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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.

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.