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We Need ‘More Muckrakers and Fewer Buck-Takers’

Kate Horgan — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 15:00:39 +0000

Mickey Huff Fifty years ago, Carl Jensen founded Project Censored because he knew that journalism was the lifeblood of democracy. He argued that the news media, despite its increasingly corporate and commercial nature, can have a positive influence on the world, especially when it operates ethically and independently in the…

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Networks of Resistance: From Lebanon to College Newsrooms

Kate Horgan — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 15:30:06 +0000

First up, journalist Afeef Nessouli joins the show to talk about the situation in Lebanon, and how corporate media deliberately flattens and dehumanizes in service of US-Israeli regional goals. Afeef explains the complex and interconnected networks of resistance and solidarity on the ground, the tangled web of imperialism, and how Lebanese journalists are, like their Palestinian counterparts, working together in impossible conditions to get the truth out about their situation in spite of compounding and violent censorship.

Next up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with former Director of Student Media at Indiana University Jim Rodenbush to talk about his termination. Jim had the audacity to stand up for the renowned student newspaper the Indiana Daily Student when the powers that be didnt feel it should actually report the news anymore. Jim shares his story and warns of the implications this has on everyones access to a free press, from colleges to professional newsrooms.

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Paradox of Power: Judgment of Gender and Modern Warfare

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:49:51 +0000

First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with educator and author Allison Butler to talk about her latest book: The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture. Allison dissects this seeming contradiction of both centering and silencing women. We dive into some history to orient us in the present, consider the intersections of womanhood, the women in service to patriarchy, and more. Next up, Dr. Shir Hever comes back on the show this time to give a perspective on the war on Iran that you won’t likely hear, even in alternative and independent media. Shir prompts us to consider what the actual goals of the war are through understanding modern warfare, the US/Israeli relationship, and the paradoxical stability of totalitarianism staring at us from this current apocalyptic war.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2026

Kate Horgan — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:11:02 +0000

Censored Press News Allison T. Butler, author of The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, has had a number of articles related to her new book featured in prominent outlets. As this newsletter goes to press, Ms. Magazine published Sinead O’Connor Was Right: It’s…

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Silencing Student Reporters Threatens Public’s Right to Know

Kate Horgan — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:00:49 +0000

Jim Rodenbush I faced a decision last October that would dramatically change my professional and personal life. I could enforce a directive from Indiana University administrators to censor the Indiana Daily Student, or stand by my students’ right to editorial independence. What the administrators wanted was clear. The content of…

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Evangelicalism, Conspiracy & the First Amendment

Kate Horgan — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:51:58 +0000

First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism - some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit with how much it actually defines our nation? Jared Stacy, a former Evangelical Pastor and author of the newly released book, Reality in Ruins: How Conspiracy Theory Became an American Evangelical Crisis, joins the show to talk about the history and the present of this entwined relationship between the US and Evangelicalism, how conspiracy theories become gospel, and how if we want to address the fallout from this tangle, theological intervention is necessary.

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Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:30:50 +0000

In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analysis vis a vis DHS. They discuss their ICE Warehouse Tracker tool, and how ill-prepared these sites are to house tens of thousands of people. Michael and Em also discuss what the effects would be on communities surrounding these warehouses, and how we can use data to better understand the massive planned network of disappearing people, and thereby act to stop it.

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What Corporate Media Won’t Tell You: Children in Dilley & Attacks on Iran

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 16:09:27 +0000

First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of the horrific stories she’s uncovered through her investigative reporting including instances of gross medical neglect and how difficult it is to do that reporting from what she calls a black site of information, and the retaliation by guards against the children for speaking with press. Next up, Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of the news that didn’t make the news with a focus on the US/Israeli illegal and unprovoked attacks on Iran. They discuss the nuance and multitude of facts that corporate media always miss or omit, the importance of historical context, the regional repercussions of these attacks, and more.

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When Centering and Silencing Women No Longer Work

Kate Horgan — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 16:00:33 +0000

Allison T. Butler Editor’s note: The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, by Allison T. Butler, will be published by The Censored Press, later this month. The March 8, 2026, celebration of International Women’s Day feels loaded. A celebration born of the early twentieth-century…

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Narratives of Power: Cartel Media Spin and Epstein Cover Stories

Kate Horgan — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:15:51 +0000

First up this week, Mexico City-based journalist José Luis Granados Ceja joins the show to talk about the recent Mexican operation that captured and killed a notorious cartel kingpin, and how US corporate media is twisting this story to not only give the US undue credit but to further the dangerous and dehumanizing rhetoric of Mexicans as villains. José Luis also digs into Mexico / US relations and how regional solidarity is needed in order to address the violent grandstanding by the US. Next up, Mickey sits down again with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into the latest in the Epstein files including the disturbing lack of accountability, the spectacle of the slow release of information, deconstructing propaganda around the files, and more.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—February 2026

Kate Horgan — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 13:00:49 +0000

Censored Press News The Judgment of Gender: How Women Are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture, by Allison T. Butler, is now available for pre-order from The Censored Press. Independent journalist Kat Tenbarge (Spitfire News) calls the book “an essential read for anyone wanting to understand why stories about gender-based…

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No Press, No Choice: Lessons from Djibouti’s Scripted Election

Kate Horgan — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:00:03 +0000

Zineb Haddaji For Washington, Djibouti is not just another ally. It is a strategic hinge point on the Red Sea corridor, positioned beside one of the busiest shipping lanes on earth. That geography has made it indispensable, hosting foreign military installations and, most notably, the United States’ Camp Lemonnier. From…

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Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation

Kate Horgan — Mon, 23 Feb 2026 19:28:36 +0000

First up, Medea Benjamin joins the show to debunk a whole lotta US propaganda about Cuba. Having just returned from the island nation, Medea explains the terroristic domino effect that the US fuel blockade is having on the Cuban people, how the US weaponizes aid from Gaza to Havana, and…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2026

Kate Horgan — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 16:44:39 +0000

Censored Press News Project Censored’s fiftieth anniversary yearbook, State of the Free Press 2026, has been receiving a lot of positive attention. Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth discussed the yearbook, including the tightening of media control, cultural hegemony, and the power of music, on an episode of Macro N…

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Access Emergency: Reproductive Health Education and Independent Media

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:35:19 +0000

In the first part of the program Eleanor sits down with Martha Dimitratou, founder and Executive Director of Repro Uncensored to talk about the battles to bring reproductive health and sexual education information to the people in a time of escalating digital and indeed analog censorship. Martha talks about how incorrect information is often platformed while science-backed and nuanced information is stifled - and what this means for the physical, mental, and emotional health of those seeking reproductive health information and access. She also outlines tactics to sidestep this censorship, online and off. Next up, Mickey sits down with Norman Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive magazine and indie media veteran to talk about the current state of the media, some history of independent media and why that matters, the importance of becoming the media ourselves, and framing the news outside of the 24/7 extractive cycle. Norm and Mickey also dig into the nuance of attacks on corporate media, and why a truly free press means more, not fewer voices.

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Frame-Checking “Insurgency” in Minnesota

Kate Horgan — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:00:54 +0000

Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Trump administration officials, joined by a chorus of Republican politicians and right-wing media pundits, have been referring to public demonstrations against ICE in Minneapolis as an “insurgency,” a term typically used to refer to violent, armed rebellion, especially when it involves irregular forces opposing…

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Fact-Checking the Future: AI, Fracking, and Data Center Propaganda

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:25:57 +0000

First up, Mickey and Eleanor dive into some critical media literacy, including AI-generated videos and images that ping our confirmation biases, making it all the more important to stay vigilant in analyzing content, regardless of whether or not we want it to be true. We also look at patterns of mis and disinformation, tools and tips for media consumers and creators, and more. Next up, Katie Jones from Fractracker joins the show to talk about the shadowy connection between data centers and fracking. Katie talks about how data centers are in many ways the new fracking boom, and are using many of the same

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Déjà Vu News: Corporate Media Repeats Its Failures While Empire Marches On

Kate Horgan — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 16:31:11 +0000

First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with professor of communications Dr. Steve Macek to talk about Trumps war on epistemic institutions. Dr. Macek shares specific examples of attacks on vital research that leaves millions of Americans without the necessary knowledge to address basic needs such as hunger and thirst. Mickey and Steve also dissect some Déjà Vu News - the where are they now for stories previously uplifted by Project Censored and ignored by corporate media. Such analysis not only tracks trends in corporate media but also highlights the importance of thinking of news less as a fleeting headline but rather as continuously developing stories that require attention on a rolling rather than 24-hour blip basis. Next up, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with researcher and associate director at the Eisenhower Media Network Christian Sorensen to talk about how the military is a tool of corporate capture, how the military industrial complex hurts the working class here at home, media's bedazzling of military life, and how the US empires greed actually in the long term hurts its own hegemonic objectives.

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The Hidden Cost of AI: How Data Centers Are Straining Water, Power, and Communities

Kate Horgan — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 16:00:41 +0000

By Ella Mrofka Editor’s Note: This is the second of two Dispatches on AI data centers; read the previous article, by Alefiya Presswala, here. The residents of Saline Township, Michigan, are upset. Soon, construction will begin on a 2.2 million-square-foot data center located just outside the small rural town, which…

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Manufactured Borders, Manufactured Intelligence

Kate Horgan — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:52:44 +0000

In the first part of the program we welcome back political and legal geographer Dr. Austin Kocher to talk about the immigration news that never makes the news. Dr. Kocher talks about overcrowded and deadly detention centers, the 287g clause that transforms your local law enforcement into ICE officers, the fundamental flaw in the US immigration legal system, and how we shouldn’t think of borders as a matter of what they are, but rather what they do in service of the state. Next up, my cohost Mickey Huff sits down with frequent guest and political analyst Nolan Higdon to dissect some recent news, focusing especially on AI: what can history tell us about the unintelligence of artificial intelligence, how deep fakes are crowbarring the political divide even further and deeper, the corporate capture of the classroom, and more.

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The AI War Machine as Superorganism

Kate Horgan — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 16:00:45 +0000

Antoine Bousquet observed in The Scientific Way of Warfare: Order and Chaos on the Battlefields of Modernity (2022), “Pointing on the horizon is a fully autonomous war machine whose control would be totally immanent to itself—in other words, from which there would be no outside from which to exert control over it. … And what if war … served no other master than itself?”

In December 2025, the New York Times published Overmatched, a six-part series of editorials urging the US military to reinvent itself by investing more tax dollars in Silicon Valley start-ups and accelerating the use of artificial intelligence and autonomous weapons.

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Corporate Complicity: A Whistleblower and the Eject Elbit Campaign

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:42:09 +0000

This week, were covering two things youll never hear about on corporate media - or if you do, theyll be demonized: whistleblowers, and targeted boycott movements. First up, were joined by a Capital One whistleblower who talks about how the companys internal dealings with Israeli weapons manufacturers chafes against the companys external PR campaign of progressive and diversity politics. The whistleblower outlines the so-called proper channels they attempted to utilize in addressing their concerns, and what organizing work theyre doing now to hold Capital One accountable to not only their clients but to international law. Next up, were joined by two organizers with the Eject Elbit campaign focused on decoupling the Israeli weapons manufacturer from the financial institutions it relies on. Scotty and Liza share the BDS precedent for their work, recent wins, and upcoming goals. They talk about the medias framing of their work, not least of all using and twisting their Jewishness while continuing to silence and obscure Palestinian voices and calls for justice.

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Illegal Gold Rush Strips 140,000 Hectares from the Peruvian Amazon

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:12:10 +0000

A new report published by Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP) and its Peruvian partner organization, Conservación Amazónica, found that 140,000 hectares of land in the Peruvian Amazon have been cleared for illegal gold mining. The illegal miners use dredges, “floating machines that chew up and spit out riverbeds—leaving…

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Proposed Arizona Mine’s Water Sampling Reveals Dangerous Metal Levels

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 18:06:04 +0000

South32’s Hermosa project, a proposed critical minerals mine in southern Arizona, reported higher levels of the heavy metal antimony in its water than state regulations permit, according to Inside Climate News. Long-term exposure to antimony can “cause gastrointestinal and respiratory issues,” among other health complications. In early December 2025, the…

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Venezuela, War Crimes, and the Media’s Dirty Work

Kate Horgan — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 17:04:56 +0000

First up, we welcome back to the program analyst and organizer Leonardo Flores to talk to us about what’s really going on on the ground in Venezuela, contextualizing the push for oil, the drug fiasco that now even the DOJ admits as farce, and cutting through the thick sludge of…

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Neglect at Federal Detention Center Ignored Until a Famous Person Is Held There

Kate Horgan — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 20:13:11 +0000

The federal Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) in Brooklyn usually makes headlines only when famous people—such as Luigi Mangione and Ghislaine Maxwell—are held there while awaiting trial for pending federal charges. However, in June 2025, Katie Rose Quandt and Maeve Brennan reported that, “for the many non-famous people stuck in MDC,…

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Communities Push Back Against AI Data Center Expansion

Kate Horgan — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 16:00:19 +0000

By Alefiya Presswala Editor’s Note: This is the first of two Dispatches on AI data centers, with a second article, by Ella Mrofka, to be published in January 2026. There are more than 5,400 data centers in the United States, accounting for nearly 50 percent of the world’s estimated 11,000–12,000…

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Alarming Statistics Reveal High Rates of Illiteracy Among US Adults

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 17:01:11 +0000

In 2024, the National Literacy Institute found that 79 percent of US adults were literate, but only 46 percent could read above a sixth-grade level. Literacy is the ability to read and write, and generally also involves critical thinking and analysis skills, understanding complex concepts, and forming broader conclusions. Researchers…

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Pornography a Primary Sex-Information Source for Many Young Britons, Study Finds

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 Jan 2026 16:40:05 +0000

Although many people think of pornography consumption as a harmless form of entertainment, research shows that regular consumption can have negative impacts on the brain. The conclusions of this research become all the more concerning in light of a new finding about the prevalence and influence of pornography consumption. In…

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Ghosts in the Machine: Israel’s Military Myths and the Private Equity State

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 16:22:10 +0000

In the first part of the program we welcome back Dr. Shir Hever to talk about what’s really going on behind the media veil of an infallible Israel. Dr. Hever debunks Israel’s claims that they can become militarily independent, and the effect of both military embargoes and continued BDS pressure.…

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History, Myth, and Media in an Age of Disinformation

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 22:18:47 +0000

In the first half of the show Italian philosopher and author Federico Campagna joins the show to discuss his most recent book, Otherworlds: Mediterranean Lessons on Escaping History. Federico outlines the role of imagination in shaping our reality, the censored histories of those who refused an oppressive reality not because they denied its existence but because they denied its acceptability, and built worlds to shield, shelter, survive and in some cases thrive in some of history's most difficult times. Federico also discusses how myths and nostalgia work for and against us, the nuance missing in an ever-narrowing world view which buries and censors the possibilities of both the past and the present. Next up, Mickey sits down with media professor and author Bill Yousman to talk about disinformation, looking back on his essay for the State of the Free Press 2025 to contextualize where we are now, and where we could be headed with some prescriptive actions. Bill outlines the importance of not falling back on the lazy but easy path of censorship in combating disinformation, and the importance of well-funded public media and education in bolstering ourselves against the tsunamis of nonsense.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2025

Kate Horgan — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:00:43 +0000

Censored Press News The Censored Press is thrilled to preview the publication of Judgment of Gender: Pop Culture Conversations That Center and Silence Women, by Allison T. Butler. Drawing on key insights from critical media literacy, Judgement of Gender examines how women are centered, silenced, and maligned in popular culture.…

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Trump’s War on Epistemic Institutions

Kate Horgan — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 16:00:11 +0000

by Steve Macek Contemporary liberal democracies such as the United States depend on more than free elections and stable, functioning economies. They also rely on what are sometimes called epistemic institutions, organizations such as universities, news outlets, scientific associations, and government research agencies whose main purpose is to discover truth…

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A Viscous Morass: SLAPP Suits, Secrecy, and Complicit Courts

Kate Horgan — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 17:20:59 +0000

This week, a special roundtable discussion with your Project Censored cohosts and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Director of Advocacy Seth Stern and Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy Lauren Harper come back on the show to dive into the viscous morass of rights violations, including those of ICE, and the complicit courts and judges that could do more to rein them in, SLAPP suits as a weapon to silence truth-tellers, the issue of over-classification that serves to paper over the publics right to know what our government is doing in our name, and much more.

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Drones Linked to Gaza Operating Surveillance Flights Over US Cities

Kate Horgan — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:30:33 +0000

In the wake of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel, the US-based drone company Skydio provided more than one hundred surveillance drones to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). In October 2025, Nate Bear reported for ¡Do Not Panic! that police stations across the United States are now monitoring…

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Detainees Missing from ICE Database after Entering Alligator Alcatraz

Kate Horgan — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:26:02 +0000

Hundreds of detainees at Florida’s new immigration detention center, nicknamed Alligator Alcatraz, have effectively vanished from US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) online databases. Reporters from Democracy Now! and the Miami Herald found that of approximately 1,800 individuals detained at the remote Everglades facility in July 2025, around 800 no…

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Ring the Wedding Bells… and the Alarm: American Child Marriage

Kate Horgan — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 19:27:36 +0000

Until 2018, a marriage involving one or both people under the age of eighteen was legal in the United States. Since then, only sixteen states have criminalized child marriage. While child marriage has been on the decline this century, almost 300,000 American children were married from 2000 to 2018, according…

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Antizionist Futures and Immigrant Rights in Labor Organizing

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 17:00:23 +0000

In the first half of the show, we welcome back the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents Arielle Angel to talk about the need for new Jewish institutions that reflect not only antizionist Judaism but the myriad traditions of Judaism which zionism has always tried to negate and erase. Arielle also highlights the connections between zionism and American exceptionalism, ideologies that fuel and feed off one another, the power of a grassroots leftist Jewish memory culture, and the pitfalls of self-denial on the Jewish left. Next up, editor for Workday Magazine, Sarah Lazare comes on the show to discuss the purposefully obfuscated connection between labor organizing and immigrants rights. Sarah outlines ways in which workers are building solidarity in the face of violent raids and harassment, and how shallow and extractive corporate media practices perpetuate misinformation and violence.

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AI Cyber Spy: Gilman Louie

Kate Horgan — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 16:00:14 +0000

As the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was fragmenting in the late 1980s, a moonlighting Russian software engineer, Alexey Pajitnov, coded a spellbinding video game called Tetris on an Electronica 60 computer.

Dan Ackerman’s 2016 book The Tetris Effect—The Cold War Battle for the World’s Most Addictive Game recounts years of backstabbing battles for legal rights to package and sell Tetris. Combatants included media mogul Ian Robert Maxwell, who is credibly alleged to have functioned as an Israeli intelligence asset, and Gilman Louie, the CEO of Maxwell’s combat simulation gaming company, Spectrum Holobyte.

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Scrutinizing Power: Epstein Coverage, AI Threats, and Higher Ed Under Pressure

Kate Horgan — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 17:16:40 +0000

This week we are rejoined by media scholar Nolan Higdon to discuss his latest work, “Unmasking Epstein: Power, Blackmail, and the Press’s Failures.” We also delve into the increasingly problematic world of Artificial Intelligence, the challenges and threats AI poses, and the importance of critical AI literacy. Next, Mickey speaks to Brown University first year student James Libresco about his latest Dispatch on Media and Politics for Project Censored titled, “A Direct Attack on Freedom of Speech: Trump Takes on Higher Ed.” Libresco addresses media freedom and the student press, as well as the massive pushback to Trump’s so-called “Compact for Excellence in Higher Education,” which actually poses major threats to academic freedom.

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Memory Work & Culture Wars: From Palestine to Corporate Media

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 19:32:23 +0000

In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss journalism as memory work, and the narrative as a battlefield upon which ever more advanced technology takes aim at Palestinian voices and lived experiences. Laura frames journalism as a commitment - to people and their stories, and talks about how the chasing of headlines and by-lines in the 24-hour news cycle leads to extractive journalism, and how and why movement media can be the antidote. Next up, Economics PHD students Shakked Noy and Aakaash Rao discuss their recent report: The Business of the Culture War which links the contemporary “culture wars” to changes in media technologies as well as economic incentives for cable news. Shakked and Aakaash discuss how their research shows that the economic drive for viewership has incentivized corporate media to turn away from actual political news and towards sensational infotainment, and how the commodification of legitimate rage leaves us dumber and more divided than ever before.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—November 2025

Kate Horgan — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 20:00:10 +0000

Censored Press News Project Censored and The Censored Press published State of the Free Press 2026 on November 11, 2025. Responding to a wave of attacks on press freedom in the United States and around the globe, the fiftieth anniversary edition of the yearbook features the most critical stories that…

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‘A Direct Attack on the Freedom of Speech’: Trump Takes On Higher Ed

Kate Horgan — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 16:00:12 +0000

By James Libresco And then came the universities. After waging war on public broadcasting and the arts, the Trump administration threatened last month to cut federal funding to nine prominent colleges unless they restricted campus speech that opposed conservatives. “Academic freedom is not absolute,” read part of a Compact for…

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News that Didn’t Make the News: Atrocities in Sudan and Regional New Abuse

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 16:36:11 +0000

We start this week off with news that didn’t make the news from Sudan. Researcher and analyst Mosaab Baba joins us to contextualize the recent atrocities in El-Fasher, Sudan, highlighting decades-long power struggles not only inside the country but internationally as well. Mosaab explains the goals of these new imperialists and their genocidal beneficiaries, the importance of Sudan’s rich mineral and agricultural assets, and how the guns and money always lead to the familiar players of the UAE, Egypt, the US, and Israel. Next up, John Collins of Weave News comes back on the program to discuss news abuse, using a specific example in upstate New York to highlight how even regional media that did previously stand up to power falls in line behind the fallacy conflating antizioinism with antisemitism. John also discusses the Palestinization of the globe, and prescriptions for both media and media consumers on how to stay critically media literate in these critical times.

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#12. PFAS, Other Toxic Chemicals Found in Products Meant to Keep Us Safe

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 18:00:47 +0000

According to a study by the consumer safety advocacy group Mamavation, popular brands of condoms and lubricants contain PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or so-called “forever chemicals,” Tom Perkins reported for the Guardian in July 2024. Two months later, Perkins drew attention, also in the Guardian, to alarming research published…

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#11. UN Cybercrime Treaty Supported by Autocrats Raises Human Rights Concerns

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:50:58 +0000

On December 24, 2024, the United Nations adopted the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, which aims to “prevent and combat” cybercrime and “strengthen international cooperation in sharing electronic evidence for serious crimes.” Numerous human rights and independent news organizations noted that the international treaty raised serious human rights concerns. On…

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#10. Working Class Severely Underrepresented in State Legislatures

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:40:16 +0000

Only 1.6 percent of state lawmakers in the United States are considered “working class,” compared to 50 percent of all participants in the American labor force, according to the 2024 results of a biennial study by Duke University and Loyola University Chicago researchers. Per a March 15, 2024, Stateline article…

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#9. Antarctic Ice Sheets Approaching Tipping Point, Studies Find

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:30:21 +0000

Increases in ocean temperature could lead to a tipping point in the melting of Antarctic marine ice sheets, potentially triggering “runaway melting” according to a June 2024 article published in the journal Nature Geoscience. In June 2024, Robert Hunziker in CounterPunch and Matthew Rozsa in Salon each reported on this…

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#8. Underreported, Often Deadly Abuses of Police Authority

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:20:58 +0000

US police killed an average of nearly four people each day in 2024. “According to a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, making it the deadliest year since the group began recording such data in 2013,” Sharon Zhang wrote in a February 2025…

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#7. Private Companies Reap More Than $100 Million to Sweep Homeless Camps in California

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:10:23 +0000

Cities across California, including San Jose and Los Angeles, have paid private contractors millions of dollars to sweep homeless encampments, Brian Barth reported in an article co-published in April 2024 by The Guardian and Type Investigations. Local governments have increasingly sought the services of private contractors to deal with homelessness…

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#6. Amazon and Walmart Use Hostile Surveillance Technology Against Warehouse Employees

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:00:36 +0000

An April 2024 report from Oxfam America, “At Work and Under Watch,” detailed how Amazon and Walmart utilize workplace surveillance technology to intimidate warehouse workers and increase their productivity—at the expense of employees’ physical and mental health, Alex N. Press reported for Jacobin. Amazon and Walmart, among the largest private…

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#5. Big Tech Sows Policy Chaos to Undermine Data Privacy Protections

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:50:31 +0000

Big Tech companies are actively attempting to undermine legislation that protects consumer data privacy, Jake Snow reported in an article published by Tech Policy Press and the ACLU of Northern California in October 2024. “The biggest names in technology are trying to use their might to force Congress to override…

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#4. Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:40:48 +0000

Since October 7, 2023, the multinational tech company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has acted on 94 percent of the Israeli government’s requests to take down posts on Facebook and Instagram that are “critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians,” Drop Site News reported in April 2025. Drop…

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#3. Indigenous Communities in the US Underfunded and Exploited by Federal and State Governments

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:40:14 +0000

A series of articles published in 2024–25 showcases the vital role that independent investigative journalism plays in uncovering and spotlighting government mistreatment of Indigenous communities. Matt Krupnick in ProPublica described the plight of tribal colleges due to longstanding federal underfunding, and a collaboration between High Country News and Grist painstakingly…

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#2. Water Scarcity Threatens 27 Million People in the United States

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:20:03 +0000

“Nearly 30 million people are living in areas of the US with limited water supplies,” Carey Gillam reported for The New Lede, an environmental news website, in January 2025. Gillam’s report was based on a US Geological Survey (USGS) study that assessed water availability in the United States from 2010…

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Fifty Years of Project Censored: The Fight for a Free Press

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:17:34 +0000

Today on this special episode of the Project Censored show, we look back at 50 years of the Project with a roundtable conversation about the forthcoming State of the Free Press 2026. Joined by associate director Shealeigh Voitl and editor-at-large Andy Lee Roth, Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of that 50 year history, the echoes of systemic problems within our media and also therefore within our society. They discuss and dissect what critical media literacy really is, solutions and citizen journalism, journalistic ethics and what a press of and for by the people really means, and why we need it now more than ever.

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#1. ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:10:27 +0000

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal agency, according to February 2025 articles by Sam Biddle for The Intercept and Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams. Biddle and Wilkins reviewed a lengthy request for bids from contractors…

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NOTE ON RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF CENSORED NEWS STORIES

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 16:00:01 +0000

How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the stories we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but also trustworthy? The answer is that every candidate news story undergoes rigorous review, which takes place in multiple…

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When Algorithms Break the News

Kate Horgan — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 16:00:44 +0000

Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl Hospitals denying maternal mental health care, employers using AI tools that drive workplace discrimination, and “phantom” nitrates in water supplies leading to chronic illness in children. These concerns sound like stories Project Censored highlights in its annual report of the most important but under-covered…

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The Weight of Humanity: Gaza, Academia, and Acts of Solidarity

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 16:56:17 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiographical work that details the lived realities, emotions, connections and contradictions of growing up in Gaza. Dr. Alijila remarks on the changing of academia, once the vanguard of progressive thought and action becoming ever more muted and intellectually impoverished. He speaks on the unending question of humanity, including how social media distorts our view, and the problem of dehumanizing by pedestaling what the occupation has buried beneath subhuman propaganda.

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AI Warlord: Eric Schmidt

Kate Horgan — Thu, 30 Oct 2025 15:00:16 +0000

In August, Foreign Affairs published Alphabet-Google billionaire Eric Schmidt’s essay “The Dawn of Automated Warfare”—co-authored with Greg Grant of the Center for New American Security, a nonprofit funded by Schmidt and the military industry.

Best characterized as an advertorial, the AI weapons piece promotes Schmidt’s investments in military AI, including Ukrainian drone manufacturer White Stork, and Relativity Space, a military rocket contractor.

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The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0

Kate Horgan — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:31:00 +0000

This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States, Peter Kuznick. Mickey Huff recently had a chance to catch up with one of America’s most in-demand historians around the world to discuss the state of the Sate under Trump 2.0. They talk about ongoing tensions from the Middle East to Russia, and rising authoritarianism right here at home. This week, for the full hour, history matters as context for the present, with Peter Kuznick.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—October 2025

Kate Horgan — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:47:53 +0000

Censored Press News Project Censored sent State of the Free Press 2026 to the printer earlier this month. The 2026 yearbook celebrates the Project’s fiftieth anniversary, while highlighting vital stories the corporate media underreported, recounting the year in junk food news, and tracking emerging threats to press freedom. State of…

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Crisis without Coverage: Rwanda, the Congo, and the Unhoused

Kate Horgan — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 17:18:17 +0000

In the first part of the program Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Maurice Carney, co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo for this year’s Congo Week. Maurice talks about the situation in the DRC, a vastly underreported human rights crisis perpetrated by Rwanda that incorporates junk food news, media framing, mis and disinformation, and the power of entertaining propaganda to shift the focus from war crimes to basketball, concerts, and even green energy. Maurice highlights the interconnected webs of propaganda from Israel to Rwanda, the billionaire push for Congo’s minerals, and more. Next up, Campaign and Communications Director at the National Homelessness Law Center Jesse Rabinowitz joins the show to discuss the escalating attacks on the unhoused. Jesse points out that homelessness is the result of many failed systems, and how the targeting of the unhoused, much like the targeting of incarcerated, is a test - how much pain and suffering can the system mete out on those who have the least political power? Jesse also notes the dearth of coverage on the criminalization of homelessness, an issue that not only harms everyone in society but could BE anyone in a society where everything from food to housing to healthcare is largely unaffordable.

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Legacy Media Is Failing Trans People

Kate Horgan — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 15:00:01 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl The same day that Tyler Robinson shot Charlie Kirk, co-founder of the conservative student organization Turning Point USA, at Utah Valley University, the Wall Street Journal hastily and erroneously reported that the bullets Robinson used were inscribed with “transgender ideology.” Quickly, advocates and other news outlets, even…

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US Military Power, Media Messaging, and Grassroots Strategies

Kate Horgan — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:06:51 +0000

In the first part of the program, cohost Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show US marine veteran Matthew Hoh to talk about the realities vs. the stories of the US military. How much does the oath to defend the Constitution really mean in practice? They look at Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s recent performance and how this relates to the hierarchy of complicity within the higher ranking military brass. Matt and Eleanor also give some historical context to the use of the US military as a domestic police force, and how Hollywood and the stories we consume as Americans bolster these ideas of a top-down restorative violence, affecting how we think about the idea of the world’s largest military taking over our streets.
Next up, author Danny Goldberg joins the show to talk about his most recent book, Liberals with Attitude: The Rodney King Beating and the Fight for the Soul of Los Angeles. Danny discusses how this history can serve us in the present, how building coalitions with those we disagree with is critical work, and how using the media - even legacy media - can support our grassroots goals.

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Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights!

Kate Horgan — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 15:55:20 +0000

Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in Banned Books Week, starting with this year’s Youth Honorary Chair for the Banned Books Week Coalition, Iris Mogul. Later in the show we’ll be joined by the president of the American Library Association, Sam Helmick. And we’ll conclude the hour by speaking with the Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship, Lee Rowland. Today on the Project Censored Show, we’ll spend the hour celebrating the right to read and the right to know. It’s Banned Books Week!

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“Censorship Is So 1984”: Annual Banned Books Week Celebrates the Right to Read

Kate Horgan — Thu, 02 Oct 2025 16:34:53 +0000

By Mickey Huff and Cameron Samuels The American Library Association (ALA), Unite Against Book Bans (UABB), and other members of the Banned Books Week Coalition are celebrating the forty-third annual Banned Books Week (BBW), October 5-12. Project Censored has been part of the BBW Coalition for more than a decade,…

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Journalism and Free Expression from the US to Kashmir

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:57:55 +0000

In the first half of the program, cohost Mickey Huff welcomes back to the show journalist and author Kevin Gosztola to talk about several stories threatening free speech and a free press, from the local to the global. Kevin discusses the dearth of local independent media in this country and how his efforts to fill that gap in his community have resulted in escalated threats to his free press and free speech rights. Kevin also highlights a new policy at the Pentagon that essentially demands reporters not be reporters if they want to report from the Pentagon, and how one reporter in Atlanta is facing deportation for being a journalist. Next up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Kashmiri filmmaker Arfat Sheikh to talk about his film, Saffron Kingdom. Arfat discusses the myriad threats from the Indian government aimed at Kashmir’s storytellers. He talks about the framing of Bollywood to always portray Kashmiris as terrorists and why Kashmiris need to reclaim the narrative in telling their own stories, in his case tapping into the power of film to humanize the dehumanized.

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Killer Humans, Killer Robots

Kate Horgan — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:00:49 +0000

The media idolizes AI weapons manufacturer Palmer Luckey, the Millennial owner of Anduril. Fox News hypnotizes its Boomer audience with Luckey’s Hawaiian shirts and pro-gun rhetoric. Bloomberg reporters are awed by the billionaire’s collection of military vehicles. CBS News portrays the industrialist as unlocking the nonviolent future of AI warfare: “Luckey’s philosophy is that autonomous weapons ultimately promote peace by scaring adversaries away.”

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Economic Inequality, Immigration, and Media Spin

Kate Horgan — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 18:21:31 +0000

In the first half of the show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Professor Richard Wolff about the state of our economy as a record number of Americans polled cant pay for everyday necessities, speaking to a rising and chronic crisis-level economic anxiety. Professor Wolff outlines the extreme economic inequality, how ICE raids and anti-immigrant violence only fuel the economic downward spiral, and how a healthy dose of imagination and knowledge of history could cure what ails us. Next, cohosts Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey Huff dig into some of the weeks latest news with a critical media literacy lens, dissecting political violence, free speech, the co-opting of language and more.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—September 2025

Kate Horgan — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:00:56 +0000

Censored Press News On September 23, 2025, The Censored Press, in partnership with Seven Stories Press, will publish Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, by Omar Zahzah, an independent journalist and assistant professor in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies…

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The Trouble with Tradwives

Kate Horgan — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 15:00:30 +0000

Lori Bindig Yousman “Tradwives” are having a moment. Amidst the rejection of “lean-in” culture and “girl boss” backlash, a host of popular social media accounts created by and geared toward young women promote the role of traditional wives, or “tradwives.” Now, a proliferation of so-called “aspirational” lifestyle posts romanticize conventional…

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Palestine, Censorship, and the Responsibility to Reflect

Kate Horgan — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 17:05:45 +0000

This week we’re talking about getting comfortable with uncomfortable ideas. First up, Thea Abu al-Haj joins the program to discuss the unprecedented censorship she and other academic authors experienced when the Harvard Educational Review pulled the plug on an entire issue of their journal dedicated to Palestine. Thea discusses this new level of censorship as a deep and targeted blow to the very core mission of places of higher education: namely to be places of open debate, open minds and where we can all confront uncomfortable ideas with curiosity, reflection, and exploration. Next up, Dr. Robert Talisse joins the show to talk about what he calls civic solitude - the need, indeed the responsibility to remove ourselves from the ever widening divisions in US politics for the sake of our collective benefit. Robert and Eleanor tease out how this relates to a loneliness endemic to the United States, the need to engage with people and ideas that are unknown and even uncomfortable to us, and the problems of an overly mediated world that interrupts our ability to reflect even when we are physically alone.

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The Great Nonprofit Purge

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 15:00:05 +0000

Through funding freezes, regulatory threats, and legal manipulation, the Trump administration is pressuring nonprofit organizations to fall in line—or face extinction. Jackie Vickery The White House is implementing a range of policies and executive actions to reshape the relationship between the federal government and America’s nonprofit sector. Past administrations, whether…

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Resisting Silence: From Palestine to Cop City

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 15:57:50 +0000

In the first part of the program, Mickey Huff sits down with author and professor Omar Zahzah to talk about his upcoming book: Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Omar discusses the impetus for the book which predates October 7th and how the book grew not only to encompass the current genocide but indeed to look at how Palestine and Palestinian resistance serves as a window into a broad system and practice of digital censorship globally. Omar outlines his struggles in refusing the language of silence, and talks about how corporate media enforces censorship, dehumanization and the overall actions of the military industrial complex despite public dissent. In the second half of the program, Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show organizer, lawyer, and author Kamau Franklin to talk about the book he co-edited called No Cop City, No Cop World. Kamau discusses the diversity of tactics used by the diverse movement to stop cop city, the derision by local politicians and indeed media, highlighting the important fact that a local media isn’t enough - it’s got to be local AND independent media. Kamau talks about the importance of the people creating their own narrative for these fights for justice, as well as the importance of reframing the fight against cop city as one of global proportions that isn’t over, it’s just entered a new phase.

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Dignity Over Detention: How Immigrant Communities Are Reclaiming Media on Their Own Terms

Kate Horgan — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:00:09 +0000

By Elizabeth Insuasti In an age of relentless misinformation, immigrant communities in the United States are not just resisting—they are rebuilding. While corporate and legacy news outlets often filter immigrant experiences through sensationalism, victimization, or meritocratic tropes, independent and bilingual media are quietly transforming how stories of migration are told.…

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Venezuela, Propaganda, and the Promise (and Peril) of AI

Kate Horgan — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 15:33:45 +0000

In the first part of the program, we welcome back to the show Leonardo Flores, co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, to talk about the US’ dangerous and honestly stupid escalation against Venezuela. Leo debunks the US’ absurd claims of drug trafficking, contextualizing them in a longer history of using drugs as a cover for violent escalation against nations in Latin America. Leo also talks about the remarkable critical media literacy of the Venezuelan people - something that the government has nurtured for almost 30 years via a varied and healthy media landscape that promotes independent and local media rather than a centralized corporate system. Next up, Nolan Higdon comes back on the show to talk about AI through the lens of critical media literacy. Nolan highlights the importance of not leaning on AI for foundational skills such as reading comprehension and critical media literacy, that AI is not some superior intellect but rather a system built by vehemently anti-democratic and indeed anti-human minds. Nolan explains that while the point isn’t to be afraid of technology, we must understand what the technology really is, what it can do for us and perhaps more importantly what it can do to us.

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Into the Uncanny Valley: Human-AI War Machines

Kate Horgan — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 15:00:32 +0000

There is a universal tendency among mankind to think of all things as being like themselves, and to transfer to every object the qualities they are familiarly acquainted with. … We ﬁnd human faces in the moon, armies in the clouds; and, if not corrected by experience and reﬂection, our natural tendency leads us to ascribe malice or good-will to everything that hurts or pleases us.

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Power & Exploitation: DC Overreach & Global Labor Injustice

Kate Horgan — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:34:47 +0000

In the first part of the program, DC organizer Natacia Knapper joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss Trump’s takeover of DC, what makes DC particularly vulnerable to such federal overreach, and what the situation is really like on the ground. Natacia highlights the problematic ways in which corporate media have framed the situation, and why people outside of DC need to be hyper-aware and vigilant because this overreach will not stop in DC. Next up, Mickey Huff sits down with one of Project Censored’s summer interns Jayden Henry to talk about his recent dispatch: Blood, Sweat, and Stitches: How Overconsumption Pushes Garment Workers to the Brink. Jayden discusses his research on this rarely covered topic and draws connections between the consumerist paradigm in the so-called imperial core and the extreme exploitation of workers in so-called periphery nations.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—August 2025

Kate Horgan — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 16:30:47 +0000

Project Censored in the World In late July, Hyperallergic published “Framing Heritage Destruction as a Human Rights Violation,” a detailed, affirmative review of Mischa Geracoulis’s book, Media Framing and the Destruction and Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2025). Hyperallergic’s Isa Farfan interviewed Geracoulis for the feature, which emphasizes the book’s primary thesis,…

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Blood, Sweat, and Stitches: How Overconsumption Pushes Garment Workers to the Brink

Kate Horgan — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 15:00:54 +0000

Jayden Henry Last September, a report from the trade publication Business of Fashion found that the Chinese retailer Shein was the world’s largest polluter in the garment industry, but a casual reader of corporate news media would likely be none the wiser, because the report received little to no coverage…

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From the Frontlines: Media, Colonization, and Resistance in Palestine

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 17:16:04 +0000

In the first part of the program, we’re joined by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author, and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Dr. Baroud discusses cultural hegemony, the insidious tool of colonization that distorts an Indigenous people into submission. Dr. Baroud explains how the Palestinians have resisted this tactic which is why Israel has been forced to leverage ever more horrific violence, particularly in Gaza. Dr. Baroud also outlines the myriad problems in how corporate media portrays Palestinians, and how journalists in Gaza have changed the global understanding of where truth comes from - that truth isn’t shared unless those on the frontlines are also producers of the media. Next up, activist and educator Nikki Morse comes back on the show, this time to talk about their time in the West Bank with the International Solidarity Movement. Nikki describes the accelerated pace of ethnic cleansing, explaining the often intersecting web of oppression vis a vis settlers, police, the army, and Israel’s legal system. Nikki also talks about the importance of how we discuss and frame the West Bank, uplifting voices on the ground, and bringing more people to the frontlines to be in solidarity with Palestinians.

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Pulling the Levers of Power: How the Trump Administration Hijacked Public Broadcasting

Kate Horgan — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 15:00:57 +0000

Once a bipartisan resource, public media is now cast as an ideological threat under the Trump administration’s efficiency campaign. Jackie Vickery On May 1, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Taxpayer Subsidization of Biased Media,” instructing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to cease nearly all…

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From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power

Kate Horgan — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:44:49 +0000

In the first part of the show, Mickey welcomes back award-winning investigative reporter, Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red. They talk about his latest book, Little Red Barns: Hiding the Truth, From Farm to Fable. Behind the little red barns dotting the landscape and decorating the products we consume is a dangerous threat. In this groundbreaking investigation, Potter exposes the powerful forces at work to hide the harms of industrial agriculture, its outsize role in the climate crisis, and its links to the global rise of fascism. Later in the program, Project Censored managing editor Mischa Geracoulis guest hosts, speaking with Heidi Boghosian about her new book, Cyber Citizens: Saving Democracy With Digital Literacy. The electronic age compels us to confront the delicate balance between the convenience of constant connectivity and the protection of personal privacy, security, and democracy itself.

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The Hidden Costs of the Big Data Surveillance Complex

Kate Horgan — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 15:00:21 +0000

Mischa Geracoulis Unbeknownst to much of the public, Big Tech exacts heavy tolls on public health, the environment, and democracy. The detrimental combination of an unregulated tech sector, pronounced rise in cyberattacks and data theft, and widespread digital and media illiteracy—as noted in my previous Dispatch on Big Data’s surveillance…

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Oppression as Policy: Israel, Sanctions, and the Global Cost of Control

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 20:03:40 +0000

In the first part of the program, Dr. Shir Hever joins us to discuss Israel’s disinformation economy, the zombie economy that is held together by nothing more than lies and deception, and how the ongoing genocide in Gaza has made clear that for most Israelis, the need to oppress is greater than the need to make ends meet. Dr. Hever also highlights the journalistic malpractice of Israel’s propaganda machine, the impressive and vital progress of the BDS movement and how politicians are now leveraging Palestine for personal political gain. Next up, Dr. Margaret Flowers comes back on the show to outline the difference between sanctions and unilateral coercive economic measures. We discuss the recent Lancet report showing that US unilateral measures are responsible for more than half a million deaths a year worldwide. Dr. Flowers outlines the shift to a multipolar world, how nations are side-stepping US hegemony and violence, and how we can engage with these interconnected issues.

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The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand

Kate Horgan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:00:39 +0000

In August 2019, an influential inside-the-Beltway platform called War on the Rocks published a proposal to automate fighting nuclear wars with artificial intelligence, America Needs a “Dead Hand”. Two nuclear war strategy experts with significant academic and military credentials argued that the modernization of the nation’s nuclear-armed triad of missiles, bombers, and submarines must include a command, communication, and control system (NC3) operated by artificial intelligence.

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Project Censored’s 2025 Summer Reading List

Kate Horgan — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:56:34 +0000

With temperatures soaring, the team at Project Censored believes nothing is cooler than reading a good book. The following titles are helping us stay informed and inspired through the hot days of Summer 2025. Let us know what books are inspiring you this summer! You can support Independent bookstores by…

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CEO Salaries Skyrocket While Workers’ Wages Stagnate

Kate Horgan — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:51:49 +0000

The average CEO salary has increased by 50 percent since 2019, while workers’ wages rose by less than one percent, according to a recent analysis by the global anti-poverty organization Oxfam International, as reported by Jake Johnson in a May 2025 article for Common Dreams. In 2019, the average CEO…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:43:27 +0000

Project Censored in the World Many members of Project Censored’s team attended the 2025 meetings of the Union for Democratic Communications, held at the University of Washington, Tacoma, from June 19 to June 22. Project Censored was represented by Allison Butler, Reagan Haynie, Nolan Higdon, Kate Horgan, Mickey Huff, Steve…

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Big Tech Data Centers Deplete Water From Scarce Sources Around the World

Kate Horgan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:48:39 +0000

Big tech companies are building data centers that “use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas,” according to an April 2025 report by Luke Barratt and Costanza Gambarini, based on a joint investigation by Source Material, a non-profit investigative journalism outlet, and the Guardian. In 2023, for example,…

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Nobel Economists Urge Minimum Tax on World’s 3,000 Billionaires

Kate Horgan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:34:58 +0000

In a July 2025 article, published by Le Monde, seven Nobel Laureates in economics—Daron Acemoglu, George Akerlof, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Simon Johnson, Paul Krugman, and Joseph Stiglitz—advocated a two-percent wealth tax on the world’s “ultrarich,” as Jessica Corbett reported for Common Dreams. As Corbett’s article noted, a two-percent wealth…

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ECONOMIC TERROR AND THE TURBOCHUGGF*CK IN TEXAS

Kate Horgan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:00:22 +0000

By Danbert Nobacon I don’t know what word in the English language—I can’t find one—that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life … so they can put a few more dollars into highly overstuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t begin to approach…

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Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance

Kate Horgan — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:57:26 +0000

In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’s upheld by lawyers and promoted in our institutions of higher learning. Andrew outlines plea bargaining as a bolster and boost to mass incarceration, prisons as sponges for people in poverty, the death of social programs that would legitimately counter crime, and the need to shift our thinking about how our justice system works and for whom, recognizing that our paradigms allow this remarkably harmful system to perpetuate. Later in the show, I’m joined by Dr. Roy Casagranda, a professor of government and the Middle East Affairs expert at Austin Community College. Dr. Casagranda outlines the bloodied red thread that connects the first crusades to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel, and the war on terror. He also uplifts a purposefully obscured history of cultural vibrancy in the Muslim world where not only did Jews, Muslims, and Christians thrive but where the foundations of our modern world were forged centuries before the European mathematical, scientific, and philosophical advancements we learn about.

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Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk

Kate Horgan — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:50:35 +0000

In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media and author to talk about the passing of independent media great Bill Moyers. Jeff shares stories of Moyers intrepid reporting and his behind-the-scenes organizing and fundraising that allowed truly independent media to flourish. His death is a loss for the alternative independent media world, and a sobering reminder of the need for outspoken voices such as Bill’s in times like these. In the second part of the show, co hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of the news that didn’t make the news, and why, as well as asking, is this the best we can do? They kick off with what corporate media won’t tell you about the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, and then dig into some historical context of the insidious Project Esther, the latest in a long line of threats to our civil liberties, going back to COINTELPRO. Sprinkle in some investigative comedy, defense of metal heads, and more - coming up now on Project Censored.

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The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy

Kate Horgan — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:23 +0000

Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and the Revival of Protectionist Pedagogy,” from the Journal of Media Literacy Education, Volume 17, Issue 2. During President Donald Trump’s second term, education has remained a central…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2025

Kate Horgan — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:52:36 +0000

Introducing Project Censored’s Summer 2025 Student Interns Project Censored is pleased to announce our stellar cohort of summer 2025 interns, Jayden Henry (Vanderbilt University), Elizabeth Insuasti (University of Florida), Ella Mrofka (North Central College), Caitlin Suda (North Central College), and Jackie Vickery (Ithaca College). They are already hard at work…

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The Holocaust in Gaza Enabled by Corporate and Public Service Media

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:21:31 +0000

By Emil Marmol On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other resistance groups launched an attack that resulted in the deaths of approximately 741 Israeli civilians, 68 foreign nationals, and 314 members of Israeli military forces, with approximately an additional 252 people taken to Gaza as hostages. This, according to the…

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Short Supply: Empathy, Attention, and America’s Legal Labyrinth

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:26:55 +0000

In the first part of the program, we’re joined by board-certified psychiatrist and writer Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq who details how empathy as a skill requires attention, a commodity in short supply these days. Dr. Mushtaq outlines how the framework of social media allows us to not only dehumanize others but indeed ourselves, to avoid discomfort through a simple scroll, and to become ever more intolerant of those we perceive as insurmountably different than ourselves. She also discusses how this connects to the rise of anxiety, depression, and isolation in our society. Later in the program, journalist, researcher and policy director at Defending Rights and Dissent Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to help us wade through the morass of courts and legal proceedings that create a whiplash of headaches for those trying to negotiate access to supposed rights such as the first amendment. Chip gives historical context to today’s free speech battles and outlines nefarious tactics such as blacklists and their role in legal cases.

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The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:16:52 +0000

Indeed, as our first amendment rights continue to be gravely threatened, real, independent frontline journalists are more than truth-tellers, they are the keepers of ideals we as Americans are taught to revere. so, this week, a special program: excerpts from the 17th annual Izzy Awards Show which took place at the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College in Ithaca New York in early May of this year.

The Izzy awards are named after the famous and indeed infamous and intrepid muckraker I.F. ‘Izzy’ Stone…

So this week, we’re featuring remarks by presenters, journalists and media scholars as well as remarks by this year’s winners. Project Censored director and radio show host Mickey Huff was the host of the awards show. He is also the distinguished director of the Park Center for Independent Media.

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The Problem with AI War Games

Kate Horgan — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:00:12 +0000

Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions.

Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-label billions of images and texts used for training generative AIs.

Scale AI is backed by massive military contractor Amazon and the ubiquitous military AI investor Peter Thiel.

Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Wang is a vocal AI war hawk who posits that China poses an existential threat to US dominance in artificial intelligence.

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Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex

Kate Horgan — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:00:45 +0000

Mischa Geracoulis As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partnership with unregulated Big Tech, it also surveils online, helping itself to citizens’ personal identifiable information (PII). In the age of surveillance capitalism, information is a hot commodity for…

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Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:56:38 +0000

Today on the program in the first segment: Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny as they apply to settler colonialism in space, and the billionaire tech bro infatuation with our closest planetary neighbor, Mars. Looking through several analytical frames, Zimbardo debunks any notion that there is a Planet B to escape to, remarking “we’re encouraged to believe that human ingenuity and industry can turn uninhabitable Mars into a habitable Earth. This fantasy is a distraction from the reality that Earth is being rapidly turned into Mars.” In the second segment today, we are rejoined by investigative journalist Peter Byrne. We look at his latest installments for Military AI Watch. We’ll look at the Stargate Fiasco, World War 3 will be fought inside data centers, and his most recent, AI Battle Space: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things.

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Glen E. Friedman on His Photography, Bad Brains, and Rebellious American Music

Kate Horgan — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:10:00 +0000

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, guest host Mischa Geracoulis, Project Censored’s managing editor, speaks with legendary photographer, Glen E. Friedman, about his latest book of Bad Brains photographs, Fearless Vampire Killers (Akashic Books, 2025), Glen’s work in photography and music, punk rock’s place in history, and the parallels between independent media and independent music. One of the more enduring attributes of Friedman’s work is its unspoken message of championing freedom, especially apropos when civil liberties and human rights are under fire.

Friedman’s iconic Burning Flags travelling exhibition that launched in Barcelona in 2022 will be making its US debut at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 18, 2025 through February 15, 2026.

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Disinfo, Decline, and Dysfunction

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:26:01 +0000

In the first segment of this week's Project Censored Show, Mickey welcomes back media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss his new podcast Disinfo Detox and recurring special feature “The Gaslight Gazette" that analyzes current events and media coverage of them through a critical media literacy lens aiming to deconstruct deceptive media messaging. They also discuss legacy media's failure to adequately cover Joe Biden’s physical and cognitive decline in the last election, which a new book co-authored by CNN’s Jake Tapper addresses, though the authors shift blame from corporate media to the Democratic Party without noting their own role in lack of in-depth coverage even though there were stories published at the time in the independent press. Later in the show Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey present another installment in their "Is This the Best We Can Do" segment that analyzes the competency of current government appointees for the positions they fulfill. They provide examples regarding the current heads of FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security, the former spokesperson for Biden’s Secretary of State, and more.

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MARKETING MARS

Kate Horgan — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:05:34 +0000

If Mars Is the Answer, What Was the Question? Mars is 140 million miles away, but it has never been closer. Whether it’s Elon Musk’s relentless cheerleading, the competing plans of various nation states, or the unending cycle of popular culture, Mars is having a serious moment. Earthlings have been…

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Out of the Frame: Hurricane Helene Aftermath and the Weaponization of Antisemitism

Kate Horgan — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:53:39 +0000

This week, Eleanor Goldfield begins by doing what corporate media rarely do, and that is check in on people beyond the 24-hour news cycle and disaster reporting frenzy. Chelsea White-Hoglen, organizer and resident of Western North Carolina comes back on the program to tell us about the compounding crises that have…

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AI Battlespace: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things

Kate Horgan — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:00:38 +0000

During the First Cold War (1949–1989), the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics threatened each other with thousands of nuclear warheads on land- and sea-based ballistic missiles on hair triggers. Ballistic rockets are designed to speed into the stratosphere guided by computerized internal navigation mechanisms as they curve toward target cities in unstoppable, pre-programmed, annihilatory first-strike parabolas. Extensive arrays of computerized radar networks provide defenders with bare minutes to retaliate with nuclear strikes as promised by the theory of deterrence.

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Press Freedoms and Civil Rights Under Attack; and Practicing Civic Self-respect

Kate Horgan — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:27:49 +0000

Today in the first segment, Mickey welcomes back Lauren Harper and Seth Stern from the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss several matters including their latest FOIA work on how the Trump administration has been treating immigrants, students and other vulnerable groups across the country. They provide an update…

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Inmate Pregnancy Losses Under-reported in Ohio Jail and by Establishment Press

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:37:00 +0000

A 2019 study estimated that approximately 55,000 people enter jail pregnant every year, and, in January 2024, Linda Acoff was one of them, according to a May 2025 report by the Marshall Project and News 5 Cleveland. Acoff was seventeen weeks pregnant when she arrived at the Cuyahoga County Jail…

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Title VI Invoked to Curb Pro-Palestinian Language in Higher Ed

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:31:09 +0000

Some college and university funding may be at risk after Title VI complaints call freedom of expression and freedom of speech into question. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that federal funding from taxpayers cannot be allocated to institutions that “encourage, entrench, subsidize or result in…

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“A Chilling Message”: FBI Visits Independent Journalist Who Published Leaked Vance Dossier

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:24:54 +0000

On October 11, 2024, an FBI special agent visited independent journalist Ken Klippenstein at his home in Madison, Wisconsin, “in connection with his publication of a dossier about Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance,” the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker reported. The FBI agent notified Klippenstein that he was “a target…

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Scarce Reporting of Police Violence Despite Rise in Killings by Police

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:14:16 +0000

According to data from Mapping Police Violence, US police killed an average of nearly four people each day in 2024. “According to a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, making it the deadliest year since the group began recording such data in 2013,”…

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Egyptian Firms Subject Commercial and Aid Deliveries to $20,000 “Bribes” to Enter Gaza

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:10:29 +0000

According to a February 2025 article by Ahmed Abdeen for the Middle Eastern Eye, Egyptian tribal leader Ibrahim al-Organi has “continued to exercise de facto control over the entry of commercial and aid trucks into Gaza” after the January 19 ceasefire. Companies linked to Organi have reportedly imposed excessive fees…

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Survey Documents “Alarming Tolerance” for Politicians’ Attacks on the Press

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:06:26 +0000

During June and July 2024, as Donald Trump campaigned to be re-elected by falsely characterizing journalists as “enemies of the people” and calling for the arrests of journalists whose reporting displeased him, two researchers surveyed US adults to determine their support for press freedom. Julie Posetti, the global director of…

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Kashmir and Armenia: Voices from the Margins

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:27:23 +0000

Two places of extreme oppression and turmoil that you won’t hear about on corporate media: Kashmir and Armenia. Today on the program, we’re first joined by professor Ather Zia to talk about Kashmir as a psychic border between India and Pakistan, a stage on which these powers battle out their whims while Kashmir is doing the dying. Ather outlines the insidious great disappearance of Kashmiri writing due to Indian censorship laws and violent retaliation against journalists. She also dissects the nation-state system as one that necessarily requires such violence, the post-colonial myth, deep and disturbing connections to Israel, and more. Next up, Armenian human rights lawyer Karnig Kerkonian comes back on the show to discuss the situation in Armenia, and the Armenian quarter in East Jerusalem. Karnig outlines the absurd peace talks with Azerbaijan as comparable to trying to appease Hitler with Sudetenland, a lesson he feels we should’ve learned well enough 80 years ago. Karnig also discusses the settler violence in the Armenian quarter in East Jerusalem, a place that Armenian Christians have called home for more than a thousand years. The fight to remain goes well beyond East Jerusalem, Karnig says, and betrays the deeper settler colonial reality of what media often portrays as Muslims vs. Jews in the Promised Land.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:47 +0000

Project Censored Co-sponsors Izzy Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) held its 17th annual Izzy Award Celebration at Ithaca College on April 30. The Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” is named after I.F. “Izzy” Stone, the muckraking journalist who launched…

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Dispatch from Texas: The Billion-Dollar Heist of Public Education

Kate Horgan — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:00:22 +0000

The 89th Texas Legislative Session will be remembered for many things—but if you’re a student, teacher, or parent trying to make public education work in this state, it’s going down as the year lawmakers finally dropped their mask. With the official end of the legislative session (called adjournment sine die,…

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Language as Liberation: One Man’s Mission to Teach ASL in Prison

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:15:53 +0000

After legal advocates moved a group of deaf prisoners to California’s San Quentin prison, inmate Tommy Wickerd, serving a 57-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, found a new purpose teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to fellow incarcerated individuals and correctional officers, an initiative featured in a February 2025 report from The…

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Mental Health Crisis Grows for Farmers as Federal Aid Runs Out

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:10:20 +0000

In 2023, Congress allocated $28 million to help food industry workers handle the stress of the COVID pandemic. States that had applied to the US Department of Agriculture used this funding to “hold trainings, start hotlines staffed by mental health workers and, like in Utah, provide therapy.” Now, the money…

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Michigan’s Incarcerated Women: The Urgent Need for Resources

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:02:01 +0000

A February 2025 article published by Women’s eNews highlighted the deep systemic injustices and problematic treatment of incarcerated women in Michigan’s justice system. Many of these women are serving long sentences for offenses “linked to their unaddressed trauma,” Natalie Holbrook Combs reported, highlighting a lack of advocacy and resources for…

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Behind Bars and Binaries: Music, Identity, and the Fight for Liberation

Kate Horgan — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:26:55 +0000

In the first part of the program, Nikki Morse, Noam Brown and Prince Jooveh talk about the album Bending the Bars, a project created via makeshift jail phone setups in order to uplift and amplify the voices of incarcerated musicians. Our guests discuss the myriad powers of music, from therapy to frontline reporting to bridges between rival gangs and political perspectives. They dive into the barriers and indeed the freedom in creating an album without the support or collaboration of the carceral system, and how their work can be, and indeed should be repeated by others across the prison industrial complex. Next up, journalist and organizer Jen Deerinwater joins the show again, this time to talk about indigiqueer identities, how colonization violently imposed the binary, missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two spirits and relatives, and how this violence is inextricably linked to ecocide. Jen also uplifts the upcoming decolonized beatz, Indigenous world pride, a global event celebrating the powerful creativity of 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous artists, performers, and storytellers coming up in late may in Washington DC.

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Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request

Kate Horgan — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:32:40 +0000

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Working Class Is Severely Underrepresented in State Legislatures

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:38:53 +0000

Stateline reported that only 1.6 percent of state lawmakers are considered “working class,” compared to 50 percent of US workers, according to the 2024 results of a biennial study by Duke University and Loyola University Chicago researchers. Per the March 15, 2024, Stateline article by Robbie Sequeira, “just 116 of…

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Palestinian-American Educator Shares Strategies for Talking to Kids About Gaza

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:19:20 +0000

In February 2025, educator and writer Reem Abuelhaj wrote for Rethinking Schools about how to have conversations with young children about Gaza, considering professional consequences educators face when teaching about Israel and Palestine. The article provides practical guidance for parents and educators on how to navigate these discussions, whether at…

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Student Interest in Apprenticeships Surge, Employers Struggle to Meet Demand

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:14:47 +0000

Employers are having trouble keeping up with the rise in student demand and interest in apprenticeships, according to The Hechinger Report. Although students far outnumber current opportunities due to a “reluctance among employers” to offer apprenticeships, which are expensive to establish, there is hope that organizations such as Edu-REACH will…

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Gardena, California, Students Simulate Starbucks Union Drive to Learn Workplace Rights

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:07:16 +0000

Writing for Rethinking Schools, Nicolle Fefferman reported on her involvement in facilitating a classroom activity exploring workers’ rights and the power of labor organizing as part of Assembly Bill 800 in California, which requires public high schools to implement Workplace Readiness Week each May. Students from Gardena High School in…

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Laying the Foundation: Essential Math Skills Missing from Early Education

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:00:29 +0000

A February 2025 article by The Hechinger Report highlights research-backed strategies to strengthen young students’ basic math skills, emphasizing the importance of early mastery in number sense, spatial reasoning, and pattern recognition. Specialists and educators warn that without early intervention, students struggling with these foundational concepts may face ongoing academic…

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Lessons from Kent State 55 Years Later, and the Power of Truth-telling and Resisting Censorship

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:30:22 +0000

In the first segment of today’s program Mickey talks with Laurel Krause, Emily Kunstler, and Kelley Lane 55 years after the Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine others at Kent State University as they protested the illegal expansion of the disastrous Vietnam War. There are many lessons…

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Beyond Earth Day and May Day

Kate Horgan — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:00:37 +0000

By Jayden Lawrence and Steve Macek The 55th anniversary of Earth Day, on April 22, 2025, has come and gone. Once again, the country’s most prominent news outlets have concluded their annual, half-hearted coverage of the environment and environmental justice. International Workers’ Day is approaching on Thursday, May 1, and,…

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Campus Life in the Crosshairs

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:55:07 +0000

This week, campus life in the crosshairs. First up, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Kei Pritsker, the co-director of “The Encampments” and journalist with Breakthrough News. Kei talks about colleges as extensions of the national security state where, at the request of a foreign nation committing genocide, students are brutalized. Kei also shares his experiences creating the film as press and as a part of the community that the encampments built. Next up, Professor Nick Wolfinger talks about his latest book, Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations. Nick and Eleanor discuss the problematic way in which universities are handling complaints about faculty while also debating the difficulty in umbrella guidelines regarding a faculty member’s ability to do their job based on their opinions and prejudices. It’s a slippery slope and when academic freedom is at stake, it’s easy to let our own political leanings push us to the bottom. Can we all embrace discomfort for the sake of academic freedom?

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The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2025

Kate Horgan — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:37:47 +0000

“One Ring to Rule Them All”: Peter Byrne and Project Censored Launch Military AI Watch Our new investigative series, Military AI Watch, reveals the dangers of developing artificial intelligence (AI) for military use. Investigative journalist Peter Byrne shows how Silicon Valley, corporate media, the Department of Defense, the banking industry,…

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Stargate Fiasco

Kate Horgan — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:00:43 +0000

On January 21, 2025, the day after his second inauguration as president of the United States, Donald Trump hosted OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son at a White House press conference.

Flanked by billionaires standing at attention, the red, white, and blue garbed president announced the Stargate Project, a $500 billion deal to build data centers to constrain Chinese AI efforts and create 100,000 jobs. Trump said he planned to expedite Stargate with executive orders. He did not mention that his family is involved in financing data centers and OpenAI. Or that his predecessor, Joseph Biden, initiated Stargate.

Stargate proposes to construct state-of-the-AI-art data centers—the beating heart of commercial, cryptocurrency, and military AI applications—inside the United States, but only for the use of OpenAI, which is umbilically partnered to Microsoft Corporation.

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Independent and Unafraid: Inside the 17th Annual Izzy Awards

Kate Horgan — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:39:08 +0000

The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College is honored to announce this year’s Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media. The Izzy Award is named after legendary muckraking journalist I.F. “Izzy” Stone. It’s the 17th Annual Award from the Park Center that honors the best reporting from the independent press. Today on the program, we’ll talk to some of the Izzy winners and an Izzy judge. We’ll start with Professor Victor Pickard, a long time Izzy judge, speaking about the state of our free press. Then we’ll talk to Max Alvarez of the Real News Network and Chris Albright, a resident of East Palestine, Ohio. They’ll talk about Alvarez’s coverage of the great train derailment there from 2023. Later in the program, we’re also joined by Arielle Angel of Jewish Currents to talk about their important work.

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Framing the Feed: How Social Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality

Kate Horgan — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:00:35 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies media outlets use to present news stories. Framing shapes how we understand these stories by emphasizing certain aspects and downplaying others, ultimately promoting a particular interpretation…

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Eyes Everywhere: Tech Tyranny and the Profiteers of Control

Kate Horgan — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:30:32 +0000

This week we’re looking at the insidious and nefarious sides of tech - starting off, a conversation with Esra’a Al Shafei discussing her new site Surveillance Watch, an incredible trove of data formulated into an easily searchable and interactive site that exposes the vast interconnected web of global authoritarian surveillance systems. Esra’a discusses the impunity with which these corporations and financial institutions operate, with no care for borders, side-stepping sanctions, and using genocide as a marketing tool. She highlights the importance of bringing this information to light, of acting to protect ourselves and each other and never normalizing the Orwellian panopticon. Next up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with investigative journalist Peter Byrne to unveil a new 10-part series titled Military AI Watch: the dangerous militarization of AI and the profiteering behind it. Peter and Mickey discuss the first piece in the series, One Ring to Rule them All where Peter names the cast of characters in this dark fantasy turned reality, their terrifying aims, the monopoly on murder, and more.

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PFAS Found in Condoms and Lubricants

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:46:21 +0000

According to a study by the consumer safety advocacy group Mamavation, popular brands of condoms and lubricants contain PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or so-called “forever chemicals,” Tom Perkins reported for the Guardian in July 2024. PFAS are known informally as “forever chemicals” because they take a long time to…

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Water Scarcity a Threat to 27 Million People in United States

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:42:09 +0000

“Nearly 30 million people are living in areas of the US with limited water supplies,” Carey Gillam reported for The New Lede, an environmental website, in January 2025. Gillam’s report was based on a US Geological Survey (USGS) study that assessed water availability in the United States from 2010 to…

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Antarctic Ice Sheets Approaching Tipping Point, Studies Find

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:36:24 +0000

A June 2024 study published in the journal Nature Geoscience warned that increases in ocean temperature could lead to a tipping point in the melting of Antarctic marine ice sheets, potentially triggering “runaway melting.” In June 2024, Robert Hunziker reported for CounterPunch on this research and other scientific studies of…

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Meat Industry Disinformation Misleads Public About Impacts on Health and the Planet

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:36:53 +0000

The meat industry has attempted to rebrand itself, promoting disinformation about the environmental impacts and negative health consequences of meat consumption, Jessica Scott-Reid reported in December 2024 for Sentient, a nonprofit news organization that reports on factory farming and its impacts. “Amidst a climate crisis driven in no small part…

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200,000 Unreported Traffic Stops by Chicago Police in 2023

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:31:42 +0000

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) made 200,000 undocumented traffic stops in 2023, according to an August 2024 investigation conducted jointly by Bolts and Injustice Watch. The investigation examined police radio dispatch data to identify 200,000 stops that violated a 2003 Illinois state law requiring law enforcement agencies to report specific…

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Documents Reveal Extent of Toxic Mold in Privatized Military Housing

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:27:17 +0000

Military housing around the country is made hazardous by toxic mold, and the military and private, for-profit housing companies have taken advantage of a gap in federal standards to avoid testing and appropriate mediation, René Kladzyk reported for the Project On Government Oversight and Mother Jones (in May 2024) and…

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Parents Forced to Sacrifice Careers to Remain Eligible for Childcare Assistance

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:21:55 +0000

Mothers across the United States are being forced to quit their jobs and pass on promotions in order to qualify for government-subsidized child care, according to Jackie Mader for the Hechinger Report. Advocates say this “broken and underfunded system … traps families, especially women, in poverty.” Many states have stricter…

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Post-Assad Syria Faces Economic Upheaval

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:16:53 +0000

Following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad and the emerging leadership policies of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Syria is experiencing a period of significant economic transformation, according to a December 2024 report by Kit Klarenberg for MintPress News. The new administration has swiftly deconstructed the old model of Assad’s state-controlled economy,…

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Negative Repercussions of Digital Censorship for K-12 Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:12:59 +0000

A January 2025 report, “Out of Step,” published by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), shows that K-12 schools across the United States frequently use web filtering software to block student access to a wide range of content, and that students and parents are largely unaware of these restrictions.…

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Governor Vetoes Bill to Grant California Tribal Police Peace Officer Status

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:06:28 +0000

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill, proposed by Native American Assembly member James Ramos, that would have granted tribal police more power in the state justice system, Kevin Tidmarsh reported for LAist in September 2024. Despite a 76 to 3 vote in support of AB2138, the Peace Officers: Tribal…

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Returning Wolverines to Colorado a Milestone for US Biodiversity Efforts

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:51:28 +0000

In February 2024, Governor Jared Polis of Colorado signed a groundbreaking wildlife conservation bill into law. The new legislation sought the aid of Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to reintroduce wolverines into approved sites around the state’s wilderness areas. These sites were chosen because they would make resilient, if not…

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Conversations on Environmental Justice, Abolition, and the Future We Build

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:37:24 +0000

In the first part of the program, author and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s education director Ben Price joins the program to talk about his new book, Wouldn’t You Say, A Collection of Essays on Environment and Community. In the book and in our conversation, Ben explains that what we’re seeing today is not a perversion of the promise of America, it’s actually a proof of concept, a continuation of foundational ideologies never meant to protect we, the people, and certainly not to protect the ecosystems of which we are a part. Ben discusses rights of nature not as a legal north star but as a need to shift our thinking about relationships, between ourselves, the law, and empirical reality. Next up, Dr. Kim Wilson and Maya Schenwar join the show to discuss the book which they co-edited, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. Maya and Kim discuss this multi-generational project which also combines voices from the inside and outside, highlighting the contrasts and connections between the carceral systems of literal and figurative cages, and how prisons are and have been the canaries in the coal mine for the restrictions on our basic rights. They discuss abolition as a tearing down but perhaps even more so of a building up, how kids are integral to the creative imagination necessary for building new worlds, and the emergent possibilities outside of our current death-making system.

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“All Governments Lie”: Why We Need a Radical and Independent Free Press Now

Kate Horgan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:35:17 +0000

If the Government makes a mistake, the newspapers will find out and the problem may then be fixed. But if freedom of the press were lost, the country would soon go to pieces. — I.F. Stone By Mickey Huff Media scholar Carl Jensen was deeply influenced by the independent muckraking…

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Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History

Kate Horgan — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:24:53 +0000

In the first part of the program, journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to talk about attacks on journalists in Gaza, attacks on free press here at home, the links between them, and the long history of our shaky and fragile access to first amendment rights. Chip places the targeting of students like Mahmoud Khalil in a timeline of authoritarian moves to protect US political interests over basic freedoms, and how our ignorance of the past is wrecking our present and predetermining a dark future. In the second half of the show, labor activist and co-founder of the National Labor Network for Ceasefire Gene Bruskin joins the show to connect the dots on US foreign and domestic policy, on how chronic injustices here at home make us blind to the fact that we don’t have to live this way, not here, and not over there. Gene talks about the importance of bringing our demands together, of thinking globally, of tactics that work and tactics that don’t, and of reclaiming OUR radical labor history.

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One Ring to Rule Them All

Project Censored — Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:29:19 +0000

In 2003, Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Andreas Thiel launched an espionage startup with a $30 million investment. The Central Intelligence Agency’s investment arm, In-Q-Tel, contributed $2 million. Thiel named their privately owned firm “Palantir” after the Seeing Stone used by Dark Lord Sauron to locate his enemies in Lord of the Rings.
Pumped by years of secretive contracts with the CIA, Department of Homeland Security’s ICE, National Security Agency, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Air Force, Special Operations Command, and the Los Angeles Police Department, Palantir Technologies went public in 2020 with a $16 billion market valuation.

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Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists & Frame Checking the News

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:54:28 +0000

In an era when algorithms are reshaping how news is gathered, produced, distributed, and consumed, every journalist, regardless of specialty, needs some degree of algorithmic literacy. We’re joined by 2024-25 RJI fellow Andy Lee Roth, who led a team to create a website about Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists. It provides a practical toolkit to help journalists and the general public better understand the functions, impacts, and ethics of algorithms, including shadowbanning and other forms of censorship. In the second half of the show, we present Frame Check, a new monthly series that will be available on social media and podcast platforms. This new segment on The Project Censored Show is hosted by Reagan Haynie, Kate Horgan, and Shealeigh Voitl. Frame Check explores pop culture, news, and feminism through a critical media literacy lens, helping audiences deconstruct dominant news frames. In the debut segment, the hosts examine how corporate media sensationalizes the manufactured spectacle of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s relationship—amplifying their antics while failing to critically assess their influence—turning even significant political developments into junk food news.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:47:00 +0000

Project Censored in the Classroom Check out the Validated Independent News section of the Project Censored website for a fresh batch of important but under-reported news stories, as identified, vetted, and summarized by college and university students developing their critical media literacy skills through the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program. The…

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Resisting Digital Gatekeeping by Promoting Algorithmic Literacy

Kate Horgan — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:37 +0000

Andy Lee Roth and Kate Horgan Algorithms are the building blocks for a host of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are revolutionizing how news is produced, distributed, and consumed. Earlier this month, for example, Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, launched Insights, an AI-powered tool that…

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New York Officials Call for Criminal Prosecution of Fossil Fuel Companies and CEOs

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:37:52 +0000

In October 2024, New York prosecutors set the groundwork for filing criminal charges against major fossil fuel companies for their significant role in contributing to the climate crisis. A fifty-page report released by Public Citizen and endorsed by New York officials detailed “admissible evidence, possible charges, and legal issues” pertaining…

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“Segregation Academies” Leave Lasting Impact on Deep South Long After Brown v. Board of Education

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:24:48 +0000

“Segregation academies,” private schools founded by white parents in opposition to desegregation, have left a lasting impact in the Deep South decades after Brown v. Board of Education, according to a recent ProPublica report. Jennifer Berry Hawes investigated two schools in Alabama, including Wilcox Academy, a predominantly white private school,…

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Big Tech Companies Creating Legal “Patchwork” to Undermine Data Privacy Rights

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:13:58 +0000

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Shared Ethnonationalism and Militarized Technology Bond India and Israel

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:50:36 +0000

Since 2020, India’s right-wing Hindu nationalist ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been strategically displacing Muslims across the country, including in Assam, where Bengali Muslims, who constitute a small minority of the northeastern state’s multi-ethnic population, are subject to evictions and the stripping of their citizenship under baseless…

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Underpaid, Unrecognized Labor of Prisoners During Climate Crises

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:33:59 +0000

Inmates in prisons across the US are used as an expendable, low-to-no-cost labor source during natural disasters, according to an October 2024 article by Panagioti Tsolkas for Earth Island Journal. Incarcerated people, who are already neglected in the wake of natural disasters, can be forced to work and are often…

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Universities Profit in the Millions from Fossil Fuel Corporations, According to Student Reporting

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:20:12 +0000

The Guardian, in partnership with Climate Campus Network, and Common Dreams reported on six student-led analyses, revealing prestigious universities’ investment ties and research funding from oil and gas companies, including some universities that claimed to have “dissociated” from the fossil fuel industry. Researchers combed through “tax forms for publicly disclosed…

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The News That Didn’t Make the News: Gaza’s Reality, Propaganda, and the Fight for Justice

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:58:04 +0000

Coming up first on the program, we welcome back Dr. Khalil Khalidy, an orthopedic doctor in Deir al-Balah, Gaza to give us what you’ll never hear on corporate media: updates on the situation in Gaza from Gazans since the end of phase one of the so-called ceasefire. Dr. Khalidy also discusses the insidious Israeli propaganda machine, the psychological effects of colonialism, and some vital history many in the US likely don’t know, including the divide-and-conquer strategy to pull Palestinians from each other, geographically and culturally, from the West Bank to Gaza to the diaspora. Later in the program, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of the most recent news that didn’t make the news, in particular the abduction of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, the history of who the US deems a terrorist, and the importance of critical media literacy and independent media in these - to put it mildly, turbulent times.

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UN Cybercrime Treaty Supported by Autocrats Raises Human Rights Concerns

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:46:46 +0000

On December 24, 2024, the United Nations adopted the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, which aims to “prevent and combat” cybercrime and “strengthen international cooperation in sharing electronic evidence for serious crimes.” Several human rights and independent news organizations noted that the international treaty raised serious human rights concerns. On…

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UBS, the World’s Largest Private Bank, Accused of Scamming Customers

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:42:01 +0000

According to documents from a lawsuit, UBS Bahamas refused to send required confirmations of trades made in US markets, Lucy Komisar reported, in October 2024, for Inside Paradeplatz, a Swiss outlet that specializes in financial news. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires such confirmations by law. “The clients…

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US News Media Miss News Out of Africa

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:27:51 +0000

US news outlets often ignore or marginalize important stories out of Africa. In a September 2024 report for Current Affairs, Alex Scopic highlighted a number of current events taking place in African nations that US outlets have failed to cover adequately. For example, Scopic noted that PBS was one of…

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People with Disabilities Especially Vulnerable to Medicaid “Unwinding”

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:23:07 +0000

Medicaid “unwinding” is affecting over 20 million Americans—predominantly Americans with disabilities. In April 2023, after the continuous enrollment provisions ended—which had previously allowed people to remain on Medicaid temporarily during the COVID pandemic, regardless of changes in their income—many states began reevaluating people’s Medicaid coverage, according to Daniel Chang for…

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Mass Layoffs as CEO Salaries Skyrocket

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:18:13 +0000

In March 2024, Oxfam, an international non-profit focused on alleviating global poverty, issued a report on how two hundred of the largest US corporations contribute to global and domestic inequality. Examining each company’s “inequality footprint,” the Oxfam report showed how, year after year, US corporations were directing higher percentages of…

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ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:07:18 +0000

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Hazardous Chemicals in Food Packaging Found in Humans

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:00:41 +0000

A study published in September 2024 by the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology found some 3,600 food contact chemicals (or FCCs) in humans, including eighty FCCs with “hazard properties of high concern” for human health. “Thousands of chemicals used in food packaging and food production are leaching into…

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What To Us Is International Women’s Day?

Kate Horgan — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:37:42 +0000

This week, a special Project Censored episode: “What To Us Is International Women’s Day?,” a variation on the question asked by Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? March 8th is International Women’s Day, and while many will and do celebrate this day in revolutionary ways, the truth is that IWD like so many other holidays is often used to serve the vehemently anti-feminist goals of the architects of our oppression. So-called white feminism perpetuates the evils of white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism - but with a femme facade, pushing us to ask what to us is an international women’s day which doesn’t seek to dismantle the very systems that use, abuse & torment women across the US and the globe? Award-winning journalist Mnar Adley and organizer Afeni Evans will join Eleanor Goldfield for this special hour-long dive into the insidious machinations of white feminism, who gets violently othered and why, the internationalist demands of a revolutionary feminism, and what really to us, is - or could be - International Women’s Day?

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Meta Shifts Right: Big Tech, Project 2025, and the Assault on DEI

Kate Horgan — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:22:15 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis and avram anderson Editor’s note: This is the second article in a two-part series. Read the first article, “Technogarchy Goes to Washington,” here. When Mark Zuckerberg terminated Meta’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring and training employees and procuring suppliers in January 2025, he forged…

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Borders, Empire, and Resistance: Confronting Racism, Nationalism, and the Fight for Alternatives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:24:14 +0000

In the first part of the program, author and organizer Harsha Walia joins the show to talk about the convergence of racist nationalism and border imperialism, and how the attacks on migrants are inextricably linked to the attacks on Indigenous peoples. Harsha also discusses the globalization of border violence, and offers a class analysis that contextualizes the border as a spatial fix for capital accumulation. Later in the show, community organizer Kamau Franklin comes back on the show to talk about the very real fears taking hold of people in these times, how these are different from manufactured fears, and how real leftist media is needed to push through the cacophonous propaganda of empire. Kamau also discusses the importance of the build and fight, imagining and actually creating alternatives to our current system that can scale and provide in the here and now.

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Debunking the Book Ban “Hoax” and Resisting Trump Administration Attacks on the First Amendment

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:37:31 +0000

This week, Mickey speaks with filmmaker Allyson Rice and researcher Dorri C. Scott about the growing number of books challenged and banned in US schools and libraries, something the Trump administration has called a hoax. We hear about the soon-to-be-released documentary, Banned Together, that looks at efforts by local school boards and state-level politicians to restrict student access to books while highlighting the very students who are protesting and fighting back for the right to read. Then, Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and Lauren Harper, the first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy there, warn that the Trump Administration is engaged in unprecedented, and possibly illegal, efforts to reshuffle how federal agencies’ records are kept. They also survey Trump’s multiple attacks on journalists and press in his first month back in office and caution that more assaults on the First Amendment and the public’s right to know will be forthcoming, which, they argue, should be vigorously resisted.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—February 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:17:50 +0000

Call for Summer Internship Applications Project Censored is seeking undergraduate students with strong interests in independent journalism and critical media literacy to apply for our summer internship program. Summer interns will be engaged in the Project’s daily work, which includes identifying and vetting independent news stories, researching current news topics…

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Technogarchy Goes to Washington

Kate Horgan — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:49 +0000

Billionaire tech owners who align themselves with whatever administration occupies the White House undermine democracy by threatening a dangerous consolidation of private and public power. By Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff On January 7, 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on “Fox & Friends” that the recent US elections point…

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Occupied Realities & Uncovered Strikes: The Struggle for Palestinian Rights and Immigrant Justice

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:35:37 +0000

Up first on the program, associate editor and producer of the weekly livestream at Electronic Intifada, Tamara Nassar discusses the Gaza-like situation unfolding in the West Bank, violence that has been escalating since the start of, and indeed before, the genocide. Tamara outlines the myriad ways in which the occupation oppresses, dehumanizes and murders Palestinians including tricks the Israelis inherited from the British colonial government, and the twisted use of the Palestinian Authority to support Israeli aims behind a Palestinian name. Next, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with journalist and founder of Payday Report, Mike Elk, to talk about corporate media’s failure to cover Day Without Immigrant strike events that happened in more than a hundred cities across 40 states, and how this also speaks to the presence of news deserts and an anemic alternative independent press. Mike also speaks about the need for a multicultural media system, and how unions can protect against raids and other violence aimed at immigrants.

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Is This the Best We Can Do? Hope and Limitations in International Law

Kate Horgan — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:26:55 +0000

In the first part of the program this week, Palestinian legal expert Hassan Ben Imran comes back on the show to talk about the recent formation of the Hague Group, the ongoing cases against Israel and the limitations of, and hope in international law. Later in the show, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield banter about the sad state of the 4th estate vis a vis coverage of the genocide in Gaza, and how legacy media couldn’t even be bothered to truthfully report on the carnage meted out by US tax dollars. In a new segment that we’ll come back to in many arenas of life, Mickey and Eleanor ask if this is the best we can do — be it these so-called journalists, or the latest cabinet picks.

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TikTok Running on Borrowed Time

Kate Horgan — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:00:12 +0000

By Stephen Rohde On January 17, for the first time in modern US history, a unanimous Supreme Court upheld a sweeping prior restraint on free speech imposed by Congress, restricting more than 170 million users in the United States from accessing the popular social media platform TikTok. As the Court…

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Defending Local & Indigenous Media in an Age of Scarcity

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:40:57 +0000

In the first part of the program, Mohawk journalist Isaac White speaks to Eleanor Goldfield about being guilty of journalism. Isaac was arrested last year while covering a land claim demonstration despite clearly identifying himself as press and having credentials on his person. Isaac’s story also highlights the importance of and dangers to local and Indigenous media. As we’ve covered before on Project Censored, there’s already a dearth of local media, but add to that Indigenous local media, and this forced scarcity means that reporters like Isaac who would be connecting communities and holding local leaders to account have to find a living elsewhere, a move that affects the entire local area. In the second half of the show, my cohost Mickey Huff sits down with Dr. John Collins, a founder & editorial director at Weave News, author, and professor at St. Lawrence University to talk about the power and mandate of grassroots independent media in these times. John explains that journalism is too important to be left to the powers that be and what we need right now more than ever is news of, for and by the people. John also talks about his books and years of work on Palestine, and how Palestine is in fact not only an issue unto itself but also a lens for examining colonialism, capitalism, media, the politics of representation and more.

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Selective Outrage and the Palestine Exception

Kate Horgan — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:26:00 +0000

By Mireille Rebeiz The Hamas attacks of October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza showed serious cracks in higher education in the United States and how it addresses the Israel–Palestine conflict. The initial impulse was to condemn Hamas and express solidarity with Israeli civilians, an honorable and, quite honestly,…

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Don’t Get Distracted: Bitter Economic Pills & Threats to Free Press Hit Everyone

Kate Horgan — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:03:50 +0000

In the first part of the program, economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins co-host Eleanor Goldfield to set the record straight on what tariffs really are, and how bizarrely hypocritical it is that the famously anti-tax republican party is now the party that wants a lot of taxes - taxes aimed at you and me. Professor Wolff also explains the wrong-headed thinking about immigration - that in fact, steady immigration into the US is and has been a sign of a healthy economy, so the fact that the nation can’t and won’t embrace immigration today is actually a big red flag that our economy is weak - as further evidenced by how well the BRICS nations are doing compared to the G7. In the second half of the show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with journalists Maya Schenwar and Negin Owliaei about how media must NOT back down to Trump’s threats against press freedom. Maya and Negin outline the multi pronged attacks that journalists and media organizations are facing, remarking that none of us alone can surmount these problems but that real active solidarity and community building is key - along with contextualizing our today in the struggles of yesterday, and NEVER complying in advance.

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From #MeToo to Misdirection

Kate Horgan — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:00:19 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl “I think the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni thing is such a hot-button thing right now that even a mere mention of it will seem like I could be on the wrong side of things, even though I would never be,” Nikki Glaser told Yahoo Entertainment, in early January,…

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Fires, Frontlines, and Surveillance: Looking into Environmental and Civil Rights Crises

Kate Horgan — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:47:37 +0000

In the first half of the program, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Leyna Quinn-Davidson, the Fire Network Director for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources about the confluence of issues that are quite literally fueling the fires in LA County. Leyna highlights how we have to shift our thinking about not only how fires burn but their historic and vital role in bolstering healthy ecosystems. She also pinpoints some simple actions people in the area can take to protect their homes and perhaps more importantly their communities, since what your neighbor does or doesn’t do in these situations will directly affect you. In the second half of the show, experienced conflict correspondent Theia Chatelle joins the program to talk about suing Yale PD, a frustrating but enlightening process that uncovered a vast and deep web of surveillance and repressive tactics aimed at students engaging in constitutionally protected speech and protest. Theia discusses the frightening levels of coordination between campus police, local and federal law enforcement, Zionist organizations and even counter-terrorism agencies. She connects this to a larger pattern of repression across US colleges, universities, and towns and cities beyond campus borders, where the panopticon-style surveillance follows anyone and everyone who could be deemed a threat to the status quo.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2025

Kate Horgan — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:42:44 +0000

Censored Press News As we at Project Censored turned our calendars from 2024 to 2025 and hurtled into the new year, State of the Free Press 2025 has been receiving tremendous positive publicity. The coeditors of State of the Free Press 2025 have been making the rounds for radio and…

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Pressing Issues for 2025: Trump 2.0, Media Failures, and the Fight for Press Freedom

Kate Horgan — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:00:19 +0000

This week we swing into the new year, 2025, with Mickey engaging media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss the incoming administration, Trump 2.0, the failures of the punditocracy and what might mean for press freedom in his second term; social media and an end to so-called fact-checking; and why we will continue to need a truly independent press to keep us informed moving forward. Later in the program, media scholar Steve Macek joins the conversation, and it’s Deja Vu all over again as they revisit previously censored news stories around significant current events (including in Gaza) and how the ongoing lack of establishment media coverage around key issues contributes to low information voters and allows myriad injustices to persist at home and around the globe.

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2025: Another ‘Unprecedented’ Year Calls for Staying the Course

Project Censored — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:58:06 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis “The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries,” wrote American author and social critic Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007)…

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Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines

Kate Horgan — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:17:50 +0000

In the first half of the program Eleanonr Goldfield speaks with Shrouq Aila, an investigative journalist, producer and researcher in Gaza. Shrouq describes the situation on the ground in Gaza, the target on her back as a journalist, what she asks of her fellow journalists in these times, and the layered struggles of being the story that you are covering.

In the second half of the program, Marine corps veteran Matthew Hoh comes back on the show to talk about his recent trip to occupied Palestine / Israel. Matt describes the parallel phases of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Israeli culture that makes entertainment out of genocide while simultaneously denying that genocide

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Digital Settler Colonialism, Gaza, and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:29:02 +0000

In the first half of the show, Mickey sits down with Omar Zahzah, a Lebanese/Palestinian organizer, writer, poet, freelance journalist and assistant professor of Arab/Muslim ethnicities and diaspora studies at San Francisco State University. Omar discusses his forthcoming book from the Censored and Seven Stories presses titled Terms of Servitude:…

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Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:05:28 +0000

What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironically creating news deserts, they can also memory hole online news archives. For the first part of the program, Mickey Huff is joined by investigative reporter Peter Byrne. Byrne talks about unplugging the news and history in San Francisco, navigating the existential fragility of online news archives.

Later in the program, you’ll hear excerpts from an event held at Ithaca College in November, cosponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media, Project Looksharp, and Project Censored. Mickey Huff hosted co-editor of State of the Free Press 2025 Shaeleigh Voitl, and contributors Robin Andersen, and Steve Macek. You’ll get an overview of Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025, hear some of the top underreported news stories of the year, and much more.

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Exposing Gaps in Corporate Control over News

Kate Horgan — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:00:15 +0000

By Andy Lee Roth Editor’s Note: This Dispatch is adapted from State of the Free Press 2025, edited by Mickey Huff, Shealeigh Voitl, and Andy Lee Roth, and published on December 3, 2024, by The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. The power to keep an occurrence out of the…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:04:59 +0000

State of the Free Press 2025 “Shines A Spotlight on the Issues That Matter Most” As public trust in the media drops to an all-time low—only a third of adult Americans believe US media are completely free to report news—Project Censored released the 2025 edition of its award-winning yearbook series.…

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Alabama School District Fires Superintendent Who Made Strides to Accommodate Immigrant Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:01:49 +0000

The superintendent of the Russellville City School District in Alabama was fired after implementing changes that benefited immigrant students but frustrated the local community, as reported by Kavita Cardoza for the Hechinger Report in August 2024. Superintendent Heath Grimes was hired to lead Russellville’s schools in 2015. Over the course…

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Censored News, Media Framing, and the Threat of HR 9495: A Conversation with Project Censored

Kate Horgan — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:51:18 +0000

Today in the first segment of the show, Mickey Huff speaks with associate director of Project Censored, Andy Lee Roth, and the Project’s digital and print editor, Shealeigh Voitl. They talk about Project Censored’s new book State of the Free Press 2025 that looks at the top underreported or censored news stories from the past year that corporate media censored, otherwise distorted or ignored altogether. Later in the conversation, Andy and Shealeigh talk about moving beyond fact-checking and their educator resource guide on the power of news frames, and how news framing helps shape public opinion. Later in the program, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield talk about a recent piece she wrote on news literacy for activists and organizers: Critical Media Literacy provides grassroots movements with practical tools for pursuing their goals. Eleanor and Mickey also discuss the troublesome bill, HR 9495 that passed through the House recently. It is a draconian bill that would allow the Treasury Secretary to unilaterally strip a nonprofit of their status if they’re deemed a terrorist-supporting organization. This is incredibly dangerous given the political motivations of a potential Treasury Secretary to silence particular nonprofits on the basis of the focus of their message.

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Tribal Colleges Remain Underfunded Decades After Congressional Commitment To Indigenous Higher Ed

Kate Horgan — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:22:29 +0000

Tribal colleges across the United States face severe infrastructural challenges due to federal underfunding, making it difficult for schools to provide adequate facilities and resources for their students, according to an October 2024 report by Matt Krupnick for ProPublica and the Hechinger Report. After “decades of financial neglect,” increased funding…

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Philadelphia Gun Violence Driving Higher Enrollment in Cyber-Charter Schools

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:44:31 +0000

Motivated by fears of increasingly frequent youth gun violence, Philadelphia families are enrolling their children in online charter schools. Nearly 15,000 of 197,000 students have switched to online classes because their parents “see them as a safe and flexible educational option,” according to an October 2024 story by Carly Sitrin…

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NOTE ON RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF CENSORED NEWS STORIES

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:31:46 +0000

How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but also trustworthy? The answer is that every candidate news story undergoes rigorous review, which takes place…

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#25. Israel-Linked Group Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestinian Artists on Spotify

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:30:32 +0000

“We Believe in Israel,” a subsidiary of Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) in the United Kingdom, has been attempting to remove Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists from the music streaming giant Spotify. MintPress News senior staff writer Alan MacLeod reported that the group has been lobbying Spotify and the…

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#24. Forced Labor Traps Adopted Children in Paraguay

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:29:17 +0000

In January 2024, the Paraguayan news outlet El Surtidor published an article by Jazmin Bazán about the practice of criadazgo, forced domestic labor involving adopted children who receive neither wages nor an adequate standard of living. Paraguay’s Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas estimates that about forty-seven thousand children, ages 5-17 (approximately…

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#23. Hospital School Programs Support Students’ Mental Health and Education

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:28:06 +0000

In-hospital schools are developing groundbreaking means to address the mental health crisis among young people, Rebecca Redelmeier reported in August 2023 for The Hechinger Report. Amidst a surge of in-patient mental health hospitalizations, original programs such as the University of North Carolina’s Hospital School are providing transformative educational support for…

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#22. FBI’s Annual Crime Report Misunderstood and Misrepresented by Media

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:27:39 +0000

In an October 2023 article, The Appeal highlighted the FBI’s latest annual report on crime in the United States for 2022. Although crime rates are on a steady decline, messaging from corporate media conveys the opposite, with alarmist headlines announcing “the most dangerous cities in America” and conflating crime rates…

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#21. California’s Groundbreaking Investment in Education for Incarcerated Youth

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:26:09 +0000

Genuine education reform is based on the premise that every young person deserves access to high-quality education. Although federal law guarantees the right to education to all, incarcerated youth are often disregarded. However, efforts to build robust education programs for young people in California juvenile detention facilities have received a…

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#20. Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Poses Serious First Amendment Concerns

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:25:44 +0000

Growing concerns about social media use allegedly causing mental health problems in young people have spurred a bipartisan push in Congress for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), an ill-considered piece of internet censorship legislation. First introduced in the US Senate in 2022, KOSA (S. 1409) has gone through multiple…

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#19. Unregulated PFAS Harming Native American Communities

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:24:18 +0000

Native Americans have been disproportionately affected by the presence of PFAS—often referred to as “forever chemicals”—in their water sources, according to 2023 reports by The Real News Network and Grist. PFAS chemicals are widely used in consumer and industrial products, ranging from food wrappers to firefighting foam, because of their…

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#18. Constitutional Loophole Propels Xenophobic Border Policies in Texas

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:23:41 +0000

The federal government has controlled US immigration policy since the 1800s. However, in 2023, Texas Republicans, led by far-right Governor Greg Abbott, proposed legislation—SB 4—that invokes the Invasion Clauses of the United States and Texas constitutions to challenge the federal government’s sovereignty over the Texas-Mexico border. The clause authorizes the…

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#17. Palestinians in Gaza Suffering from Chronic Illnesses Cannot Access Medical Care

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:22:00 +0000

Palestinians in Gaza suffering from chronic illness are unable to get necessary medical care due to Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the occupied territory. While the war has been a focal point of global news coverage since October 7, few reports have addressed the lack of medicine and treatment for chronically…

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#16. Activists Rally outside Insurance Giants, Denouncing Fossil Fuel Investments

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:21:03 +0000

Environmental activists rallied globally from February 26 to March 3, 2024, to protest insurance companies’ support of the fossil fuel industry, according to reports by Common Dreams and Inside Climate News. The movement was organized by Insure Our Future, a coalition whose mission is to promote a healthy transition to…

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#15. Bottled Water Consumption Exacerbates Socioeconomic Inequalities

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:20:14 +0000

Bottled water is the top-selling beverage in the United States, and annual global sales are in the hundreds of billions of dollars.110 Much of that market consists of people from low-income communities. “This commodity is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers,” reported Portland State…

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#14. Companies’ Net-Zero Promises Have Near Zero Credibility

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:19:31 +0000

Despite heralding their intent to implement “net-zero” policies to limit carbon emissions, most of the world’s biggest companies are spectacularly failing to live up to those commitments. “Hundreds of companies across the world are backtracking on commitments toward green policies, despite growing concerns that the planet is reaching a crisis…

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#13. Homeland Security, ICE Using Cell-Site Simulators for Illegal Tracking

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:18:08 +0000

The Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are illegally tracking Americans using cell-site simulators, Matthew Guariglia reported for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in March 2023. The devices, often referred to as “stingrays,” mimic cell phone towers, tricking cell phones in the vicinity to connect…

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#12. Indigenous Activists in Panama Shut Down Notorious Copper Mine

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:17:48 +0000

In November 2023, following years of protest by Indigenous activists, Panama’s Supreme Court struck down Canadian company First Quantum Minerals’s twenty-year concession to operate a controversial thirteen-thousand-hectare open-pit copper mine, Cobre Panamá, 120 kilometers west of Panama City. After the ruling, Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo announced the mine would be…

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#11. One-Third of Children Globally Face Water Scarcity Due to Climate Change

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:16:37 +0000

Nearly one-third of all children on the planet face water scarcity, including a “staggering” 347 million in South Asia alone, according to reports from Al Jazeera and several additional international news sites in November 2023. This news was based on a report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), “The…

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#10. Generative AI Apps Raise Serious Security Concerns

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:15:30 +0000

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, can be used to accomplish a range of tasks, from coding programs and analyzing massive collections of data to generating completely unique texts, images, and videos. Use of such apps is increasingly popular with businesses, government agencies, and…

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#9. Controversial Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing Challenged by US Commission

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:14:40 +0000

Under a legal practice known as acquitted-conduct sentencing, judges presiding over federal cases can determine defendants’ sentences based on charges that juries previously acquitted them of. However, in April 2024, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) voted to “exclude conduct for which a person was acquitted in federal court from…

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#8. New Federal Rule Limits Transcript Withholding by Colleges and Universities

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:13:24 +0000

A new federal regulation will make it more difficult for colleges and universities to withhold students’ transcripts to force them to repay loan debts, Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner reported for The Hechinger Report in December 2023. Transcript withholding is a strategy colleges use to recover outstanding debt despite questions…

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#7. Military Personnel Target Gen Z Recruits with Lurid Social Media Tactics

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:12:18 +0000

The US military is taking the old adage “sex sells” to another level by using sexually suggestive social media posts on TikTok and Instagram—known as thirst traps—in an effort to recruit members of Generation Z in response to military recruitment numbers falling below goals in recent years. The main subject…

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#6. Global Forest Protection Goals at Risk

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:11:57 +0000

According to an independent assessment, a much-publicized United Nations goal to end deforestation by 2030 is unlikely to be achieved, as Olivia Rosane reported for Common Dreams in October 2023. The problem is money and where it’s directed, according to the latest Forest Declaration Assessment released in October 2023. “We…

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#5. Abortion Services Censored on Social Platforms Globally

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:10:29 +0000

In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, online abortion services are facing global censorship on social media platforms. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Google have all allegedly restricted digital access to reproductive health organizations, according to a November 2023 report by…

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#4. Natural Gas Industry Hid Health and Climate Risks of Gas Stoves

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:09:55 +0000

The natural gas industry adapted the tobacco industry’s tactics to promote the use of gas stoves, reported environmental journalist Rebecca Leber for Vox in 2023. In a series of articles, Leber documented how the gas utility industry used strategies previously employed by the tobacco industry to avoid regulation and undermine…

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#3. Saltwater Intrusion Threatens US Freshwater Supplies

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:08:14 +0000

In fall 2023, saltwater traveling from the Gulf of Mexico up the Mississippi River infiltrated the freshwater systems of the delta region, contaminating drinking and agricultural water supplies as well as inland ecosystems. This crisis prompted a scramble to supply potable water to the region and motivated local and federal…

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#2. A “Vicious Circle” of Climate Debt Traps World’s Most Vulnerable Nations

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:07:07 +0000

Low-income countries are disproportionately impacted by poverty and climate-related disasters. Many of the developing nations most vulnerable to climate change are also “operating on increasingly tight budgets and at risk of defaulting on loans,” Natalia Alayza, Valerie Laxton, and Carolyn Neunuebel reported for the World Resources Institute in September 2023.…

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#1. Thousands Killed and Injured on the Job, with Significant Racial Disparities in Deaths and Injuries

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:06:48 +0000

Working in the United States is becoming more dangerous, and Black and Latiné workers in particular are at heightened risk of being killed or injured on the job, according to recent studies reported on by Truthout and Peoples Dispatch. According to a February 2024 report for Truthout by Tyler Walicek,…

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Connecting the Dots: The War on Workers Is The War Abroad

Kate Horgan — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:10:50 +0000

What does the genocide in Gaza have to do with the working class here at home? Well, quite a lot. Imperialism is a home game and the same corporations and international interests that make bank off of blood oppress the US workforce for that same bottom line. This week in a special hour interview episode, three guest experts join the Project Censored Radio show to discuss the US supply chain and war: labor educator Gifford Hartman, researcher and CGPU-UAW union member Abdullah Farooq, and 40 year rail and marine transportation veteran Fritz Edler.
Together they outline not only the current actions and efforts of workers to connect the dots between oppression here at home and abroad, but also the silenced and buried history of workplace organizing against war, including direct action and strikes. Our guests also dive into the importance of public ownership of transportation such as rail, the nefarious ways in which automation fuels both the war machine and destitution here in the US, and what a just transition away from war could mean not only for workers here but indeed around the whole world.

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News Literacy for Activists

Kate Horgan — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:00:51 +0000

By Eleanor Goldfield I could hit you with a garden shovel, but I wouldn’t call it gardening. Likewise, I wouldn’t call it journalism when the corporate media uses the blunt tools of mis- and disinformation to kneecap movements for justice. Still, much like a shovel, media is a tool. And…

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Rethinking Media Values: Climate Crisis and Hyper-Partisan Influence in the 21st Century

Kate Horgan — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:51:39 +0000

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, guest host Mischa Geracoulis, Project Censored’s curriculum development coordinator, speaks with two of the contributors to the “Media Democracy in Action” chapter from Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024.

In the first segment, Mischa talks with Maria Armoudian—senior lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and co-director of the Center for Climate Biodiversity and Society—about the need to rethink traditional news values in the 21st century. Focusing on issues around the climate crisis, Armoudian argues that because the media too often report climate issues as news items, they fail to communicate the urgency of these issues while normalizing a perpetual economic growth-expansion model that exacerbates these challenges.

In the second segment, media critic, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and author Jen Senko joins the program. Senko is best known for her film The Brainwashing of My Dad. Senko's work tracks the history of media in the United States, particularly the rise of hyper-partisan media, and its ongoing effects on society. Highlighting some of that history, she illuminates the calculated moves made by politicians and billionaires that have brought us to where we are today.

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Northern California School District Adds Resources for Students of Color

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:17:50 +0000

During the 2024–2025 school year, the Tamalpais Union High School District in Northern California will fund four new positions to provide support and resources for students of color, the Marin Independent Journal reported in August 2024. The district’s trustees approved $430,000 for the consultant contracts after racial incidents in 2023-24…

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Silenced Voices: Kashmir, Palestine, and BRICS Uncovered

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:02:58 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with an empty seat – a seat that could easily be filled by dozens if not hundreds of Kashmiri journalists and activists who cannot speak out due to the complex and constant threat of violence by the Indian government. Eleanor contextualizes the current situation in Kashmir while paralleling it to another settler colonialist struggle in Palestine, why we must connect these struggles, and how critical media literacy is vital in the case of silenced stories such as Kashmir. In the second half of the show, Ben Norton joins the program to discuss the recent BRICS summit, how our corporate media fell over itself to frame it as no big deal, the what, how and when of de-dollorization, and what the recent election means for our economy, or rather our economies – one for the rich and the one for the rest of us.

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Unplugging the News (and History) in San Francisco

Kate Horgan — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:00:16 +0000

By Peter Byrne Reporters are tasked with wading into the maelstroms of current events—fires, hurricanes, battle spaces, crime scenes, accidents, political riots—to record what we see, to print, televise, and preserve stories of events in the world as viewed through our professional lensing. Hence the adage, “Journalism is the first…

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Empowering Students To Examine How Historical Redlining Impacts Contemporary Communities

Kate Horgan — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:06:32 +0000

Redlining continues to weave profound injustices, in the form of neighborhood and school segregation, into the fabric of contemporary American society. “During the 1930s and ’40s, racist government-sponsored mortgage loan practices effectively segregated every metropolitan area in the United States,” Carl Faucher, a middle school English teacher from Seattle, reported…

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Let’s Start a Revolution; Usurping the Titans of Capital

Kate Horgan — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:21:41 +0000

Iconic consumer and civil rights activist/author Ralph Nader returns to the program to discuss his latest two books with Mickey. They unpack Nader’s analysis from Out of Darkness and Let’s Start the Revolution, which includes commentary on the need to dismantle the corporate state, boost civic engagement from the grassroots level up, and demand that dark money and billionaires be driven of the political system. Next, Mickey talks with former Project Censored director, political sociologist Peter Phillips about his new book Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—November 2024

Kate Horgan — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:55:54 +0000

Statement on the 2024 Presidential Election With the election of Donald Trump to a second presidential term, Project Censored reaffirms its longstanding dedication to press freedom. Project Censored remains steadfastly committed to investigating and highlighting actions, by any administration, that undermine journalistic freedom or the public’s rights to freedom of…

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Israel’s Genocide, War Profiteers, and the Titans of Capital

Kate Horgan — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:53:56 +0000

By Peter Phillips On March 26, 2024, Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, stated before the UN Human Rights Council that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Citing international law,…

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Unsolved Text Campaign Targets Female Law Faculty and Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:52:22 +0000

Since January 2024, female law school professors, deans, and students across the country have been subjected to anonymous online harassment based on their gender, according to a report for Inside Higher Ed by Ryan Quinn. Text messages, addressed individually to the personal cell phones of specific professors, deans, and students,…

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Principal Fired After Coming Out as Gay Receives Support from Conservative Community

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:46:48 +0000

Vestavia Hills Schools in Alabama placed Lauren Dressback, a beloved principal who’s served two decades at the school, on administrative leave after she came out as gay to a coworker in late February 2024. According to an article published by Laura Pappano on September 19, 2024, for the Hechinger Report,…

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Missoula Child Care Advantage Program Works to Solve “Childcare Desert” Crisis

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:30:01 +0000

Families in Missoula, Montana, are experiencing the detrimental effects of living in a “childcare desert,” as reported by Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report. Like so many other places across the country, Missoula, Montana, has a severe shortage of attainable childcare. Families are forced to go to great lengths so…

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Unregulated Boarding Schools for Autistic Youth Siphoning Money and Harming Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:13:44 +0000

Shrub Oak International School, a boarding school for autistic youth in Yorktown, New York, continues to operate unregulated, according to a May 2024 report by ProPublica. The lack of oversight leaves parents unaware of their children’s well-being and unable to do much of anything about it: “No state agency oversees…

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Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists; and a New Movement Media Alliance

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:49:09 +0000

Mickey's first guest this week is Project Censored's Associate Director, Andy Lee Roth. Roth is a 2024-25 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow where he is developing an "algorithmic literacy" toolkit for journalists. He explains why today's journalists need a basic understanding of the algorithms used by internet and social media tech giants to better serve the public. Issues around horse race poll coverage, shadow banning, and algorithmic gatekeeping are discussed. Then in the second half of the show, Maya Schenwar of Truthout and Lara Witt of Prism introduce the organization they co-founded, the Movement Media Alliance; they explain why social-justice-oriented media outlets should work together, both to enhance their impact and to better the working conditions for journalists in independent media.

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Resilience Rising: Community, Care, and the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Appalachia

Kate Horgan — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:15:12 +0000

Now that the cameras have long since left Hurricane Helene’s trail of devastation, what is the situation on the ground? And what was it about Appalachia that made the devastation so great, and the mutualist response so powerful?
In the first half of the show Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief coordinator and street medic Jena about her work in Western North Carolina and elsewhere, how bad the destruction really is, the dearth of government support, and how communities are using their own cultural roots to get what they need. Jena outlines the vast and varied mutual aid web, current needs on the ground, and creative and beautiful ways in which we can all engage in solidarity rather than charity. In the second half of the program, Eleanor speaks with Chelsea White-Hoglen, a lifelong resident of Western North Carolina with a vast background in community organizing. Chelsea explains the scale of the impact on such a rural, poor and geologically complex area as Appalachia, how disaster relief blossomed out of existing community structures, how this next phase of the crisis is an economic one, and how this could be a turning point for a region historically misunderstood, cast aside and disenfranchised.

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Crossing the Podcast Rubicon

Kate Horgan — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:00:24 +0000

By Nolan Higdon “Can you imagine Kamala doing this show?” asked former President Donald Trump on the October 2024 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. “I could imagine her doing this show,” responded Rogan before Trump interrupted, “She would be laying on the floor… If she did this kind of…

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Crisis, Culture, and Civility: Critical Media Literacy Education and Election 2024

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:20:25 +0000

With the 2024 US elections drawing near, host Mickey Huff moderates an expert panel discussion with three media scholars and educators about how critical-media-literacy education can enhance civic engagement. They outline the many challenges posed by social media, hyper-partisanship, and fake news, but also explore what educators can do to engage today's students and equip them with critical tools necessary to deconstruct media messaging and bridge communication barriers, both inside and outside the classroom. This program is also a special broadcast that is part of the Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival. See here for more details.

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The Power of the Lens

Kate Horgan — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:57:34 +0000

By Leo Koulish What is a story when it has no walls? How can we see making a photograph as a conversation between the image’s maker, its subject, and the truth? Photographers sometimes underestimate the power they wield. When we “take” photos, we create a memory, taking something from before…

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Media Literacy Week: Guide to Fake News and Voices from the Frontlines

Kate Horgan — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:00:14 +0000

It’s the 10th annual US Media Literacy Week sponsored by NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education. We at Project Censored also celebrate Media Literacy Week, critically. On the program today, co-host Mickey Huff welcomes Dr. Nolan Higdon, media scholar and author of many books including The Anatomy of Fake News. Today we’ll talk to Nolan about a brief resource guide to fake news in the 2024 election with helpful hints for the voting public. We’ll talk about the history of fake news, mis- and disinformation and its impacts on the public, and what we can do about it that doesn’t involve censorship. In the second half of the show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield sits down with photojournalist Orin Langelle to talk about his new photography book release, Portraits of Struggle, a small but powerful selection of photographs and stories from a 50-year career. Orin talks about what he’s learned from the frontlines, how he was shunned by corporate media for telling the truth, the importance of documenting a history that is constantly stolen from us, and more.

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“This is Where the Problem Starts”

Kate Horgan — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:38:08 +0000

By Lamees Hijazi Western colonialism and imperialism are the roots of the Palestinian struggle. A common characteristic of western powers is their shared history of colonization and oppression of indigenous populations. This distinction is important because it is clear that there is heavy bias against Palestinians in both western political…

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Attacks on Democracy from Press Freedoms to Dark Money in Politics

Kate Horgan — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:29:16 +0000

In the first half of the program, Mickey Huff speaks with independent journalist and author Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism about the cast of Julian Assange. Gosztola joins the show to talk about the Council of Europe Parliamentarians vote that agreed that Julian Assange was in fact a political prisoner. Assange recently spoke to the Parliament and urged them to oppose the US government’s transnational repression and assaults on journalists and press freedoms around the world. Later in the program, Mickey speaks with media scholar Steve Macek about foreign spending to influence US elections and how it goes well beyond Russian covert operations, and in fact involves many other countries and even other entities. But are the corporate media paying attention? Steve Macek explains how they’re not, and what you need to know about the influence of dark money in advance of Election 2024.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—October 2024

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:48:34 +0000

Project Censored, Alliance for Democracy Partner on Building a New Media Landscape The Fall 2024 issue of Justice Rising, the flagship publication of the Alliance for Democracy, focuses on the theme of “Building a New Media Landscape for a Stronger Democracy.” The issue features original articles by a number of Project…

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Greenwashing Genocide in Armenia & Targeting the Truth in Palestine

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:30:47 +0000

In the first half of the show, international human rights lawyer Karnig Kerkonian joins the show to discuss Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of the Artsakh Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Karnig outlines the genocidal intent of President Ilham Aliyev, what the US knew and didn’t do to stop it, and how the international community should respond, not least of all as this year’s climate summit, COP29 is being held so ironically in what Karnig calls the petrol-dictatorship of Azerbaijan. Next up, journalist, researcher and policy director at Defending Rights and Dissent Chip Gibbons joins the show to discuss Israel’s targeted and mass killing of journalists on the ground in Gaza. Chip highlights the vehement hypocrisy with which the US pretends to uphold freedom of the press while not only ignoring the murder of journalists but while pushing for a media blackout and censorship of reports from Gaza.

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Foreign Spending to Influence US Elections Goes Well Beyond Russian Covert Operations

Kate Horgan — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:00:15 +0000

Steve Macek On September 4, the Department of Justice seized 32 internet domains alleged to be part of a Russian government “covert operation to interfere in and influence the outcome of” US elections. That same day, the DOJ unveiled an indictment of two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media…

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Selective Outrage

Kate Horgan — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:10:42 +0000

Nolan Higdon “It went from being unheard of to something everyone is talking about, and now it feels like a virus that escaped the lab and is just here to stay,” remarked Bill Maher on the September 6, 2024, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher and his panel…

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Voices from Palestine: A Doctor’s Testimony from Gaza

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:53:27 +0000

The voices of Palestinians in Gaza are some of the most censored in the world. If they are not killed outright, they are silenced by purposeful omission in order to support Israel’s narrative. It is therefore vital that alternative media work to find and platform these voices, and that people who are not fooled by pro-Israel propaganda engage with it, share it, and allow it to inform our actions. This week Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Khalil Khalidy, an orthopedic doctor in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. His testimony is necessary and powerful and understandably distressing. We are therefore here including a content warning for this week’s show as Dr. Khalidy does not sugarcoat his lived experiences. The following program includes descriptions of an ongoing genocide, of psychological and physical suffering from the perspective of a doctor trying to work in abominable conditions with little to no supplies.

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Freed Between the Lines: A Banned Books Week Special

Kate Horgan — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:18:33 +0000

Mickey hosts the special annual Banned Books Week program. This year we celebrate being "Freed Between the Lines.”

In her best-selling novel Speak, young adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the American Library Association (ALA) and Association of American Publishers helped launch Banned Books Week (BBW) 42 years ago on the heels of the Supreme Court Pico case, that dysfunctional family of censorship has unfortunately grown significantly. Across the United States, the past several years has brought a staggering increase in book challenges, bans, and other attacks on the right to read and academic freedom, but there are many signs of hope which BBW celebrates.

On today’s program we welcome the new president of ALA, Cindy Hohl. We discuss the latest report just released from ALA on the state of the right to read with some hopeful notes. Then we’re joined by BBW Youth Honorary Chair Julia Garnett about how young people are on the front lines of censorship battles in schools and they are fighting back and winning, as we hear from the interim director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, attorney Jeff Trexler, about a history of attacks on comics and other literature, and we’ll learn of some recent legal victories, but also of challenges to come. Project Censored has been a proud supporter and part of the Banned Books Week Coalition for more than a decade.

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Freed Between the Lines

Mickey Huff — Thu, 19 Sep 2024 17:13:57 +0000

Mickey Huff Forty-two years ago, on the heels of a landmark Supreme Court decision protecting intellectual freedom in Board of Education, Island Trees Union Free School District No. 26 v. Pico, concerned booksellers, librarians, teachers, and avid readers alike united against what they saw as an alarming rise of book…

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Unpacking the Jewish Claim of Indigeneity and Flights: Radicals on the Run

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:54:31 +0000

In the first half of the show, Quechua and Jewish writer and student Rabbi Daniel Delgado joins us to confront the elephant in the room: are Jews Indigenous? As someone who is both Indigenous and Jewish, Daniel discusses the history and context of the term Indigenous and how the claim of Jewish Indigeneity is almost always brought up to absolve Zionists from accusations of colonialism, occupation and genocide, and why this claim is such a remarkably effective and insidious propaganda tool. In the second half of the program, award-winning journalist and author Joel Whitney joins us to discuss his latest book, Flights: Radicals on the Run, a look at censorship through surveillance, violence, oppression and the quite literal hunting of artists, poets, journalists, organizers, and more. Through these varied biographies, Joel highlights the US government’s intolerance for anyone who is effective in working towards positive change in this country. All this and more, coming up now on Project Censored.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—September 2024

Kate Horgan — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:29:47 +0000

Censored Press News: Peter Phillips’s Titans of Capital and more Peter Phillips, the former director of Project Censored, has published a new book with the Censored Press. In Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity, he examines the world’s most wealthy and influential asset management firms, showing how their…

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Titans of Capital Threaten Humanity

Kate Horgan — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:44:35 +0000

By Peter Phillips The number of trillion and multi-trillion dollar capital investment management companies has nearly doubled from seventeen in 2017 to thirty-one in 2022. These companies now collectively manage more than $83 trillion. These firms hold the core of global capital wealth, with the top ten managing $50 trillion…

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The Need for Independent Media: Voices For Peace in a World at War

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:00:40 +0000

Mickey recently spoke with Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR, and author of Cable News Confidential, about his time as senior producer to the late Phil Donahue's MSNBC program. It was among the highest rated shows on the network at the time but was cancelled on the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq because network execs didn't want him to interview anti-war guests. Cohen talked about corporate media censorship, the state of our so-called free press today, and why we need vibrant, independent media outlets to report in the public interest. Later in the show, Mickey welcomes back author, historian, and media critic Norman Solomon. They discussed the paperback release of his latest book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine, with a new afterword that analyzes the US media propaganda campaign and censorship around Israel’s ongoing assault on the Palestinian people. US and Israeli officials claim these are acts of self-defense after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on a music festival. Many others around the world, including the International Court of Justice, have called the ongoing belligerent acts harming mostly innocent civilians a plausible genocide.

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The Power of News Frames

Kate Horgan — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:00:47 +0000

Project Censored introduces a new guide to frame-checking. Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth Tell all the truth but tell it slant —Emily Dickinson Current media literacy efforts place great emphasis on fact-checking as a means to counter misinformation and disinformation. Without a doubt, fact-checking—the process of confirming the factual…

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Guilty of Journalism: The Future of Press Freedoms After the Release of Julian Assange

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:34:33 +0000

This week, we have a special program as we share an excerpt of a conversation held earlier this summer between Project Censored co-host Eleanor Goldfield; The Real News Network Editor-in-Chief, Maximillian Alvarez; author and journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism; and Policy Director at Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons. Though many might feel that the story of Julian Assange ended with his June release from prison and plea deal with the US government, there is a renewed push to fully pardon him as well as to support him and his family now that he has been released. There is also a significant knowledge gap for many folks in understanding not only his specific case but what it means for the free press and citizens of purportedly free societies.

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Decoding Democracy: Excerpts From a Series Exploring Critical Media Literacy Education, Independent Journalism, and Civic Engagement

Kate Horgan — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:04:22 +0000

This week on the program, a special episode featuring Project Censored’s recent "Decoding Democracy" series, a collection of interviews showcasing media scholars, journalists, and activists discussing how an informed public and an independent press are vital aspects of any free and just society. These excerpts are part of the larger Project Censored aim to empower individuals to better navigate the media landscape and political climate, becoming more engaged citizens. The focus of the series is to promote critical media literacy education while harnessing the power of a free and independent press to spur more broadly and deeply informed civic engagement among the electorate.

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Harris-Walz and the politics of gender and race

Kate Horgan — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:00:17 +0000

By: Allison Butler and Paulina Ortiz-Orive Upon the announcement of Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, as Kamala Harris’s Vice Presidential running mate, the internet went wild. It did not take long for the Trump campaign to latch onto the lunatic left insults, calling Walz Tampon Tim. Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—August 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:00:30 +0000

Huff Takes Leadership Role with Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College Project Censored is pleased to announce that Mickey Huff has accepted a position as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM), based at Ithaca College in New York. In addition, he will also…

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Colonialism and Capitalism: From Earth to Space

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:02:40 +0000

This week, we’re talking colonialism and capitalism - on earth and in space. In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Jen Deerinwater and Ezra Star to discuss Disability Divest, a project that seeks to hold disability advocacy groups accountable - more specifically: how can you be an advocacy group for disabled people when you’re in league with those who create disabilities? Jen and Ezra discuss the connections between ills such as racism and xenophobia to ableism and how colonialism, imperialism, and capitalism create disability, and worsen existing disabilities. Next up, writer and researcher Zara Zimbardo joins us to discuss the concept album Marsification, how astro-colonial fantasies become reality as we turn our amazing earth more and more into mars. Zara outlines how we need to feel and reflect upon how our eco-anxiety is being hijacked, and how ideologies causing the destruction of our home planet, i.e. colonialism and capitalism, are the very same ones targeting what should be our global commons, the expanse of space.

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Dark Money and Project 2025: A Deep Dive into Political Secrecy and Conservative Ambitions

Kate Horgan — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 22:04:40 +0000

In the first segment, we learn about the phenomenon of “dark money,” political campaign contributions designed to be difficult or impossible for the public to know about or trace. Mickey talks with media scholar Steve Macek about GOP plans for legislation to make it even easier to keep these contributions secret, as well as the failure of corporate media to energetically report on dark money, nor the wider issues of what big donors get for their dollars. In the second part of the program, Project Censored's curriculum development coordinator Mischa Geracoulis guest co-hosts the show to address the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, the conservative wish list for a second Trump term. Mischa spoke with Lisa Graves, executive director of Truth North Research. They specifically address how education and the media landscape would be changed if Project 2025 is actually implemented.

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Rush To Judgment:

Project Censored — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:17:02 +0000

By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff [Note:This piece was written two days after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump when Joe Biden was the presumptive nominee. While now outdated, it still illustrates the need for media literacy education.] “He will never stop fighting to save America, no matter what the…

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The Corporate Press (Finally) Sounds the Alarm on Project 2025

Kate Horgan — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:50:42 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis After months of expert legal and public policy analysis, advocacy group warnings, and independent press reporting on the Presidential Transition Project 2025 (Project 2025 for short), the corporate press is finally catching up. Capturing headlines is Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, a 180-day playbook for the next…

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Exposing Prison Conditions and the Fight for Palestinian Rights

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:51:12 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby who joins us from prison to talk about his powerful work in exposing horrendous prison conditions and the sadistic treatment of prisoners. Jeremy speaks of extreme retaliation that he’s faced from prison officials for his work, and his unwavering determination to show the world what life on the inside is really like in the hopes that more awareness will catalyze change. Seth Stern, Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation also joins us to contextualize Jeremy’s work and mistreatment in the larger fight for press freedoms. In the second half of the show, we welcome back Palestinian legal expert Hassan Ben Imran to discuss the most recent ICJ advisory opinion with regards to Israel’s unlawful presence in occupied Palestinian territory - what does this mean not just for Palestinians but for how the world engages with the ongoing genocide in Gaza? Hassan also outlines the ICC case against Netanyahu, myriad US and UK road blocks, precedent for sanctions and action against Israel and more.

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Scorched States and the Fight for Workers’ Rights: Unpacking Heat Exposure and Immigration Narratives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:10:15 +0000

In the first half of the show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield speaks with lawyer and worker health and safety advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress watch division, Juley Fulcher about her recent report, Scorched States, an expose of the inadequate or wholly lacking protections for workers facing extreme heat in the age of climate chaos. Juley describes the legislative morass standing in the way of workers rights, and how states like Florida and Texas have actually made it illegal to protect workers. Next up, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield highlight the importance of critical media literacy vis a vis how media and our government talk about immigration. Beware the dog whistle from both parties and establishment press, and consider the realities of those caught in the snares of our militarized southern border.

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Is the Press Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Kate Horgan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:56:19 +0000

By: Nolan Higdon “I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same,” exclaimed Democratic Representative Lloyd Doggett on July 2, 2024. Doggett was critical of 81-year-old President Joe Biden’s…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:15 +0000

State of the Free Press 2025 to the Printer After several months of deep digging and fastidious fact-checking, earlier this month we sent the manuscript of the forthcoming Project Censored yearbook to be designed and printed. We’re excited to announce that State of the Free Press 2025 will be published…

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The Fight for Freedom: A Palestinian-American Veteran and the Julian Assange Case

Kate Horgan — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:46:16 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Palestinian-American Mohammed Abouhashem, who on October 21st of last year left the US Air Force after 22 years of service. Abouhashem discusses his decision to leave amidst the murder of six of his family members in Palestine. He describes the ongoing genocide through a lens of military experience, highlighting how Israel and its ally the US are well aware of the civilian casualties, an awareness that for him, made any further military service impossible. Next up, Eleanor speaks with filmmaker Kym Staton about his film Trust Fall recently released in the US. The documentary chronicles the personal and professional life of Julian Assange as well as the US case against him. Staton makes clear the importance of this story and case, even after Julian’s freedom, and offers insight into the remarkable smear campaign against him and how people power is the key to not only combating misinformation, but in freeing one of the most significant political prisoners of our time.

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House Passes Bill Threatening Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofit Organizations

Kate Horgan — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:51:46 +0000

In April 2024, the House of Representatives passed HR 6408, legislation that would grant the Secretary of Treasury authority to suspend the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.” “Although the label is supposed to apply to supporters of designated terrorist groups, nothing in…

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America’s Media Literacy Deficit: Navigating Elections and Generational Divides

Kate Horgan — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:11:46 +0000

Mickey's guest for the hour is media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss how the principles of critical media literacy could help the public make sense of the current, chaotic election season in the US, and also how the divide and contrasting worldviews between the older and younger generations can be partly explained by their choices of media. They discuss the consequences of the serious lack of media literacy education in the US and how the American electorate could benefit from learning media literacy skills as well as by diversifying their media diets to include more independent outlets and fewer corporate, establishment ones too busy cheering and jeering Team Red or Team Blue to report factually on the key policy issues that really matter to voters most.

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Private Companies in California Reap More than $100m to Sweep Homeless Camps

Kate Horgan — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:17:54 +0000

Cities across California such as San Jose and Los Angeles have paid private contractors millions of dollars to sweep homeless encampments, Brian Barth reported in an article copublished in April 2024 by The Guardian and Type Investigations. Local governments have increasingly sought the services of private contractors to deal with…

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United Auto Workers Put 32-Hour Work Week on the Agenda

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:58:17 +0000

The demand for a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay has “the potential to radically shift organized labor’s priorities and unify an often fractious movement in ways not seen in decades,” Sarah Jaffe reported for In These Times in April 2024. Jaffe’s report focused on the efforts of the United…

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State Governments Profiting from Tribal Lands

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:44:04 +0000

A combined 1.6 million acres of state “trust lands” fall within the borders of 83 federal Indian reservations in ten states, according to data analysis by High Country News and Grist in February 2024 and published in High Country News in April. Trust lands managed by state agencies “generate millions…

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Amazon and Walmart Employ Hostile Surveillance Technology against Warehouse Employees

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:30:51 +0000

An April 2024 report from Oxfam America detailed how Amazon and Walmart utilize workplace surveillance technology to intimidate their warehouse workers into increasing their output—at the expense of employees’ physical and mental health, as Alex N. Press reported for Jacobin. Walmart and Amazon are the two largest employers in the…

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Transit Workers and Climate Activists Alliance Stage Massive Strike in Germany

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:23:42 +0000

In April 2024, public transit workers in 57 cities across Germany went on strike in a bid to double bus services in response to the country’s worsening climate change, Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf, who are staff members of Germany’s second-largest union, Ver.di, reported for Labor Notes. Ehmke and Wolf,…

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Internal Displacement Numbers on the Increase in 2023

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:44:56 +0000

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), the leading source of data on internally displaced people used by the United Nations, reported that some 75.9 million people had been displaced from their homes in 2023. Olivia Rosane, staff writer for Common Dreams, reported on the IDMC’s 2023 Global Report on Internal…

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Nonprofit Watchdog Suffers Due to Elon Musk’s SLAPP Suit

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:37:17 +0000

The nonprofit media watchdog Media Matters for America (MMFA) has recently announced layoffs in response to financial difficulties caused by its legal battles with Elon Musk, billionaire owner of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). In a May 2024 report for Common Dreams, Jon Quealley detailed how Musk’s frivolous…

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Russia Creates State-Sponsored, Censored Clone of Wikipedia

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:32:17 +0000

Russia has created Ruviki, a Wikipedia replacement that contains copies of all 1.9 million Russian-language Wikipedia articles, censored and edited to portray the Russian government in a more positive light, Jules Roscoe reported for 404 Media, a tech news website, in April 2024. Russian Wikipedia editors used to call the…

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You’re a Hypocrite, And So Am I

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:13:55 +0000

By Eleanor Goldfield We’re all hypocrites. For the most part, it’s not our fault. We necessarily live in the systems we’re working to change. I’m writing this on a device made possible by conflict materials dug up by children in Congo. I’m sitting in an air-conditioned home that most likely…

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A Declining Empire & Its Delusional Allies

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:14:05 +0000

In the first part of the program, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with journalist and analyst Ben Norton about the ongoing proxy war between Russia and NATO happening in Ukraine, the US’ bludgeoning of multiple peace deals, and the ultimately pointless struggle against a multipolar world. Ben also highlights the recent media kerfuffle on the petrodollar: what it is, why it matters, and where our economy is headed. Next up, Eleanor speaks with Swedish actor, writer and activist Håkan Julander about Sweden’s fall from grace - the country that isn’t what you think it is. Håkan outlines the abysmal state of Swedish media, the selling of Sweden’s soul to a declining empire, where hope lies, and more.

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Freedom for Julian Assange and Navigating our Digital Democracy

Kate Horgan — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:46:43 +0000

Independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, rejoins the program to discuss Julian Assange's plea bargain with the US Department of Justice that finally frees the WikiLeaks founder from Britain's Belmarsh Prison. Assange, who was detained there for more than five years, was returned home to Australia a free man. The Assange legal case may be over, but Gosztola discusses the ongoing implications for press freedom, especially given the details of the deal where Assange was basically found...guilty of journalism? Then Mickey speaks with Project Censored's Kate Horgan, Reagan Haynie, and Shealeigh Voitl, authors of a new article in the special media literacy issue of The Progressive magazine. The piece, "Navigating the Digital Democracy," outlines the efforts of government and Big Tech to control or censor social media platforms (often without users' knowledge), and the countermeasures employed by online communities to maintain open and uncensored communications. The guests discuss how social media can influence the 2024 election and how critically media literate citizens can be more meaningfully, civically engaged.

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Refusing the Language of Silence

Kate Horgan — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:10:32 +0000

By Omar Zahzah It’s an increasingly familiar contradiction: digital platforms that position themselves as an accessible alternative to corporate media emerge as new censors in their own right. Social media and the internet make it possible to disseminate material that would otherwise have been suppressed, thereby helping to bring alternative…

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Critical Media Literacy and Civic Engagement in an Election Year

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:43:56 +0000

The Progressive magazine teamed up with Project Censored for its June/July issue and took an in-depth look at media literacy in the context of the upcoming election. On this week's program, Mickey speaks with Norman Stockwell, publisher of the venerable political journal about how and why the partnership came about; as well as Project Censored's associate director, Andy Lee Roth, who wrote about corporate media's news abuse and the coming election; and Mischa Geracoulis, who was guest editor for the special edition. They discuss the many ways critical media literacy can help create a more informed and meaningfully engaged electorate. Later in the program, Mickey and Eleanor discuss the relative utility of electoral politics in our current context while highlighting numerous ways people can be civically engaged in addition to showing up at the ballot box, making political and community activism a way of life, not just an every four-year endeavor.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2024

Kate Horgan — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Special Issue of The Progressive Magazine on Media Literacy in an Election Year Project Censored has partnered with The Progressive to create a special issue of the esteemed magazine focused on the importance of critical media literacy for the 2024 presidential election. Spearheaded by guest editor Mischa Geracoulis, the Project’s…

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The No-State Solution & The Case For Open Borders

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:14:43 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with professor and author Mohammed Bamyeh about the no-state solution, an idea rooted in Palestinian and regional history that speaks of legitimate liberation in the face of continued state-imposed oppression and colonialist violence. Mohammed also explains the origins and outgrowth of fundamentalism, and the need to go beyond realism when reality has failed and continues to fail the people. In the second half of the program, Eleanor speaks with journalist and author John Washington about his book, The Case For Open Borders and the historic, economic, political and environmental reasons why and how open borders would not only be possible but beneficial to all. John also highlights the contradictions and hypocrisies of borders, the inefficacy of militarized borders, and the very real effects of the recent Biden administration move to essentially close the border.

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Reporters Without Borders Finds Significant “Barriers to Press Freedom” in the United States

Kate Horgan — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:19:22 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis Since 1993, the United Nations General Assembly has commemorated the third of May as World Press Freedom Day, reminding governments around the world that press freedom is a human right. It’s also when Reporters Without Borders (RSF) releases its annual World Press Freedom Index. Founded on Article…

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The Apache Stronghold & Euphemizing Genocide

Kate Horgan — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:24:30 +0000

In the first half of the show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield talks with Vanessa Nosie from Apache Stronghold about the profit-driven priorities of what we’d assume are protective agencies like the US forest service. Vanessa draws a red thread of connection between historical and present-day colonization, uplifting the spiritual and survivalist fight to save the sacred area known as Oak Flat, a decades long struggle that is now taking her and her tribe to the US Supreme Court. Later in the show, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dive into some of the news that didn’t make the news and why vis a vis Palestine, how algorithms are pushing journalists to euphemise genocide, and self-censor while Palestinian journalists are being murdered, Palestinian academics are being canceled, and more.

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Reinvigorating Diplomacy: Global Tensions and Press Freedom

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:57:07 +0000

This week on the Project Censored Show, Mickey welcomes back to the program Peter Kuznick, Professor of History at American University and best-selling author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the ongoing Russian attacks in Ukraine along with US/NATO reactions, as well as US support for Israel’s ongoing assaults on Gaza, and how close we may be coming to WWIII if we don’t reinvigorate diplomacy and actively promote peace. Later in the program, Mickey welcomes back Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Seth Stern, to discuss some good news around bipartisan support for the PRESS Act, a much needed shield law for journalists in a time when press freedoms are on the decline in the US and across the globe.

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A Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression

Kate Horgan — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:50 +0000

By Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon, and Steve Macek According to a 2022 report by Article 19, an international organization that documents and champions freedom of expression, 80 percent of the world’s population lives with less freedom of expression today than did ten years ago. The eradication of basic freedoms and…

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Not Asking Permission for Abortion & New Hope for Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 27 May 2024 16:32:51 +0000

In the first half of the show, Cofounder and Executive Director of Shout Your Abortion Amelia Bonow joins Eleanor Goldfield to highlight the shifting times and paradigms on abortion access. Amelia points out that Roe v Wade was never enough, that everyone deserves safe and easy abortion care, and that refusing to comply with laws that threaten human rights is fundamental to freedom. Next up, Kevin Gosztola returns to the show to discuss with Mickey Huff the latest news on - and hope for - Julian Assange. Kevin outlines new barriers to access for journalists trying to cover one of the the largest attacks on journalism and a journalist in our time, how Assange and Gaza are connected, how the US sets the agenda for press freedom - or lack thereof - worldwide, and more.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2024

Kate Horgan — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:25:42 +0000

Project Censored Welcomes Our Summer Interns Project Censored is delighted to welcome our student interns for Summer 2024. Da’Taeveyon Daniels, a dedicated student activist from Fort Worth, Texas, currently studying at Lonestar Virtual, is a leading voice in youth advocacy and civic engagement. He fosters collaboration among youth advocates and…

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Uncensoring Congo & Digging Up Buried Leads in Gaza

Kate Horgan — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:38:13 +0000

In the first half of the show, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear joins Eleanor Goldfield to pull back the curtain of imposed corporate censorship on Congo. Eugene highlights the myriad forces of green imperialism scarring both land and people as the Congolese find themselves in a crowded crossfire of countries and militias vying for rare earth minerals. He shares insight on the growing grassroots movements for justice and liberation as well as why corporate media won’t and don’t cover Congo. Next, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield cover a new report that shows how cable and social media respectively shift how Americans view the ongoing genocide in Gaza. They also dig into a few ways in which legacy media bury the lead, lie through omission, and seek to obfuscate facts, not least of all when it comes to the targeted killings of frontline journalists in Gaza.

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Promises to Women Health Activists in India Not Yet Met Despite ASHA Strike Suspension

Vins — Thu, 16 May 2024 13:59:54 +0000

In March 2024, a 21-day strike by Accredited Social Health Activist (ASHA) workers ended in Maharashtra, a state in the western peninsula of India, as health ministers announced an increase in salaries. However, some of these promises have been made only verbally, leading ASHA workers to question whether the state…

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Demand for University by Women in One of India’s Poorest Districts

Vins — Thu, 16 May 2024 13:35:39 +0000

Nearly 15,000 women in the age group 16-24 years wrote to Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar in February 2024 to demand a dedicated university in their district, Nuh. This is not a new ask; the girls have written to the chief minister as well as Prime Minister Narendra Modi…

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Free People Read Freely

Kate Horgan — Wed, 15 May 2024 20:02:14 +0000

By Nancy Kranich People have challenged books for centuries. But following the pandemic, newly formed parents groups such as Moms for Liberty grew to include more than 200 local chapters, which shifted their attention from opposing mask mandates and school closures to restricting reading materials in public schools and libraries.…

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The Threat to Press Freedom in Congress and Beyond

Kate Horgan — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:41:26 +0000

Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored, and Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, join Mickey on the Project Censored Show to discuss the latest moves in Congress to go after nonprofits, especially news outlets, that challenge official policies and narratives of the government. The bills in the House and Senate would give the Secretary of the Treasury authority to strip nonprofits of their tax exempt status, at their discretion and without due process, in the latest efforts to censor alternative news outlets. Later in the program, Mickey talks with media scholar Nolan Higdon about the significance of World Press Freedom Day, current legacy media biases, and the latest Congressional efforts to ban TikTok due to its foreign ownership and counter-narrative content. They also discuss the historical importance of recent campus protests and why we need to support the First Amendment rights of those calling for peace and speaking out about US support for the Israeli attacks on Gaza and beyond.

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Echoes of Rebellion: Student Protests, State Violence, and Spatial Power

Kate Horgan — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:11:44 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with author and history professor Dr. Gerald Horne to discuss the ongoing and growing student protests across the country, the violent response to them by the police state, and how this tracks with a history of student uprisings. Dr. Horne shares his own experiences in fighting apartheid in South Africa back in the 80s and how similar but amplified tactics are at play today in the fight against apartheid Israel. Later in the show, geographer Dr. Austin Kocher joins the show to discuss his work in tracking the relationship of space, power, and the state vis a vis immigration. Dr. Kocher shares insight into the research institute TRAC which uses FOIA requests to gain access to supposedly public record on immigration statistics, the morbid efficacy of digital detention and border control, and more.

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The Press Freedom Clock is TikToking

Shealeigh — Thu, 02 May 2024 15:00:11 +0000

By Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon As we write for World Press Freedom Day, declared May 3, 1993, by the United Nations, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks languishes in Belmarsh prison awaiting possible extradition for trial in the US under the Espionage Act. His alleged crimes? Daring to publish evidence of…

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World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:52:32 +0000

This week on the Project Censored Show, in advance of World Press Freedom Day, Mickey talks to media scholar Andrew Kennis about his recent book, Digital Age Resistance: Journalism, Social Movements, and the Media Dependence Model. They talk about how legacy media frame various social movements, applying the “worthy and…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2024

Kate Horgan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:28:45 +0000

Latest Validated Independent News Stories As we prepare the April newsletter, Project Censored faculty, students, and judges are reviewing the Validated Independent News stories the Project received in 2023-2024. Students participating in the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program identify, vet, and summarize important but under-reported independent news stories as part of…

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The Importance of Independent Journalism in Fighting Censorship and Countering Corporate Media Propaganda

Kate Horgan — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:35:08 +0000

In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the declining relevance of “legacy” media and the essential work of a truly independent press. They go on to talk about media censorship and propaganda around Israel…

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Ed-Tech’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Deficit: The Galactic Gulf Between Rhetoric and Action

Kate Horgan — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:31:43 +0000

“University of Florida Eliminates all DEI-Related Positions,” read a March 2, 2024, New York Times headline. The article documented how Florida’s decision to terminate funds for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) related programs resulted in the University of Florida removing all DEI-related positions from their campus. This is but one…

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From East Palestine to Palestine, People Need Help

Kate Horgan — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:13:04 +0000

From East Palestine to Palestine, people need help. In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with East Palestine, OH residents Zsuzsa Gyenes and Chris Albright to discuss the ongoing fallout from the catastrophic train derailment in February of last year. Zsuzsa and Chris talk about a purgatory…

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Corrupt Police Officer Candidate for Cook County Judgeship

Vins — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 16:50:14 +0000

In March 2024, Carlos Ballestros of Injustice Watch reported that Lt. John D. Poulus, Chicago policeman and attorney, was running in the upcoming 2024 election for Cook County Judge and raised concerns about his tumultuous past. With the upcoming presidential elections at the peak of the news cycle, many voters…

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Constitutional Loophole Propels Xenophobic Border Policies in Texas

Shealeigh — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 17:50:32 +0000

The power to control United States immigration policy has belonged to the federal government since the 1800s. However, Texas legislation proposed in 2023 uses an “invasion clause” in the United States and Texas constitutions to challenge federal control in an unprecedented manner, according to legal experts, as reported by Erum…

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A Pivotal EU Parliamentary Move To Preserve Online Encryption

Shealeigh — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 16:56:58 +0000

Following major pushback from over a hundred civil society groups and thousands of petition signees, a pivotal amendment that would protect end-to-end encryption has been embraced by a prominent committee within the European Union’s (EU) Parliament. In November 2023, the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice, and Home Affairs (LIBE) amended…

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FBI’s Annual Crime Report May Demonstrate Political Maneuvering

Shealeigh — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:34:23 +0000

In an October 2023 article, The Appeal highlighted the FBI’s latest annual report on crime in the United States for 2022. Author Ethan Corey discusses how although crime rates are on a steady decline, the message from corporate media is quite the opposite, with headlines such as “The most dangerous…

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Russian Government Intensifies Online Censorship Ahead of Presidential Election

Shealeigh — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:22:05 +0000

According to a March 15th report from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Russian government has introduced strict laws aimed at tightening its grip on the internet by outlawing VPN promotion and increasing censorship of Western social media. These policies come in the wake of Russia’s 2024 presidential election and have…

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Deadly Lack of Fresh Water Puts Nearly 350 Million South Asian Children at Risk

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:33:55 +0000

Almost 350 million children in South Asia—more than 55 percent of the under-18 population—are unsure where their next safe, clean sip of water will come from, according to a November 2023 report by Al Jazeera. In November, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported this “staggering” statistic and called it a…

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Corporate Green Policies Are So Much Hot Air

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:29:11 +0000

Companies are backtracking on their promises to implement green policies, despite being incentivized. E- The Environmental Magazine reported that in February 2024 three major investment companies took a step back from plans to limit climate damaging emissions. However, they are not the only ones. Hundreds of companies across the world…

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Planned Release of Tigers Raises Ethical Questions

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:26:26 +0000

The Caspian Tiger once roamed Central Asia near the Caspian Sea. Its habitat spanned 350,000 square miles across Iran, Turkey, China, and Kazakhstan. Caspian Tigers settled mainly along streams and rivers and surrounded themselves with shrubbery. Results from DNA tests have shown that Siberian Tigers are the closest living relatives…

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Male Birth Control Gel Progressing through Clinical Trials

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:21:15 +0000

A new form of externally applied birth control for men continues to do well in clinical trials, thus challenging the traditional notion that reproductive health is a “women’s issue”—when, in reality, access to birth control benefits men as well as women, as Amy Quinton reported for the UC Davis Health…

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Adolescents More at Risk From THC Than Ever

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:17:48 +0000

Cannabis has been a hot topic in recent years. With its legalization for medicinal and recreational use in many states, countless Americans have come to view it in a brighter light. However, most do not know the harmful side effects this drug has on developing minds. Its effects on children…

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Fanatics Is Running a De Facto Sports Apparel Monopoly

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:14:31 +0000

Fanatics, a sports apparel company, makes large profits by paying teams big for licensing and then selling a cheap, inferior product. Criticism of quality issues has yet to hurt its market share, however, as reported by Slate in March 2024. The company holds critical apparel licensing partnerships with four major…

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Amid Gaza War, US Secretly Arming Israel Every 1.5 Days

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:11:33 +0000

Amid international furor over the ongoing humanitarian disaster of the Gaza war, the United States secretly sent weapons shipments to Israel at the rate of one every 1.5 days. US authorities disclosed the sales to members of Congress at a classified meeting that was reported by Truthout. The weapons being…

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Transgender Students Are Unprotected in School

Vins — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:08:12 +0000

Amid growing numbers of openly trans students in public schools, and an accompanying transphobic backlash, came the devastating news of a student’s death that might have been prevented. On February 7, 2024, at Owasso High School in Owasso, Oklahoma, 16-year-old transmasculine sophomore Nex Benedict was jumped in the girls’ bathroom…

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Wildfires in Chile Challenge Its Goal to be Carbon Neutral by 2050

Vins — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:21:30 +0000

“Las preguntas que deja el fuego” (“The questions that the fire leaves”), by Ismaela Magliotto Quevedo and Benjamin Carvajal Ponce Chile, two environmental civil engineers, published February 5, 2024, highlights the devastation and implications of the Chile wildfires of February 2024. The 2023 and 2024 forest fires in Chile have…

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Guatemalan Call Center Workers Demand Better Conditions

Vins — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:15:52 +0000

The call center industry in Guatemala stands as a pillar of the nation’s economy but is also the cause of great emotional and mental health stress for the young people who work in it. Generating significant revenue and offering lucrative employment opportunities for bilingual, driven people, these opportunities enhance these…

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Violence Against Women in Colombia

Vins — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:12:19 +0000

Violence against women and girls continues to be a major problem in Colombia, with femicides and other forms of gender-based violence occurring across the country. Through the media outlet Pilas, Ana Sofia Cortes Parra dives into the untold and underreported stories of femicide in Colombia in “Se Ampliará la Línea…

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Forced Labor Traps Adopted Children in Paraguay

Vins — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 22:07:38 +0000

On January 30, 2024, the Paraguayan news outlet El Surtidor published “Criadazgo: la explotación infantile atrapada entre las paredes del silencio” (“Criadazgo: Child Exploitation Trapped Between the Walls of Silence”), an article by Jamin Bazán about Paraguayan criadazgo, which is defined as forced domestic labor involving adopted children, without salary…

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Morocco Uses Israeli Weaponry to Target Civilians in Western Sahara

Shealeigh — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:42:22 +0000

According to Middle East Eye, Morocco’s drone strikes have targeted 170 civilians in Western Sahara since 2021, resulting in the tragic loss of 86 lives. Some of these individuals were Moroccan, and some were Algerian nationals, but all of them were targeted by advanced drone technology manufactured mainly by Israel.…

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Activists Rally outside Insurance Giants, Denouncing Fossil Fuel Investments

Shealeigh — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 20:30:10 +0000

Environmental activists gathered from all over the world as they participated in a week-long global action movement against the fossil fuel industry, according to a March 2024 report by Inside Climate News. The movement aimed to heighten awareness of insurance companies’ ongoing support for fossil fuels, which poses a significant threat…

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Phoenix Police Face Scrutiny Over Inconsistencies in Jacob Harris Shooting Case

Shealeigh — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:41:20 +0000

In an article for The Appeal, published in collaboration with the Phoenix New Times, Meg O’Connor reports on emerging evidence in the tragic police killing of Jacob Harris. Phoenix Police officers made false and inconsistent statements about the night of the murder while Harris’s friends were being held responsible. Harris…

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Illegal Tracking of ‘Concerning People’ Using Cell-Site Simulators, Revealed by OIG Report

Vins — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:59:41 +0000

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Texas Accuses Planned Parenthood of Medicaid Fraud after Lengthy Political Battle

Shealeigh — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:54:07 +0000

In a December 2023 article for The Conversation, which was republished by Rewire News Group in January 2024, author Graham Gardner reported on the lawsuit that Texas opened alongside an anonymous whistleblower, Alex Doe, against Planned Parenthood for allegedly fraudulent Medicaid reimbursements. In 2016, Texas blocked Planned Parenthood from accepting…

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Palestinians in Gaza Suffering from Chronic Illnesses Cannot Access Medical Care

Shealeigh — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 18:39:51 +0000

In a December 2023 article for the American Friends Service Committee, author Firas Ramlawi shares the story of Fatima Shahin, a woman in her sixties currently suffering from chronic kidney disease in Gaza City. Shahin has battled the illness for years, undergoing dialysis three times a week at Al-Shifa Hospital.…

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Press Freedom and the Assange Appeal; Green Colonialism, Tribal Consent, and the Climate Crisis

Kate Horgan — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:49:26 +0000

Britain’s High Court of Justice has ruled whether Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order that would send him to the U.S. Independent journalist Kevin Gozstola, author or Guilty of Journalism, explains to Mickey the implications of the order, and whether the US might file new charges against the Wikileaks…

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Climate Debt Trap, A ‘Vicious Circle’ for Vulnerable Nations

Vins — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:48:15 +0000

Many of the developing nations most vulnerable to climate change are “operating on increasingly tight budgets and at risk of defaulting on loans,” Natalia Alayza, Valerie Laxton, and Carolyn Neunuebel reported for the World Resources Institute in September 2023. They describe the pattern—which has been worsened by the pandemic and…

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Leaked Plans for Dam Removals Spur Controversy in the Pacific Northwest

Vins — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:45:33 +0000

A leaked proposal from parties in a federal lawsuit over the impacts of dams on the lower Snake and Columbia rivers on federally-listed salmon and steelhead has revealed the Biden administration’s plans to work with federal agencies and Native American tribes in order to eventually remove four dams on the…

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ChatGPT Security Issues Raise Ethical Questions about Artificial Intelligence

Vins — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:39:53 +0000

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been taking over the world. AI can be helpful in some cases, but use of the fast growing technology also entails risks. For example, “When using AI apps, the risk of accidentally sharing sensitive information or intellectual property is a significant issue,” Paolo Passeri reported for…

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Chinese Cyberwarfare Heightens Tensions in Southeast Asia

Vins — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:34:27 +0000

Government agencies in the Philippines have been attacked by cyberwarfare operations linked to the Chinese government, Hacker News reported in November 2023. Mustang Panda is the most recent name used by the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), a moniker given to any organization that is highly skilled and organized with the…

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Appalachian State Fires LGBTQ+ Staff Amidst Rollback of DEI Initiatives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:50:28 +0000

Four leaders of a queer affinity group at Appalachian State University have been fired, according to the article “Firing of LGBTQ+ Staff Leaders Raises Questions,” published on March 29, 2024, by Johanna Alonso for Inside Higher Ed. The terminations were sudden, and the only explanation given was that North Carolina…

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Low-income, Minority Families Spend More on Bottled Water Due to Poor Water Infrastructure, Advertising

Shealeigh — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 16:55:28 +0000

Bottled water is the nation’s #1 bottled beverage. The average cost of bottled water consumption for a family of four, with the assumption that each person drinks 47 gallons a year, is between $250 to $2,700 a year. The tap water equivalent cost is 23.5 cents per person. As highlighted…

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Vast Majority of Service Workers in ‘Black Belt’ Injured on the Job in 2022, Study Finds

Shealeigh — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:58:40 +0000

A March 2023 survey by the Strategic Organizing Center found that 87 percent of 347 service workers polled in the US South were injured on the job in 2022, according to a report by People’s Dispatch. The survey sampled workers from eleven Southern states in an area known as the…

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Op-Ed Abuse

Shealeigh — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:44:37 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis and Heidi Boghosian On September 21, 1970, the New York Times ran its first “op-ed” page. Short for “opposite the editorial,” this new feature provided space for writers with no relationship to the newspaper’s editorial board to express their views. Before long, other newspapers followed suit. More…

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Florida Bill Sparks Debate Over Treatment of Houseless Individuals

Shealeigh — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:28:35 +0000

Florida is considering a bill that would ban houseless people from sleeping in public places and instead require them to stay in designated encampments, Alexandra Martinez of Prism reported on February 24, 2024. The bill has received support from Governor Ron DeSantis and is moving through the legislative process. Critics…

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Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Poses Serious First Amendment Concerns

Shealeigh — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:09:58 +0000

In an article for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), authors Jason Kelly, Aaron Mackey, and Joe Mullin argue that updates to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) aren’t enough to fix its core First Amendment issues, which will endanger LGTBQ youth, young people seeking mental health information, and many other at-risk…

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Man Sentenced to Life Despite Not Guilty Verdict, Granted Evidentiary Hearing

Shealeigh — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 14:09:08 +0000

Terence Richardson, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 despite being found not guilty of murder, has been granted a hearing to present new evidence in the case, according to a February 2024 report by The Appeal. In 1998, Richardson and Ferrone Claiborne were arrested as suspects in…

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Restricting Aerosol Pollution May Worsen Impacts of Climate Change

Vins — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:28:50 +0000

Federal government efforts to reduce aerosol pollutants, including the US Clean Air Act, have led to what climate scientist James Hansen has described as a “Faustian bargain,” Jake Bittle reported for Grist in February 2024. On one hand, these regulations aim to protect people from the negative health effects of…

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Bridging Gaps in Mental Health Crisis Response: Omaha Police Department’s ‘Frank Unit’

Vins — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:20:15 +0000

The “Frank Unit” is an integral part of the police force in Omaha, Nebraska, Yanqi Xu, an investigative reporter at the Flatwater Free Press, reported in February 2024. Established in 2020 and, as of 2024 funded by the City of Omaha, the life-saving unit aids Omaha police officers in responding…

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Ronald McDonald House Prevents Parents With Criminal Records From Staying Near Their Sick Kids, Lawsuit Says

Vins — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 18:10:53 +0000

Juan Mieles, the father of Anthony Mieles, a 17-year-old boy with cancer, filed a lawsuit against the Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley and Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc (RMH) for refusing to provide housing for parents with a criminal record, Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg reported for The Appeal in…

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The Business of War & The Cost of American Delusions

Kate Horgan — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:43:23 +0000

In the first half of the show, researcher and US military veteran Christian Sorensen joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss the business of war, the mapping of it, the remarkable spread of it, and the very real ability and need to shift this trillion dollar industry to something more sustainable and…

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The Project Censored Newsletter- March 2024

Kate Horgan — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:30:53 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Mickey Huff appeared on The Thom Hartmann Program to discuss State of the Free Press 2024 and the importance of independent journalism and critical media literacy amid a rise in news deserts. Mickey also spoke about this year’s book with Steve…

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Silver Screen War Machine: Decoding the Military-Entertainment Complex

Kate Horgan — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:33:38 +0000

This week’s show presents excerpts from a recent panel discussion about the “Military-Entertainment Complex.” Inspired by the recent documentary Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood by media scholar Roger Stahl, the expert panelists examined the remarkable extent of US governmental influence over films, television, and video…

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More than 6,000 US Workers Killed at Work in 2022, Study Finds

Vins — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:50:55 +0000

Working in the United States puts your life in danger more than it did in the past, according to a February 2024 report for Truthout by Tyler Walicek. According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), obtained as part of the Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries (CFOI), there…

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Women’s Health Highlighted at ‘Restore Roe’ Election Event

Vins — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:40:17 +0000

At a “Restore Roe” rally in Manassas, Virginia, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris called for the restoration and protection of reproductive rights in the wake of the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization (2022), which overruled Roe v. Wade (1973) and Planned…

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Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women: An Overlooked Epidemic of Violence

Vins — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 17:29:02 +0000

In a 2024 article for the New Yorker, Rachel Monroe detailed the Spring 2014 disappearance of Melanie James in Farmington, New Mexico, in light of the ongoing trend of unsolved crimes against indigenous women. Monroe’s New Yorker article sets Melanie James’ disappearance, a decade ago, in the context of the…

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Companies Spent Decades Hiding Health Risks Tied to Gas Stoves

Shealeigh — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 20:20:28 +0000

On October 18, 2023, NPR and the Climate Investigations Center (CIC) brought attention to the health risks linked to using gas stoves. Both reports discussed the gas industry’s long strategy to sweep this information under the rug, using public relations programs modeled after Big Tobacco’s infamous spin campaigns in the…

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UN’s Forest Protection Goals at Risk, Say Independent Assessors

Vins — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:30:24 +0000

A much-publicized United Nations goal to end deforestation by 2030 is unlikely to be achieved, according to an independent assessment, as Olivia Rosane reported for Common Dreams in October 2023. The problem is money and where it’s directed, according to the latest Forest Declaration Assessment, released in October 2023. “We…

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Indigenous Activists in Panama Shutdown Notorious Copper Mine

Vins — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:25:07 +0000

In November 2023, Panama’s Supreme Court struck down a 20-year concession to a Canadian company to operate a notorious open-pit copper mine 120 kilometers west of Panama City, after which the Panamanian president announced the mine finally would be closed. This decision was reported internationally, for example by Al Jazeera…

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Saltwater Intrusion Threatens Drinking Water along US Coasts

Vins — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:18:32 +0000

In coastal areas of the United States, sea levels are rising drastically because of climate change, and the topic has not received much attention from corporate media. In October 2023, Delany Nolan reported for the Guardian on the upstream influx of undrinkable salt water. The Guardian’s report quoted Jeeban Panthi,…

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TikTok Influencers Promote Overconsumption of Fast Fashion

Vins — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:12:30 +0000

It’s no secret that TikTok trends and influencers are shaping fashion, but users’ feeds are being flooded with “microtrends” and marketing techniques that promote overconsumption and the fast fashion industry, Nurayn Kahn reported for the Harvard Political Review in August 2023. Influencer culture, Kahn wrote, has “normalized a mindset of…

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Corporate Climate Coverage a Washout after Storm Ciarán Impacts Tuscany

Vins — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 21:04:50 +0000

The historic tourist region of Tuscany in central Italy is world-famous for food and wine, agrarian scenery, Renaissance art and architecture (including the Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery, Michelangelo’s David), and its perfect Mediterranean climate. In October-November 2023, however, Tuscany was in the news for torrential, hundred-year rains that killed eight…

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Blueprint for Regression

Kate Horgan — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:21 +0000

By avram anderson and Shealeigh Voitl The Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership series began in 1981 following the 1980 presidential election, marking the beginning of the Reagan era. The 20-volume publication, totaling 3,000 pages, presented a series of policy proposals that the conservative think-tank believed would “revitalize our economy, strengthen…

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Abortion Services Censored on Social Platforms Globally

Vins — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 20:58:42 +0000

In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, online abortion services are facing global censorship on social media platforms. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Google have all allegedly restricted access to the websites of reproductive health organizations, according to a November 2,…

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Controversial New Education System (NES) Sparks Concern in Houston Public Schools

Shealeigh — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 19:27:38 +0000

In the article featured in the Winter 2023-2024 edition of Rethinking Schools, titled “The Takeover of Houston Public Schools,” Larry Miller reported on the Texas state legislature taking control of Houston’s Independent School District (ISD) through its Texas Education Agency. State officials chose to dissolve the elected school board, appointing…

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Banned Books Back! & We Are All Sacrifice Zones

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:56:56 +0000

In the first half of the show, Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein join host Eleanor Goldfield to talk about how a small coop bookshop in Asheville, NC came to be the keeper of more than 20,000 youth books banned in Florida, the emergence of the Banned Books Back! initiative,…

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Plan to Study Impacts of Offshore Wind Farm on East Coast Ecosystems

Shealeigh — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:34:11 +0000

In a January 2024 article for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Alison Chase reported that the Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative for Offshore Wind (RWSC) announced their plans to research offshore wind farms’ effects on ecosystems of marine wildlife off the East Coast. To reach their clean energy goals, cities…

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Equity and Misleading Branding Concerns Raised as ‘Themed’ Schools Rise in Popularity

Shealeigh — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 13:24:09 +0000

In December 2023, the Hechinger Report’s Kelly Field reported the growing popularity of “themed” middle schools across America and the concerns raised by school consultants regarding both equity and misleading branding. Themed schools, such as Brooklyn Urban Garden Charter School (BUGS), embody a distinctive culture in their curricula. However, as…

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Deconstructing Media Propaganda and Framing, from War to the Unhoused

Kate Horgan — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:49:51 +0000

In the first segment, media scholars Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek come back on the show, this time to discuss their latest edited book, Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression. The recent upsurge in censorship is a global phenomenon taking many forms across…

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The Press Freedom Case of the Century

Kate Horgan — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:45:07 +0000

By Kevin Gosztola In March 2023, when my book on the case against Julian Assange was published, the detained WikiLeaks founder was waiting to find out if an appeals court in London would allow him to appeal extradition to the United States. Now, Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against…

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Corporate Media Say No On Ceasefire, Want To Cease “Uncommitted” Voters Instead

Kate Horgan — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:27:39 +0000

By: Nolan Higdon “I understand you’re upset, we talked about this yesterday. I understand you are upset, but, you know, either we [Democrats] are going to fix it together or we are not. And the other guy [Donald Trump] is not going to fix it at all,” exclaimed comedian Whoopi…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—February 2024

Kate Horgan — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:42:18 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Mischa Geracoulis, who organized and introduced the yearbook’s Media Democracy in Action chapter, coauthored an article, What the New York Times Gets Wrong About Lemkin’s Work on Genocide, with Heidi Boghosian, host of the Law and Disorder radio show. Geracoulis and…

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The Growing Legal Fights Against Israel & Many Voices For Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:40:28 +0000

In the first half of the show, we welcome back Hassan Ben Imran, board member at the Law for Palestine organization. Hassan gives host Eleanor Golfield updates on the ICJ case of genocide and how he believes the case is pushing the movement for Palestinian rights from the streets into…

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Hollywood’s Pentagon Propaganda, Deconstructing Disinformation, and Critical Media Literacy Education in the US

Kate Horgan — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:07:05 +0000

On this week’s program, Mickey talks with communications professor and filmmaker Roger Stahl about his most recent documentary, Theaters of War: How The Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood. They discuss how the military entertainment complex works, showcasing its vast propaganda influence on mass media. Legal analyst and author Barbara McQuade…

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Despite Its Popularity, The Kids Online Safety Act Won’t Help Young People, It Will Hurt Them

Kate Horgan — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:03:37 +0000

By: Steve Macek In January 2024, top executives at X (formerly Twitter), Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Snap, Discord, and TikTok appeared at a Senate hearing to answer questions about protecting children and teens online. In attendance were parents whose children had been harmed by or died as…

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Muckraking Journalism and The Progressive Magazine; Updates on Julian Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:31:04 +0000

In the first segment, Mickey talks with Norman Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive magazine, founded in 1909. Stockwell discusses the vaunted history of the publication coming out of a golden era of muckraking journalism. We highlight some of that important history as well as address the current state of our…

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It’s Not What It Seems: French Farmers Protest Outside of Political Ideologies & Astroturfing in Alaska

Kate Horgan — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:31:02 +0000

In the first half of the show, David Lorant, a farmer based in Rennes, France joins host Eleanor Goldfield to contextualize the widespread farmer protests that just recently saw farmers in tractors blockading major motorways across the country, calling for what media has spun as right-wing anti-ecological demands. David debunks…

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As GQ Absorbs Pitchfork, Music Media Becomes Even More Male-Centric

Shealeigh — Thu, 08 Feb 2024 18:00:27 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl When Condé Nast bought the online music publication Pitchfork in 2015, Condé’s Chief Digital Officer Fred Santarpia told the New York Times that the acquisition brought “a very passionate audience of Millennial males into our roster.” Three years before, in 2012, roughly 88 percent of respondents to…

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Villainizing Media Literacy at the World Economic Forum: Time to Mandate it in US Schools

Kate Horgan — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:30:29 +0000

By Nolan Higdon “It is no longer good enough for us just to say this is what happened or here, this is the news. We have to explain our [inner] working.” So exclaimed Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal, as she remarked on the lack of trust among…

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Two Women in Hijabs Blocked from Nevada Voting Rally

Vins — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:46:20 +0000

Two women wearing hijabs were denied entry to Vice President Kamala Harris’s January 27 early voting rally in Las Vegas, Nevada. Video footage taken by the women, who reportedly RSVPed and received wristbands at check-in, shows campaign officials barring them from entering. Officials declined to explain their decision and are…

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Polluting Airwaves & Yemen’s Bold Moves for Palestine

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:01:01 +0000

In the first half of the show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with attorney Art Belendiuk and media activist and journalist Sue Wilson to talk about the poisoning of our airwaves, with propaganda. Art and Sue outline a case in Baltimore that highlights how media corporation Sinclair is trying to…

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Battling Censorship, Propaganda, and Nuclear Colonialism

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:09:58 +0000

In the first half of the show, journalist Alan MacLeod joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss his personal battle against censorship as well as the ways in which corporate media work to propagandize the public to support Israel. He also outlines the attempts of a small group of Neocons to connect…

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FCC Regulators Play the Shell Game with Broadcasters: What Really Happened in the Sinclair/Tribune FCC Investigation

Shealeigh — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 09:37:50 +0000

By Sue Wilson (Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics) THE AIR BELONGS TO US – But they’re trying to take it away Media. Everybody is screaming about the media. Who we love, who we hate, who owns it, who uses it fairly, who outright lies…

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Warnings: the Holocaust, US Global Relations, and our Endangered Democracy

Kate Horgan — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:51:21 +0000

Mickey’s guests for the hour are philosophers Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. They outline what is at stake as the US enters another contentious election year with unpopular, problematic frontrunners in both major parties; wars of…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2024

Project Censored — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:42:53 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Independent newsweeklies—from the North Bay Bohemian and Random Lengths News in California, to the Santa Fe Reporter (New Mexico), and the C-Ville Weekly (Charlottesville, VA)— have been featuring the top “Censored” stories from State of the Free Press 2024. The American…

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Exploring Press Freedoms: Updates on Julian Assange’s Extradition

Kate Horgan — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:54:55 +0000

We kick off this year focusing on press freedoms. We welcome back to the program independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange. Gosztola joins the program to discuss the latest updates on Assange’s extradition case, the CIA spying lawsuit and a Congressional…

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The Local News Crisis Lowdown, and a Glimmer of Hope for Democracy in the New Year

Shealeigh — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 18:00:47 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis Project Censored’s directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, have repeatedly asked what would happen if journalism disappeared. With 2023 in the rearview and 2024 presidential elections on the horizon, a look back at the state of local news across the United States gives additional pause to…

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The Legality of Genocide: On International Law & Thoughtcrimes on US Campuses

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:21:05 +0000

This week – the legal criminality of genocide: of perpetrating it, supporting it – and in the US, of decrying it. In the first half of the show, Hassan Ben Imran from Law For Palestine joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss the recent case of genocide brought by South Africa to…

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State of the Free Press 2024: A Discussion of Ongoing Censorship

Kate Horgan — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:16:20 +0000

Project Censored’s yearly publication, State of the Free Press 2024, hit the shelves in December. The work details the many issues regarding corporate media, from the spread of news deserts to biased and incomplete reporting, while highlighting the public interest journalism of the independent press. On this week’s program, Mickey…

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Light through the Slats

Shealeigh — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 18:00:52 +0000

By Andy Lee Roth and Steve Macek The power of news is often described using visual metaphors. Good journalism is said to be illuminating, meaning it provides clarity and insight; exemplary reporting is praised for “shining light” on a subject or “bringing to light” crucial facts and original perspectives. And the…

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Project Censored Newsletter December 2023

Kate Horgan — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:48:18 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News State of the Free Press 2024, the 31st edition of the Project’s award-winning yearbook series, officially released on December 5, 2023. You can ask for it at your favorite local bookstore or order a copy directly from Project Censored. The Teaching Guide, authored…

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New Federal Rule Challenges Transcript Withholding by Colleges

Vins — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 19:53:18 +0000

A new federal regulation will make it more difficult for colleges to withhold students’ transcripts as a way of forcing them to repay loan debts, Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner reported for The Hechinger Report in December 2023. Transcript withholding is a strategy colleges use to recover outstanding debt, even…

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Navigating the News Void: From News Deserts to Revitalization

Shealeigh — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 18:00:26 +0000

By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenly disappear. An expert on the history of US news media, Schudson speculated in his book, The Power of News,…

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Exposing the Jewish National Fund and Radioactive Fracking

Kate Horgan — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:12:25 +0000

The Jewish National Fund sounds nice enough, especially with their quaint tree-planting campaigns, but as our guest, Palestinian organizer Abdullah Elagha points out, this greenwashed front hides a myriad of atrocities, from ecocide to ethnic cleansing. Elagha outlines the history and present of the organization, a recent fundraising for Israel…

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New Legislation Targets Funding Gaps for Rural Schools

Shealeigh — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:41:33 +0000

According to a July 2023 report in the Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), state legislators have proposed to add $60 million to the state’s annual budget to fund rural school districts. Those districts include Franklin County, where declining enrollments and limited real estate tax revenues have resulted in inadequate funding…

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New York Teacher’s Innovative Approach Humanizes Asylum-Seeker Students

Shealeigh — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:35:32 +0000

In an article for Rethinking Schools, New York teacher Juan P. Córdova shares his experience teaching a “traditional bilingual classroom” of fourth- and fifth-grade students whose families were seeking asylum in the United States. For example, Córdova renamed home visits “family connections,” acknowledging that while not all of his students…

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California’s Groundbreaking Investment in Education for Incarcerated Youth

Shealeigh — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:27:57 +0000

In an article for The Imprint News, Jeremy Loudenback and Sara Tiano dive into the details of California’s June 30, 2023, signed budget, which incorporates investments in higher education for incarcerated youth and reinforces oversight of educational institutions within youth detention facilities. The budget administers $80 million for alternative schools,…

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Arizona Private Schools Surge Tuition Despite State Vouchers

Shealeigh — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 17:19:32 +0000

In September 2023, private K-12 schools in Arizona decided to raise their tuition between 6 and 20 percent in response to experimental vouchers given to families to make private education more accessible, according to an article by Neal Morton for the Hechinger Report. In July 2023, Arizona became the first…

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Media Censorship and Attacks on Press Freedoms: Genocide in Gaza, Julian Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:08:09 +0000

Mickey’s first guest, journalist Abby Martin of The Empire Files, explains how corporate media has carefully avoided presenting the full atrocity of the Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the years of oppression in both Gaza and the West Bank. She also discusses the tragic consequences, which…

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The Stranglehold of Silence: Suppression of Free Speech in the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Kate Horgan — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:40:46 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with bestselling author and Emmy-nominated filmmaker James Bamford to discuss Israel’s nefarious attacks on our rights to free speech and assembly here in the US. Bamford shares details about the clearly illegal activity of foreign agents working to suppress movements…

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The Attack against the Freedom to Read and What to Do about It

Project Censored — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 21:27:30 +0000

By Steve Macek During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting books that address race, gender identity, or sexuality. In Texas, Suzette Baker was fired from her job as director…

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A NOTE ON RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF CENSORED NEWS STORIES

Shealeigh — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 17:23:35 +0000

How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but also trustworthy? The answer is that every candidate news story undergoes rigorous review, which takes…

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School Hospital Program Bridges Education and Student Recovery

Vins — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:48:58 +0000

In August 2023, the Hechinger Report’s Rebecca Redelmeier reported findings from the University of North Carolina’s Neurosciences Hospital on how in-hospital schools open a road to recovery to address the student mental health crisis and foster school connectedness. Programs like UNC’s Hospital School have been linked to helping students recover…

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Idaho Schools Struggle to Secure Adequate Resources

Vins — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:46:35 +0000

In a September 2023 article for ProPublica, produced in partnership with the Idaho Statesman, Becca Savransky reported that Salmon, Idaho’s elementary and middle schools are at serious risk of falling apart and pose physical threats to students. Despite several attempts to solve the issue, both state and local legislation have…

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Being an Undocumented Teacher in America Comes With Undocumented Struggles

Vins — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 23:42:19 +0000

A Fall 2023 report, “Teaching While Undocumented,” by authors Esa Syeed and Abigail Rosas for Rethinking Schools describes the personal experiences and struggles of undocumented individuals newly working as teachers in the state of California. One teacher, Daniela, describes what it was like to attend school as an undocumented, non-English-speaking…

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#25 – Activism Targets Outdated State Laws That Criminalize HIV

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:25:44 +0000

Laws that criminalize HIV transmission—many enacted in the 1980s, when HIV was poorly understood—have not been changed to reflect scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. In January 2023, Truthout reported that twenty-five states have HIV-specific laws, and nine states have sentence enhancements that apply to HIV+ people. Black men…

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#24 – Twitter Files Reveal US Government Pressure on Social Media Platform to Suppress Alternative Views

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:24:05 +0000

The “Twitter Files”—a trove of internal communications relating to Twitter’s content moderation practices, made available to select journalists by the platform’s owner, Elon Musk—reveal how pressure from US government agencies has shaped political content on the popular social networking service. Twitter has banned selected political voices, supported covert government operations,…

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#23 – “Informal Removal” Policies Deny Educational Opportunities for Students With Disabilities

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:23:51 +0000

Across the United States, students with disabilities are being sent home from school because of behavioral issues in the classroom. In an October 2022 article for the Hechinger Report and the Associated Press, Meredith Kolodner and Annie Ma reported that, under a policy of “informal removal,” students across the country…

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#22 – Public Health Threatened by Beef Suppliers’ Continued Use of “Critically Important” Antibiotics

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:22:55 +0000

Beef suppliers for major fast food and supermarket chains are sourcing meat from US farms that use antibiotics linked to the spread of “superbugs,” bacteria strains that are resistant to antibiotics, the Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian reported in November 2022. The joint investigation examined US Department of…

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#21 – Nearly Half of Unhoused People Are Employed

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:21:09 +0000

Contrary to popular belief, many people who experience homelessness are employed, Julia Pagaduan reported for the National Alliance to End Homelessness in September 2022. Drawing on a study produced by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, Pagaduan reported that 53 percent of the sheltered unhoused…

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#20 – Derailment Furor Ignores Alarming Frequency of Toxic Chemical Spills

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:20:17 +0000

After a Norfolk Southern train filled with hazardous chemicals derailed outside the town of East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2023, causing a toxic inferno and a mass evacuation, corporate news media provided around-the-clock coverage. TV correspondents dutifully interviewed displaced residents, attended press briefings about the disaster, and interviewed irate…

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#19 – Economic Consequences of US Gun Violence “Far Costlier” Than Previously Known

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:19:08 +0000

Gun violence costs Americans an astounding $557 billion per year in direct, indirect, and long-term costs, according to a July 2022 study by gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, reported on by NPR. Everytown’s study, “The Economic Cost of Gun Violence,” firmly stated, “America cannot afford gun violence.” As…

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#18 – Debt Crisis Looms for World’s Poorest Nations

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:18:33 +0000

The world’s poorest countries will pay 35 percent more in debt interest bills in 2023 than they did in 2022 due to costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and a dramatic increase in the price of imported food, as reported by the World Bank. Seventy-five impoverished nations, most in sub-Saharan…

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#17 – Leaks Reveal Homeland Security Plans to Regulate Disinformation Online

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:17:50 +0000

A series of leaks have exposed plans by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ramp up censorship of dangerous speech online. According to an October 2022 report from the Intercept, DHS announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board” in early 2022 [Note: On DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board, see also Andy…

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#16 – Municipalities in Puerto Rico Sue Fossil Fuel Giants Under Organized Crime Law

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:16:49 +0000

Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico are suing Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and other fossil fuel companies for their efforts to deny the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change. In a November 2022 report for Common Dreams, Kenny Stancil described the case as a “first of its kind” racketeering lawsuit…

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#15 – Black Americans Seven Times More Likely Than Whites to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Serious Crimes

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:15:13 +0000

As reported by the Innocence Project, Reuters, and Essence, a September 2022 National Registry of Exonerations study found that Black people are seven times more likely than White people to be wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual crimes, and drug crimes. The NRE study analyzed 3,200 exonerations for the above crimes,…

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#14 – Study Exposes Electric Utilities’ Climate Disinformation Campaigns

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:14:39 +0000

Electric utility companies have been knowingly spreading disinformation about climate change for decades, Grist and the Atlantic reported in September 2022, citing a report published earlier that month in Environmental Research Letters. According to this report, electric utility companies, research groups, and trade associations (including the Edison Electric Institute and…

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#13 – Accidents Reveal US Biolab Vulnerabilities

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:13:50 +0000

The Intercept’s Mara Hvistendahl uncovered hundreds of undisclosed accidents at biolabs in the United States. Her November 1, 2022, article spotlighted the case of a graduate student at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, who contracted the debilitating Chikungunya virus, which is responsible for epidemics in both…

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#12 – Fossil Fuel Money Skews University Climate and Energy Research

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:12:55 +0000

Fossil fuel companies have been donating millions of dollars to US universities for climate and energy research projects, according to reports published in March 2023 by the Guardian and The Nation, based on a study produced by Data for Progress, a progressive think tank. Fossil fuel funding, The Nation reported,…

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#11 – Tribal Towns Forced to Relocate Due to Climate Crisis

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:11:06 +0000

Many coastal areas in the Pacific Northwest lose up to seventy feet of their land annually due to erosion caused by climate change, disproportionately impacting the region’s Indigenous communities. The Biden administration has already paid $25 million apiece to three Native American villages in Alaska and Washington to move away…

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#10 – Corporate Profits Hit Record High as Top 0.1% Earnings and Wall Street Bonuses Skyrocket

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:10:10 +0000

Corporate profits rose to an “all-time high” in 2022, producing an explosion in income for the very wealthy, Jake Johnson reported for Common Dreams in a series of 2022 articles. In August 2022, Johnson explained that non-financial corporate profits in the second quarter of 2022 hit two trillion dollars, an…

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#9 – Deadly Decade for Environmental Activists

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:09:38 +0000

Independent reporting in Fall 2022 revealed that, between 2012 and 2021, at least 1,733 environmental activists were killed—amounting, on average, to nearly one killing every two days across ten years. This figure from the Global Witness study, Decade of Defiance, is “almost certainly an underestimate” because “conflict, restrictions on a…

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#8 – Proximity to Oil and Gas Extraction Sites Linked to Maternal Health Risks and Childhood Leukemia

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:08:10 +0000

Two epidemiological studies, from 2021 and 2022, provide new evidence that living near oil and gas extraction sites is hazardous to human health, especially for pregnant mothers and children, as reported by Nick Cunningham for DeSmog and Tom Perkins for the Guardian. Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) measured the…

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#7 – Fossil Fuel Investors Sue Governments to Block Climate Regulations

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:07:48 +0000

Big oil companies and their investors are suing governments to thwart climate change policies, Rishika Pardikar reported for The Lever in June 2022. These fossil fuel stakeholders claim that laws designed to address climate change are undermining their profits—and, therefore, that they must be compensated for any resulting financial losses.…

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#6 – Unions Won More Than 70 Percent of Their Elections in 2022, and Their Victories Are Being Driven by Workers of Color

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:06:11 +0000

According to reporting by NPR in December 2022 and The Conversation in January 2023, unions won more than 70 percent of their certification elections in 2022. In fiscal year 2022, 2,510 petitions for union representation were filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) between October 1, 2021, and September…

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#5 – Certified Rainforest Carbon Offsets Mostly “Worthless”

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:05:57 +0000

About 90 percent of rainforest carbon offsets certified by Verra, the world’s largest offset certifier, do not reflect real reductions in emissions, according to reports produced jointly by the Guardian, SourceMaterial, and Die Zeit in January 2023, with subsequent coverage from Truthout. Verra, which runs the Verified Carbon Standard that…

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#4 – Stalkerware Could Be Used to Incriminate People Violating Abortion Bans

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:04:23 +0000

Stalkerware—surveillance apps that secretly record and upload cellphone activities—could become a significant legal threat to people seeking abortions, according to a pair of articles published in the wake of the US Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the constitutional right to abortion. Writing for the tech news site CNET just two…

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#3 – Toxic Chemicals Continue to Go Unregulated in the United States

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:03:02 +0000

The United States consistently fails to ban and regulate harmful chemicals, ProPublica reported in December 2022. Neil Bedi, Sharon Lerner, and Kathleen McGrory explained how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the chemical industry are responsible for causing the United States to become “a global laggard in chemical regulation.” Michal…

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#2 – Hiring of Former CIA Employees and Ex-Israeli Agents “Blurs Line” Between Big Tech and Big Brother

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:02:33 +0000

Former employees of US and Israeli intelligence agencies now hold senior positions at Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants, where these individuals influence policy and control programs that regulate internet users’ access to information, Alan MacLeod reported in a pair of stories published by MintPress News in July and…

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#1 – “Forever Chemicals” in Rainwater a Global Threat to Human Health

Shealeigh — Sun, 26 Nov 2023 08:01:09 +0000

Environmental scientists have found hazardous levels of manufactured chemicals in rainwater, leading to the dramatic conclusion that rainwater is “no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth,” according to an August 2022 report from Insider. Morgan McFall-Johnsen’s article reported results from a global study of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)…

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The Project Censored Newsletter – November 2023

Project Censored — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 23:38:33 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 Available for Preorder The Project’s newest yearbook, State of the Free Press 2024, is now available for preorder. Highlighting the year’s most significant independent journalism—including reports on toxic chemicals, climate disinformation, and union victories—State of the Free Press 2024 illuminates issues and raises voices that the establishment press…

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Dark Money, Leonard Leo, and the Anachronistic Supreme Court

Project Censored — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 00:52:00 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis In How to Interpret the Constitution (2023), Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein argues that any theory of constitutional interpretation used by Supreme Court justices must be defensible in terms of beneficial outcomes, to make democracy “better.” Better is subjective, though. Considering the current Supreme Court, “better” begs…

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Context, Connections & Cracks in the Facade of Propaganda: A Deeper Look at Israel/Palestine

Kate Horgan — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:12:38 +0000

Our understanding of every issue suffers without context, and perhaps most glaringly today – the issue of what’s happening in Israel/Palestine. In the first half of the show, Jacquie Luqman joins the show again to contextualize Israel as a settler colonialist project, how that links to the pan-African…

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Colonialism Today: From The Crisis in Congo to Capsizing Boats in the Mediterranean

Kate Horgan — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:54:52 +0000

Be it in the Mediterranean or the heart of Africa in Congo, colonialism isn’t past, it’s a modern day disaster. In the first half of the show, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear joins Eleanor Goldfield to bring us information on the so-called silent holocaust taking place in the Congo where…

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Considering Bandcamp’s Changing Role in Music Industry Amid Layoffs

Project Censored — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 01:29:10 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl Much has been said about how broken the music streaming structure is for artists. Music insiders have long criticized services for their lack of transparency and disregard for songwriters and performers. Just last week, Music Business Worldwide reported that Spotify plans to slash its already meager royalty…

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The Israeli-Palestine Conflict: Corporate Media Failure and Big-Tech’s Facilitation of War Crimes

Kate Horgan — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:29:48 +0000

This week Mickey examines media coverage of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and the ensuing Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, particularly the one-sided reporting of the Israel-Palestine conflict by corporate media, and Big Tech actions to suppress Palestinian perspectives. Today’s guests discuss how media bias and lack…

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Making Sense of the Establishment News Media’s Distorted Coverage of Gaza

Project Censored — Fri, 27 Oct 2023 23:51:00 +0000

It began with a man rowing a 1,200-pound pumpkin down the Missouri River. That was the first news item I saw on TV after one of the major cable networks broadcast horrifying, graphic footage of the deadly airstrikes into Gaza launched by Israel Defense Forces on October 7th. The jarring…

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A Look At Assange From Inside the CIA, State Department & US Military

Kate Horgan — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:21:59 +0000

You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven’t heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and US military. In this special episode, Eleanor first talks with former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou about what Assange would face if extradited to the…

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October 2023 Newsletter

Project Censored — Mon, 23 Oct 2023 22:40:55 +0000

Project Launches Digital Archive of Past Yearbook Chapters We are excited to announce the launch of a digital archive of chapters from past volumes of Project Censored’s yearbook series. The new web pages feature selections from the Censored and State of the Free Press yearbooks, covering topics such as Déjà Vu News, Junk Food News, News Abuse,…

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Students or Data Mines?

Project Censored — Thu, 19 Oct 2023 23:02:18 +0000

All around the nation, unions, campuses, and governing bodies are debating the proper approaches for utilizing generative AI in education. Fears over AI were heightened by the release and popularity of ChatGPT, the chatbot developed by OpenAI, released in late 2022. Industry insiders were amazed by the technology, with Microsoft…

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How Big Media Facilitate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza

Project Censored — Wed, 18 Oct 2023 23:57:50 +0000

By Robin Andersen On October 6, 2023, Hamas broke out of Gaza, lobbed rockets, and sent fighters into Israeli territory. The attacks killed hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians. Images of violence and brutality were recorded and distributed widely over broadcast news over and over again, repeatedly showing abused, bloodied,…

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Challenging Narratives: Unmasking Zionism, Media Bias, and the ‘EARN IT’ Act

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:56:33 +0000

Eleanor Goldfield opens the program with a conversation about Gaza; her guest, Nora Barrows-Friedman, rebuts common Israeli / US talking points, and identifies Zionism as the actual obstacle to peace. Then Shealeigh Voitl tells Mickey about some of her recent research and writing. She finds fundamental differences in how corporate…

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More Draconian Than You Thought: A Look at Georgia RICO Then and Now

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:17:54 +0000

If two people sit down for a cup of coffee in Georgia, they might leave with RICO charges. That’s how our first guest this week, Ellen Barfield explains the draconian Georgia RICO – that’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) charges that her husband faced over a decade ago, and…

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Let Freedom Read: Banned Books Week for 2023

Kate Horgan — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:39:34 +0000

Mickey dedicates this show to Banned Books Week 2023 (Oct. 1-7). Now in its 41st year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting the freedom to read while opposing efforts to ban or censor certain books from libraries, especially in school settings. This past year has seen…

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The Rising Political Battle Over Censorship:

Project Censored — Thu, 28 Sep 2023 02:00:58 +0000

Da’Taeveyon Daniels, Youth Honorary Chair, Banned Books Week, 2023 Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics In the land of the free and the home of the brave, a wave in the politically charged battle for intellectual freedom has peaked once more. Censorship threatens to silence…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—September 2023

Project Censored — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 19:03:19 +0000

Banned Books Week (BBW) is upon us, reminding readers all over the country to oppose censorship, as Project Censored has done since 1976. The Project implores students and educators to learn where and how books and other materials are being challenged in schools and public libraries and to join this…

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Capitalism: The Ultimate Anti-Life System

Kate Horgan — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:20:14 +0000

It all comes back to capitalism. In the first half of the show, economist, author, and show host Dr. Richard Wolff joins us to talk about empowerment beyond the strike, and how we can manifest true democracy in the workplace. He gives us a grotesque look inside the board room,…

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Lessons from One Hundred Years of Journalism

Project Censored — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:35:11 +0000

Mr. Associated Press makes clear that extremism in politics, rejection of facts in favor of trendy issues, devotion to cults of personality, public attacks on facts, and corporate media takeovers that result in monopolies, news deserts, and out-of-work reporters are not unique to the 21st century

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Unveiling Maui’s Unheard Voices: Indigenous and Mutual Aid Activists Speak Out

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:22:05 +0000

You’ve likely heard a lot about Maui in recent weeks but chances are you haven’t heard a lot from Indigenous or frontline mutual aid activists working to protect and support their communities in the dearth of government support and protection. In the first half of the show, Native Hawaiian Kamiki…

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Challenging Media Integrity and Labor Rights: Fox TV Renewal and Sex Work Perspectives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:48:47 +0000

Media scholar Steve Macek joins Mickey for a look at a case from Philadelphia, where media activists are challenging the broadcast-license renewal of the local Fox TV station. Macek says the abundant evidence that Fox executives ordered the airing of stories they knew to be false (notably the purported “theft”…

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Time to Take Away Fox’s Broadcast Licenses

Project Censored — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 18:57:27 +0000

On July 3, 2023, members of the Media and Democracy Project, a media watchdog group, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the renewal of the license for Philadelphia’s Fox TV station, WTFX. The filing charged that WTFX had repeatedly promoted a false narrative about the 2020 Presidential election…

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The Untold History of the Start of the Nuclear Arms Race with Dave Lindorff; & Ongoing Attacks on Freedom of the Press Must Stop

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:06:44 +0000

’Tis the season of the bomb. Muckraking investigate reporter and author David Lindorff joins Mickey Huff to discuss his forthcoming book: Spy For No Country: The Story of Ted Hall the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World. Lindorff is also a producer of the documentary about Hall…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—August 2023

Project Censored — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 21:37:56 +0000

Back to School! Project Censored in the Classroom The imminent start of the school year also signals the launch of the Project’s 2023-2024 Validated Independent News (VINs) story cycle. Thanks to the our most recent student interns, including Riley Cummins, Reagan Haynie, and Ashton Sidford, the next VINs cycle is off a strong…

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Resilience Amidst Controversy: Unveiling the Struggles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Unearthing Adult Supremacy

Kate Horgan — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:11:11 +0000

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain and people of Appalachia. Crystal Mello, mom and pipeline fighter joins the show to discuss the intense and exhausting process…

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What’s “Realistic,” What’s “Disturbing”?

Project Censored — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 22:23:13 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl Just two days after the Hollywood writers’ strike began on May 2, 2023, Deadline Hollywood tweeted, “Saturday Night Live fans, want to know what you are missing? Kieran Culkin and Jennifer Coolidge were set to host the final two episodes of the season before the writers strike…

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Imperialism and Neocolonialism Around the Globe: US-China Relations; West African Nations

Kate Horgan — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:01:41 +0000

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. As US-China relations worsen, independent journalist Danny Haiphong says what lies at the root is the desperation of a US ruling class that sees its world dominance ebbing away. He adds that the US sanctions against China actually hurt the US more…

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Media Freedom Matters: Exposing International News Neglect, Censorship, and Agenda Cutting Across the Globe

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:19:59 +0000

Earlier this year, members of the News Enlightenment Initiative (NEI-Germany) and Project Censored partnered to recruit an international jury of news professionals and media scholars to identify and highlight “News Neglect, Censorship, and Agenda Cutting Around the Globe.” In June, we unveiled our top selected international stories at the Deutsche…

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Military Personnel Using Lurid Social Media Tactics to Target Gen Z Recruits

Vins — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:33:21 +0000

An investigation by Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer at MintPress News, shows how the US military is using young women to lure Gen Z recruits into service through sexually suggestive content on social media. One of the main influencers highlighted is Hailey Lujan, who posts videos in “true Gen-Z style”…

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Israeli Occupation Forces Attack Hospital, Kill Palestinian Civilians in Jenin

Vins — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:31:20 +0000

On July 3-4, 2023, Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) launched an attack on the Jenin refugee camp in Israeli-occupied Palestine. The IOF did not attack on their own, they were aided by United States’ weapons and support, according to a report by Marjorie Cohn for Truthout. Cohn described the attack as…

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Israel-Linked Group Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestinian Artists on Spotify

Vins — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:21:52 +0000

“We Believe in Israel,” an offshoot of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM) in the UK, is trying to censor Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists on the popular music-streaming service, Spotify. In an article published by MintPress News, senior staff writer Alan MacLeod revealed that the group is lobbying…

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Unregulated PFAS Harming Native American Community in Michigan

Vins — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 22:17:56 +0000

Cancer is rampant among members of the Odawa Nation, with strong evidence that PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” which have polluted groundwater throughout the state of Michigan, are a major contributing factor, Frances Madeson reported for The Real News Network in May 2023. The effects of PFAS contamination on local water…

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How Swedish Love for the US Turned Deadly

Project Censored — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:19:31 +0000

Generally speaking, Swedes really love the US. And I don’t just mean, oh we love the Brad Pitt movies and the whimsical images of Sunset Blvd (which by the way is way less whimsical in real life). No, I mean that Swedes really love the whole propagandized packaged-with-a-bloody-bow-on-top United States.…

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Project Censored Newsletter July 2023

Project Censored — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 00:30:04 +0000

2023 Skipping Stones Book Award for The Media and Me The Media and Me has been recognized by Skipping Stones Magazine as one of its 28 Honored Books for 2023. Skipping Stones, an international magazine for young readers, established in 1988, celebrates cultural and ecological diversity; its annual book awards highlight titles that “foster respect for multiple viewpoints…

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Historian Peter Kuznick’s Take on Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” Movie & The Unaddressed Impact of Dropping the Atomic Bomb / Unveiling the Catastrophic Truth: the Harsh Realities of “Limited” Nuclear War

Project Censored — Mon, 31 Jul 2023 23:34:16 +0000

Historian Peter Kuznick joins Mickey to discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie “Oppenheimer.” While his overall evaluation is positive, Kuznick notes that the movie fails to address the crucial fact that there was no military need to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Kuznick also reminds listeners that had Henry…

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Police Accountability / Global Women for Peace United Against NATO Conference

Project Censored — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 22:47:21 +0000

On this week’s Project Censored Show: In the first half of the program, host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis. They talk about police accountability – or the lack thereof. From widespread corruption and theft to oppression and murder, police exist to sustain and protect…

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Mandatory Media Literacy Education Could Be Coming to California Schools Soon

Project Censored — Wed, 19 Jul 2023 02:18:58 +0000

By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff California is currently considering two media literacy bills, both of which have sailed through the California State Assembly and are being reviewed by the Senate Education Committee. The first, Assembly Bill 873, authored by Assemblymember Marc Berman, D-Menlo Park, requires teaching media literacy in…

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Attorneys General in Five States Choose Fossil Fuel Money Over Constituents

Vins — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 23:37:04 +0000

Attorneys general (AGs) for five US states are protecting fossil fuel companies rather than the public interest, according to a March 2023 report by Elliott Negin for the Equation, a publication of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Each of the states—Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas—have sustained billions of…

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The Importance of Independent Media and Critical Media Literacy Education in a Democratic Society

Project Censored — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 21:53:50 +0000

Raza Rumi, director of the Park Institute for Independent Media at Ithaca College in NY, joins Mickey for a wide-ranging conversation about the importance of non-corporate media and media literacy. Rumi notes that in most of the important social movements in US history, journalists played important roles within the movements,…

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The Colonial Origins of the Concept of “Whiteness” / How Bisexuality is Treated Within Native Communities

Project Censored — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 20:22:53 +0000

In light of the recent Fourth-of-July holiday, Eleanor’s first guest – historian Gerald Horne – shares his analysis of a likely motive for independence on the part of colonial America’s white elite: the desire to preserve slavery in the colonies, despite the rise of abolitionism in Britain. He also looks…

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The so-called “War on Terror” Featuring Norman Solomon / Lee Camp Discusses His Book “Dangerous Ideas”

Project Censored — Tue, 04 Jul 2023 04:43:34 +0000

On the latest Project Censored Show, Mickey talks with independent journalist and author Norman Solomon about his new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military Machine. They discuss the great costs of the so-called War on Terror after two decades and how little most Americans…

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EARN IT Still Ignores Privacy, Censorship Concerns

Project Censored — Fri, 30 Jun 2023 04:13:22 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl and avram anderson Dangerous pieces of legislation have been introduced at the federal and state levels under the guise of protecting children online from exploitation and other online harms. Despite their claimed intent, these bills will make children, and everyone who uses the internet, less safe. The…

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Burying Information Down Under

Project Censored — Tue, 27 Jun 2023 18:00:59 +0000

By guest writer Brian Martin Timor-Leste is a tiny nation just to the north of Australia, also known as East Timor. In 2004, its newly independent government began negotiations with the Australian government over oil and gas in an offshore field between the two countries. To gain an upper hand…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2023

Project Censored — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 22:51:43 +0000

Media and Me Adopted for Teacher Education in One of Nation’s Largest Public School Districts Earlier this month, Project Censored celebrated the shipment of 15,000 copies of The Media and Me: A Guide to Critical Media Literacy for Young People to one of the largest public school districts in the country. The district…

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The US’ Illegal War on Venezuela / Is Free Press Officially Dead Now?

Project Censored — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 21:23:59 +0000

On this Project Censored Show Eleanor Goldfield interviews Venezuelan political analyst Leonardo Flores, who gives updates on the ongoing illegal imprisonment of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab by the United States. His crime? Seeking food and medicine for the Venezuelan people struggling under US sanctions. Flores also shares insight on these…

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Latest Developments in the Julian Assange Extradition Case / Honoring the Late Daniel Ellsberg and His Work

Project Censored — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 23:52:37 +0000

Kevin Gosztola returns to Project Censored to explain the latest developments in the Julian Assange extradition case, including the recent ruling from the UK’s High Court of Justice. He also comments on the Espionage Act charges brought against former president Donald Trump. Then, to honor the June 16 passing of…

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Exposing International News Neglect, Censorship, and Agenda Cutting

Project Censored — Mon, 19 Jun 2023 12:00:05 +0000

The Top 5 Most Important but Under-Reported News Stories of 2022-2023, as Selected by an International Jury A Joint Endeavor of the News Enlightenment Initiative and Project Censored June 19, 2023 Disinformation is global in scope and the influence of information networks crosses international boundaries. Therefore, the fight against censorship…

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On Civil Courage and Its Punishments

Project Censored — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:57:53 +0000

By Daniel Ellsberg Editor’s Note: The late Daniel Ellsberg’s article, “On Civil Courage and its Punishments,” was originally published in Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times, edited by Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth, and Project Censored (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013), 208-13. The article was based in part…

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Texas Book Ban Bills Set a Dangerous Precedent for the Narratives of Young People in Education

Project Censored — Thu, 15 Jun 2023 01:34:36 +0000

By Cameron Samuels | Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics Amid an unprecedented wave of censorship, many of our state legislators have left no mercy for LGBTQ+ Texans. Censorious legislation like House Bill 900 and Senate Bill 13 attempt to relate queer identity with sexual…

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E-girls and Truth in Military Recruitment plus Gun Violence and the Intersections of Patriarchy and Capitalism in the US

Project Censored — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 21:26:46 +0000

On this Project Censored Show Mickey and former Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer for MintPress News. He’s just written about a new phenomenon in US military recruitment: social media posts from “e-girls,” designed to catch the attention of young recruits. Also joining the…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2023

Project Censored — Mon, 05 Jun 2023 21:59:12 +0000

May Is Book Writing Month at Project Censored November may be National Novel Writing Month, but as the school year ends and summer beckons, we’ve been working energetically on the Project’s next book, State of the Free Press 2024. With cover art by Anson Stevens-Bollen, a foreword by Alan MacLeod of MintPress News, and…

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The End of Community College?

Project Censored — Wed, 31 May 2023 18:43:03 +0000

By Adam Bessie, Author of Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey (with Peter Glanting, The Censored Press/Seven Stories Press). On Friday, March 13, 2020 the community college system as we knew it ended – and I’m not sure it will ever return. And just maybe, that’s a good thing. The day…

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Censorship and Book Banning in Texas…and Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey

Project Censored — Mon, 29 May 2023 19:58:37 +0000

In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey speaks with three students campaigning against censorship in Texas, including Banned Books Week’s Youth Honorary Chair, Cameron Samuels. They’re associated with a group called SEAT (Students Engaged in Advancing Texas) and give updates on recent developments there aimed at more book…

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Trans Rights Activist Morgan Artyukhina, and Community Organizer Kamau Franklin

Project Censored — Mon, 29 May 2023 17:50:16 +0000

On this week’s Project Censored show, Eleanor speaks with journalist and activist Morgan Artyukhina for a powerful and vital analysis of the vicious attack on trans rights. Morgan highlights how trans existence is resistance – to the patriarchal capitalist system, and why that necessitates such an extreme backlash from the…

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April Newsletter 2023

Project Censored — Mon, 22 May 2023 21:01:24 +0000

220 Students Participate in Project’s 2022-23 Campus Affiliates Program As we prepare the April newsletter for distribution, the Project’s international panel of esteemed judges is beginning to review the Validated Independent News stories received and vetted by the Project in 2022-2023. Students participating in the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program identify, vet, and…

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Demanding Accountability From Chevron with Steven Donziger and the Struggle of Frontline Community Journalists with Matilda Bliss and Veronica Coit

Project Censored — Mon, 08 May 2023 20:50:42 +0000

On this week’s Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield recently spoke attorney Steven Donziger – the man caught in the crosshairs of one of the largest corporations in the world, Chevron – to discuss updates in his ongoing struggle to demand accountability for the people of the Amazon in Ecuador, and…

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National Security State Propaganda, the Fourth Estate’s Deadly Follies, and Why We Need a Truly Independent Press in Support of Human Rights and Freedom of Expression as we Celebrate Press Freedom Day

Project Censored — Tue, 02 May 2023 02:10:18 +0000

Program Summary: In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey and Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with investigative reporter Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. MacLeod explains that a number of former high-ranking US military and security officials are now executives or board members in the video-game industry, notably…

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“Journalism is Not a Crime”

Project Censored — Tue, 02 May 2023 01:57:50 +0000

By Mickey Huff May 3rd marks the 30th anniversary of Press Freedom Day, inaugurated in 1993 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with support from the United Nations (UNESCO). RSF’s original 1991 report provided a “round-up of journalists killed throughout the world” and laid the groundwork for what eventually became the…

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Celebrating Daniel Ellsberg Week: A Special Episode of the Project Censored Show with Kevin Gosztola and Daniel Ellsberg

Project Censored — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 21:11:25 +0000

On the latest program, we celebrate Daniel Ellsberg Week (April 24-30), co-sponsored by The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy & and RootsAction Education Fund, as we honor whistleblowers in support of a truly free press from Dan Ellsberg to Julian Assange. First, Mickey talks with journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of…

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Not Shooting Straight: Corporate Media Gives Mass Shootings Blanket Coverage, While Missing Community-Level Gun Violence

Project Censored — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 20:05:13 +0000

Special thanks to Project Censored’s Summer 2022 intern Sam Peacock for helping with data collection and analysis. Corporate news coverage of US gun violence skews heavily toward mass shootings. The establishment press almost never reports on community-level gun violence, defined by Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Violence Solutions as incidents…

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The Lifeblood of Democracy

Project Censored — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:20:05 +0000

By Andy Lee Roth Two cornerstones of democracy—freedom of expression and freedom of information—are under concerted attack, in the United States and around the world. In the US, for example, reactionary elected officials seek to ban books in schools, often in the name of protecting children; and government agencies, including…

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Media Matters: Polarization and Propaganda; and Medicare and Ongoing Privatization of Healthcare in the US

Project Censored — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 21:47:28 +0000

Mickey hosts the first segment of the show. His guest Kenn Burrows describes an upcoming conference “From Polarization to Integration,” to be held April 21 on the San Francisco State University campus. The event will address strategies for overcoming issues of censorship around important but controversial matters. Also joining Mickey…

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Roughly 90% of Rainforest Carbon Offsets Certified by Biggest Provider Are “Worthless,” Study Finds

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:55:43 +0000

About ninety percent of rainforest carbon offsets certified by Verra, the world’s largest offset certifier, do not reflect real reductions in emissions, according to a report produced jointly by the Guardian, Source Material, and Die Zeit in January 2023, with subsequent coverage from Truthout. Verra, which runs the Verified Carbon…

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Debt Crisis Looms for World’s Poorest Nations

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:54:09 +0000

The world’s poorest countries will pay 35 percent more in debt interest bills this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a dramatic increase in food import prices, as reported by the World Bank. Between 75 countries, most of which as sub-Saharan African nations, will spend roughly $78 billion to…

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Antibiotics Found in Fast Food Meat Create Massive Public Health Concern

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:53:17 +0000

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian published a collaborative investigation on November 21, 2022, exposing major fast food companies for their use of beef suppliers that employ antibiotics linked to the spread of dangerous superbugs. Superbugs are strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. These beef suppliers…

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Universities Invoking Title IX to Stifle Journalists

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:52:18 +0000

In the half-century since it became federal law, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 has generated countless headlines revolving around campus gender equity, mostly in sports. However, very few establishment news media have reported on one misuse of the law: Colleges and universities are now invoking Title IX…

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Correlation Found Between Childhood Leukemia and Proximity to Fracking Sites

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:51:06 +0000

A Yale University study published in August 2022 on DeSmog indicates that there is a two to three times increased likelihood for children ages 2-7 to develop acute lymphoblastic leukemia when residing in areas bordering fracking sites in Pennsylvania. The research discovered that those children who lived near fracking locations…

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Corporate Media’s Evasion of Wuhan Lab Allegations

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:47:11 +0000

During the past two years, the American government and other popular news outlets have come under increased scrutiny for a potential act of censorship following the publication of a leak that claims the COVID-19 virus originated not in nature but instead in a lab in Wuhan, China. Ted Galen Carpenter,…

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War in Ukraine Contributing to Spike in Domestic Violence

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:42:23 +0000

In June 2022, domestic violence was officially considered a crime in Ukraine, but the war in Ukraine has stunted access to support and resources for abuse victims. According to WhoWhatWhy, there is a stigma surrounding the topic of abuse that has only gotten worse through the war, preventing victims from…

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Twitter Files Reveal How Government Pressured Social Media Platform to Suppress Alternative Views

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:39:32 +0000

The “Twitter Files” disclose how US government agencies pressured Twitter’s content moderation practices over the last few years, resulting in widespread censorship of COVID-19 topics and activists, the banning of selected political voices, support of covert government operations, and more. Significant questions are now being raised about Twitter’s handling of…

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Aerospace Firm TransDigm Sued for Firing Whistleblower

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:36:08 +0000

Phyllis Santistevan-Sullivan, a former vice president of finance at TransDigm, filed a lawsuit against the aerospace and defense company in February 2023 for firing her when she called out accounting irregularities. According to David Dayen, writing in the American Prospect, TransDigm was accused by Santistevan-Sullivan of adjusting sales numbers and…

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What Sweden Got Right About COVID

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:32:11 +0000

While most countries dealt with the COVID pandemic by mandating strict regulations to minimize the spread of the virus, Sweden chose a different approach. Its response emphasized the development of natural (post-infection) immunity in an open society. The nation’s public health officials refused strict lockdowns, kept the country’s businesses and…

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Correlation Between Suicide Rates and Domestic Violence in Western Australia

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:27:19 +0000

In December 2022, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News reported on a recent study by the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing that revealed an “alarming link between family violence and suicide” in Western Australia. The research was conducted by Ombudsman Chris Field and showed more than half of all West…

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Law Enforcement Can Use Stalkerware Data to Incriminate People Violating Abortion Bans

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:25:05 +0000

Over the past year, “stalkerware” has become a significant threat to people seeking abortions, according to an article published by Slate in July 2022. According to author Danielle Keats Citron, anyone who has a cyberstalking app can access anything on another person’s phone so long as they have the companion…

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Rural Students Are Suffering Without the Specialized Help of Teachers

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:20:26 +0000

Rural students are suffering as a result of an ongoing teacher shortage, preventing them from getting the education and advice they need to succeed in higher education and beyond. In September of 2022, the Hechinger Report highlighted how rural areas, like Campo, Colorado, struggled to provide students with the education…

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Deadly Rock to Head in Burkina Faso Interrupts Long Media Silence

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:15:20 +0000

In February 2023, an 83-second video surfaced online of a teen boy in Burkina Faso being murdered by men in military fatigues. One man is seen bashing the boy’s head with a rock in what seems to be a military compound, with six apparently dead bodies also in view. Very…

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New Privacy Law Threatens Freedom of Speech Online

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:12:19 +0000

Last December, President Biden signed a bill into law that allows federal judges to extrajudicially censor information on the internet, according to a recent article by the Freedom of the Press Foundation. The bill, named the Daniel Anderl Judicial Security and Privacy Act, has already allowed over 1,000 judges to…

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United States Juvenile Prison Populations Reach All-Time Lows

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:09:55 +0000

Juvenile prisons hold the lowest populations of incarcerated children ever, as of 2020. Juvenile incarcerations declined “as juvenile arrests have also dropped for most crimes except murder,” as reported by the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange on January 10, 2023. This comes at the same time as the media is exposing…

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More Than 160 Million Women Worldwide Lack Access to Contraception

Vins — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 16:07:01 +0000

Globally, more than 160 million women are unable to access contraception, according to a July 2022 article by the Guardian that cited the largest study of its kind. Of that number, roughly half live in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, according to the Global Burden of Diseases study based at…

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Anti-Asian Racism in the United States Takes Drastic Toll on Economy

Vins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 16:01:02 +0000

According to a March 2023 report in Sampan, anti-Asian violence in the United States has not only taken an emotional and physical toll on the Asian-American community: it has had an economic impact as well. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Asian community has suffered xenophobia and hate…

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UN Recognition of Nakba Day Exposes Israeli Historical Revisionism

Vins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:57:06 +0000

On November 30, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) officially declared May 15, 2023, as “Nakba Day,” the Palestine Chronicle reported in December 2022. As the largest democratic institution in the world, the United Nations’ recognition of Nakba Day undercuts repeated attempts by Israel to erase the history of…

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Outdated HIV Criminalization Laws Targeting People of Color and Sex Workers

Vins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:55:37 +0000

Since their development in the 1980s, HIV criminalization laws in the United States have not evolved to keep up with scientific advances that treat AIDS/HIV. Black people and women are disproportionately affected by these statutes compared to white men, according to UCLA’s Williams Institute, which studies sexual orientation, gender identity,…

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Poaching and Mining Further Endanger Namibian Rhino Populations

Vins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:53:56 +0000

Namibia’s environmental minister has approved a plan for mining that will pose a threat to the endangered black rhino, according to a March 2023 article in Mongabay. The activity of the mine has caused the local population of black rhinos to begin migrating, which is not only causing a decrease…

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Hong Kong Trans-Rights Activist Wins Landmark Case, Still Fighting for Change

Vins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:51:44 +0000

In February 2023, Pink News published an article about Henry Edward Tse’s historic legal victory in Hong Kong, which declared that trans people should be able to have their genders put on their ID cards without gender-affirming surgery; still, he and the rest of the trans community in Hong Kong…

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Hawaii Quietly Abandoned Its 30×30 Conservation Plan to Prevent Biodiversity Loss

Vins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:48:41 +0000

Hawaii resource officials abandoned the 30×30 conservation goal in January 2023. Marcel Honore’s February 2023 article, “Hawaii’s Innovative Plan To Manage Marine Resources Is Being Quietly Rolled Back,” reported on the decision, which was not publicly announced, for the Honolulu Civil Beat. Hawaii’s Holomua Marine 30×30 initiative, first announced in…

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Total Energies Displaces Local Congolese Farmers in Effort to Combat Carbon Emissions

Vins — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 15:45:59 +0000

A French petroleum company has displaced over 400 Congolese farmers as part of a move to “reforest” 40,000 hectares of land in the Lefini land reserve of the Batéké savannah, according to a December 2022 report by SourceMaterial. SourceMaterial and Mediapart, both local investigative journalism outlets, interviewed local farmers who…

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The State of Our So-Called Free Press: A Panel Discussion from St. Mary’s College

Project Censored — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 21:47:14 +0000

On this week’s program, we hear an array of ideas about the condition of American journalism and the state of our so-called free press: red flags about the decline of local reporting and news deserts, and the rise in censorship by Big Tech, but also encouraging signs in the growth…

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BLS Data Underscores Racial and Regional Diversity in 2022 Union Growth

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:06:24 +0000

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recorded a substantial rise of 200,000 unionized workers in the United States from 2021 to 2022, of which almost all included workers of color, the New Republic reported in March 2023. According to BLS, unionized workers of color increased by 231,000 last year, while…

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Amid Acute Provider Shortage, Teens Can Help Teens with Mental-Health Struggles

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 18:03:14 +0000

The relatively few students and educators around the United States who know about it are praising a new remedy for the mental health crisis. Peer-reviewed studies show Teen Mental Health First Aid training helps students educate teens not only on how to help themselves but on how to help their…

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Black Americans Seven Times More Likely Than Whites to Be Wrongfully Convicted of Serious Crimes

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:49:49 +0000

Black Americans are seven times more likely than Whites to be wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual crimes, and drug crimes, according to a September 2022 report by the National Registry of Exonerations, as reported on by Reuters, Essence, and The Innocence Project. This report analyzed 3,200 exonerations for the above…

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Media Silence as Biden’s ‘Gag Order’ Censors Federal Scientists

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:46:51 +0000

The Biden administration implemented a “gag order” in January 2023 that restrains federal scientists from addressing controversial research topics to the public, the Guardian reported in February 2023. The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) unveiled a rule requiring scientists to receive approval before publishing opinions and…

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Documents Prove Call of Duty Video Game Franchise Is “Military Propaganda”

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:44:11 +0000

According to a MintPress News article by Alan MacLeod, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has partnered with the makers of the Call of Duty video game to create military propaganda to further the interests of the US empire. Documents obtained by journalist and researcher Tom Secker using the…

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Unlocking the Threats to Privacy Posed by “Smart Locks”

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:39:06 +0000

Tenants across the United States are being harassed by landlords with “smart locks” installed without the renters’ consent, and very little is being done about it. According to Mario Trujillo and Adam Schwartz of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, New York City is one of the only jurisdictions to pass a…

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Fossil-Fuel Money Skews University Climate and Energy Research

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:36:28 +0000

Big Oil has been donating millions of dollars to US universities for climate and energy research projects. Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, and MIT are some of the universities that have been called out for accepting money from Big Oil. In fact, Tim Barckholtz, ExxonMobil’s scientific adviser, not only had office space…

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Mississippi Legislature Would Give Capital’s White Residents Their Own Special District

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:34:27 +0000

In February 2023, the Mississippi House passed Bill 1020, which would create a majority-White district within the predominantly Black capital city of Jackson. State Representative Trey Lamar, the new district’s chief proponent, claims the bill will lower crime; critics describe it as modern Jim Crow law. The new district’s officials…

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Urban Bias in Weather Forecasting Results in Disaster for Rural Kentucky

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:30:44 +0000

As soon as 2024, Kentucky residents may have access to applications such as the “Rapid Refresh Forecast System” and the “New United Forecast System” as a response to shortcomings in Kentucky’s existing weather forecasting system, which has failed to predict natural disasters in rural parts of the state on multiple…

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No Freedom, No Rights: The Impacts on Incarcerated Women of Overturning Roe v. Wade

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:25:56 +0000

The Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has placed pregnant incarcerated women in an extremely vulnerable position. In some states, they will be obligated to carry pregnancies to term while denied prenatal and medical care, The Appeal and Mother Jones reported. According…

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Derailment Furor Ignores Corporate Malfeasance, Alarming Frequency of Spills

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:23:59 +0000

Government officials told residents of East Palestine, Ohio, that it was safe to remain in their homes after the February 3, 2023, train derailment and fire that spilled toxic chemicals in their town. The decision was made based on results not from independent testers but from a firm hired by…

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Friend or Foe?: No Corporate Coverage of “Friend Hazing”

Vins — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 17:09:43 +0000

While popular conceptions of hazing involve brutal rites of passage to join fraternities and other social organizations, the new digital trend is “friend hazing,” in which adolescents are victimized without warning by peers they thought were their friends, apparently only for sadistic enjoyment and online notoriety. On March 16, 2023,…

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No Turning Back

Project Censored — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 22:12:12 +0000

By Nolan Higdon NOTE: The following article is another installment in our long-form Dispatches series. It is a detailed examination of establishment media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. It critiques the missteps, censorship, and establishment propaganda that often passed for real investigative journalism during a crisis when the American public…

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Challenging State Laws That Criminalize HIV

Vins — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:58:08 +0000

In December 2022, the Guardian reported that 33 states in the US maintain laws that criminalize HIV exposure or transmission, “many developed long before the illness was understood.” These laws “fail to take into account,” Amelia Abraham reported, that therapeutic medications have dramatically reduced the risk of infection. Nevertheless, in…

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Test-Optional College Admissions Policies Aren’t Necessarily Increasing Student Diversity on Campuses

Vins — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:53:33 +0000

Many US colleges have made the SAT and ACT tests optional elements in the application process in order to increase student diversity on campus, but doing so has not necessarily had the intended effect, Jill Barshay reported for The Hechinger Report in October 2022. Barshay’s article cited the findings of…

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Climate Disasters Force Children in Bangladesh from School to Work

Vins — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 23:51:26 +0000

Extreme weather in low-lying Bangladesh is leading to “worsening flooding, erosion and storms” that are forcing “thousands of families” from their rural homes into urban slums, Mosabber Hossain reported in May 2022 for Context, a news platform produced by the Thomas Reuters Foundation. For many of these children, Hossain wrote,…

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New Jersey Corrections Ombud Investigates Charges That Guards Organized Prisoner “Fight Club”

Vins — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:55:27 +0000

Staff in a New Jersey prison have encouraged inmates to physically fight each other, according to complaints and allegations reported by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg in a February 2023 article published by the Appeal. The New Jersey Office of the Corrections Ombudsperson, which provides oversight of prisons to protect incarcerated peoples’ safety,…

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Incarcerated Deaf Community Finds New Lifeline

Vins — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:51:13 +0000

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that, starting in January 2024, prison phone companies will be required to provide phone services with video, a major step forward for the incarcerated deaf community, Christie Thompson reported for the Marshall Project and Mother Jones. Consequently, deaf people in custody will have dramatically…

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Bowling Green Whistleblower on Koch Influence in Faculty Hiring Faces Dismissal

Vins — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:48:24 +0000

On March 20, 2023, John K. Wilson of Academe Blog reported on the controversy surrounding a Bowling Green State University faculty member’s emails alleging misconduct in past hiring decisions. Associate Professor of Philosophy Christian Coons was suspended after sending emails to his colleagues about the possibility that money from the…

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Tufts Students Urge University to Address Campus Housing Crisis Driven by Over-Enrollment

Vins — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 16:45:50 +0000

In a September 2022 article for the Tufts Daily, Liz Shelbred detailed the frustration of students as a result of makeshift living accommodations due to over-enrollment. For most college students, on-campus housing typically consists of a two-person dormitory room, furnished with standard desks, wardrobes, and beds. However, in recent years,…

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Resistance to Neoliberalism in France and the Political Economy of the US Empire in Decline

Project Censored — Mon, 03 Apr 2023 20:17:21 +0000

Eleanor Goldfield hosts the program this week— Across France, millions of people are taking to the streets and blocking them in a rapidly escalating show of defiance and disdain for President Macron and his oppressive neoliberal policies. Kim, an organizer from Rennes in France, joins the show to talk about…

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How The New York Times Sat on a Story Daniel Ellsberg Gave Them

Project Censored — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 01:44:10 +0000

By Kevin Gosztola In 2021, Pentagon Papers’ whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg shared a copy of a top-secret study with New York Times reporter Charlie Savage on the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958. It was presented by the newspaper as “another unauthorized disclosure” by the “famed source.” The study from 1966 showed…

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Bogus Copyright Complaints Throttle Investigative Journalism

Vins — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:31:36 +0000

Enemies of press and speech freedoms have concocted a new method for fighting truth though exploitation of US copyright law. According to an original report by the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP), and substantiated by the BBC, at least five articles critical of powerful oil lobbyists have been…

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Inflation Relief for Defense Industry a “Terrible Setback for Transparent Policymaking”

Vins — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 21:27:58 +0000

In a time of unprecedented economic hardship, lawmakers tacked a last-minute provision on the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to shield the nation’s multi-billion dollar defense industry from the effects of inflation. As Julia Gledhill reported for Responsible Statecraft in March 2023, the modification to the annual defense policy…

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The US Addiction to War and Militarism Continues 20 Years after the Illegal Invasion of Iraq

Project Censored — Mon, 27 Mar 2023 18:55:47 +0000

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program, and in her first segment, she speaks with the Program Director of the National Priorities Project, Lindsay Koshgarian. They examine the Biden Administration’s proposed Pentagon budget, which — at $886 billion — would set a new record for annual military spending while the US…

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Entire Tribal Towns Forced to Relocate Due to Climate Crisis

Vins — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 16:43:06 +0000

Coastal habitats in most northern states lose up to seventy feet of their land annually due to erosion caused by climate change, forcing entire Indigenous communities to relocate. The Biden administration paid the first three villages in Alaska and Washington $25 million to move their key buildings away from the…

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Study Exposes Electric Utilities’ Climate Misinformation Campaigns

Vins — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:56:17 +0000

Electric utility companies have been knowingly spreading misinformation about climate change for decades, Grist reported in September 2022, based on a report published that month in Environmental Research Letters. Utility companies, research groups, and trade associations, including the Edison Electric Institute and the Electric Power Research Institute, have been aware…

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Glitchy ICE App Jeopardizes Immigrants, Raises Privacy Concerns

Vins — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 21:50:53 +0000

Nearly 250,000 immigrants awaiting their court hearings have been forced to download an app by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of its Alternative to Detention (ATD) program. The agency has pitched the app, SmartLINK, as a more humane method than other ATD tools, such as shackles, ankle monitors,…

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Prospects of a US Led Peace Movement in Ukraine and Looking Back at The US War in Iraq 20 Years Later

Project Censored — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 01:25:05 +0000

Over the weekend, demonstrations took place in several US cities to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and to demand that the US and NATO stop escalating the Russia-Ukraine war. On this week’s Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey Huff discuss both those conflicts.…

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Seymour Hersh Alleges US Role in Nord Stream Pipeline Blast

Vins — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 18:19:27 +0000

The United States and its Norwegian allies are responsible for attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline, according to a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, published in February 2023 on his Substack. Hersh’s unnamed sources claim the US Navy used an annual training exercise known as BALTOPS 22 as…

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March 2023 Newsletter

Project Censored — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 20:13:01 +0000

Kevin Gosztola’s Guilty of Journalism Published On March 7th, the Censored Press celebrated the publication of Kevin Gosztola’s Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange. You can listen to Gosztola’s book launch conversation with Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, guest hosted by Mickey Huff, at The Dissenter, and you can watch Mickey’s interview with Kevin…

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“Cyber Misogyny” on the Rise During COVID-19 Pandemic

Vins — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 19:41:14 +0000

Gender-based violence escalated during the pandemic, which also forced many people to rely on online communication platforms such as Zoom, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Twitter. Unfortunately, the increased reliance on online platforms “provides abusers with a new avenue” to engage in harassment, stalking, and other forms of abuse, Suzie Dunn reported…

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New College Textbooks Include Less About Climate Change Than in Previous Editions

Vins — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:22:28 +0000

North Carolina State University researchers have found that current editions of college textbooks provide less coverage of the climate crisis than previous editions did. The study found that biology textbooks describe the issue in fewer sentences and push the subject further back in the order of the books’ chapters than…

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Feral Hogs Threaten Agriculture and Human Health

Vins — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 17:15:15 +0000

An alarming increase in the population of invasive feral hogs is contributing to the spread of deadly diseases and the destruction of crops and endangered animal species, National Geographic reported in February 2023. According to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA), feral hogs have been reported in at least 35…

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The Importance of Independent Media when Reporting on Global Issues From Palestine to East Africa

Project Censored — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 22:37:33 +0000

Mickey‘s guest for the first half-hour is Mnar Adley, CEO and editor-in-chief of MintPress News. She explains Israel’s everyday brutality against Palestinians and how most Western media fail to cover it. She also points out the powerful interests that aim to discredit and defund independent media like MintPress for their…

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Corporate Profits Hit $2 Trillion Dollar All-Time High

Vins — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 22:42:56 +0000

Non-financial corporate profits in the United States hit a record high during the second quarter of 2022, amounting to two trillion dollars according to an August 2022 article by Jake Johnson for Common Dreams. These profits are up 8.1 percent from the same period in 2021, and 6.1 percent from…

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Journalistic Malpractice on Trial: What the Dominion Voting System Tells Us About How the Media Sacrificed their Credibility to Partisan Falsehoods

Project Censored — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 01:05:49 +0000

By Nolan Higdon “This is direct evidence of knowing falsity” exclaimed RonNell Anderson Jones, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, in a February 2023 interview with Jon Stewart. Jones noted that in most defamation cases “the likelihood that you will find evidence of them [news outlets] saying, ‘We…

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Analyzing Current Events Through a Critical Media Literacy Lens: Don Lemon’s Sexism/Ageism at CNN, the Sackler Dynasty, Russiagate Propaganda, and More

Project Censored — Tue, 07 Mar 2023 00:52:13 +0000

On this week’s program, two critical media literacy scholars join Mickey to examine a range of current events. First, Allison Butler addresses the notorious “past her prime” comments by CNN’s Don Lemon, his non-apology apology, and level of sexism and ageism in news media. Butler also discusses the book, Empire…

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Is Your Teacher Spying on You?

Project Censored — Thu, 02 Mar 2023 21:52:11 +0000

ATTN: TEENS—Stop Your Teacher (and Silicon Valley) from Spying on You In this bonus “Dispatches from Project Censored,” Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon, two of the most acclaimed media literacy educators working today, offer no-nonsense tips for teens to protect themselves against surveillance. As technology floods into the classroom, teens often fall prey to invisible…

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Community Control Over Policing and the Crises in Peru

Project Censored — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 20:40:21 +0000

As we come to the end of Black History Month, Eleanor Goldfield recently talked with Pan-African theorist, organizer, and author Max Rameau about community control over policing – that’s not community policing. He highlights the importance of shifting power vs reforming institutions, organizing to take power, not ask for it,…

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From Russiagate with Love: Corporate Media Spin and Revisionist Reporting on Russia’s Alleged Meddling in the 2016 Election Continue

Project Censored — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 04:56:41 +0000

By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff A January 2023 publication from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) spawned the latest round of spin and shifting baselines from Russiagate apologists. Russiagate refers to the claims that Russia meddled in and influenced the outcome of the U.S. election in 2016, had direct connections…

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Guilty of Journalism: New Documentary Film Ithaka and New Book on the Political Case Against Julian Assange

Project Censored — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 23:08:00 +0000

This week’s program focuses on the ongoing case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In the first half of the program, Mickey speaks with Gabriel and John Shipton, brother and father of Assange, about the forthcoming documentary, “Ithaka.” This film approaches the Assange case from the perspective of family members trying…

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The February 2023 Newsletter

Project Censored — Mon, 20 Feb 2023 19:08:44 +0000

Censored Press Authors Making Waves Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, spoke at the fourth sitting of the Belmarsh Tribunal, in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2023. Gosztola joined Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, Noam Chomsky, and other luminary members of the Tribunal in pursuing what Democracy Now!’s Amy…

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Censored Déjà Vu: Corporate Media’s Ongoing Failure to Cover Key Issues around Food Safety, Birthing, and Breastfeeding & Dark Money’s Pernicious Influence on Political Culture

Project Censored — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 20:45:58 +0000

In the first half of the program, Shealeigh Voitl and Steve Macek look at how corporate-media coverage has failed over the course of years to adequately inform the public of corporate interference in matters of environment and human health in a segment dedicated to Project Censored’s Déjà Vu news research.…

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Big Tech Hires Hundreds of Ex-Israeli Spies

Vins — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:18:45 +0000

In October 2022, Alan MacLeod of MintPress News reported that hundreds of former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spies have obtained high-standing positions at the world’s biggest tech companies, including Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon. Many of the new hires once belonged to Unit 8200, the largest and most coveted IDF…

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Toxic Chemicals Continue to Go Unregulated in the US

Vins — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:12:41 +0000

According to a December 2022 article from ProPublica, the United States is failing to ban and regulate harmful chemicals. Journalists Neil Bedi, Sharon Lerner, and Kathleen McGory explain how the underfunded Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the too-powerful chemical industry are responsible for countless cases of harmful chemical exposure. The…

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Elon Musk Aids US Regime-Change Efforts in Iran

Vins — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:07:33 +0000

In a January 2023 article for MintPress News, Alan MacLeod highlights Elon Musk’s plans to support and aid in US regime-change efforts in Iran. The January 17 article discusses Musk’s attempt to have hundreds of Starlink devices smuggled into the region to “take action” against internet censorship in Tehran. However,…

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New York’s Incarcerated Population Forced To Work Dangerous Jobs For “Slave” Wages During COVID-19 Pandemic

Vins — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:04:08 +0000

According to recent reports from the Intercept’s Akela Lacy, much of New York’s incarcerated population was forced to endure dangerous, slave-like working conditions throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to early reports of prisoners manufacturing coffins and hand sanitizer, newer documents reveal that incarcerated people were forced to perform other,…

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New Leaks Reveal DHS’s Plans to Regulate Disinformation Online

Vins — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 21:01:13 +0000

A series of web leaks have exposed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) plans to expand its commitments to censor “dangerous” speech online. According to an October 31 report from the Intercept, DHS has announced a new “Disinformation Governance Board.” According to the article, the panel’s goals are to police “misinformation (false…

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Beyond Prior Restraint: Censorship by Proxy and the New Digital Gatekeeping

Project Censored — Thu, 09 Feb 2023 23:30:29 +0000

Project Censored is pleased to publish the first long-form article in our “Dispatches from Project Censored: On Media and Politics” column. Authored by Andy Lee Roth, avram anderson, and Mickey Huff, the piece draws heavily from a chapter, titled “Censorship by Proxy and Moral Panics in the Digital Age,” that…

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STFU about ChatGPT:

Project Censored — Sat, 04 Feb 2023 21:33:54 +0000

By Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler ChatGPT has sent shockwaves through higher education, creating a moral panic about the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the classroom. As critical media literacy scholars, we are not panicking, and we do not think any educator should. Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is…

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Germany’s Dirty Push for More Coal Mining and the Recent Murder of Forest Defender Manuel “Tortuguita” Teran

Project Censored — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 22:10:55 +0000

This week, Eleanor Goldfield addresses two radical frontline fights thousands of miles apart but deeply connected through their visions and struggles for a livable and just future. Eleanor sits down with Sasha Lorenz from the Lützerath Lebt movement to discuss the recent literal bulldozing of people’s lives for the sake…

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Silicon Valley’s Censorship by Proxy, State Propaganda, and the Military-Entertainment Complex

Project Censored — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:39:10 +0000

On this week’s program, Mickey welcomes back author and media critic Alan MacLeod for the hour. MacLeod describes the close ties between the major Silicon Valley technology companies and the US military/security establishment. Among the examples he cites lucrative government contracts given to some of Elon Musk’s companies (Starlink); the…

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The Professional Managerial Class Strikes Back!

Project Censored — Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:10:28 +0000

By Nolan Higdon The increasing shift to remote work in higher education has threatened the power and influence of the professional managerial class (PMC). In response, the PMC are throwing everything at the wall from baseless claims about work productivity to coercive policies to cement their power over faculty. Coined…

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“Forever Chemicals” in Rainwater a Global Threat to Human Health

Vins — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:50:58 +0000

Environmental scientists have found hazardous levels of manufactured chemicals in rainwater, leading to the dramatic conclusion that rainwater is “no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth,” according to an August 2022 report from Business Insider. Morgan McFall-Johnsen’s article reported results from a global study of four types of perfluoroalkyl…

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Deadly Decade for Environmental Activists

Vins — Tue, 24 Jan 2023 22:47:11 +0000

Independent reporting in Fall 2022 revealed that, between 2012 and 2021, at least 1733 environmental activists were killed—amounting, on average, to nearly one killing every two days. This figure, from Global Witness’ “Decade of Defiance” report, is “almost certainly an underestimate,” because “conflict, restrictions on a free press and civil…

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January 2023

Project Censored — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:25:53 +0000

Monthly Supporters Empowered Project Censored in 2022 Project Censored accomplished a lot in 2022. We published two new books, The Media and Me and State of the Free Press 2023, produced 47 original episodes of the Project Censored Show, co-hosted an international conference on critical media literacy education (the 3rd annual Critical Media Literacy Conference…

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Dr. King’s Real Legacy and the Biden Administration’s “Updates” to Immigration Policy

Project Censored — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 23:11:45 +0000

It was recently Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and some may have noticed the US empire and its racist, capitalist, and imperialist cheerleaders were also cheerleading for Dr. King. If this made you angry, confused, or just curious as to what Dr. King’s legacy actually is in the context of…

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US Law Enforcement Kill More People in 2022 Than Any Previous Year on Record

Vins — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:15:34 +0000

According to reporting in various independent news outlets during the first week of January 2023, American law enforcement personnel—primarily police and sheriff deputies—killed more people in 2022 than any preceding year on record. This reporting relies upon research by the Mapping Police Violence Project which chronicled 1,183 people killed by…

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Unions Won More Than 70 Percent of Elections in 2022

Vins — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:13:21 +0000

According to reporting by NPR in December 2022 and The Conversation in January 2023, unions won more than 70 percent of representation certification elections in 2022. In fiscal year 2022, 2,510 petitions for union representation were filed with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) between October 1, 2021 and September…

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Earnings of Top 0.1% Have Increased 465 Percent Since 1979

Vins — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:06:41 +0000

Coverage of an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report, by Common Dreams in December 2022, revealed that the earnings of the top 0.1 percent in the United States grew by 465.1 percent between 1979 and 2021. In that same time period the earnings of the bottom ninety percent grew only 28.7…

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Wall Street Bonuses have Risen 1743 Percent Since 1985

Vins — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:03:49 +0000

Reporting in Spring 2022 by Inequality.org, Reuters, and Common Dreams has revealed that the average bonus for those working in New York City’s securities industry––in other words, on Wall Street––rose 1743 percent between 1985 and 2021. The number is likely higher in 2023. Had the minimum wage increased at the…

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A Near Majority of Unhoused People Are Employed

Vins — Fri, 20 Jan 2023 21:00:26 +0000

According to a working paper by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, as reported on in the National Alliance to End Homelessness on September 2, 2022, staggering percentages of unhoused people are employed. During the study period, spanning 2011 to 2018, an estimated 53 percent…

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Promoting Falsehoods, Marginalizing Truth-Tellers

Project Censored — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 23:29:16 +0000

By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff The Washington Post’s coverage of a January 2023 study arguing that the post-2016 coverage of Russia election meddling may have been overblown, reveals a corrosive trend in legacy news media where the personalities and outlets that perpetuate inaccurate or false news are rewarded, and…

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The Importance of Whistleblowers and Independent Journalists in Free Society- Kevin Gosztola and Sam Husseini

Project Censored — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 01:06:28 +0000

Kevin Gosztola returns to the program to explain the latest developments in the Julian Assange extradition case. Although Assange remains in a UK prison, there have been political developments elsewhere in the world that may influence the outcome of the case, including in Assange’s home country, Australia. He and Mickey…

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The Case for “U.S. Out of Africa,” and the High Childbirth Mortality Rate of African American Women

Project Censored — Tue, 10 Jan 2023 00:22:36 +0000

With the U.S. having a military presence in nearly every African nation, Dr. Rose Brewer, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at the University of Minnesota and member of the Black Alliance for Peace, makes the case for “U.S. out of Africa.” Brewer faults…

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Climate Change and the Oil Industry’s Obstructionist Policies

Project Censored — Mon, 02 Jan 2023 21:44:52 +0000

The first Project Censored Show of 2023 is devoted to climate change, and the oil industry’s obstruction of policies that would seriously confront the climate crisis. The speakers on the program are former NASA scientist James Hansen, pioneering climate-change writer Bill McKibben, and Canadian environmental journalist Geoff Dembicki. They were…

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THE PROJECT CENSORED NEWSLETTER December 2022

Project Censored — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 21:39:41 +0000

Plenty of Publicity for State of the Free Press 2023 and The Media and Me December marks a first for Project Censored and its publishing imprint, the Censored Press: Not one, but two of our books drop this month, with State of the Free Press 2023 available now and The Media and Me arriving officially…

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The Twitter Takeover of Elon Musk, Declassification of More JFK Documents, and The Top 25 Most Censored Stories of the Year

Project Censored — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 20:50:09 +0000

In the first half of today’s program, Mickey speaks with Project Censored’s Andy Lee Roth about some of the “Top 25” censored / under-reported news stories, as well as the common characteristics of these stories. Later in the show, Nolan Higdon and Mickey examine some of the developments since Elon…

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FERPA and Higher Ed Should Prioritize the Safety of Students’ Private Data

Vins — Thu, 15 Dec 2022 22:23:58 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis Around the time of Richard Nixon’s presidency—a low point for public trust in government—families of K–12 students and adult college students raised concerns regarding the volume of sensitive, personally identifiable student information that schools, colleges, and universities were collecting and storing. Fifty years on, educational institutions still…

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The War in Ukraine and Prospects for Peace with Phil Wilayto and Medea Benjamin

Project Censored — Tue, 13 Dec 2022 06:03:01 +0000

Mickey, Eleanor and their guests spend the hour examining the background to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, going back to the eastward expansion of NATO, the 2014 Ukraine coup, and other factors. Their guests, both long-time peace activists, make the case for a cessation of arms shipments to Ukraine, and a negotiated…

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Municipalities in Puerto Rico Sue Fossil Fuel Giants Under Organized Crime Law

Vins — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 22:29:24 +0000

Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico are suing Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and other fossil fuel companies for their efforts to deny the role of fossil fuel products in causing climate change. In a November 2022 report for Common Dreams, Kenny Stancil described the lawsuit—a “first of its kind” RICO case—which seeks…

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What The US Corporate Media is Not Covering in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict

Project Censored — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 20:28:04 +0000

This edition of the Project Censored Show we feature two of the country’s best-known peace advocates, each with a new book out. First, Medea Benjamin discusses the Russia-Ukraine conflict, emphasizing aspects that US corporate media are not covering. Then we hear a rebroadcast of a September interview with author Chris…

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Hunting the Twitter Files

Vins — Thu, 08 Dec 2022 22:05:26 +0000

By Nolan Higdon More than two years since Big Tech made the historic decision to limit access to the New York Post’s story about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, users are getting a glimpse into how Twitter came to that decision. However, delusional legacy and social media outlets are doing everything…

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Rural Area Students Face Barriers to Higher Education

Vins — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:47:26 +0000

At least 9.3 million students go to public schools in rural areas, “more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts,” Nichole Dobo reported for the Hechinger Report in September 2022. “Although rural schools have made tremendous gains in high school graduation rates,” Dobo wrote, “these students…

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The Need for Black Male Teachers in Public Education

Vins — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:45:15 +0000

Less than seven percent of public school teachers across the United States are Black, notably less than the 15 percent of Black students who attend public schools, Devna Bose reported for the Hechinger Report in November 2022. The dearth of Black teachers is “deeply felt,” Bose wrote, “especially in states…

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The Metaverse is Not Virtual Reality for Education

Vins — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:43:23 +0000

An October 2022 article by Javeria Salman for the Hechinger Report examined how the metaverse—a developing online world that promises immersive experiences—will shape the future of education. “While the term has become the latest buzzword in education circles,” Salman reported, “what it means for teaching and learning largely remains to…

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Massachusetts Community Models Successful Programs to Support Latinx Students

Vins — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:41:22 +0000

In Southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts, families of Latinx students and Latinx organizations have taken action to advocate for their children and secure academic support and resources, as the Berkshire Eagle reported in November 2022. Southern Berkshire County has seen a large increase in Latinx-speaking families, with ten percent of its…

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Oregon Community Debates Hiring of Nonbinary Elementary School Teacher

Vins — Wed, 07 Dec 2022 17:38:54 +0000

In September 2022, a school district in Medford, Oregon, began to field complaints from concerned parents and community members due to the district’s decision to hire a nonbinary elementary school teacher, the Advocate reported. The unnamed first-grade teacher is at the center of a debate, amplified by conservatives, over whether…

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“Informal Removal” Policies Deny Students With Disabilities of Educational Opportunities

Vins — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:24:26 +0000

Across the United States, students with disabilities are being sent home from school because of behavioral issues in the classroom. In an October 2022 article for the Hechinger Report, Meredith Kolodner and Annie Ma reported that, under a policy of “informal removal,” students across the country are being sent home…

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“Field of Study” Segregation Limits College Students’ Educational and Job Opportunities

Vins — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:22:06 +0000

Earning a college degree creates opportunities for higher income and upward economic mobility. However, an August 2022 report, produced by Georgetown University’s Center on Poverty and Inequality, shows how “field of study” segregation by race and gender limits many students’ access to higher-paying occupations. As the Hechinger Report explained in…

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Closed Conference on Academic Freedom at Stanford Sparks Controversy

Vins — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:20:11 +0000

In November 2022, faculty and students at Stanford University denounced a campus conference on academic freedom for its conservative bias and closed format, John K. Wilson reported for Academe Blog. In a statement denouncing the conference for its closed format, a group of more than fifty Stanford academics wrote, “If…

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Supporting Gender-Expansive Students

Vins — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:18:33 +0000

According to a 2018 study conducted by Human Rights Campaign and the University of Connecticut, only 27 percent of LGBTQ youth report that they can “definitely” be themselves in school, and just 13 percent reported hearing positive messages about being LGBTQ in school (p. 8). In an article for Rethinking…

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“Un-Grading” Seeks to Prioritize Student Learning and Mental Health

Vins — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:16:27 +0000

In October 2022, the Hechinger Report highlighted “a growing movement to stop assigning conventional A through F letter grades to first-year college students.” A small but increasing number of educators at universities and colleges across the country are experimenting with alternative styles of assessment. The practice, known as “un-grading,” is…

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“Rate My Professors” Sparks Debate About How Students Evaluate Their Teachers

Vins — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 22:13:17 +0000

College students across the United States, Canada, and the UK rely on Rate My Professors to decide what courses to take. The website allows students to search for professors by name or school, read reviews of their teaching written by other students, and write reviews of their own, rating how…

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Fossil Fuel Investors Sue Governments to Block Climate Regulations

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 22:00:50 +0000

Reporting for The Lever in June 2022, Rishika Pardikar revealed how big oil investors are adopting new legal strategies to combat climate change policies. These fossil fuel shareholders are opening cases against state governments, claiming that climate change proposals are taking advantage of their profits—and, therefore, investors must be compensated for…

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Influential Google Positions Filled by Former CIA Employees

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:58:07 +0000

Google operates the world’s largest and most influential search engine. It has recently hired a number of former CIA employees to fill sensitive positions. As a result, these employees possess significant influence over its affiliated products, controlling what Google users are able to see or not. As reported by senior…

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Israel Authorizes Drone Strikes in Occupied West Bank

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:54:58 +0000

In September 2022, commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces were authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Marjorie Cohn reported for Truthout. Hamas called the order “a dangerous step” and urged Palestinians “to continue resisting the Israeli occupation with all means possible until they…

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Corporate Media Ignore Increase in Biolab Accidents

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:47:46 +0000

Recent reports from the Intercept highlight hundreds of undisclosed biolab accidents that have gone unreported by major news outlets. A November 1, 2022 article, titled “Bent Over in Pain,” by Mara Hvistendahl spotlights a graduate student who in 2016 contracted the debilitating Chikungunya virus, a recombinant mosquito-borne pathogen which is…

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Roger Waters Declared “Enemy of Ukraine” on Myrotvorets Website

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:40:06 +0000

In an article published by Medium on August 22, 2022, independent journalist Deborah L. Armstrong reported on the blacklisting of Roger Waters, co-founder of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd, by Ukrainian nationalists. In early August, Rogers was featured on a 90-minute CNN special where he publicly criticized the US…

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The Sordid Past of Ron DeSantis Revealed / The Delicate Topic of Zionism and Apartheid

Project Censored — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 20:13:27 +0000

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, your host Eleanor Goldfield discusses war and fascist violence – from the very personal history of a presidential candidate to the streets of Hebron. She first sits down with army veteran and investigative reporter/producer Mike Prysner to discuss his latest work digging…

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Proximity to Oil and Gas Drilling Sites Linked to Pregnancy Complications and Other Maternal Health Risks

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:32:46 +0000

Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) measured the effects of oil- and gas- drilling sites on the health of pregnant women living within six miles of drilling operations during a thirteen-year period, from 1996-2009. The study, which DeSmog reported on in January 2022, was the first that specifically examined the…

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Overcrowded Atlanta Jail Raises Justice Concerns

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:27:48 +0000

In October 2022, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report showing that the Fulton County jail, near Atlanta, Georgia, was holding some 2,892 people, or 301 people more than its official capacity. As a result, hundreds of detained people had been assigned makeshift sleeping arrangements on jail floors.…

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Sin una Casa: Venezuela’s Humanitarian Crisis Worsened by US Immigration Policy

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:25:42 +0000

Continuing a Trump-era policy to keep migrants from seeking asylum in the name of limiting the spread of COVID-19, the Biden administration expanded Title 42 to expel Venezuelan migrants to Mexico, José Luis Granados Ceja reported for Venezuelanalysis in October 2022. Although the Biden administration’s extension of Title 42 allowed…

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Community-Based, Cross-National Responses to Climate Change

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:23:06 +0000

Through monthly calls starting in November 2020, the organizers of the Mother Earth Foundation offered advice––based on their experience establishing community composting systems in the Philippines––to Breathe Free Detroit, a community-based organization working with city officials to establish a municipal composting system. As Jena Brooker reported for Nexus Media News in…

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Citizen Journalists in Cambodia, Thailand, and Myanmar at Risk

Vins — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 00:18:53 +0000

Citizen journalists in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand “risk harassment, detention, and economic hardship for their work,” according to an October 2022 report for Global Voices by Mong Palatino. Restrictions on journalism in these countries have made it nearly impossible for journalists to do their jobs. Palatino’s report gave voice to…

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The Post-WWII U.S. Rise to Global Dominance/Prospects for Stronger Net-Neutrality Protections

Project Censored — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 20:14:34 +0000

Mickey opens this week’s program in conversation with Aaron Good; they examine the post-WWII U.S. rise to global dominance, and how that underlies many of our current events, notably the Russia-Ukraine-NATO conflict. In the second half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Chris Garaffa about the prospects for stronger…

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A NOTE ON RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF CENSORED NEWS STORIES

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:53:35 +0000

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#25 Injustice for Incarcerated Women in Maryland after State Defunds Prerelease Facility

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:52:40 +0000

Hundreds of incarcerated women in Maryland have been denied access to prerelease programs, which provide job opportunities and other vital re-entry services, Eddie Conway and Mansa Musa reported for the Real News Network in February 2022. Their report detailed the trajectory of Maryland’s Gender-Responsive Prerelease Act, which would mandate the…

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#24 Indigenous Communities Using Data Sovereignty to Address Food Insecurity

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:51:00 +0000

The pandemic has compounded a host of systemic issues in the United States, including food insecurity in Indian Country. In an interview for High Country News, B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster spoke with the Native American Agriculture Fund’s CEO Toni Stanger-McLaughlin (Colville) to learn more about the special January 2022 report “Reimagining…

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#23 Federal Safety Agency Underreports Deaths of Offshore Oil and Gas Workers

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:49:19 +0000

In an August 2021 piece published simultaneously in four independent media outlets (Southerly, Drilled News, WWNO, and Energy News Network), environmental journalist Sara Sneath reported that the US Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) underreported offshore oil and gas worker fatalities from 2005 to 2019. BSEE’s…

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#22 US Transportation System “Fuels” Inequality

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:48:08 +0000

The federal government disburses four times as much money for roadways as for public transit, a long-standing imbalance that has deprived the nation’s poorest of basic mobility for decades, Basav Sen reported for the Institute for Policy Studies website, Inequality.org. Since 1990, the urban roadway system has grown by nearly…

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#21 School-Issued Technology Poses Surveillance Risks for Students

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:46:53 +0000

To address inequities in technology access highlighted by the shift to remote learning since the onset of COVID-19, school districts across the United States have doubled the number of laptops and tablets provided to students, according to a study published by the Center for Democracy & Technology in September 2021.…

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#20 States Hoard Federal Assistance Funding Amidst Record Poverty Levels

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:45:45 +0000

Despite the national poverty rate making its largest upward jump in recorded history, Hannah Dreyfus reported for ProPublica that states had stockpiled $5.2 billion in undistributed funds from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (TANF). Her report was part of a collection of articles published by ProPublica in…

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#19 Poor Infrastructure, a Legacy of Discriminatory Redlining, Inhibits Rural Black Americans’ Internet Access

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:42:00 +0000

Severe lack of infrastructure contributes to a “digital divide” in many southern states that most impacts rural Black Americans, according to an October 2021 study produced by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies (JCPES). Avi Asher-Schapiro and David Sherfinski of the Thomas Reuters Foundation News and Javeria Salman…

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#18 The Human Mind as “New Domain of War”: NATO Plans for Cognitive Warfare

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:40:49 +0000

On October 5, 2021, the NATO Association of Canada (NAOC) sponsored a forum on what panelists described as the “weaponization of brain sciences” to exploit “vulnerabilities of the human brain” in service of more sophisticated forms of social engineering and control. As Ben Norton reported for the Grayzone, “with its…

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#17 Former Neo-Nazi Leader Now Holds DOJ Domestic Counterterrorism Position

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:38:14 +0000

In a November 2021 Progressive magazine article, reporter Helen Christophi revealed that Brian P. Haughton, a former member of multiple racist skinhead bands and a past leader in the neo-Nazi movement, now holds an important counterterrorism position in the Department of Justice. Haughton serves as a law enforcement coordinator for…

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#16 Dark Money Fuels Transphobic Opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment and Equality Act

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:32:53 +0000

The Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), and other women’s groups leading the opposition to the Equal Rights Act (ERA) and the Equality Act are funded by dark money from a variety of right-wing interest groups, Truthout reported in March 2022. Julia Peck, Ansev…

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#15 EARN IT Act Threatens Online Freedom of Expression Under Guise of Policing Child Pornography

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:31:24 +0000

Last introduced in 2020, the EARN IT Act (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act) is back—and more threatening to online freedom of expression than before, according to recent independent news reports. The EARN IT Act of 2022 aims to hold tech companies responsible for the online spread…

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#14 Repression of Palestinian Media

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:29:08 +0000

The May 11, 2022, murder of Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, evidently by Israeli soldiers, while she was covering one of their routine raids on a West Bank refugee camp sent ripples through journalistic circles and garnered extensive corporate press coverage. However, when it comes to repression of Palestinian media,…

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#13 “Smart Ocean” Technology Endangers Whales and Intensifies Climate Change

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:28:01 +0000

Joint military and industry efforts to develop new ocean technologies and infrastructure—which engineers and advocates call the “smart ocean”—will have lethal consequences for whales, significantly undermining their “indispensable role” in sequestering carbon and mitigating climate catastrophe, Koohan Paik-Mander reported in December 2021. Whales “enable oceans to sequester a whopping 2…

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#12 Facebook’s Blacklist of “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” Stifles Public Debate

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:25:51 +0000

Facebook’s policy on “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” (DIO) has become “an unaccountable system that disproportionately punishes certain communities,” Sam Biddle reported for the Intercept in October 2021. The policy, he reported, includes a “blacklist” of more than 4,000 people and groups, “including politicians, writers, charities, hospitals, hundreds of music acts,…

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#11 Wealthy Nations Continue to Drive Climate Change with Devastating Impacts on Poorer Countries

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:22:55 +0000

In a November 2021 article for The Conversation, Sonja Klinsky outlined how and why poorer regions are disproportionately affected by climate change. Wealthier nations, such as the United States, Canada, and Australia, release roughly 100 times the per-capita greenhouse gas emissions as many African countries, yet the responsibility for undoing…

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#10 Major Media Outlets Lobby Against Regulation of “Surveillance Advertising”

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:21:30 +0000

The world’s most popular social media apps and platforms—Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok—collect users’ data and employ it to target them with tailored advertising. This sort of “surveillance advertising” has become a ubiquitous and extremely profitable practice. As Lee Fang reported for the Intercept in February 2022, the Biden administration’s Federal…

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#9 New Laws Preventing Dark Money Disclosures Sweep the Nation

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:18:12 +0000

Across the United States, Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation modeled after a policy authored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that makes it illegal to compel nonprofit organizations to disclose the identity of their donors. In a June 2021 article for Sludge, Donald Shaw explained how these bills create…

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#8 CIA Discussed Plans to Kidnap or Kill Julian Assange

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:16:51 +0000

In late 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), then under the direction of Mike Pompeo, seriously considered plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a September 2021 Yahoo News investigation. The Yahoo News report featured interviews with more than thirty former US officials, eight of whom…

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#7 Concerns for Journalistic Independence as Gates Foundation Gives $319 Million to News Outlets

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:14:22 +0000

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated more than $319 million to fund news outlets, journalism centers and training programs, press associations, and specific media campaigns, raising questions about conflicts of interest and journalistic independence, Alan MacLeod reported for MintPress News in November 2021. “Today, it is possible for…

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#6 Corporate Consolidation Causing Record Inflation in Food Prices

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:12:49 +0000

Corporate consolidation is a main driver of record inflation in food prices, despite claims by media pundits and partisan commentators to the contrary. As the economy attempts to shake off the lingering impacts of COVID-19 and Americans struggle to stretch their dollars, many have blamed supply chain disruptions and the…

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#5 Dark Money Interference in US Politics Undermines Democracy

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:06:20 +0000

Conservative dark money organizations opposing President Biden’s Supreme Court nomination also helped fuel conspiracy theories of election fraud after the 2020 election, as Igor Derysh reported for Salon in March 2022. Derysh summarized a recent report from the watchdog group Accountable.US, which revealed that organizations such as Judicial Crisis Network…

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#4 At Least 128 Members of Congress Invested in Fossil Fuel Industry

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:04:01 +0000

A series of Sludge articles written by David Moore in November and December of 2021 reported that at least 100 US Representatives and twenty-eight US Senators have financial interests in the fossil fuel industry. According to Moore, some seventy-four Republicans, fifty-nine Democrats, and one Independent have interests in the fossil…

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#3 EPA Withheld Reports on Dangerous Chemicals

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:01:56 +0000

Since January 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received more than 1,200 legally required disclosures about chemicals that present a “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment.” All but one of EPA’s reports on these chemicals have been withheld from the public, as reported by Sharon Lerner…

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#2 Wage Theft: US Businesses Suffer Few Consequences for Stealing Millions from Workers Every Year

Project Censored — Sat, 26 Nov 2022 20:00:15 +0000

Thousands of US companies illegally underpay workers yet are seldom punished for doing so, Alexia Fernández Campbell and Joe Yerardi reported for the Center for Public Integrity in May 2021. Since its initial report, the Center has documented extensively that employers who “illegally underpay workers face few repercussions, even when…

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#1 Fossil Fuel Industry Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million per Minute

Project Censored — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 22:02:09 +0000

A comprehensive study of 191 nations, published by the International Monetary Fund in September 2021, found that globally the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute, the Guardian and Treehugger reported in October 2021. Fossil fuel companies received $5.9 trillion in subsidies in 2020, with support projected…

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THE PROJECT CENSORED NEWSLETTER

Project Censored — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 20:41:06 +0000

City Lights and Project Censored Present “The Media and Us” Saturday, December 3, via Zoom Join the Project for The Media and Us, an online symposium on critical media literacy and political engagement, presented by the City Lights Foundation on Saturday, December 3, 2022. At a time when pundits and politicians alike promote…

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Critical Media Literacy Education is a Peaceful Means to Humanitarian Ends

Project Censored — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 23:17:03 +0000

The 2022 Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas took place in Oakland, CA in late October. This week’s Project Censored Show presents excerpts from the plenary roundtable that addressed shortcomings of corporate media, each from a different perspective, and explained how a more critically media literate public and robust…

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The Climate Crisis, Its Global Impacts, and What Is To Be Done

Project Censored — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:56:26 +0000

This week, Eleanor Goldfield looks at COP, climate, and change with the Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology of the Republic of Maldives, Khadeeja Naseem. They discuss the dire situation her home is in, a home that has been the vanguard not only of climate chaos but…

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Contextualizing the Events of the Past Month in Iran

Project Censored — Mon, 31 Oct 2022 21:42:04 +0000

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s episode, and spends the hour on conditions in Iran, where demonstrators have taken to the streets in response to the death of a young woman in the custody of the Iranian “morality police.” Leila Zand is an Iranian-American activist and scholar who joins the show…

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Electoral Denialism Cuts Across Party Lines: Despite What the Corporate Media Would Have Us Believe, Both Parties Engage in the ‘Big Lie,’ and the Rest of Lose Because of It

Project Censored — Wed, 26 Oct 2022 19:53:42 +0000

Speaking to the January 6th Committee on September 29, 2022, Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, stood by her contention that the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election was stolen. Thomas and others who doubt the legitimacy of the election results have been convinced to believe “the big lie.”…

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THE PROJECT CENSORED NEWSLETTER October 2022

Project Censored — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 21:03:00 +0000

In-Person Events with Chris Hedges and the Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center On September 26, Project Censored director Mickey Huff hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges at an event in Berkeley. Sponsored by KPFA, the conversation between Hedges and Huff focused on the topic of Hedges’ most recent book, The Greatest Evil is War (Seven Stories,…

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Has Media Literacy Week Been Co-Opted?

Project Censored — Fri, 21 Oct 2022 23:32:20 +0000

On this Project Censored Show we discuss Media Literacy Week and more specifically Critical Media Literacy. We then discern the different approaches to media literacy which have been co-opted including corporate and a-critical media literacy. We explore this issue with experts Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon.

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What if Journalism Disappeared?

Project Censored — Thu, 20 Oct 2022 22:58:42 +0000

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The Potential for a Class I Railroad Strike

Project Censored — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 22:53:53 +0000

In this episode of the Project Censored Show Eleanor Goldfield looks at the potential for a Class I railroad strike. This struggle exemplifies the power of workers and how much corporations and their media lackeys fear collective power – particularly when that collective power represents some $2 billion a day…

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The Importance of Academic Freedom in a Cancel Culture Obsessed with Curtailing Curricula and Banning Books

Project Censored — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 20:16:41 +0000

On this week’s program we hear a panel discussion held in observation of Constitution Day (mid September) at Diablo Valley College, where Mickey teaches. Three expert panelists examined the state of the media, the threats posed by book-banning campaigns and cancel culture, as well as the societal changes underlying these…

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The Military Industrial Complex Wants You To Be More Media (l)literate!

Project Censored — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 22:36:13 +0000

By Nolan Higdon A September 2022 report from Tessa Jolls, president of the Center for Media Literacy, titled “Building Resiliency: Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the Transatlantic,” read like a blueprint for how to indoctrinate students in corporatism and militarism under the auspices of media literacy education.…

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Entering the Resistance Phase of the Surveillance Education Cycle: Finding Ways to Protect Privacy in Schools

Project Censored — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:37:35 +0000

In August, 2022, two important acts of resistance hinted at a sea change in attitudes toward invasive surveillance technologies. First, New York University’s Brennan Center sued the Department of Homeland Security for violating a Freedom of Information request regarding how the agency utilizes social media to monitor U.S. citizens. Days…

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The Past and Present of Mining

Project Censored — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:07:47 +0000

This week, Eleanor Goldfield digs into mining – past and present. First, author and organizer Mitch Troutman discusses his latest book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners who Seized an Industry. Mitch shares the importance of remembering and sharing a radical past, as he puts it: nothing was ever inevitable and…

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THE PROJECT CENSORED NEWSLETTER – September 2022

Project Censored — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:56:37 +0000

Celebrating Banned Books Week, September 18-24 This September marks the 40th anniversary of Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the right to read. Book challenges and bans are at an all-time high. During the week of September 18-24, events across the United States will take place, organized around the theme “Books Unite…

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The Many Costs of War and the Legacy of Mikhail Gorbachev

Project Censored — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 20:20:11 +0000

For the first segment of this week’s show, Mickey talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges shares some of the stories from his newest book, The Greatest Evil Is War. The book is based on interviews with dozens of victims of war, including families of soldiers, wounded veterans, and…

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Banned in the USA

Project Censored — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 17:37:46 +0000

By Mickey Huff In her best-selling novel Speak, young adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the American Library Association (ALA) and Association of American Publishers helped launch Banned Books Week (BBW) forty years ago, that dysfunctional family of…

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Banned in the USA: Banned Books Week Celebrates its 40th Anniversary as Book Bans and Challenges to Academic Freedom Surge

Project Censored — Mon, 12 Sep 2022 21:41:58 +0000

On this Project Censored Show, host Mickey Huff dedicates the hour to Banned Books Week 2022 (Sept. 18-24). Now in its 40th year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting the freedom to read, and resisting efforts to ban books from library shelves, especially in school settings.…

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Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival and an Update on Julian Assange

Project Censored — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 18:32:01 +0000

The latest Project Censored Show features a recording of a panel discussion from this summer’s Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival, held in Washington DC. Mickey and Project Censored’s Associate Director, Andy Lee Roth, moderated a discussion with journalist Kevin Gosztola and Rebecca Vincent of Reporters Without Borders. This panel, “Guilty…

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Music, The Clash Between Capitalism and Art, and Solutions to the Student Loan Debt Crises

Project Censored — Fri, 02 Sep 2022 02:47:22 +0000

On the first half of this week’s show Eleanor speaks with musician, producer, and songwriter Samantha Blanchard – talking to her about the exploitation of artists in today’s often cookie cutter market, the sad trope of paying dues, and the harsh clash between capitalism and art – which is in…

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Economic Consequences of US Gun Violence

Vins — Tue, 23 Aug 2022 21:19:15 +0000

The number of mass shootings in the United States has grown considerably in the past few years. In July 2022, the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US, reported at least 314 mass shootings in 2022 alone and more than 22,000 individuals whose lives were cut…

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