoffsyriacoalition.net

www.refusefacism.org

Project Censored - 12.13.16

In this rebroadcast of a Project Censored show from August, 2016, 

Mickey speaks with two authors in the new "Hot Books" series. 

First, Nicholas Schou discusses "Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates 

the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood." Then Alexander Zaitchik describes 

his study of Trump voters, "Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America." 
Also on hand for the hour is author David Talbot, the founder and editorial director of Hot Books; 

he explains its mission, and describes some of the other titles in the Hot Books series.  

 

Web sites mentioned on the program:
www.hotbookspress.com
www.skyhorsepublishing.com
www.zaitchik.com

Project Censored - 12.06.16

In the first half of the program, mathematician Rick Luttmann discusses ranked-choice voting 

and why it is superior to the prevalent "plurality voting" system. Also, investigative journalist Greg Palast 

returns to Project Censored to explain how GOP vote-supression tactics may have stolen the 2016 election

(he calls it a "Jim Crow election").

In the second half of the program, two activists recently returned from Standing Rock describe the violence 

police there are inflicting on the water protectors and their allies. Nadya Tannous and Damanjeet Singh 

also explain why the Standing Rock confrontation is an anti-colonial struggle.

Project Censored - 11.29.16

Peter and Mickey begin the program with a case study in independent publishing: Seven Stories Press. 

The guests are Seven Stories' publisher, Dan Simon, and author/cartoonist Ted Rall, whose work is published 

at Seven Stories (Seven Stories is also the publisher of Project Censored's books). 

 

Then, in light of Donald Trump's election, we rebroadcast an excerpt from a July interview with Ted Rall, 

about his biography of Trump. 

 

The show concludes with a conversation with nuclear-power watchdogs Arnie and Maggie Gunderson, 

about what Trump's election may bode for the nuclear industry. 

 

websites mentioned on this program:
www.sevenstories.com
www.tedrall.com
www.fairewinds.org

Project Censored - 11.22.16

This is a rebroadcast of a November 2013 Project Censored show, when Peter and Mickey spoke with director Oliver Stone 

and historian Peter Kuznick, about the 50th anniversary of the JFK assassination, and a look at the vital role JFK played in US and world history.

 Oliver Stone's films include the controversial "JFK" (1992). Peter Kuznick is a historian at American University. 

Kuznick and Stone are co-authors and co-producers of the book and TV series, "the Untold History of the United States."