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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 

Project Censored - 12.14.21

Program Summary:

 

Project Censored's new annual volume will soon be available. "State of the Free Press 2022"

includes the well-known 'Top 25' censored stories of the preceding year, as well as many more chapters of media analysis.

Andy Lee Roth and Steve Macek of Project Censored spend the hour with Mickey to discuss the new book, and also explain

Project Censored's procedures for identifying and compiling under-reported stories.

 

Notes:

 

Andy Lee Roth is associate director of Project Censored; he holds a PhD in Sociology from UCLA and has published widely on media issues.

Steve Macek teaches Communications and Media Studies at North Central College in Illinois.

Roth and Macek are co-coordinators of Project Censored's Campus Affiliates Program.

 

Project Censored - 12.07.21

Program Summary:

 

Author Chris Hedges also teaches college-level courses for New Jersey state prison inmates. His new book, “Our Class,” explains what happened

when Hedges taught a dramatic-literature course to inmates, then helped them write a play of their own – “Caged” – based on their personal life events.

As well, the inmates' stories illustrate the many cruelties of life in an American prison.  Chris Hedges spoke at a KPFA / Project Censored Zoom event

on November 18; this week's program presents excerpts from that talk.

 

Notes:

 

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist with a long career as a war correspondent around the world. He hosts the program "On Contact"

for RT Television, and writes online at www.scheerpost.com. His previous books include "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," "Death of the Liberal Class,"

and "America: The Farewell Tour."

 

Project Censored - 11.16.21

This week we present a rebroadcast of a speech delivered one year ago by journalist Chris Hedges.

In a Zoom speech shortly after the 2020 election, Hedges spoke about the deeper forces of political and economic decay

afflicting the US. This episode contains Hedges' complete speech, titled "The Culture of Despair."

 

Notes:

 

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist with a long career as a foreign correspondent around the world.

He hosts the program "On Contact" for RT Television, and writes online at www.scheerpost.com  His books include

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning,  Death of the Liberal Class, and most recently, America: The Farewell Tour.

Project Censored - 11.10.21

Online journalist Kevin Gosztola returns to the program to deliver an update about

the Julian Assange extradition case in the UK, and its disturbing impacts for press freedom.

Then in the second half, Eleanor Goldfield tells about the remarkable range of issues in which

Wikileaks has obtained and published secret documents.

 

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.

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. 

 

Project Censored - 11.02.21

Mickey's guest for the full hour is media scholar Victor Pickard of the University of Pennsylvania.

They discuss Pickard's 2019 book, "Democracy Without Journalism?"  Pickard describes the dimensions

of recent years' precipitous drop in the employment of reporters, and its likely consequences for society.

He explains the historical roots of this new crisis, and offers remedies that center on building publicly-supported 

journalism institutions that aren't coupled to commercial values.

 

Project Censored - 10.26.21

Program Summary:

With British courts nearing a possible decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., Jeff Mackler speaks to Mickey

about the campaign to free Assange (the founder of the Wikileaks web site). Then we hear a conversation with online journalist

Kevin Gosztola about the Assange case, as well as cases of several U.S. whistleblowers. 

Jeff Mackler is a member of  www.AssangeDefense.org  and a co-organizer of a Oct. 23 free-Assange demonstration in Oakland, CA.

He's also on the board of the United National Antiwar Coalition.

 

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.

Mickey's conversation with Kevin Gosztola is a rebroadcast from a Project Censored Show of this past August

Project Censored - 10.20.21

Program Summary:

September 17, 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street. Journalist Michael Levitin was there at its beginning,

and, among other roles, edited the Occupy Wall Street Journal. His new book Generation Occupy, chronicles the history of the Occupy

movement and its ongoing influence. He and Mickey Huff spoke in a Zoom event presented by Diablo Valley College on October 14.

 

Michael Levitin is a widely-published journalist who in 2011 started the Occupy Wall Street Journal. Prior to taking part in Occupy,

he wrote for publications such as the Financial Times and Los Angeles Times. He now teaches journalism at Diablo Valley College.

His web site is www.michaellevitin.com