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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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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. 

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.

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 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. 

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.

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).