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.

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On this week’s Project Censored:

Eleanor Goldfield hosts. In the first segment, we learn about the activities of the Jewish National Fund,

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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