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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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.

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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.

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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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