Project Censored

Historian and author Andres Resendez speaks about "the other slavery" -- the enslavement 

of millions of Native Americans from the time of Columbus to the 1900s, a subject often overlooked 

in history curricula. Resendez spoke in Berkeley, CA in April 2017; Mickey Huff was the host of that event. 

This program includes Resendez' speech, and part of the question-and-answer period that followed. 

Later in the program, Project Censored correspondent Michael Levitan speaks with author and TV host Eleanor Goldfield about the limitations of online activism. And the show concludes with Nolan Higdon, Nicholas Baham and Desiree McSwain discussing their chapter in Censored 2018, "the New Authoritarianism."

 

Kenn Burrows teaches Holistic Health Studies at San Francisco State University. Lloyd Morgan is an electronic engineer; he also studies the connections between electromagnetic radiation and cancer. Audrey Johnson is a biology student at San Francisco State University, and co-president of the campus Project Censored club. Ellen Marx is the director of the California Brain Tumor Association. Reinette Senum is a city council member in Nevada City, California. Eleanor Goldfield is host of the Free-Speech TV show “Act Out” and author of the new book “Paradigm Lost.”

 

Update: After this program was recorded, California Governor Jerry Brown vetoed SB649.

 

Web sites mentioned in this week's program:

 

www.CA4safertech.com

 

www.noon649.org

Mickey and his guests spend the hour addressing election integrity: are US elections clean, and how can voters be sure? 

The guests suggest that there are serious doubts about the validity of some recent elections, and ask why corporate media have ignored these issues. 

Richard Tamm and Jim Soper are are members of the National Voting Rights Task Force, and organizers of a national conference on election integrity

that was held in Berkeley, CA on October 7 and 8. Jonathan Simon is executive director of the Election Defense Alliance, and the author of Code Red, 

a new book about electoral manipulation. Mark Crispin Miller teaches at New York University, and is the author of Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election.

Web sites for organizations and individuals mentioned on this week's show:
www.nvrtf.org
www.codered2016.com
www.forbiddenbookshelf.com

www.markcrispinmiller.com

Mickey and Peter devote this week's show to discussions about the media, including both critiques of corporate media 

and a briefing on the latest work from Project Censored. Their first guest, Rob Williams, speaks about fighting corporate fake news, 

and introduces his suggested additions to the 'propaganda model' set forth by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman in 1988's "Manufacturing Consent." 

Then Telesur contributor Abby Martin explains the corporate media's gross misrepresentations of the conflict in Venezuela. Finally, Andy Lee Roth 

joins Mickey to discuss some of the stories and ideas in "Censored 2018," Project Censored's just-published compendium of the latest underreported stories. 

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. 

Abby Martin hosts "the Empire Files" show on Telesur, and formerly hosted "Breaking the Set" on RT. 

Andy Lee Roth teaches at Citrus College in Southern California. and was co-editor (with Mickey Huff) of "Censored 2018."

This week's show coincides with Banned-Books-Week, and Mickey spends the hour with five guests, representing 

a variety of perspectives, but all in agreement on the need to defend peoples' right to read. The topics of discussion 

include the origin of Banned-Books-Week in the 1980s, the ongoing attempts to restrict what students may read in school, 

and the continuing importance of comic books and graphic novels in today's media world. 

 

Latin America and Journalism: Nolan Higdon and Nicholas Baham speak with Kali Persall 

(recently returned from a visit to Cuba), and T.M. Scruggs (recently returned from Nicaragua).

Kali Persall writes for the Pioneer newspaper in Hayward, California (www.thepioneeronline.com). 

TM Scruggs is a co-founder of the Real News Network (www.therealnews.com)

Marking the 16th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Peter and Mickey speak with two scholars who've written extensively about Sept. 11. 

The first guest is David Ray Griffin, author of nearly a dozen books about Sept. 11; he contends the Bush Administration played the central role in the attacks. 

In this appearance on the Project Censored Show, he speaks about some of the ideas in his latest book, Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World.

For the second half of the show, Tony Hall speaks about Mossad and Sept. 11, and how he was fired from a tenured professorship at a Canadian university after expressing his views. 

 

Mickey's guest for the hour is the academic, and prolific author, Henry Giroux of McMaster University in Canada. 

They discuss some of the consequences of neoliberalism and authoritarianism for the US, and how US political culture deteriorated to a level that allowed Trump to be elected.

Peter Phillips and Michael Sukhov spend the hour in conversation with scholar/activist William Robinson. Addressing a wide range of topics, their discussion begins with Venezuela and corporate-media  misrepresentations of conditions around Latin America, then segues to US politics and the necessity of resisting facism. Later, Robinson opines on three possible futures for humanity. 

A conversation about surveillance and authoritarianism, with Kalemba Kizito.

 

the Project Censored Show:

 

Hosts: Nolan Higdon, Nicholas Baham and Desiree McSwain

Producer: Mitch Scorza