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Project Censored - 01/01/14

On the December 27 Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio is entitled Nelson Mandela and the Legacy of Apartheid. Recently, hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips had a discussion with independent journalist and filmmaker Danny Schechter, author of Madiba A to Z: the Many Faces of Nelson Mandela; and Dr. Amer Araim, who worked at the United Nations for 14 years to end apartheid in South Africa and has written about Mandela’s legacy and the situation in Israel/Palestine. On this week's program, we play that prerecorded interview. Special thanks to our producer, Anthony Fest. 

Project Censored - 12/17/13

This week's Project Censored Show is from our JFK special. This hour we air our interview with Mark Lane.

This week on the Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, Peter Phillips and Mickey Huff recently interviewed Mark Lane as part of their four hour JFK anniversary special. We air that interview in our hourly spot this week. Mark Lane is an attorney and a leading researcher/author on the assassination of President Kennedy. From his 1966 bestselling critique of the Warren Commission, Rush to Judgment, and later work Plausible Denial, to Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK, Lane is noted as a key expert in matters regarding the JFK assassination and subsequent government cover-up.

Project Censored - 12/03/13

Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio November 29 Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips present another installment in the four-hour series they produced on the 50th anniversary of the JFK Assassination. For the hour, they interview Peter Dale Scott, author many books, including Deep Politics and the Death of JFK. The discussion looks at the phenomenon of Deep Events, and the long view of the role of a rogue and secret US government involved in various assassinations and covert activities of the past sixty years. From JFK to today, Deep Politics, at home and abroad.  (This show is a rebroadcast that originally aired Friday, Nov. 22, at 1 P.M. Pacific time on KPFA).

Project Censored - JFK Special with Oliver Stone - 11/26/13

Oliver Stone is an award-winning filmmaker. His movie JFK stirred national controversy in 1991 about the assassination of JFK that lead to the passage of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act by the US Congress in 1992. Stone is co-author of The Untold History of the United States book and television series.

 

Peter Kuznick, Ph.D., is professor of history at American University and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States book and television series.

Project Censored - 10/14/13

On the Project Censored Pacifica show Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips review a selection of the most important news stories not covered by the corporate media in 2012-13 from the now released Censored 2014 yearbook. They interview Nolan Higdon regarding his new posting “Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones’ War on Your Mind.” Additionally, they play segments of the newly available award winning documentary Project Censored the Movie—Ending the Reign of Junk Food News including an interview with the late Howard Zinn. 

Project Censored - 10/08/13

On the Project Censored Pacifica show Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips review a selection of the most important news stories not covered by the corporate media in 2012-13 from the now released Censored 2014 yearbook. They interview Nolan Higdon regarding his new posting “Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones’ War on Your Mind.” Additionally, they play segments of the newly available award winning documentary Project Censored the Movie—Ending the Reign of Junk Food News including an interview with the late Howard Zinn. 

Project Censored - 10/01/13

Peter Phillips and Andy Roth preview on the most important news stories not covered by the corporate media in 2012-13 from the soon to be released Censored 2014 yearbook. Additionally, they play segments of the award winning documentary Project Censored the Movie—Ending the Reign of Junk Food News, which just won the award for best directors at the Madrid International Film festival in July.

Project Censored - 09/24/13

Banned Books Week Special on the Project Censored Show on Pacifica’s Free Speech Radio. Join hosts Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips in conversation with Barbara Jones, Director of the Office for Intellectual Freedom and the Executive Director of the Freedom to Read Foundation of the American Library Association about this year’s BBW; then hear from students on the front lines of banned books from Hadley Junior High School and Lane Tech to discuss  the banning of On the Perks of Being a Wallflower and the 451 club; the BBW special continues with Michael O’Neil of the National Coalition Against Censorship and concludes with Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund. 

Project Censored - Truth and Consequences: Hegemonic Mythologies in American Empire - 09/10/13

Mickey Huff with Peter Phillips Co-hosts for the Project Censored  show on KPFA Pacifica discuss Truth and Consequences: Hegemonic Mythologies in American Empire with Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil. The program deconstructs the developing march to war in Syria. They also interview Abby Martin of RT’s Breaking the Set on  9/11 and the propaganda of official historical narratives. They also talk about the upcoming 9/11 film festival in Oakland (50 years of betrayal from JFK to today), more events in NY 12 years later, and ongoing corporate media censorship and framing in maintenance of American Empire.

Project Censored - 09/03/13

On the Project Censored show August 30 from KPFA Mickey Huff inteviews Ethnomusicologist Dr. T.M. Scruggs on the music of resistance inside the Bolivarian revolution with original recordings from Caracas. During the second part of the show Chris Cox’s from Junkyard Empire joins in the discussion with samples of contemporary resistance music in the US.