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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.

Project Censored - 07/16/13

Project Censored Show on KPFA, Pacifica Radio hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips talk religion and social justice with Dr. Matthew Fox, author most recently of Letters to Pope Francis: Rebuilding a Church with Justice and Compassion; near the bottom of the hour- censorship at PBS involving the new documentary Citizen Koch, which looks at the influential conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, award-winning filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin tell the story; and the show concludes with a discussion on the annual summer encampment of the San Francisco Bohemian Club now taking place on the Russian River in Northern California.

Project Censored - 07/09/13

Join Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips for their special Independence Day After program as they move beyond the flag waving, jingoistic nationalism and discuss a patriotism for the people, the impact of money on democracy in the US, and much more with former CA Green Party gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells and Prof. Robert McChesney (author most recently w John Nichols of "Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America").

Project Censored - 07/02/13

On the June 28 Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio Mickey Huff and  Peter Phillips speak to Napoleon Gomez about his new book Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico. the show also carries  a special report from Tara Dorobji who recently spoke with author Mat Johnson about how writers of color are often locked out of the publishing world. They conclude the show with a conversation with surveillance state expert and philosophy professor Elliot Cohen about the ramifications of NSA leaker Edward Snowen, how the corporate media are missing the story about living in a full blown 1984.

Project Censored - 06/25/13

On the Project Censored Show, KPFA Pacifica Radio, hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview author Dr. Paul Palmer on Zero Waste and offer solutions to the growing problems of waste management and recycling programs. During the second half of the show they interview  journalist and activist Sunsara Taylor of StopPatriachy.org who talks about radical feminism, recent censorship on women's rights issues (especially concerning abortion rights), and  radically transforming a patriarchal world by addressing the overarching problems of capitalism and oppression.

Project Censored - 06/11/13

Mickey Huff in studio with Peter Phillips analyze the state of the free press and civil liberties in the US.  They kick things off with Sue Wilson, founder of the Media Action Center, about the private censorship of public airwaves and the FCC’s possible ruling deciding whether or not right wing radio is “bonafide” news; then legendary free press proponent and documentary filmmaker John Pilger joins in from London for commentary on the state of the free press as well as his latest film project; and they close out the show with Beau Hodai, author of the new study published by the Center for Media and Democracy, “Dissent or Terror: how the nation's counter terrorism apparatus, in partnership with corporate America, turned on Occupy Wall Street.”

Project Censored - 05/21/13

Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips visit the issue of the new poverty in the United States as they play excerpts from the movie Ain’t I A Person directed by Dr. Keith Kilty. From the film we will hear the voices of people trapped in poverty by expanding structural unemployment, continuing racism, and a deep seated 30 year attack on the social safety net in the US. We’ll also hear live in studio from sociology professor Sheila Katz on increases in urban poverty and the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty.