Tag: The Project Censored Show

How do establishment media outlets frame and curate our reality? How prevalent is propaganda, and censorship in the US, at a time when we desperately need transparent factual reporting? In this episode, Mickey talks to two media analysts to find out as he welcomes back two leading scholars and journalists, Alan MacLeod and Robin Andersen. […]

Sociologist and author William I. Robinson returns to the program to speak about his forthcoming book, “The Global Police State,” from Pluto Press. Also on the program is sociologist and author Peter Phillips. For the hour, they discuss the corporate-directed changes in the economy that have left more and more of the world’s population without […]

August 6th and 9th, 2020 mark the 75th anniversaries of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by U.S. forces. U.S. politicians and media personalities often claim that the bombings were the only option President Truman had to bring World War II to a swift end, but historian Peter Kuznick says this is a myth. […]

How do private interests maintain control over public land? Mickey and his guests explore the example of Point Reyes National Seashore in California, where commercial ranches and dairies still operate, despite being bought out after the park’s creation in 1962. Also in the conversation, how can national parks be made more welcoming and accessible to […]

Mickey welcomes two frequent guests back to the program, each with a new book on electoral politics. Greg Palast is a veteran investigative reporter, his new book is “How Trump Stole 2020.” Greg explains how biased politicians and election officials are discarding millions of votes nationwide, targeting voters of color in mass election fraud. Then, […]

On this week’s Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon discuss the topic of fake news and how it relates to Higdon’s forthcoming book, “The Anatomy of Fake News: A Critical News Literacy Education.” The discussion includes a look at the long history of fake news, as well as Higdon’s proposed fake news detection […]

Project Censored researcher and author Amber Yang, a Restorative Justice and Wellness Coordinator at Novato High School in Marin County, California rejoins the show along with Phoebe Smith, a long-time public-school teacher, teacher trainer, and consultant to school districts on restorative-justice practices in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. As the concept of “defunding the […]

https://www.projectcensored.org/podcast-player/22928/dan-kovalik-and-chris-finan.mp3 Author Dan Kovalik joins the program to explain why the “humanitarian” wars of the U.S. and its allies only make life even worse for the people they ostensibly protect. Then free-press advocate Chris Finan produces evidence that police around the US are deliberately attacking journalists covering the recent Black Lives Matter demonstrations. Notes: Dan […]

Mickey’s first guest this week is media scholar Robin Andersen, who  explains the misleading consequences of portraying the coronavirus crisis as a “war;” she and Mickey also review the media treatment of the police murder of George Floyd. Then artist/activist Eleanor Goldfield returns to the show to describe her new documentary “Hard Road of Hope,” a look at the history of labor […]

by Project Censored May 18, 2020 May 18, 2020 https://www.projectcensored.org/podcast-player/22820/part-ii-of-the-kent-state-series.mp3 50 years have passed since Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on Kent State University students  protesting the Vietnam War. Four students were killed and nine wounded. On this Part II of our two-part  Kent-State series, Mickey and his guests reflect on the Kent State […]