Project Censored

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.

Project Censored - 08/27/13

Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio August 23,  Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips talk about the Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning case and the state of whistle blowing and the so-called free press with independent journalist and author Kevin Gosztola; they then turn to a report on Apple Exposed: The Untold Story of Globalization by professors Nicki Lisa Cole and Tara Krishna; and conclude the show with a look at repression of the indigenous community Rio Blanco in Honduras with Vicki Cervantes of La Voz de los de Abajo. 

Project Censored - 08/20/13

This week's Project Censored program focuses on the hazards of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and federal officials' attempts to downplay some those hazards. 
 

U.S. EPA officials denied last year that groundwater contamination in Dimock, Pennsylvania was due to fracking, although EPA's own scientists knew that fracking was the culprit. And, whistleblowers say, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used a false name in internal correspondence about the Dimock situation. Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview Steve Horn, writer for www.desmogblog.com, discusses these stories. Then Richard Heinberg of the Post-Carbon Institute speaks about his new book "Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future." Heinberg explains the hazards to water and air from fracking.

Project Censored - 08/13/13

Mickey Huff in studio with 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?  Guests  challenge that narrative and bring the conversation to another level. Huff and Phillips interview Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka, Nagasaki bombing survivor; Professor Jacques Pauwels, author of The Myth of the Good War; and Andrew Phillips who talks about his 1984 interview with Wilfred Burtcher (one of the first journalists on the ground at Hiroshima after the bomb dropped). 

Project Censored - 08/06/13

Mickey Huff in studio with Peter Phillips review the NEW award-winning documentary “Project Censored the Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News” AND newly released interview outtakes with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky talking about Project Censored, war, history, and the media. These are only available to the general public here and now for the first time!

Project Censored - 07/30/13

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips play segments of  Project Censored the Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News and discuss the forthcoming book, Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times.  Both can be pre-ordered on line at:  WWW.Projectcensored.org

Project Censored - 07/23/13

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview two whistleblowers, Alicia Dabney and Lesa Donnelley, who filed sexual harassment complaints when they worked for the USDA Forest Service. Then they  take an in depth look at the accreditation process and the threatened closure of the largest community college in CA, CC San Francisco— speaking with independent reporter Rick Sterling and Wendy Kaufmyn of Save CCSF.  They conclude the show with educator and author Bill Bigelow talking about censorship in Indiana, the latest flap with former GOP Governor Mitch Daniels, now president of Purdue University, who tried to purge Howard Zinn's People's History text from the classrooms.