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

In the first half of the program, Esra’a Al Shafei tells Eleanor about the now-pervasive surveillance systems governments use to spy on their populations and target dissidents; she warns that, “We cannot resist what we do not know.”

Then Mickey Huff and Peter Byrne discuss the militarization of Artificial Intelligence (AI), including the the corporations profiting from Pentagon AI procurement, and the sinister individuals at the top of some of those firms.

Note: this is a rebroadcast of a program that originally aired in April 2025. Esra’a Al Shafei is a Bahraini civil rights activist and free-speech advocate, and the founder of the web site surveillancewatch.io, a site that monitors the global surveillance industry. Peter Byrne is a veteran investigative reporter who has written on topics ranging from breast cancer to wildlife conservation to corruption at the Postal Service. His personal web site is www.peterbyrne.info. Together with Project Censored, he’s launching a ten-part series on the militarization of AI: www.projectcensored.org/military-ai-watch

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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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Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield co-host this week’s program.

In the first half-hour, Mickey speaks with Jeff Cohen about the life and achievements of the late Bill Moyers (1934-2025), taking special notice of Moyers’ sometimes behind-the-scenes support of independent media.

Then Mickey and Eleanor share their thoughts on some recent news that wasn’t covered, or not fully covered, by corporate media, including the massive toll that Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill” will exact on low-income Americans, the Heritage Foundation’s sinister Project Esther, and other stories. Jeff Cohen is the founder of the media-watch group Fairness& Accuracy in Reporting (www.FAIR.org), as well as the founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media.

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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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show.

Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq is a psychiatrist and writer based in Texas .

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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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program, which consists of audio excerpts from the 2025 “Izzy” Awards. Named after the famous muckraking reporter / publisher I.F. “Izzy” Stone, the annual awards honor outstanding work in independent journalism. More information on the award recipients can be found at www.parkindymedia.org/izzy-award-2025. Mickey Huff hosted the awards ceremony, which took place this past spring at Ithaca College. In this Project Censored Show, we hear the words of some of the award recipients, award judges, guest presenters, and other allies of independent media.

Victor Pickard teaches media studies at the University of Pennsylvania

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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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show.

Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq is a psychiatrist and writer based in Texas .

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Today’s show begins with 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.”

Then, we are rejoined by investigative journalist Peter Byrne. We look at his latest installments for Military AI Watch, including the Stargate Fiasco, how World War 3 will be fought inside data centers, and his most recent, AI Battle Space: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things.

GUESTS:

Zara Zimbardo coined the neologism Marsification in collaboration with the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, and co-created the concept album audio artwork Marsification: A Tale of Planetary Grief. She is an Interdisciplinary Studies faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Zara is a member of the curriculum design and facilitation team of Partners for Collaborative Change, with a focus on the interdependence of social justice and the environment, and community-driven climate resilience planning.

Peter Byrne is an award-winning investigative reporter and science writer, author of the ongoing series for Project Censored, Military AI Watch.

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To begin this week’s show, Mickey welcomes back media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss his new podcast Disinfo Detox and recurring special feature “The Gaslight Gazette,” which 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. The authors shift blame from corporate media to the Democratic Party, without noting their own 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 examine recent cases of astonishing ignorance by two of Trump’s department heads, as well as the way Biden’s former State Department spokesman changed his story once out of office.

Nolan Higdon teaches in the Education Department at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. He’s also written extensively on media issues and is a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show.

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Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program. In the first segment, we learn about the ongoing crisis that began with Hurricane Helene and why it continues, as federal and state authorities fail to address the actual needs of the people affected by the disaster. Next, a look at how the Trump administration, and some states, are working to suppress free speech by labeling any criticism of Israel as “antisemitism” and why this effort is actually a danger to Jewish people.

Chelsea White-Hoglen is a lifelong Western North Carolina resident, a community organizer, and a mutual-aid worker. She also produces and hosts “Rednecks Rising,” a podcast about Appalachia.

Alex Kane is a senior reporter at Jewish Currents magazine (www.jewishcurrents.org).

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In the first segment of today’s Project Censored, 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 on Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk and her release from detention in Louisiana, as well as updates on attacks on non-profits and the press at large, including attacks on major establishment media outlets.

Later in the program, Mickey welcomes back the iconic attorney and prolific author Ralph Nader. They discuss his new book, out from Seven Stories Press, Civic Self-Respect. It’s a how-to guide on being a more meaningfully engaged citizen with steps anyone can use to fight against growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and how we can create a more robust and representational democratic republic and protect our civil liberties before it’s too late.

GUESTS:

Lauren Harper is Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (www.freedom.press).

Seth Stern is Director of Advocacy, also at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Founded in 2012, the Foundation is a non-profit organization that defends both freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Among its projects is the Press Freedom tracker, a database of press-freedom violations in the U.S.

Ralph Nader’s name has been a household word in the US since the 1960s. His activism has covered issues from product safety to health-care policy, and he has founded multiple public-interest organizations.

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