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The first guest, documentary producer Robbie Leppzer, discusses his latest work, Power Struggle. 

It's an account of the grassroots campaign to shut down the Vermont Yankee nuclear plant, 

and the problems that remain after the plant's closure. Next, nuclear-power critics Arnie and 

Maggie Gunderson return to Project Censored to explain some of the continuing hazards facing 

Fukushima, Japan, years after the meltdown there. Finally, Poets Reading the News make 

a second appearance on the show.

 

Notes:

This is an edited rebroadcast of a Project Censored Show that originally aired in November 2017.

 

Robbie Leppzer is a film producer with over 30 documentaries to his credit.

Arnie and Maggie Gunderson left careers in the nuclear power industry to 

devote themselves to educating the public about nuclear power's hazards.

Elle Aviv Newton and Jenna Spagnolo are the co-editors of Poets Reading the News.Web sites mentioned on this week's program:www.turningtide.comwww.powerstrugglemovie.comwww.fairewinds.org

www.poetsreadingthenews.org

Historian Peter Kuznick returns to the Project Censored Show to discuss 

the forthcoming update to his book The Untold History of the United States.

The new material will cover the period from 2012 to 2018.

In the interview on this week's show, Kuznick addresses issues ranging from 

Trump and Russia, to the prospects for ending the conflict in Syria.

 

Notes:

 

Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University in Washington DC,

and also directs the Nuclear Studies Program at that institution.

He and Oliver Stone wrote the groundbreaking book The Untold History of the United States,

and also produced a Showtime documentary series based on the book. 

More information can be found at www.untoldhistory.com.

In 1988 Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky published their influential work, "Manufacturing Consent." 

One of the book's features was the introduction of the 'propaganda model,' the Herman/Chomsky analysis 

of how powerful institutions shape news reporting to serve their interests.

In this Project Censored Show, media scholar Rob Williams suggests how the propaganda model 

can be adapted and updated to address modern online media.

 

Notes:

 

This is a rebroadcast of the Project Censored Show of February 19, 2018.

 

Rob Williams teaches at the University of Vermont, and also works with the Action Coalition for Media Education

and the Global Critical Media Literacy Project. His print article on updating the Herman/Chomsky propaganda model 

can be found at:

 

projectcensored.org/post-truth-world-reviving-propaganda-model-news-digital-age

and at:

www.vermontindependent.org/the-post-truth-world-reviving-the-propaganda-model-of-news-for-our-digital-age

9/11 activists Jenna Orkin and Jon Gold are Mickey's guests for the hour. Rather than considering who the perpetrators might've been,the guests discuss the public health disaster that followed the attacks, when thousands of emergency workers and area residentsbecame ill from the toxins spread by the fires and collapse of the World Trade Center. Jon Gold also calls out some of the liestold by politicians (both federal and local) about 9/11, as well as the failures of the 9/11 Commission.Notes:Jenna Orkin has written four books, the most recent being "Ground Zero Wars." She focuses on the public health impactsof the 9/11 disaster. At the time of the attacks, her son attended high school four blocks from the WTC.Jon Gold has been investigating 9/11 for over ten years. His latest work is "We Were Lied To About 9/11," a digital collectionof transcripts from interviews with journalists, whistleblowers, peace activists, relatives of victims, and others who've workedto uncover the story.Web sites mentioned on this week's show:www.wewereliedtoabout911.comwww.wtceo.orgwww.declassify911.orgwww.historycommons.org

Longtime investigative reporter Peter Byrne shares what he learned from numerous interviews with academic and military analysts 

involved in the “war on terror,” and why they told him that the war must end. Byrne explains what he's learned about 

why people become terrorists, and he also shares his research into another topic, the roots of white-nationalist ideology in the U.S.

 

Notes:

Peter Byrne is an award-winning investigative reporter who's probed complex scientific, financial, and social issues. The topics on this week's 

Project Censored show are drawn from two articles Byrne wrote for the New Scientist magazine.

On this week's program, we hear a recent speech by author and peace organizer Medea Benjamin.

She discusses her newly-published book "Inside Iran," and explains why the anti-Iran words and actions

of the Trump administration will actually strengthen the hand of hardliners in Iran, making reform more difficult.

 

Notes:

 

Medea Benjamin helped found the fair-trade organization Global Exchange,

and the womens' peace group Code Pink. Her previous books include

"Kingdom of the Unjust" and "Drone Warfare." She spoke at the Hillside Club 

in Berkeley, California on June 7, 2018.

Author and public intellectual Henry Giroux returns to the program to discuss his newest book, 

"American Nightmare: Facing the Challenge of Facism." Among his observations, he explains 

why the rise of Donald Trump was not an aberration, but the outcome of forces that have 

been at work for decades. 

 

Notes:

 

Henry Giroux is a world-renowned educator, author, and public intellectual. He teaches at 

McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. His most recent books include The Violence of Organized Forgetting, 

Neoliberalism’s War on Higher Education, Disposable Futures, and America’s Addiction to Terrorism.

Audrena Redmond of Beautiful Struggle joins the program to discuss social and political issues in the African-American community. 

Next, a conversation with Jessica Forrester about radio broadcasting for young people.

Audrena Redmond of Beautiful Struggle joins the program to discuss social and political issues in the African-American community. 

Next, a conversation with Jessica Forrester about radio broadcasting for young people.

Video and internet journalist Abby Martin makes a return visit to the program, and speaks with Mickey about how corporate media obfuscates the truth to serve U.S. power and its allies, in Palestine, Yemen, Venezuela and elsewhere. In the second half of the show, Chase Palmieri of Tribeworthy.com revisits the program, following a recent remark from celebrity entrepreneur Elon Musk that there ought to be a way for the public to rate the work of journalists. Palmieri explains how Tribeworthy.com does exactly that, and summarizes how to use it.

Abby Martin hosts "The Empire Files" on Telesur TV, and is the founder of Mediaroots.org.  Chase Palmieri is cofounder of Tribeworthy.com; his background in the restaurant business inspired him to create a site where readers can evaluate news articles, in the same way as Yelp.com offers a place for restaurant ratings.