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Project Censored - 04/29/14

Peter Phillips interviews Indigo Cantor campaign manager with The International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee, regarding the recent passing of Peter Matthiessen author of the book "Spirit of Crazy Horse" and close friend to the Free Leonard Peltier movement. His second guest is Legal Scholar and Retired Judge of the California State Bar Court Lise Pearlman. She is the author of a book and pending movie regarding Black Panther party founder Huey P. Newton titled,  "The Sky’s the Limit: People V. Newton: The Real Trial of the 20th Century." (Mickey Huff will return next week)

Project Censored - 04/22/14

Project Censored - Politics of Genocide and the 20th anniversary of the tragic mass killings in Rwanda in 1994 - 04/11/14

On the Project Censored show from Pacifica, Peter Phillips with guest co-host Ann Garrison discuss the Politics of Genocide and the 20th anniversary of the tragic mass killings in Rwanda in 1994. Their first guest is Robin Philpot a Montreal author of the new book "Rwanda and the New Scramble for Africa, from Tragedy to Useful Imperial fiction." Their second guest is Edward Herman professor Emeritus at Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and co-author of the Monthly Review Press book "The Politics of Genocide."

 

Herman argues that some genocides such as Kosovo and Rwanda in 1994 have been heavily publicized in the West to advance a specific economic agenda, eventually leading to a minority controlled government of pro-Western and pro-business Tutsi, while other genocides, such as in East Timor, have been largely ignored for the same reason. Herman and Peterson wrote that the Western establishment has "swallowed a propaganda line on Rwanda that turned perpetrator and victim upside-down....the great majority of deaths were Hutu, with some estimates as high as two million

Project Censored - Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare - 04/08/14

Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio April 4 Mickey Huff covers  Global Politics, Manufacturing Crisis, and Manifesting Peace through Nonviolence (and a Free Press). Joining him of the program is Gareth Porter, author of Manufacturing Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare. Then Dr. Michael Nagler joins the conversation about his latest publication The Nonviolence Handbook: A Guide for Practical Action; and Mickey closes out the hour with Andrew Kreig with an update on the jailed Alabama blogger/journalist Roger Shuler. 

Project Censored - Hollywood - 04/03/14

On the March 28th Project Censored show from Pacifica Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips address the issues of Hollywood outsourcing of jobs and the high tech impacts on public education. 

Project Censored - Deep Politics, the Deep State, and Dark Events - 03/18/14

This Project Censored Show with Mickey Huff with Peter Phillips covers the theme Deep Politics, the Deep State, and Dark Events. Their first guest is author, scholar, and former diplomat, Peter Dale Scott, long time reseracher on the topic in its many guises from JFK to 9/11.  The show continues with independent journalist and filmmaker Kristina Borjesson concerning the TWA Flight 800 event about which she recently produced a comprehensive documentary film investigating the many unresolved controversies.

Project Censored - 02/25/14

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips discuss the decision to drop the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, was it necessary as the official historical narrative suggests? Our guests today challenge that narrative and bring the conversation to another level. We’re joined by Minister Nobuaki Hanaoka, Nagasaki bombing survivor; Professor Jacques Pauwels, author of The Myth of the Good War; and Andrew Phillips who talks about his interview with Wilfred Burtchett (one of the first journalists on the ground at Hiroshima after the bomb dropped)

Project Censored - 02/18/14

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips review the new DVD release of the Oliver Stone' and Peter Kiznick's The Untold History of the United States. Deeply researched by an American University team of historians, the ten hour Showtime documentary seriesis a provocative challenge to the status quo of American history in the tradition of Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United State. The film series covers the rise of the American Empire and national security state from the late nineteenth century through the Obama administration.

Project Censored - 02/07/14

On the February 7th for the Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, Mickey Huff with Peter Phillips review the issues around two important State Crimes Against Democracy the JFK Assassination and 9/11. Both have serious factual errors in the US government’s official explanation for what happened. Research on both has been under-minded by negative labeling these State Crimes as conspiracy theory.

Project Censored - Nonviolent resistance to US imperial policies around the world - 02/04/14

In the Project Censored show this week Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips focus on nonviolent resistance to US imperial policies around the world. Their first guest is School of the Americas Watch founder Fr. Roy Bourgeois, where they discuss upcoming events and actions on that front; then, recently they caught up with Prof. Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of Untold History of the United States, who talk to us about efforts to resist ongoing US imperialism with an update on what’s happening in Japan; and they close the hour discussing the annual San Francisco State University series the Gandhi-King Season for Nonviolence, joined by event organizer and instructor Kenn Burrows along with Renee Soule to learn more about the weekly events planned that run from now through April 22nd.