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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.

Project Censored - 01/28/14

Mickey Huff in Studio with Peter Phillips interview  Dr. Helen Caldicott – A prominent pediatrician who left her medical practice in 1980, after the Three Mile Island nuclear accident (33 years ago) to publicize the dangers of nuclear power and nuclear weapons on earth and in space.  She will be addressing the real dangers of the Fukushima diaster. For the 2nd half of the show they talk with Jim Riccio a lawyer who has worked for Greenpeace since 2001 as its Nuclear Policy Analyst.

Project Censored - 01/21/14

Mickey Huff in Studio with Peter Phillips interview Dr. Thomas Moore author of the new book “A Religion of One’s Own.”  Thomas Moore was monk for twelve years, and also an university professor, musician and psychotherapist.He has written several books including the best seller “Care of the Soul.” He holds a Ph.D. in religion from Syracuse University. 

Project Censored - 01/14/14

On the Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, Mickey Huff speaks with Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee about NSA surveillance and the growing resistance to such programs, he also talks about Guantanamo 12 years on, and other civil liberties issues. In the second half of the show Sarah van Gelder, co-founder of YES! Magazine returns to the program to discuss “Ten Hopeful Things That Happened in 2013 to Get You Inspired for What’s to Come.”

Project Censored - 01/07/14

The Project Censored Show, Pacifica Radio Friday, January 3, 2014, 8 A.M. looks at sixty-year history of China  from the Great Leap Forward, through the Cultural Revolution and the Communist Party today. In studio with Peter Phillips for the hour is Professor Dongping Han author of “The Unknown Cultural Revolution: Life and Change in a Chinese Village. Joining him also is Ann Tompkins educator/activist who worked and studied in China for five years during the height of China’s Cultural Revolution. 

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.