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The Project Censored Show is a weekly public affairs program that airs Fridays from 1-2 P.M. Pacific time on KPFA Pacifica Radio. The program is an extension of the work Project Censored began in 1976 celebrating independent journalism while fighting media censorship and supporting a truly free press. The program focuses on The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The program began broadcasting in 2010 and is nationally syndicated on over 20 stations.

Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield co-host this week’s Project Censored Show.

In the first half of the program, Palestinian legal expert Hassan Ben Imran speaks
with Eleanor about the continuing international-law case against Israel. He also
expresses his concern that the Trump administration may surpass previous
US administrations’ defiance of rulings that go against the U.S., by actively
attempting to defund and disempower agencies like the International Criminal Court.

In the second half, Mickey Huff joins Eleanor for a discussion of recent
news and news coverage, most notably major U.S. media’s reluctance to cite
estimates of the true death toll in Gaza or to tally the U.S. tax dollars that went to fund the genocide.

Hassan Ben Imran is a member of the Governing Council of Law for Palestine
and a PhD researcher in Law at the University of Galway, Ireland.

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In the first half of the program, Eleanor Goldfield interviews a Native American reporter who was arrested while covering a protest about land claims, despite showing the police his press credentials. Isaac White is a Mohawk journalist based in Akwesasne, upstate New York. His story highlights the importance of and dangers to local and Indigenous media.

Then Mickey Huff speaks with John Collins, the founder of the independent journalism site weavenews.org, about the responsibilities of the non-corporate press in the years ahead, as the biases and failures of corporate media become increasingly evident. Collins is a professor emeritus of global studies at St. Lawrence University. He 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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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: in fact, steady immigration into the U.S. 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, 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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In the first half of today’s show, 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 important, their communities, since what your neighbor does or doesn’t do in these situations will directly affect you.

In the second half, 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 U.S. 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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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.

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in Education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, a prolific author on media issues, and a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His books include The Anatomy of Fake News; he also writes on Substack. Steve Macek teaches communications and media studies at North Central College in Illinois. He’s also the co-coordinator of Project Censored’s Campus Affiliates Program.

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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program. Her first guest is Shrouq Aila, a Palestinian journalist/producer and resident of the Gaza Strip. She describes daily life under Israeli invasion and genocide, Israel’s targeting of reporters for assassination, and the challenges of living the story she covers. Then former State Department official Matthew Hoh shares his observations from a recent visit to Israel and the occupied West Bank and explains his belief that Israel’s primary goal for the next several years is to displace the West Bank’s remaining Palestinian population and annex the entire territory.

GUESTS:

Shrouq Aila is a Palestinian journalist/producer and resident of the Gaza Strip.
She lost her husband in an Israeli attack. Her work can be found at www.instagram.com/shrouqaila.

Matthew Hoh is a Marine Corps combat veteran, and a former State Department official.

The post Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines appeared first on KPFA.

We begin 2025 on an optimistic note, with a timeless speech by the legendary political activist and consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader. Nader outlines some of the most critical problems facing Americans, including exorbitant military spending, out-of-control corporations, and thousands of annual deaths in the workplace, or from lack of health-care coverage. But then he names some individuals who’ve made a difference in recent U.S. history, explains what students can accomplish on campus, and how voters can hold legislators accountable. Nader spoke on March 5, 2018 at Sonoma State University in northern California, as part of the campus’s annual Social Justice Week Lecture Series.

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Project Censored’s new yearbook, “State of the Free Press 2025” is fresh off the presses.

In the first segment, Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl talk with Mickey about the extensive process that culminates in the selection of the annual “Top 25” censored stories. They also speak about the need to extend media analysis beyond fact-checking to “frame-checking.”

In the second half, Mickey and co-host Eleanor Goldfield speak about Eleanor’s new article on media literacy for activists, including various ideas on how activists can successfully interact with the different categories of media. Mickey and Eleanor also alert listeners to the dangers of House Bill 9495, a measure that would empower the U.S. Treasury Secretary to unilaterally remove an organization’s non-profit status.

GUESTS:

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored and the coordinator of the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program.

Shealeigh Voitl is digital and print editor at Project Censored.

The post Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press (encore) appeared first on KPFA.

Project Censored’s new yearbook, “State of the Free Press 2025” is fresh off the presses.

In the first segment, Andy Lee Roth and Shealeigh Voitl talk with Mickey about the extensive process that culminates in the selection of the annual “Top 25” censored stories. They also speak about the need to extend media analysis beyond fact-checking to “frame-checking.”

In the second half, Mickey and co-host Eleanor Goldfield speak about Eleanor’s new article on media literacy for activists, including various ideas on how activists can successfully interact with the different categories of media. Mickey and Eleanor also alert listeners to the dangers of House Bill 9495, a measure that would empower the U.S. Treasury Secretary to unilaterally remove an organization’s non-profit status.

GUESTS:

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored and the coordinator of the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program.

Shealeigh Voitl is digital and print editor at Project Censored.

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Today’s episode of Project Censored is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2024 Holiday Fund Drive.

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Mickey talks with political sociologist Peter Phillips about his new book Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity. The sequel to 2018’s Giants, Titans identifies the money managers who control the world’s largest sums of capital, in their jobs at Black Rock and other huge investment firms, and how their power worsens the problems facing the human race.

Legendary consumer-rights campaigner and political activist Ralph Nader returns to discuss his two forthcoming books: Lets Start the Revolution explains how grassroots people-power can defeat corporate power, while Out of Darkness is a collection of Nader’s writings from 2012 to 2022.

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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 U.S. workforce for that same bottom line.

This week in a special one-hour interview episode, three guest experts join the Project Censored Radio show to discuss the U.S. 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 U.S., and what a just transition away from war could mean not only for workers here but indeed around the whole world.

The post Connecting the Dots: The War on Workers Is The War Abroad appeared first on KPFA.

In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor’s topic is India’s occupation of Kashmir and its violent suppression of human rights there. She says, for this topic, the guest’s chair stayed empty, because Kashmiri journalists and activists — even those outside Kashmir — are forced to stay silent for fear of retribution against their families. Eleanor also points out the multiple parallels and connections between the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the Indian occupation of Kashmir.

In the second half-hour, Ben Norton returns to the program to discuss the recent BRICS summit in Russia; he also compares the fast-growing BRICS group of economies with the US economy and its rising inequality.

Ben Norton is editor-in-chief at the Geopolitical Economy Report (www.geopoliticaleconomy.com)

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Legendary consumer-rights campaigner and political activist Ralph Nader returns to the Project Censored Show to discuss his two forthcoming books. Let’s Start the Revolution explains how grassroots people-power can defeat corporate power, while Out of Darkness is a collection of Nader’s writings from 2012 to 2022.

Later in the program, Mickey talks with political sociologist Peter Phillips about his new book Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity. The sequel to his 2018 book Giants, Titans identifies the money managers who control the world’s largest sums of capital, in their jobs at Black Rock and other huge investment firms, and how their power worsens the problems facing the human race.

Note: These interviews were recorded prior to the November 5 election.

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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.

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.

GUESTS:

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, co-editor of its state-of-the-free-press yearbooks, co-author of The Media and Me, and coordinator of its Campus Affiliates Program. His work on algorithmic literacy for journalists is supported by a fellowship from the Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri.

Maya Schenwar is Editor-At-Large for Truthout, and writes extensively on prison and policing issues.

Lara Witt is Editor-In-Chief at Prism Reports.

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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.

GUESTS:

Allison Butler is a Senior Lecturer in Communications at the University of Massachusetts and the Director of the Media Literacy Certificate Program in the Department of Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, MA, where she teaches courses on critical media literacy. Butler co-directs the grassroots organization, Mass Media Literacy, where she develops and conducts teacher training for the inclusion of critical media literacy in K-12 schools. She is co-author of The Media and Me and Surveillance Education.

Nolan Higdon is a co-founding member of the Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas; a University Lecturer at the Merrill College and the Education Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz; a Project Censored National Judge; and an author of several books on media issues, including The Anatomy of Fake News, as well as co-author of The Media and Me and Surveillance Education.

Sydney Sullivan is a Lecturer at San Diego State University, and a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on education and digital rhetoric with an emphasis on well-being. Sydney’s most recent chapter in Transformative Practice in Critical Media Literacy is out now, titled “Rethinking Curriculums: How Critical Digital Literacy and Mandatory Composition Courses Collide.”

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The National Association for Media Literacy Education has named the week of October 21 as “Media Literacy Week.” In light of this — and the upcoming November election — Mickey speaks with media scholar Nolan Higdon about identifying fake news and attempts at opinion manipulation, from all possible quarters.

Then, photojournalist Orin Langelle joins Eleanor to discuss his new book, Portraits of Struggle, a collection of images of people engaged in the defense of their lands and lives across the globe. He also explains the stories behind the images and what he’s learned about corporate/government domination and popular resistance.

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in Education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus, a prolific author on media issues, and a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His books include The Anatomy of Fake News. He writes at NolanHigdon.substack.com Orin Langelle has been a photojournalist for 50 years; his work has been featured in many publications, both corporate and nonprofit.

Orin Langelle is an award-winning photojournalist whose work spans 50 years on six continents. He has been published in the corporate media and the nonprofit world. He prefers the nonprofit sector that allows him more freedom in exposing reality. Orin’s also an activist and photographer, senior strategist, and cofounder of Global Justice Ecology Project. His book Portraits of Struggle was published by Global Justice Ecology Project for their 20th anniversary.

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Julian Assange has been a free man since June, but the issue of his long confinement in a UK prison is still in the news. Recently he testified before the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), and the Council then passed a resolution declaring that Assange could be designated a political prisoner. Independent journalist Kevin Gosztola joins Mickey to examine the implications of the PACE decision. They also discuss other press-freedom issues, notably the unprecedented death toll among journalists in the Gaza Strip, at the hands of Israeli forces.

Then Steve Macek looks at foreign campaign spending in U.S. elections, taking note both of its widespread presence as well as the relative lack of interest by corporate media in reporting on the subject. He observes that only occasional stories about individual politicians’ potential campaign funding transgressions (such as those of NYC Mayor Eric Adams) make the news, but the system itself is seldom covered.

Kevin Gosztola is the editor of the Dissenter newsletter, www.thedissenter.org. His book on the Julian Assange case, Guilty of Journalism, was published in 2023.

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In the first half of today’s episode, international human rights lawyer Karnig Kerkonian discusses Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of the Artsakh-Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Karnig outlines the genocidal intent of President Ilham Aliyev, how the U.S. knew and yet didn’t take steps to stop it, and how the international community should respond — not least of all as this year’s climate summit (COP29) is being held, ironically, in what Karnig calls the petrol-dictatorship of Azerbaijan.

Then, journalist and researcher 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 U.S. pretends to uphold freedom of the press while not only ignoring the murder of journalists but also pushing for a media blackout and censorship of reports from Gaza.

GUESTS:

Karnig Kerkonian is the founder of the Chicago-based law firm Kerkonian Dajani.

Chip Gibbons is Policy Director at Defending Rights and Dissent, an NGO created by the merger of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee and the Defending Dissent Foundation. He is working on a book about the FBI, tentatively titled The Imperial Bureau.

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The voices of Palestinians in Gaza are some of the most censored in the world. When 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 them, share them, and allow them to inform our actions.

This week Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Khalil Khalidy, an orthopedic doctor in Gaza. His testimony is necessary, powerful, and understandably distressing. We are therefore 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 and of psychological and physical suffering from the perspective of a doctor trying to work in abominable conditions with little to no supplies.

Khalil Khalidy is an orthopedist in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. He is also trained in psychology.

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On this special fund-drive episode, Mickey’s first guest is journalist Jeff Cohen, who discusses the career and legacy of the late Phil Donahue. Donahue was an innovative television talk-show host, who was fired by MSNBC when he continued interviewing pro-peace guests during the buildup to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Then Mickey interviews author Norman Solomon about the bias in corporate-media coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza (which obscures the essential U.S. connection) and in overall coverage of war and the U.S. military.

Jeff Cohen is a co-founder of the media-watch group FAIR (www.fair.org), and the author of Cable News Confidential. He was senior producer of Phil Donahue’s MSNBC show in 2003, when it was canceled.

Norman Solomon is an author and media critic. A new edition of his book War Made Invisible, contains an afterword about the Israeli attack on Gaza. More information can be found at www.warmadeinvisible.org.

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On this special fund-drive episode, Mickey’s first guest is journalist Jeff Cohen, who discusses the career and legacy of the late Phil Donahue. Donahue was an innovative television talk-show host, who was fired by MSNBC when he continued interviewing pro-peace guests during the buildup to the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Then Mickey interviews author Norman Solomon about the bias in corporate-media coverage of Israel’s assault on Gaza (which obscures the essential U.S. connection) and in overall coverage of war and the U.S. military.

Jeff Cohen is a co-founder of the media-watch group FAIR (www.fair.org), and the author of Cable News Confidential. He was senior producer of Phil Donahue’s MSNBC show in 2003, when it was canceled.

Norman Solomon is an author and media critic. A new edition of his book War Made Invisible, contains an afterword about the Israeli attack on Gaza. More information can be found at www.warmadeinvisible.org.

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Eleanor Goldfield is joined on this week’s program with a special guest co-host: Maximillian Alvarez, Editor-in-Chief at the Real News Network. Their subject is the Julian Assange case and its implications for press freedom going forward. Their guests provide a recap of the case and new information on why the U.S. abandoned its years-long effort to extradite Assange from the UK and instead agreed to a plea bargain under which the Wikileaks founder was freed.

GUESTS:

Chip Gibbons is Policy Director at Defending Rights and Dissent, www.rightsanddissent.org.

Kevin Gosztola is the editor of the Dissenter newsletter, www.thedissenter.org. His book on the Julian Assange case, Guilty of Journalism, was published in 2023.

The post The Julian Assange Case and the Future of Journalism appeared first on KPFA.

This week we offer 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.

Among the many commentators featured in the Decoding Democracy video series, and included in this radio broadcast, are Mnar Adley, Nora Barrows-Friedman, Eugene Puryear, and Victor Pickard.

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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s show.

July 26 marked the 34th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act. But is the ADA as far-reaching as it should be? Are the large disability-rights organizations keeping too close to the country’s ruling institutions and, in doing so, defeating their own professed objectives? In the first segment of the show, Eleanor’s guests talk about the limitations of the ADA and the inherent lapses that disability-rights groups make by not confronting the institutions that inflict disabilities and worsen the lives of those already living with disabilities, most notably in Gaza.

In the second half, Eleanor and guests discuss the prospect of humans inhabiting Mars: is it a harmless sci-fi concept, or are “astro-colonial” ideas a distraction from the urgency of addressing the climate crisis on planet Earth?

Jen Deerinwater and Ezra Star are members of Disability Divest (www.disabilitydivest.org), a collective that demands that “the disability establishment ends its relationships with war profiteers.”

Zara Zimbardo is one of the creators of “Marsification” (www.marsification.com), a concept album that explores the idea of inhabiting space and finds it to be a continuation of colonialist ideology.

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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 and the wider issues of what big donors get for their dollars.

Then, 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 speaks with Lisa Graves, who specifically addresses how education and the media landscape would be changed if Project 2025 is actually implemented.

GUESTS

Steve Macek is a professor of communications and media studies at North Central College in Illinois. He’s also the co-coordinator, with Andy Lee Roth, of Project Censored’s Campus Affiliates Program. Steve was also one of the editors of the recent book Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression (Peter Lang, 2024).

Lisa Graves is the founder and executive director of True North Research, a national investigative watchdog group. She has previous experience at the Justice Department and in the federal court system. More analysis of Project 2025 can be found at project2025admin.com.

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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s show. In the first half-hour, we hear the story of a Texas prison inmate, his struggle to publicize the abuses that go on behind the walls, and the prison authorities’ efforts to suppress his work and retaliate against him. We also discuss the significance of prison journalism in the overall battle for press freedom.

In the second half, the latest about Palestine, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the International Criminal Court (ICC). A legal expert examines the recent ICJ opinion on the illegality of the Israeli occupation, as well as the ICC’s possible issuance of an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Resources on Incarceration:
www.securustech.net
prisonjournalismproject.org
themarshallproject.org

GUESTS:

Jeremy Busby, inmate #00881193 in the Texas prison system, is a journalist who covers prison life from the inside. His writing can be found at freedom.press and other outlets. His personal web site is www.joinjeremy.org.

Seth Stern is Director of Advocacy at Freedom of the Press Foundation (www.freedom.press).

Hassan Ben Imran is a member of the governing council of Law for Palestine (www.law4palestine.org) and a researcher in law at the University of Galway in Ireland.

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In the first half of the show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Juley Fulcher — attorney and worker health and safety advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress watch division — 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, Mickey Huff joins Eleanor for a conversation about whether the corporate media are accurately covering immigration or, instead, are exaggerating the differences between the Biden and Trump administrations’ immigration practices.

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In the first half of the show, we learn about members of the U.S. military who’ve resigned their posts over moral objections to the U.S. support of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza and speak with Palestinian-American Mohammed Abouhashem, a former U.S. Air Force sergeant. He also rebuts claims that Israeli forces attempt to minimize civilian casualties and questions whether Israel was really taken by surprise by the October 7 Hamas attack.

Next, Eleanor speaks with Australian filmmaker Kym Staton about his documentary “Trust Fall,” just released in the U.S. this month. “Trust Fall” recounts the personal and professional life of Julian Assange, as well as the U.S. campaign against him. The film was completed before Assange gained his freedom, yet Kym says “Trust Fall” is still a vital chronicle of an effort to punish a journalist. He notes that some Australian media continue to spread falsehoods about Assange, despite the legal proceeding being over.

GUESTS:

Mohammed Abouhashem was a career sergeant in the U.S. Air Force, who resigned last October after 22 years in the USAF.

Kym Staton is an Australian filmmaker, musician and poet.

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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 U.S. and 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 our serious lack of media literacy education and how the American electorate could benefit from learning media literacy skills and 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.

Note: This program was recorded on July 12, prior to the shooting attack against former president Donald Trump.

Dr. Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in Education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus and a prolific author on media issues. He is the author of The Anatomy of Fake News and co-author of The United States of Distraction, The Media and Me, and Let’s Agree to Disagree. He writes on Substack at NolanHigdon and also has an article, which we discuss, in the June/July issue of The Progressive magazine titled “The Establishment Strikes Back.”

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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 bludgeoning of multiple peace deals by the U.S., 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, 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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In a plea bargain with Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, the Justice Department ended its effort to extradite him to the U.S. for an Espionage Act trial, and Assange, freed from Britain’s Belmarsh Prison, returned home to Australia a free man. The Assange legal case is over, but what are the ongoing implications for press freedom? We hear from the reporter who covered the Assange case for its entire duration.

Then … How might social media influence the 2024 election?
Mickey speaks with the three authors (also Project Censored staffers) of a new article on social media, the efforts of government and Big Tech to control or censor it (often without users’ knowledge), and the countermeasures employed by online communities to maintain communications.

GUESTS:

Kevin Gosztola is an independent journalist. He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from their beginning, as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases, and has been a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His book on the Assange case, Guilty of Journalism, was published in 2023.
Gosztola is also the editor of the Dissenter newsletter, www.thedissenter.org.

Kate Horgan is Website Design & Media Assistant at Project Censored.
Reagan Haynie is Social-Media Manager at Project Censored.
Shealeigh Voitl is Digital & Print Editor at Project Censored.

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The Progressive magazine dedicated its June/July issue to an in-depth look at media and media literacy, especially in the context of the upcoming election. On this week’s program, we hear from the publisher of the venerable political journal, as well as two Project Censored staffers who took part in producing the special issue. Later in the program, Mickey and Eleanor discuss the usefulness — and limitations — of electoral politics.

Norman Stockwell is the Publisher of the Progressive (www.progressive.org).

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, coordinator of the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program, and a contributor to the current issue of the Progressive.

Mischa Geracoulis is Curriculum Development Coordinator at Project Censored and the guest editor for the Progressive’s June/July media issue.

The post The Progressive Magazine and Project Censored Look at U.S. Media in an Election Year appeared first on KPFA.

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, 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.

Mohammed Bamyeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of scholarship include anarchism, revolution, religion, and the Arab world.
John Washington is a staff writer for Arizona Luminaria (azluminaria.org). His work has also been published in the Atlantic, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.

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In the first half of the show, we learn about the ongoing campaign to defend Oak Flat,
a region of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest sacred to the Apache and other Native peoples
of the region. Federal authorities want to allow a large copper mine to be dug there.
The San Carlos Apache say the struggle involves both land defense and religious freedom.
The Supreme Court is slated to hear the case.

In the second half, Mickey and Eleanor critique the recent performance of the media in covering Israel’s ongoing massacres of Palestinians in Gaza. Among other observations, they take note of an article explaining the bizarre tactics Palestinian journalists must use to avoid having their reporting censored by social-media algorithms.

Vanessa Nosie is a member of Apache Stronghold (www.apache-stronghold.com),
an organization working to defend Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel).

The post Apaches Fight to Protect Oak Flat / Euphemizing Genocide in Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

On this week’s show:

Mickey welcomes 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 U.S./NATO reactions, as well as U.S. 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.

Then, 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 U.S. and across the globe.

The post Dangerous State of the World: Can Diplomacy Be Reinvigorated? / PRESS Act: Federal Reporter Shield Bill appeared first on KPFA.

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 abortion has always been difficult to access for millions of women in the U.S, even before the Supreme Court’s reversal of its 49-year-old Roe vs Wade decision. But Bonow says changing attitudes, and the near-universal availability of abortion pills, mean that choice is still possible, despite repressive state laws.

Then, Kevin Gosztola returns to the show to discuss with Mickey Huff the latest news on — and hope for — Julian Assange. This includes a recent ruling by the UK High Court of Justice that could complicate or even halt the Biden Administration’s efforts to extradite Assange to the U.S. Kevin and Mickey also take note of new attacks on press freedom and whistleblower rights taking place in the U.S., Israel, and Australia, among other nations.

The post The Fight for Abortion Rights in 2024 / New Hope for Julian Assange appeared first on KPFA.

Today’s Project Censored is preempted by special spring fund drive programming.

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Today’s Project Censored is preempted by a special fund drive episode of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa in which Rashid Khalidi discusses his book, The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.

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The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.

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May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Andrew Kennis, who explains his new theoretical model of media and society and also proposes reform policies (notably BBC-style public financing) to revive U.S. journalism in a way that serves the public, rather than commercial interests.

Then, Mickey and Eleanor discuss the growing protests occurring around the US in opposition to more aid and weapons being sent to Israel for their attacks on Gaza. They address the media framing and censorship around those First-Amendment-protected events happening on a rapidly increasing number of America’s college campuses and revisit the echoes of Kent State, as we approach the 54th anniversary of those tragic events on May 4th 1970.

The post World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi appeared first on KPFA.

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 also discuss media censorship and propaganda around Israel and Hamas and what appears to be an unfolding genocide Gaza, as well as the coming 16th Annual Izzy Awards at the Park Center (named after the late great muckraking reporter, I.F. Stone), which honors the best independent journalism in the public interest.

Then, Mickey and Eleanor deconstruct how establishment media are slanting Gaza coverage in Israel’s favor, including at the New York Times, which has gone so far as to control language and censor their own journalists, while demonizing those who offer counter-narratives based on transparently sourced factual reports from the region.

GUEST:

Raza Rumi is Director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College in upstate New York and has held a variety of other academic appointments in his career, including at Cornell University and the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at Hunter College.

The post The Vital Need for Independent Media / Corporate Media Self-Censorship and Spin About Gaza appeared first on KPFA.

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with two residents of East Palestine, Ohio — 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 of waiting without help, without answers, without accountability, all the while displaced and dealing with a range of illnesses, while local, state, and federal authorities bow to corporate greed over public health and justice.

Next up, retired army colonel Ann Wright joins the show to talk about the Freedom Flotilla: multiple vessels set to sail in mid-April carrying tons of humanitarian aid bound for Gaza. Ann talks about the history of these actions, the need for citizens to take action — even dangerous actions such as this — in order to do what their governments refuse to do: help the Palestinian people.

The post From East Palestine to Palestine, People Need Help appeared first on KPFA.

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 of Guilty of Journalism, explains the implications of the order and whether the U.S. might file new charges against the Wikileaks publisher, if it finally gets custody of him. They also discuss the significant consequences for press freedom should the case move forward.

Then, Eleanor speaks with independent journalist Hilary Beaumont about her recent reporting on solar geoengineering and tribal consent. Hilary outlines how this technology, which involves dispersing sulfur dioxide at high altitudes with the intent of offsetting some of the impact of climate change, represents yet another example of green colonialism. They discuss the negative and positive potential and effects of such methods and the paltry attention corporate media give to issues such as the intersection of Indigenous rights and the climate crisis.

GUESTS:

Kevin Gosztola is an independent journalist and author. He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from their beginning, as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases, and has been a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His book on the Assange case, Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange was published in 2023. Gosztola is also the editor of the Dissenter newsletter.

Hilary Beaumont is a California-based independent investigative journalist who covers the climate crisis, indigenous rights, and immigration. Her work has been published by The Guardian, Al Jazeera, and High Country News.

The post Press Freedom and the Julian Assange Appeal / Green Colonialism, Tribal Consent, and Solar Geoengineering appeared first on KPFA.

In the first half of the show, researcher and U.S. 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 peaceful. Sorensen explains how the military industrial complex in this country is the classic definition of fascism, and why confronting this uncomfortable fact is quite simply necessary for a livable future.

Then, we welcome Professor Richard Wolff back on the show, this time to articulate the dangerous delusions of American Exceptionalism that are hurting not only us but our allies in Europe as well. Professor Wolff outlines extreme miscalculations vis-à-vis Russia, China, and Israel; how right-wing fear mongering is failing; and the hope that’s building on the horizon, thanks to leftist organizing and campaigning.

The post Who Profits from U.S. Wars? / The Cost of American Delusions appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s show presents excerpts from a recent panel discussion about the “Military-Entertainment Complex.” Inspired by the documentary “Theaters of War,” the panelists examined the remarkable extent of Pentagon / CIA
influence over movies, television, and computer games, and its aim of molding the attitudes of Americans about the military as well as U.S. behavior in the world. The panel was co-sponsored by the Media Education Foundation and Project Censored, and moderated by Mickey Huff.

Roger Stahl is Professor of Communication at the University of Georgia, and the director of “Theaters of War.”

Robin Anderson is Professor Emerita of Media Studies at Fordham University.

Fatooma Saad is a doctoral student in Communications at Wayne State University, and formerly a Marine Corps corporal assigned to public relations.

Mnar Adley is the founder and editor-in-chief of Mint Press News, an online journalism site.

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In the first half of the show, Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein join host Eleanor Goldfield to talk about how a small co-op bookshop in Asheville, NC came to be the keeper of more than 20,000 youth books banned in Florida, as well as the emergence of the Banned Books Back! initiative and how a growing connection of people across state lines are finding creative ways to circumvent the rise of book bans.

Next, professor, author, and organizer Nicole Fabricant joins the show to talk to us about Curtis Bay: a sacrifice zone microcosm, one that is mirrored all over the nation and indeed the world. Nicole highlights how primarily black and brown communities are overburdened not just by pollution and corporate malfeasance but by the need to become their own scientists, doctors, and advocates. She shares powerful stories of autonomous youth organizing, and how we are, in fact, all sacrificed to corporate greed.

GUESTS:

Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein work at Firestorm, an anarchist co-op bookstore in Asheville, NC. Their bookstore accepted 22,500 copies of books banned from Duval County elementary schools, and are donating the books to families in Duval County. Many of the banned titles feature Black, Brown, Asian, Indigenous, or LGBT characters. More information is available at the bookstore’s web site.

Nicole Fabricant teaches at Towson University in the Baltimore area. She’s the author of Fighting to Breathe: Race, Toxicity and the Rise of Youth Activism In Baltimore.

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A new book edited by a trio of media scholars tracks the spread of censorship across countries and across the media spectrum. All three co-editors join Mickey to explain their disturbing findings. Then, Mickey and co-host Eleanor Goldfield discuss the widely published story of supposed mass rape by Hamas fighters on October 7, and the New York Times’ refusal, to date, to acknowledge that its story has been debunked. Eleanor also speaks about her recent article on her own experience of lacking housing and how corporate media’s choice of language facilitates discrimination against unsheltered people as an “other.”

GUESTS:

Robin Andersen is Professor Emerita of Communications at Fordham University. Steve Macek teaches at North Central College in suburban Chicago. Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in Education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. They are the co-editors of Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression.

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This week’s show is preempted by special fund drive programming.

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On this KPFA fundraising special, filmmaker and media-studies professor Roger Stahl describes the surprising breadth and depth of Pentagon and CIA control over Hollywood movies and television shows. His 2022 documentary, “Theaters of War,” examined how the military demands script changes as the price of its cooperation with producers, with the aim of favorably portraying US military forces, both in recent and historical conflicts. Stahl also explains “showstoppers,” plot or character elements that induce the military to withhold its cooperation, which sometimes prevents a show from being produced at all.

In this Project Censored special, we hear excerpts from a recent interview Mickey Huff conducted with Roger Stahl, as well as sound clips from “Theaters of War.” The film is also a premium for today’s program, and is offered for a pledge of $120.

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In this special fund drive episode, Kevin Gosztola delivers the latest news about the Julian Assange case, including Assange’s final judicial appeal in the UK against US efforts to extradite him and the consequences an Espionage Act trial of Assange could hold for journalists worldwide.

The post Is Assange’s Extradition Imminent? appeared first on KPFA.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week. In the first segment, a French farmer explains the complex politics behind the recent wave of mass protests by farmers, as well as the economic squeeze that government policies impose on them.

Next, in a brief “intermission,” Eleanor and Mickey discuss recent failures of corporate media and consider whether old media has abandoned any hope of building a substantial audience among the generation now coming of age.

We conclude by discussing legislation to expose vast tracts of southeast Alaskan forest to logging, under a pretense of returning the land to Native Alaskan authority.

David Lorant is a farmer based in Rennes, northwest France.
Joshua Wright is a filmmaker and forest-defense activist.

The post Why are farmers protesting in France? / Huge logging scheme disguised as land-back bill appeared first on KPFA.

In the opening segment, we learn about a case study in “regulatory capture.” Mickey’s guests explain how the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declined to enforce its own concentration-of-ownership rules and thereby permitted Sinclair Broadcasting to control more TV stations than the rules allow. These guests also recount the years they spent in litigation to force the FCC to release its Sinclair documents.

Then, in light of the recent Western air attacks on Yemen, Eleanor presents material gathered from online research and from her conversation with a Yemeni journalist. (Because of technical problems, the interview itself could not be aired.)

Ahmed Abdulkareem explains that the Yemeni government actions that provoked the US/UK “response” were Yemen’s efforts to halt the Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip. He also predicts that further violent intervention by the US will only strengthen the resistance.

GUESTS:

Sue Wilson is an award-winning journalist and the producer of the documentary Broadcast Blues. She also leads the Media Action Center, at www.mediaactioncenter.net. Her recent in-depth article about the Sinclair scandal can be seen at www.ProjectCensored.org.

Art Belendiuk is a communications-law attorney with decades of experience.

Ahmed Abdulkareem is a freelance Yemeni journalist.

The post Who regulates whom? / What’s behind the U.S. attacks on Yemen? appeared first on KPFA.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show.

Her first guest, Alan MacLeod, explains how some of the largest media institutions slant their Gaza coverage to favor Israel and even dismiss journalists who don’t comply. He also warns of a neocon effort to push the U.S. into attacking Iran. The second half of the show looks at how hazardous uranium mining on and near Native territory in the Southwest is likely to persist and increase, even near the Grand Canyon, owing to various legal loopholes.

Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer at Mint Press News, and a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. He’s also the author of the 2018 book “Bad News From Venezuela.” Leona Morgan is a Diné (“Navajo”) anti-nuclear organizer. Information related to the campaign to halt nuclear colonialism in the American Southwest can be found at haulno.com.

The post Big Media’s pro-Israel bias / Native people resist uranium mining appeared first on KPFA.

Mickey’s guests for the hour are Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. Fearful of what a second Trump administration might bring, Grob and Roth point to the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s as a case study in how rapidly a society can lose its democratic political system, and they offer suggestions on what ordinary citizens can do to preserve democratic institutions.

Leonard Grob is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey. John K. Roth is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College in southern California. Both are widely-published scholars of the Holocaust.

The post The Fragility of Democracy, and How to Preserve It appeared first on KPFA.

For one of their first programs of 2024, Mickey and Eleanor again focus on the legal case of Julian Assange and the implication for press freedom in the U.S. and abroad.
In a recently recorded interview, independent journalist Kevin Gosztola tells Mickey about the latest legal developments, including the lawsuit against the CIA. Then we hear a discussion he had with Eleanor about his book Guilty of Journalism; they spoke last August at the Red Emma’s bookstore/cafe in Baltimore.

Kevin Gosztola has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from their beginning, as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases. His book on the Assange case, Guilty of Journalism, was published last year. Gosztola also writes at thedissenter.org.

The post Freedom of the Press Means Freedom for Julian Assange appeared first on KPFA.

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 the ICJ against Israel: the potential, the pitfalls and the precedent. Ben Imran also debunks Israel’s claim to self-defense and shines a light on the West Bank, a primary target for Israel beyond obliterating Gaza.

Next up, Professors Anthony O’Rourke and Wadie Said join the show to discuss their recent article in Dissent covering the oppressively Orwellian push to criminalize support for Palestine as material support for a terrorist organization, particularly on college campuses — going farther than the already ludicrous assertion that antizionism is antisemitism.

The post The Legality of Genocide: On International Law & Thoughtcrimes on US Campuses appeared first on KPFA.

Project Censored has released “Censored 2024,” the latest in the Project’s series of annual volumes detailing the shortcomings of media giants and the accomplishments of independent media. The best-known feature of each year’s book is the “Top 25” list of most significant stories overlooked or underreported by the corporate media.

On this week’s radio show, Mickey is joined by two contributors to the annual volumes; they discuss what kinds of stories are most-likely to be censored by corporate media and why. We also hear an alert about the ever-increasing number of conservative attempts to ban or restrict disfavored books at school and public libraries.

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, coordinator of its Campus Affiliates Program, and a widely-published media analyst. Media scholar Steve Macek teaches at North Central College in suburban Chicago, and has contributed to multiple Project Censored yearbooks.

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On this week’s Project Censored, we replay a timeless speech by the legendary political activist and consumer-rights advocate Ralph Nader. Nader outlines some of the most critical problems facing Americans, including exorbitant military spending, out-of-control corporations, and thousands of annual deaths in the workplace or from lack of access to health care. Then he names some of the individuals who’ve made a difference in recent US. history, explains what students can accomplish on campus, and outlines how voters can hold legislators accountable. Nader spoke on March 5, 2018, at Sonoma State University in northern California, as part of the campus’s annual Social Justice Week Lecture Series.

The post One Person Can Make a Difference: Social Justice & World Affairs (Ralph Nader encore) appeared first on KPFA.

On this week’s Project Censored:

Eleanor Goldfield hosts. In the first segment, we learn about the activities of the Jewish National Fund,
a self-proclaimed “environmental organization” that, according to our guest, “has really existed to displace Palestinians and acquire Palestinian land through any means necessary.” Then in the second half of the program, we learn that wastewater from fracking, besides containing chemical toxins, is apt to also have high concentrations of radioactive elements.

Guests:

Abdullah Elagha works with the Colorado Palestine Coalition. He took part in organizing actions against a pro-Israel conference that took place in Denver in early December. Justin Nobel is an investigative journalist who studies the environmental, labor, and community impacts of fossil-fuel production. He’s been published in several national magazines and websites, and has a book, “Petroleum 238,” coming out in April 2024.

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Today’s show is preempted by a special holiday fund drive broadcast. Project Censored will resume its usual schedule on December 22, 2023.

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On this special fund drive show, we celebrate the importance of a truly free press by looking at the case of Julian Assange.

Mickey shares excerpts of his conversation with Assange’s father and brother as they traveled to the United States for the premiere of the documentary Ithaka. He also shares excerpts from the film itself and from his conversation with independent journalist and author Kevin Gosztola regarding Gosztola’s book Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.

The post Julian Assange and Press Freedoms appeared first on KPFA.

On today’s show, Eleanor and Mickey speak with two veteran investigative journalists, both on the issue of Israeli influence in U.S. media and society.

In the first segment, James Bamford speaks about Project Butterfly, a multimillion-dollar campaign begun in 2015 to undermine pro-Palestinian advocacy in the U.S., especially on campuses. He asks why U.S. law enforcement has never investigated Israeli agents connected with Project Butterfly, the 2020 Trump campaign, and other domestic activities.

Next, Peter Byrne discusses his article written on assignment for the North Bay Bohemian, which the Bohemian then declined to publish. Byrne believes this happened because his article was about a protest against the Israeli massacres in Gaza. He also speaks more generally about Israeli efforts to tilt U.S. public discourse about the Middle East.

The post Israeli Involvement in Undermining U.S. Advocacy in Support of Palestinians appeared first on KPFA.

On this week’s Project Censored Show: History Matters. Historian and author Claudio Saunt addresses the mass expulsion of Native American Indians from the Southern US in the 19th Century, an event that would be described as the “Trail of Tears.” Professor Saunt refers to this so-called “removal” as a deportation and extermination policy in his 2020 book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. His talk examines this little known history, including the political maneuvering by President Andrew Jackson to narrowly push the Indian Removal Act through Congress, as well as contemporary ramifications of such events.

The post Claudio Saunt: The Mass Expulsion of Native American Indians From the Southern US appeared first on KPFA.

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 brings us information on the so-called silent holocaust taking place in the Congo, where some 6 million people have died as nations across the region and the world vie for the more than $24 trillion worth of natural resources within Congo’s borders. Next up, Giulia Messmer from Sea Watch explains her organization’s rescue work in the Mediterranean, how European nations are moving to criminalize migration, cross-border solidarity, and more.

The post Colonialism Today: From The Crisis in Congo to Capsizing Boats in the Mediterranean appeared first on KPFA.

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 internationalist struggle and why, once again for the folks in the back, antizionism is not antisemitism.

Next up, your cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some Wikileaks files, Reporters Without Borders reports, and the cracks in the facade of Israeli propaganda.

The post Context, Connections & Cracks in the Facade of Propaganda: A Deeper Look at Israel/Palestine appeared first on KPFA.

This week’s Project Censored Show focuses on the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, the one-sided coverage of the Israel-Palestine conflict by corporate media, and Big Tech actions to suppress Palestinian perspectives. Mickey Huff and his guests discuss how the media bias and lack of historical context in turn sways US public opinion, and actually helps facilitate more Israeli war crimes.

GUESTS:

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, coordinator of its Campus Affiliates Program, and a widely-published media analyst. Mnar Adley is founder and Editor-in-Chief of Mint Press News (www.mintpressnews.com). Robin Andersen is Professor Emerita of Communications at Fordham University; her article “How Big Media Facilitate Israeli War Crimes in Gaza” can be found at www.ProjectCensored.org.

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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 United States, as Kiriakou himself has sat in the very same court that awaits Assange. Kiriakou also discusses the CIA’s rabid stance against Assange and inside workings that allowed the CIA to plan Assange’s murder with total abandon and without any accountability. Next up, former Marine Corps captain and State Dept officer Matthew Hoh joins the show again to walk us through exactly what classified information is, and why that’s important in understanding the files that wikileaks shared. Matthew debunks the popular trope that the Wikileaks publications put any US lives at risk, pointing out that the true harm was to the empire itself.

The post A Look At Assange From Inside the CIA, State Department & US Military appeared first on KPFA.

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 media and community media cover gun violence, and takes entertainment-industry publications to task for employer-biased coverage of the Hollywood writers’ strike. Also, she points out flaws and dangers in the so-called EARN IT Act.

Nora Barrows Friedman has reported about the Middle East for 20 years, and is Associate Editor at the Electronic Intifada (www.electronicintifada.net).

Shealeigh Voitl is digital and print editor at Project Censored and has also written for Truthout, the Progressive, Ms., and elsewhere.

The post Roots of the Palestine-Israel conflict / Media slants on gun violence & writers’ strike / Dangerous “EARN-IT” Act appeared first on KPFA.

Mickey dedicates this week’s show to Banned Books Week 2023 (Oct. 1-7), www.bannedbooksweek.org. Now in its 41st year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting the freedom to read, and opposing efforts to ban certain books from library shelves, especially in school settings. Mickey’s guests bring a variety of perspectives to the program, but are united in their advocacy of the freedom to read, and to write.

Betsy Gomez is coordinator for the Banned Books Week Coalition (www.bannedbooksweek.org), and also works in the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom.

Cameron Samuels is a 2022 graduate of Seven Lakes High School near Houston, and the Executive Director of “SEAT,” Students Engaged in Advancing Texas (www.studentsengaged.org). Cameron was named the 2022 Youth Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week.

Da’Taeveyon Daniels is a high school senior in Fort Worth, Texas, Partnership Director for SEAT, and the 2023 Youth Honorary Chair of Banned Books Week.

Jonah Winter (www.jonahwinter.com) is a prolific and award-winning author of children’s books; his 40 titles include biographies of politicians, judges, musicians, and baseball players. His latest book, “Banned Book,” was released in August by Creative Editions.

The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.

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The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.

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The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.

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The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.

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The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.

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The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.

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Mickey and Eleanor co-host this week’s episode of the Project Censored Show.

In the first half of the program, Mickey speaks with Dave Lindorff about the remarkable story of Ted Hall, a scientific genius who was put to work on the WW II Manhattan Project while still in his teens, then gave his knowledge of atomic secrets to the USSR, to prevent the US from being the world’s sole nuclear power. Lindorff also shares information from declassified military documents from the 1940s and 1950s about US planning for a nuclear first strike against the USSR.

In the second half of the show Mickey and Eleanor discuss recent attacks against press freedom in the US, from the now-well-known police raid on the Marion County Record in Kansas, to other cases of government interference with media that haven’t had as much scrutiny.

Dave Lindorff is a long-time investigative reporter who written on topics from health care to the Mumia abu-Jamal case. His new book on Ted Hall, “Spy For No Country: The Story of Ted Hall, The Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World” will be in print later this year. He’s also the co-producer of a new film about Hall, “The Compassionate Spy.” His online work can be found at www.thiscantbehappening.net

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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. In the first segment, Crystal Mello provides an update on the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a project that once appeared stalled by opposition, but was revived by Congress. It would deliver fracked natural gas from West Virginia into Virginia. Crystal Mello says the pipeline’s construction has disrupted local water supplies, and brought numerous other ill effects. She also says local media are spreading false information about the project. Later in the program, Carla Joy Bergman explains the concept of “adult supremacy,” pointing out that society still sanctions age discrimination against its youngest members. She proposes instead recognition and respect for children’s’ autonomy, especially in schools. The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The post Residents resist a pipeline project / Challenging adult supremacy Project Censored – August 25, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

The first portion of today’s program is devoted to a discussion of a cooperative enterprise involving Project Censored and a European media watch group, the News Enlightenment Initiative (NEI) of Germany. The product of the ‘joint endeavor’ was an multinational panel of journalism judges which then compiled a Project Censored-style list of most-censored international news stories. These results were presented at a conference last month in Bonn. Mickey’s guests describe the process involved, and analyze the most-censored stories. Then an update on the Julian Assange case, including a warning that the extradition of Assange from the U.K. to the U.S. may happen within weeks. The post Most-censored international stories / Assange extradition imminent? – Project Censored – August 11, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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 Wallace not been replaced as Vice-President by Harry Truman, Wallace would have succeeded to the presidency upon FDR’s death in April 1945, and history would’ve taken a different path (Kuznick believes that Wallace would not have used the bomb, nor started the Cold War). In the second half of the show, Peter Phillips and Bill Tiwald remind listeners of the catastrophe that even a “limited” nuclear war would unleash on humanity, as well as the human and financial costs of maintaining nuclear stockpiles. They explain how New Mexico has borne a disproportionate share of the nuclear burden, and talk about an event they helped organize — the Albuquerque Peace Festival (www.abqpeacefest.org), taking place on August 5. The post OPPENHEIMER MOVIE / WW II LIE / NUCLEAR INSANITY / ABQ PEACE FESTIVAL – Project Censored – August 4, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. 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 at the colonial origins of the concept of whiteness, and follows this theme forward to present-day events, including the Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action programs at universities. Then in the second half of the program, Eleanor speaks with Jen Deerinwater. Drawing on their own life experiences, they discuss how bisexuality is widely misunderstood or dismissed, even by other queer people. Deerinwater also adds her observations about how bisexuality is treated within Native communities, and explains that the Native concept of two-spirit is about more than an individual’s sexual orientation. The post U.S. independence and slavery / Bisexuality still misunderstood – Project Censored – July 14, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Mickey opens the program speaking with Norman Solomon about Solomon’s latest book, “War Made Invisible” (from New Press), examining how the military, politicians, and corporate media cooperate to disguise from the public the human toll of U.S. wars. Then Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Lee Camp about his new e-book “Dangerous Ideas.” Camp brings a skeptical yet humorous eye to various issues that need a closer look, from consumerism to capitalism itself. He also speaks about his first-hand experiences of being censored. Norman Solomon is an author, media critic, and former Congressional candidate. His previous books include “War Made Easy,” “Target Iraq,” and “Unreliable Sources.” Lee Camp is a comedian and journalist. He hosted a program, “Redacted Tonight,” on RT America Television, until the network was forced to close in 2022 in the aftermath of the invasion of Ukraine. The post War Made Invisible / Dangerous Ideas – Project Censored – July 7, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. First, an update on the case of Alex Saab, incarcerated in the US without trial, despite his status as a diplomat. We also learn how Venezuela has adapted its economy to cope with punitive U.S. sanctions. Then the news about a recent verdict in a press-freedom case from North Carolina, where two reporters were arrested while doing their jobs. The post Venezuela Update/ NC Case Could Undermine Press Freedom – Project Censored – June 30, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

To open the program, Mickey and former Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with writer Alan MacLeod. He’s just written about a new phenomenon in U.S. military recruitment: social media posts from “e-girls,” designed to catch the eyes of young males. Also joining the segment is military veteran Rosa del Duca. Then Eleanor Goldfield interviews Dr. Harriet Fraad about the psychology behind mass shootings, a type of crime committed almost exclusively by men, and rare outside the U.S. She finds the roots of these assaults in the unique way that capitalism and patriarchy intersect in the U.S. Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer at Mint Press News, and a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His article on “e-girls” and Army recruitment appears at www.mintpressnews.com/simp-to-soldier-e-girls-military-recuitment-gen-z/284897 Rosa del Duca is an Army National Guard veteran who became a conscientious objector during George W. Bush’s Iraq war. She later wrote a memoir, “Breaking Cadence.” Her web site is www.rosadelduca.com. Harriet Fraad is a mental health counselor in private practice in New York. She also writes extensively about social issues. Her web site is www.harrietfraad.com. The post YOUNG WOMEN AS MILITARY-RECRUITMENT BAIT / ROOT CAUSES OF MASS SHOOTINGS – Project Censored – June 23, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

To open the program, Mickey and former Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with writer Alan MacLeod. He’s just written about a new phenomenon in U.S. military recruitment: social media posts from “e-girls,” designed to catch the eyes of young males. Also joining the segment is military veteran Rosa del Duca. Then Eleanor Goldfield interviews Dr. Harriet Fraad about the psychology behind mass shootings, a type of crime committed almost exclusively by men, and rare outside the U.S. She finds the roots of these assaults in the unique way that capitalism and patriarchy intersect in the U.S. Alan MacLeod is Senior Staff Writer at Mint Press News, and a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. His article on “e-girls” and Army recruitment appears at www.mintpressnews.com/simp-to-soldier-e-girls-military-recuitment-gen-z/284897 Rosa del Duca is an Army National Guard veteran who became a conscientious objector during George W. Bush’s Iraq war. She later wrote a memoir, “Breaking Cadence.” Her web site is www.rosadelduca.com. Harriet Fraad is a mental health counselor in private practice in New York. She also writes extensively about social issues. Her web site is www.harrietfraad.com. The post YOUNG WOMEN AS MILITARY-RECRUITMENT BAIT / ROOT CAUSES OF MASS SHOOTINGS – Project Censored – June 16, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program. Her first guest , Morgan Artyukhina, examines the recent flurry of legislation directed against transgender people, and places these attacks in the context of social class. Then in the second half of the show, long-time community organizer Kamau Franklin recounts some of the history of Black resistance to oppression, and explains why a successful organizing campaign must combine both practical accomplishments and political education.

Morgan Artyukhina is a Washington DC-based journalist who has written for Mint Press News, Liberation News, Sputnik News and other outlets. Kamau Franklin is the founder of Atlanta-based Community Movement Builders, and has decades of organizing experience, covering issues from education to police misconduct. Previously he lived in New York, where he had his own law practice. The post What’s behind anti-transgender legislation / Lessons from a veteran community organizer – Project Censored – June 9, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey speaks with three Texas students who campaign against censorship in their state; they’re associated with a group called SEAT (Students Engaged in Advancing Texas). Then Adam Bessie discusses his newly-published book about changes in education wrought by the pandemic, and by ongoing forces of corporatization. The post Texas students resist censorship / New book about remote learning – Project Censored – June 2, 2023 appeared first on KPFA.

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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 how we can use courts and litigation as a tactic while also understanding that our judicial system exists to uphold the capitalist industrial economy. Next, Eleanor recently spoke with Matilda Bliss and Veronica Coit, two journalists from the Asheville Blade in Asheville, North Carolina, who covered the ongoing violent gentrification and forced removal by police of unhoused people. They may be the first journalists to be found guilty for the heinous crime of literally gathering and reporting the news. They discuss their case and the ongoing struggle facing frontline and community journalists who dare to tell the truth and go against the establishment

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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 with the firm that make the “Call of Duty” game, Activision. He also notes that game’s portrayals of assassinations of foreign leaders as normal, and concludes that games like these are carefully designed propaganda/recruitment devices.

Next, media analyst Nolan Higdon takes the corporate press to task for its refusal to fairly present alternatives to official doctrine about the Covid-19 pandemic and the measures needed to cope with its fallout. Finally, in light of Press Freedom Day, Project Censored associate director Andy Lee Roth explains the multiple ways that journalism truly is the lifeblood of democracy, and journalists serve the cause of human rights, including freedom of expression.

Notes:

Alan MacLeod is a senior staff writer at MintPress News, and the author of two books on journalism. He writes extensively about media bias, propaganda, and fake news. He discusses his recent article “Call of Duty is a Government Psyop.” Reagan Haynie is a graduating senior at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. She has been Project Censored’s academic intern this past year.

Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. He’s also the author of the book The Anatomy of Fake News and other works of media analysis. His most recent dispatch on media and politics about the failures of the Fourth Estate using Covid-19 is No Turning Back.

Andy Lee Roth is Associate Director of Project Censored, co-editor of the Project’s annual volume, and co-coordinator of the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program. He has published widely on media issues, including hist most recent article, The Lifeblood of Democracy.

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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 Journalism. Kevin gives important updates on the Assange case as the WikiLeaks founder languishes in a Belmarsh prison awaiting potential extradition to the US to be tried under the Espionage Act. Then, in the second segment, we share more from a very special conversation between Kevin Gosztola and famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower, Daniel Ellsberg. Ellsberg spoke with Kevin last month on the occasion of the release of Kevin’s book Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange. In part two of this interview, Ellsberg shares information about his historical relations with the press, as well as his pessimistic view of today’s US press. We share it in honor of Daniel Ellsberg Week.

NOTES:
Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of Shadowproof, and also writes at The Dissenter. He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from their beginning, as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases. His new book on the Assange case, Guilty of Journalism is now available in bookstores. Daniel Ellsberg is best known for leaking classified Pentagon documents in 1971, which revealed covert operations against North Vietnam, as well as secret assessments that the war could not be won, and executive-branch lies to Congress and the US public. In the decades since then, Ellsberg has remained an antiwar activist, and an ally of whistleblowers. The news of his recent diagnosis of an inoperable cancer has prompted press-freedom advocates to declare a week of appreciation for Ellsberg, to begin Monday April 24.

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