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Project Censored - 08.04.21

Mickey's first guest is long-time media activist and "culture jammer" Kalle Lasn,

the founder of Adbusters magazine. He summarizes the history of Adbusters,

and explains some recent developments, including the decision by Canada's dominant drug-store chain

to cease selling the magazine.

In the second half, Chase Palmieri returns to the program to explain the project he founded,

www.credder.com, the web site that gives news readers a place to evaluate the quality of news articles.

 

Kalle Lasn lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he founded Adbusters magazine in 1989;

he remains its editor-in-chief. He is also the author of three books, Culture Jam, Design Anarchy, and Meme Wars.

Chase Palmieri's work in the restaurant business inspired his idea that news consumers should have

a review site for journalism analogous to Yelp's role for restaurants; to provide this opportunity,

and create an incentive for news outlets to improve their product, he created www.credder.com 

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Host: Mickey Huff 

 

Producer: Anthony Fest

Project Censored - 07.27.21

Mickey's guest for the hour is political scientist Aaron Good. Good recently completed writing a critique

of the latest BBC documentary from Adam Curtis ("Can't Get You Out of My Head"), ultimately concluding

that the work is intended to distract and hide rather than reveal. His conversation with Mickey covers issues

from the JFK assassination to changes in the world financial system in the 1970s.

 

Aaron Good holds a doctorate in political science from Temple University. His three-part critique

of Adam Curtis can be found online at www.kennedysandking.com    He has a book, American Exception:

Empire and the Deep State, scheduled for release in 2022.

 

Host: Mickey Huff 

 

Producer: Anthony Fest

Project Censored - 07.20.21

This week's program presents edited audio of a July 13, 2021 Zoom conversation in which

Mickey hosted author Dan Kovalik. Kovalik spoke about his latest work, "Cancel This Book:

The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture." Kovalik warns of the dangers of 'cancel culture'

on the left, and advocates instead for dialogue and tolerance of differing opinions.

 

Dan Kovalik is a law professor and a prolific author; some of his recent books

include "No More War," and "The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela."

 

Host: Mickey Huff 

 

Producer: Anthony Fest

 

Project Censored - 07.14.21

How did the dominant corporate media cover Joe Biden's first 100 days as President? And how has media coverage of

Biden differed from that given to Donald Trump?  Mickey is joined by Emil Marmol and Nolan Higdon to discuss a forthcoming article

the three of them wrote on these topics.

Then Jennifer Lyons speaks about her new academic study of left-populist podcasts, and how their perspectives differ from those of

legacy media such as cable TV.

 

 

 

Notes:

Nolan Higdon teaches at California State University, East Bay. He and Emil Marmot are frequent contributors to Project Censored.

Their forthcoming article will be titled, "Returning to Neoliberal Normalcy."

Jennifer Lyons teaches History at Diablo Valley College; her forthcoming article on left-populist media was coauthored with Nolan Higdon.

Project Censored - 05.11.21

This week's program presents excerpts from a live online discussion co-produced by Project Censored and the Real News Network.

The first in a series of three programs examining life and media in the modern age of pervasive digital communication,

it examines the question "Is Freedom Possible in the Digital Era?"

The panelists were Andy Lee Roth, Allison Butler and John K. Wilson;

moderators were Maximillian Alvarez and Mickey Huff.

 

Notes:

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, and co-editor of the annual Project Censored books.

Alison Butler teaches in the Department of Communications at the University of Massachusetts.

John K. Wilson is Contributing Editor to Academeblog.org, a project of the American Association of University Professors.

Maximillian Alvarez is Editor-in-Chief at the Real News Network

A video of the entire program can be see at www.youtube.com/watch?v=07jht-StlI8  

 

Music-Break information:

1) "Long Red" by Mountain

2) "Pipeline" by the Alan Parsons Project

Project Censored - 04.06.21

Mickey's first guest is Shahid Buttar, who in 2020 ran against Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat

in the House of Representatives; he speaks about prospects for progressive change in 2021.

Then author Dan Kovalik returns to the program to discuss his latest work, "Cancel This Book,"

which warns of the dangers of 'cancel culture.'

 

Notes:

 

Shahid Buttar is a civil-rights lawyer; he's worked at public-interest organizations

including the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

In the 2020 election, he challenged long-time incumbent Nancy Pelosi for her seat

in California's 12th District (San Francisco).

Dan Kovalik is a law professor and a prolific author; some of his recent books

include "No More War," and "The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela."

 

 

 

The Project Censored Show:

 

Host: Mickey Huff 

 

Producer: Anthony Fest

 

Music-break information:

1) "What About Me?" by Quicksilver Messenger Service

2) "Let's Work Together" by Canned Heat

3) "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield

Project Censored - 03.30.21

Mickey's guest for the first half of this week's show is Jordan Elgrably,

editor of a new publication: the Markaz Review www.themarkaz.org

They explore some of the topics covered in this month's issue, "Why Truth?"

In the second half of the show, Andy Lee Roth explains how

nonhuman censors -- algorithms -- are exerting tremendous, yet unseen,

control over which stories users of online media are able to see.

 

Notes:

 

Jordan Elgrably, editor of the Markaz Review, is a widely-published writer.

He was also the cofounder of the Levantine Cultural Center in Los Angeles.

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, and coeditor

of the Project's annual volume of censored stories and other media analysis.

His article on algorithms as media gatekeepers can be found at

themarkaz.org/magazine/the-new-gatekeepers-andy-lee-roth  

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Host: Mickey Huff 

 

Producer: Anthony Fest

 

Music-break information:

1) "What is Truth?" by Johnny Cash

2) "Gimme Some Truth" by John Lennon

3) "Welcome to the Machine" by Pink Floyd

Archives at 

www.projectcensored.org/category/radio

Project Censored - 03.23.21

In the first half of the program, peace organizer Medea Benjamin looks at the

Biden Administration's foreign policy, and finds it mainly a disappointment.

Then Rebecca Grace and John Gray introduce the Complete Picture Project,

an organization that assembles videos of nonviolent offenders facing sentencing,

so that a sentencing judge will learn more about an offender's entire life,

including family and community connections, rather than only the criminal record.

 

 

Notes:

 

Medea Benjamin is co-founder of the women's peace organization Code Pink;

she's also written eight books, including "Inside Iran" and "Kingdom of the Unjust."

Her recent article on Biden's foreign policy can be found at

progressive.org/dispatches/biden-foreign-policy-ten-problems-davies-benjamin-210313 

 

Rebecca Grace and John Gray are the founders of the Complete Picture Project.

Gray himself served a prison term for crimes related to an old drug habit.

The organization's web site is www.completepicture.org 

Project Censored - 03.17.21

Aaron Good teaches at a Quaker high school in Pennsylvania. He invited Daniel Ellsberg to speak to his class via Zoom, and also secretly invited

several of Ellsberg's fellow authors or whistleblowers, making the event a surprise tribute to Ellsberg, and a panel discussion of both historic and

recent events in the peace movement.

 

Notes:

 

Daniel Ellsberg is best-known as the whistleblower who leaked the “Pentagon Papers” to the press, but has also written on the threat posed by nuclear weapons,

and on other issues of war and peace.  Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC, and co-author of

“The Untold History of the United States.” 

Katherine Gun is a British whistleblower who exposed U-S efforts to browbeat other nations into supporting George W. Bush's 2003 invasion of Iraq. 

Peter Dale Scott is a retired professor, a former Canadian diplomat, and a prolific author on the 'deep state.'  James Galbraith is Professor of Government

at the University of Texas, and a son of the late author John Kenneth Galbraith.  Aaron Good teaches at a Quaker high school in Pennsylvania,

holds a doctorate from Temple University, and is a frequent contributor to Project Censored.

Project Censored - 03.11.21

Today's guests say that the National Park Service is betraying its mission at California's Point Reyes National Seashore by favoring legacy cattle ranches and dairies

over preservation of the land and the survival of the native Tule Elk. Peter Byrne and Will Carruthers also present examples of the local ranch and dairy businesses wielding

undue influence in the region's  politics, and corrupting a local land-preservation nonprofit. They add that only the presence of an independent weekly newspaper

has enabled the public to be aware of these problems.

 

Notes:

 

Peter Byrne is an investigative journalist who has written on a wide array of topics, from science and medicine to public finance.

His article “Apocalypse Cow” can be read at www.pacificsun.com. All of Byrne's work can be found at www.PeterByrne.info

Will Carruthers is the staff reporter for the Pacific Sun and North Bay Bohemian weekly newspapers, serving California's Marin,

Sonoma and Napa counties.