This week’s program looks at deaths of civilians at the hands of police, and in jail. Project Censored research has discovered that official federal statistics greatly understate the number of civilians who are killed by police each year. The guests examine police killings, as well as the increasing militarization of…

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This episode takes a look at the history of the Free Thought movement in the U-S, from its roots in the time of independence to its resurgence during the post-Civil War years. The struggle between freethinkers and conservative religious forces played out on several fronts, including efforts to restrict what publications could…

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Peter and Mickey discuss the newly-printed 2015 edition of Project Censored’s annual book on stories unreported or under-reported by the corporate media. The guests are Andy Lee Roth, co-editor of Censored 2015, and two contributors to the book, Dorothy Kidd and Zara Zimbardo. Roth summarizes some of the “top 25 censored stories,” and…

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Today’s Project Censored Show presents a speech given by former CIA analyst Ray McGovern. After his retirement from the CIA, McGovern founded “Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity,” and has criticized US spy agencies for their lawbreaking, and subservience to the agendas of politicians. He spoke in Santa Rosa, California on…

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The September 26th Project Censored show looks at Affordable Housing and Coalitions for Building Safe and Healthy Communities in the San Francisco Bay area. We address how reactionary forces including the Tea Party  and Nimby groups seek to block equitable housing and livable communities . Our guests include Wendi Kallins with the…

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On the next Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, join co-hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips as they celebrate Banned Books Week. This year, BBW focuses on Graphic Novels. Their first guest is Charles Brownstein, executive director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, Charles will give a history of…

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On the 9/12/14 Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio, hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips take on issues of free speech and censorship, banned books, and much more. Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) discusses his new book Freedom From Speech concerning free speech on…

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With the anniversary of the September 11 attacks at hand, Peter and Mickey speak with Ken Jenkins, organizers of the annual 911 Film Festival in Oakland, California, about questions that still linger 13 years after the attacks. Then Shahid Buttar of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee talks about the scope and implications…

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The program begins with a conversation with Kevin Gosztola, who writes for Firedoglake.com; Gosztola recounts his experiences in Ferguson, Missouri, in the days after the killing of black teen Michael Brown. Then Sunsara Taylor of Stoppatriarchy.org speaks from Texas about the continuing closures there of clinics offering abortions; Dennis Trainor of Acronym TV asks…

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Civil rights activist Carl Dix joins the program from Ferguson, Missouri, to discuss the police killing of black teen Michael Brown, and why Dix himself was singled out for arrest at one of the protests in Ferguson. The segment on police violence continues with an interview with Criminal Justice Professor…

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