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The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand

Kate Horgan — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 15:00:39 +0000

In August 2019, an influential inside-the-Beltway platform called War on the Rocks published a proposal to automate fighting nuclear wars with artificial intelligence, America Needs a “Dead Hand”. Two nuclear war strategy experts with significant academic and military credentials argued that the modernization of the nation’s nuclear-armed triad of missiles, bombers, and submarines must include a command, communication, and control system (NC3) operated by artificial intelligence.

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Project Censored’s 2025 Summer Reading List

Kate Horgan — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 17:56:34 +0000

With temperatures soaring, the team at Project Censored believes nothing is cooler than reading a good book. The following titles are helping us stay informed and inspired through the hot days of Summer 2025. Let us know what books are inspiring you this summer! You can support Independent bookstores by…

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CEO Salaries Skyrocket While Workers’ Wages Stagnate

Kate Horgan — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:51:49 +0000

The average CEO salary has increased by 50 percent since 2019, while workers’ wages rose by less than one percent, according to a recent analysis by the global anti-poverty organization Oxfam International, as reported by Jake Johnson in a May 2025 article for Common Dreams. In 2019, the average CEO…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 17:43:27 +0000

Project Censored in the World Many members of Project Censored’s team attended the 2025 meetings of the Union for Democratic Communications, held at the University of Washington, Tacoma, from June 19 to June 22. Project Censored was represented by Allison Butler, Reagan Haynie, Nolan Higdon, Kate Horgan, Mickey Huff, Steve…

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Big Tech Data Centers Deplete Water From Scarce Sources Around the World

Kate Horgan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:48:39 +0000

Big tech companies are building data centers that “use vast amounts of water in some of the world’s driest areas,” according to an April 2025 report by Luke Barratt and Costanza Gambarini, based on a joint investigation by Source Material, a non-profit investigative journalism outlet, and the Guardian. In 2023, for example,…

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Nobel Economists Urge Minimum Tax on World’s 3,000 Billionaires

Kate Horgan — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 16:34:58 +0000

In a July 2025 article, published by Le Monde, seven Nobel Laureates in economics—Daron Acemoglu, George Akerlof, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther Duflo, Simon Johnson, Paul Krugman, and Joseph Stiglitz—advocated a two-percent wealth tax on the world’s “ultrarich,” as Jessica Corbett reported for Common Dreams. As Corbett’s article noted, a two-percent wealth…

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ECONOMIC TERROR AND THE TURBOCHUGGF*CK IN TEXAS

Kate Horgan — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 15:00:22 +0000

By Danbert Nobacon I don’t know what word in the English language—I can’t find one—that applies to people who are willing to sacrifice the literal existence of organized human life … so they can put a few more dollars into highly overstuffed pockets. The word ‘evil’ doesn’t begin to approach…

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Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance

Kate Horgan — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:57:26 +0000

In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system that’s upheld by lawyers and promoted in our institutions of higher learning. Andrew outlines plea bargaining as a bolster and boost to mass incarceration, prisons as sponges for people in poverty, the death of social programs that would legitimately counter crime, and the need to shift our thinking about how our justice system works and for whom, recognizing that our paradigms allow this remarkably harmful system to perpetuate. Later in the show, I’m joined by Dr. Roy Casagranda, a professor of government and the Middle East Affairs expert at Austin Community College. Dr. Casagranda outlines the bloodied red thread that connects the first crusades to the fall of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of Israel, and the war on terror. He also uplifts a purposefully obscured history of cultural vibrancy in the Muslim world where not only did Jews, Muslims, and Christians thrive but where the foundations of our modern world were forged centuries before the European mathematical, scientific, and philosophical advancements we learn about.

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Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk

Kate Horgan — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 17:50:35 +0000

In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media and author to talk about the passing of independent media great Bill Moyers. Jeff shares stories of Moyers intrepid reporting and his behind-the-scenes organizing and fundraising that allowed truly independent media to flourish. His death is a loss for the alternative independent media world, and a sobering reminder of the need for outspoken voices such as Bill’s in times like these. In the second part of the show, co hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of the news that didn’t make the news, and why, as well as asking, is this the best we can do? They kick off with what corporate media won’t tell you about the so-called Big Beautiful Bill, and then dig into some historical context of the insidious Project Esther, the latest in a long line of threats to our civil liberties, going back to COINTELPRO. Sprinkle in some investigative comedy, defense of metal heads, and more - coming up now on Project Censored.

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The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy

Kate Horgan — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 15:00:23 +0000

Nolan Higdon and Sydney Sullivan This Dispatch is informed by our forthcoming 2025 article, “Media Literacy in the Crosshairs: NATO’s Strategic Goals and the Revival of Protectionist Pedagogy,” from the Journal of Media Literacy Education, Volume 17, Issue 2. During President Donald Trump’s second term, education has remained a central…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2025

Kate Horgan — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 20:52:36 +0000

Introducing Project Censored’s Summer 2025 Student Interns Project Censored is pleased to announce our stellar cohort of summer 2025 interns, Jayden Henry (Vanderbilt University), Elizabeth Insuasti (University of Florida), Ella Mrofka (North Central College), Caitlin Suda (North Central College), and Jackie Vickery (Ithaca College). They are already hard at work…

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The Holocaust in Gaza Enabled by Corporate and Public Service Media

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 16:21:31 +0000

By Emil Marmol On October 7, 2023, Hamas and other resistance groups launched an attack that resulted in the deaths of approximately 741 Israeli civilians, 68 foreign nationals, and 314 members of Israeli military forces, with approximately an additional 252 people taken to Gaza as hostages. This, according to the…

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Short Supply: Empathy, Attention, and America’s Legal Labyrinth

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Jul 2025 16:26:55 +0000

In the first part of the program, we’re joined by board-certified psychiatrist and writer Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq who details how empathy as a skill requires attention, a commodity in short supply these days. Dr. Mushtaq outlines how the framework of social media allows us to not only dehumanize others but indeed ourselves, to avoid discomfort through a simple scroll, and to become ever more intolerant of those we perceive as insurmountably different than ourselves. She also discusses how this connects to the rise of anxiety, depression, and isolation in our society. Later in the program, journalist, researcher and policy director at Defending Rights and Dissent Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to help us wade through the morass of courts and legal proceedings that create a whiplash of headaches for those trying to negotiate access to supposed rights such as the first amendment. Chip gives historical context to today’s free speech battles and outlines nefarious tactics such as blacklists and their role in legal cases.

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The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:16:52 +0000

Indeed, as our first amendment rights continue to be gravely threatened, real, independent frontline journalists are more than truth-tellers, they are the keepers of ideals we as Americans are taught to revere. so, this week, a special program: excerpts from the 17th annual Izzy Awards Show which took place at the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College in Ithaca New York in early May of this year.

The Izzy awards are named after the famous and indeed infamous and intrepid muckraker I.F. ‘Izzy’ Stone…

So this week, we’re featuring remarks by presenters, journalists and media scholars as well as remarks by this year’s winners. Project Censored director and radio show host Mickey Huff was the host of the awards show. He is also the distinguished director of the Park Center for Independent Media.

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The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Jun 2025 20:16:52 +0000

The Izzy awards are named after the famous and indeed infamous and intrepid muckraker I.F. ‘Izzy’ Stone…

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The Problem with AI War Games

Kate Horgan — Thu, 26 Jun 2025 18:00:12 +0000

Alexandr Wang, 28, founded Scale AI in 2016, and he is now worth billions.

Scale AI is credibly accused of cheating and exploiting human coders who hand-label billions of images and texts used for training generative AIs.

Scale AI is backed by massive military contractor Amazon and the ubiquitous military AI investor Peter Thiel.

Born in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Wang is a vocal AI war hawk who posits that China poses an existential threat to US dominance in artificial intelligence.

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Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex

Kate Horgan — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 15:00:45 +0000

Mischa Geracoulis As the second Trump administration is dispatching its minions to stalk US streets, smashing citizens’ First Amendment rights, in partnership with unregulated Big Tech, it also surveils online, helping itself to citizens’ personal identifiable information (PII). In the age of surveillance capitalism, information is a hot commodity for…

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Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Jun 2025 15:56:38 +0000

Today on the program in the first segment: Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny as they apply to settler colonialism in space, and the billionaire tech bro infatuation with our closest planetary neighbor, Mars. Looking through several analytical frames, Zimbardo debunks any notion that there is a Planet B to escape to, remarking “we’re encouraged to believe that human ingenuity and industry can turn uninhabitable Mars into a habitable Earth. This fantasy is a distraction from the reality that Earth is being rapidly turned into Mars.” In the second segment today, we are rejoined by investigative journalist Peter Byrne. We look at his latest installments for Military AI Watch. We’ll look at the Stargate Fiasco, World War 3 will be fought inside data centers, and his most recent, AI Battle Space: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things.

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Glen E. Friedman on His Photography, Bad Brains, and Rebellious American Music

Kate Horgan — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:10:00 +0000

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, guest host Mischa Geracoulis, Project Censored’s managing editor, speaks with legendary photographer, Glen E. Friedman, about his latest book of Bad Brains photographs, Fearless Vampire Killers (Akashic Books, 2025), Glen’s work in photography and music, punk rock’s place in history, and the parallels between independent media and independent music. One of the more enduring attributes of Friedman’s work is its unspoken message of championing freedom, especially apropos when civil liberties and human rights are under fire.

Friedman’s iconic Burning Flags travelling exhibition that launched in Barcelona in 2022 will be making its US debut at the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 18, 2025 through February 15, 2026.

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Disinfo, Decline, and Dysfunction

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 16:26:01 +0000

In the first segment of this week's Project Censored Show, Mickey welcomes back media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss his new podcast Disinfo Detox and recurring special feature “The Gaslight Gazette" that analyzes current events and media coverage of them through a critical media literacy lens aiming to deconstruct deceptive media messaging. They also discuss legacy media's failure to adequately cover Joe Biden’s physical and cognitive decline in the last election, which a new book co-authored by CNN’s Jake Tapper addresses, though the authors shift blame from corporate media to the Democratic Party without noting their own role in lack of in-depth coverage even though there were stories published at the time in the independent press. Later in the show Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey present another installment in their "Is This the Best We Can Do" segment that analyzes the competency of current government appointees for the positions they fulfill. They provide examples regarding the current heads of FEMA, the Department of Homeland Security, the former spokesperson for Biden’s Secretary of State, and more.

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MARKETING MARS

Kate Horgan — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 16:05:34 +0000

If Mars Is the Answer, What Was the Question? Mars is 140 million miles away, but it has never been closer. Whether it’s Elon Musk’s relentless cheerleading, the competing plans of various nation states, or the unending cycle of popular culture, Mars is having a serious moment. Earthlings have been…

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Out of the Frame: Hurricane Helene Aftermath and the Weaponization of Antisemitism

Kate Horgan — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 16:53:39 +0000

This week, Eleanor Goldfield begins by doing what corporate media rarely do, and that is check in on people beyond the 24-hour news cycle and disaster reporting frenzy. Chelsea White-Hoglen, organizer and resident of Western North Carolina comes back on the program to tell us about the compounding crises that have…

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AI Battlespace: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things

Kate Horgan — Thu, 29 May 2025 18:00:38 +0000

By Peter Byrne PDF version available here. Audio version available here. During the First Cold War (1949–1989), the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics threatened each other with thousands of nuclear warheads on land- and sea-based ballistic missiles on hair triggers. Ballistic rockets are designed to speed…

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Press Freedoms and Civil Rights Under Attack; and Practicing Civic Self-respect

Kate Horgan — Tue, 27 May 2025 16:27:49 +0000

Today in the first segment, Mickey welcomes back Lauren Harper and Seth Stern from the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss several matters including their latest FOIA work on how the Trump administration has been treating immigrants, students and other vulnerable groups across the country. They provide an update…

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Inmate Pregnancy Losses Under-reported in Ohio Jail and by Establishment Press

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:37:00 +0000

A 2019 study estimated that approximately 55,000 people enter jail pregnant every year, and, in January 2024, Linda Acoff was one of them, according to a May 2025 report by the Marshall Project and News 5 Cleveland. Acoff was seventeen weeks pregnant when she arrived at the Cuyahoga County Jail…

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Title VI Invoked to Curb Pro-Palestinian Language in Higher Ed

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:31:09 +0000

Some college and university funding may be at risk after Title VI complaints call freedom of expression and freedom of speech into question. Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 states that federal funding from taxpayers cannot be allocated to institutions that “encourage, entrench, subsidize or result in…

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“A Chilling Message”: FBI Visits Independent Journalist Who Published Leaked Vance Dossier

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:24:54 +0000

On October 11, 2024, an FBI special agent visited independent journalist Ken Klippenstein at his home in Madison, Wisconsin, “in connection with his publication of a dossier about Donald Trump’s running mate, JD Vance,” the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker reported. The FBI agent notified Klippenstein that he was “a target…

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Scarce Reporting of Police Violence Despite Rise in Killings by Police

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:14:16 +0000

According to data from Mapping Police Violence, US police killed an average of nearly four people each day in 2024. “According to a report by Mapping Police Violence, police killed at least 1,365 people in 2024, making it the deadliest year since the group began recording such data in 2013,”…

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Egyptian Firms Subject Commercial and Aid Deliveries to $20,000 “Bribes” to Enter Gaza

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:10:29 +0000

According to a February 2025 article by Ahmed Abdeen for the Middle Eastern Eye, Egyptian tribal leader Ibrahim al-Organi has “continued to exercise de facto control over the entry of commercial and aid trucks into Gaza” after the January 19 ceasefire. Companies linked to Organi have reportedly imposed excessive fees…

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Survey Documents “Alarming Tolerance” for Politicians’ Attacks on the Press

Kate Horgan — Tue, 20 May 2025 16:06:26 +0000

During June and July 2024, as Donald Trump campaigned to be re-elected by falsely characterizing journalists as “enemies of the people” and calling for the arrests of journalists whose reporting displeased him, two researchers surveyed US adults to determine their support for press freedom. Julie Posetti, the global director of…

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Kashmir and Armenia: Voices from the Margins

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 May 2025 20:27:23 +0000

Two places of extreme oppression and turmoil that you won’t hear about on corporate media: Kashmir and Armenia. Today on the program, we’re first joined by professor Ather Zia to talk about Kashmir as a psychic border between India and Pakistan, a stage on which these powers battle out their whims while Kashmir is doing the dying. Ather outlines the insidious great disappearance of Kashmiri writing due to Indian censorship laws and violent retaliation against journalists. She also dissects the nation-state system as one that necessarily requires such violence, the post-colonial myth, deep and disturbing connections to Israel, and more. Next up, Armenian human rights lawyer Karnig Kerkonian comes back on the show to discuss the situation in Armenia, and the Armenian quarter in East Jerusalem. Karnig outlines the absurd peace talks with Azerbaijan as comparable to trying to appease Hitler with Sudetenland, a lesson he feels we should’ve learned well enough 80 years ago. Karnig also discusses the settler violence in the Armenian quarter in East Jerusalem, a place that Armenian Christians have called home for more than a thousand years. The fight to remain goes well beyond East Jerusalem, Karnig says, and betrays the deeper settler colonial reality of what media often portrays as Muslims vs. Jews in the Promised Land.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 May 2025 17:00:47 +0000

Project Censored Co-sponsors Izzy Awards for Excellence in Independent Journalism The Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM) held its 17th annual Izzy Award Celebration at Ithaca College on April 30. The Izzy Award “for outstanding achievement in independent media” is named after I.F. “Izzy” Stone, the muckraking journalist who launched…

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Dispatch from Texas: The Billion-Dollar Heist of Public Education

Kate Horgan — Thu, 15 May 2025 15:00:22 +0000

The 89th Texas Legislative Session will be remembered for many things—but if you’re a student, teacher, or parent trying to make public education work in this state, it’s going down as the year lawmakers finally dropped their mask. With the official end of the legislative session (called adjournment sine die,…

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Language as Liberation: One Man’s Mission to Teach ASL in Prison

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:15:53 +0000

After legal advocates moved a group of deaf prisoners to California’s San Quentin prison, inmate Tommy Wickerd, serving a 57-year sentence for voluntary manslaughter, found a new purpose teaching American Sign Language (ASL) to fellow incarcerated individuals and correctional officers, an initiative featured in a February 2025 report from The…

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Mental Health Crisis Grows for Farmers as Federal Aid Runs Out

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:10:20 +0000

In 2023, Congress allocated $28 million to help food industry workers handle the stress of the COVID pandemic. States that had applied to the US Department of Agriculture used this funding to “hold trainings, start hotlines staffed by mental health workers and, like in Utah, provide therapy.” Now, the money…

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Michigan’s Incarcerated Women: The Urgent Need for Resources

Kate Horgan — Tue, 13 May 2025 16:02:01 +0000

A February 2025 article published by Women’s eNews highlighted the deep systemic injustices and problematic treatment of incarcerated women in Michigan’s justice system. Many of these women are serving long sentences for offenses “linked to their unaddressed trauma,” Natalie Holbrook Combs reported, highlighting a lack of advocacy and resources for…

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Behind Bars and Binaries: Music, Identity, and the Fight for Liberation

Kate Horgan — Mon, 12 May 2025 15:26:55 +0000

In the first part of the program, Nikki Morse, Noam Brown and Prince Jooveh talk about the album Bending the Bars, a project created via makeshift jail phone setups in order to uplift and amplify the voices of incarcerated musicians. Our guests discuss the myriad powers of music, from therapy to frontline reporting to bridges between rival gangs and political perspectives. They dive into the barriers and indeed the freedom in creating an album without the support or collaboration of the carceral system, and how their work can be, and indeed should be repeated by others across the prison industrial complex. Next up, journalist and organizer Jen Deerinwater joins the show again, this time to talk about indigiqueer identities, how colonization violently imposed the binary, missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, two spirits and relatives, and how this violence is inextricably linked to ecocide. Jen also uplifts the upcoming decolonized beatz, Indigenous world pride, a global event celebrating the powerful creativity of 2SLGBTQIA+ Indigenous artists, performers, and storytellers coming up in late may in Washington DC.

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Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request

Kate Horgan — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:32:40 +0000

Since October 7, 2023, the multinational tech company Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, has acted on 94 percent of the Israeli government’s requests to take down posts on Facebook and Instagram that are “critical of Israel—or even vaguely supportive of Palestinians,” Drop Site News reported in April 2025. Drop…

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Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request

Kate Horgan — Thu, 08 May 2025 16:32:40 +0000

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Working Class Is Severely Underrepresented in State Legislatures

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 20:38:53 +0000

Stateline reported that only 1.6 percent of state lawmakers are considered “working class,” compared to 50 percent of US workers, according to the 2024 results of a biennial study by Duke University and Loyola University Chicago researchers. Per the March 15, 2024, Stateline article by Robbie Sequeira, “just 116 of…

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Palestinian-American Educator Shares Strategies for Talking to Kids About Gaza

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:19:20 +0000

In February 2025, educator and writer Reem Abuelhaj wrote for Rethinking Schools about how to have conversations with young children about Gaza, considering professional consequences educators face when teaching about Israel and Palestine. The article provides practical guidance for parents and educators on how to navigate these discussions, whether at…

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Student Interest in Apprenticeships Surge, Employers Struggle to Meet Demand

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:14:47 +0000

Employers are having trouble keeping up with the rise in student demand and interest in apprenticeships, according to The Hechinger Report. Although students far outnumber current opportunities due to a “reluctance among employers” to offer apprenticeships, which are expensive to establish, there is hope that organizations such as Edu-REACH will…

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Gardena, California, Students Simulate Starbucks Union Drive to Learn Workplace Rights

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:07:16 +0000

Writing for Rethinking Schools, Nicolle Fefferman reported on her involvement in facilitating a classroom activity exploring workers’ rights and the power of labor organizing as part of Assembly Bill 800 in California, which requires public high schools to implement Workplace Readiness Week each May. Students from Gardena High School in…

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Laying the Foundation: Essential Math Skills Missing from Early Education

Kate Horgan — Wed, 07 May 2025 16:00:29 +0000

A February 2025 article by The Hechinger Report highlights research-backed strategies to strengthen young students’ basic math skills, emphasizing the importance of early mastery in number sense, spatial reasoning, and pattern recognition. Specialists and educators warn that without early intervention, students struggling with these foundational concepts may face ongoing academic…

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Lessons from Kent State, 55 Years Later and the Power of Truth-telling and Resisting Censorship

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 May 2025 21:30:22 +0000

In the first segment of today’s program Mickey talks with Laurel Krause, Emily Kunstler, and Kelley Lane 55 years after the Ohio National Guard killed four students and wounded nine others at Kent State University as they protested the illegal expansion of the disastrous Vietnam War. There are many lessons…

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Beyond Earth Day and May Day

Kate Horgan — Thu, 01 May 2025 15:00:37 +0000

By Jayden Lawrence and Steve Macek The 55th anniversary of Earth Day, on April 22, 2025, has come and gone. Once again, the country’s most prominent news outlets have concluded their annual, half-hearted coverage of the environment and environmental justice. International Workers’ Day is approaching on Thursday, May 1, and,…

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Campus Life in the Crosshairs

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:55:07 +0000

This week, campus life in the crosshairs. First up, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Kei Pritsker, the co-director of “The Encampments” and journalist with Breakthrough News. Kei talks about colleges as extensions of the national security state where, at the request of a foreign nation committing genocide, students are brutalized. Kei also shares his experiences creating the film as press and as a part of the community that the encampments built. Next up, Professor Nick Wolfinger talks about his latest book, Professors Speak Out: The Truth About Campus Investigations. Nick and Eleanor discuss the problematic way in which universities are handling complaints about faculty while also debating the difficulty in umbrella guidelines regarding a faculty member’s ability to do their job based on their opinions and prejudices. It’s a slippery slope and when academic freedom is at stake, it’s easy to let our own political leanings push us to the bottom. Can we all embrace discomfort for the sake of academic freedom?

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The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2025

Kate Horgan — Fri, 25 Apr 2025 16:37:47 +0000

“One Ring to Rule Them All”: Peter Byrne and Project Censored Launch Military AI Watch Our new investigative series, Military AI Watch, reveals the dangers of developing artificial intelligence (AI) for military use. Investigative journalist Peter Byrne shows how Silicon Valley, corporate media, the Department of Defense, the banking industry,…

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Stargate Fiasco

Kate Horgan — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 15:00:43 +0000

By Peter Byrne — PDF version available here On January 21, 2025, the day after his second inauguration as president of the United States, Donald Trump hosted OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Oracle’s Larry Ellison, and SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son at a White House press conference. Flanked by billionaires standing at attention, the…

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Independent and Unafraid: Inside the 2024 Izzy Awards

Kate Horgan — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:39:08 +0000

The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College is honored to announce this year’s Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Media. The Izzy Award is named after legendary muckraking journalist I.F. “Izzy” Stone. It’s the 17th Annual Award from the Park Center that honors the best reporting from the independent press. Today on the program, we’ll talk to some of the Izzy winners and an Izzy judge. We’ll start with Professor Victor Pickard, a long time Izzy judge, speaking about the state of our free press. Then we’ll talk to Max Alvarez of the Real News Network and Chris Albright, a resident of East Palestine, Ohio. They’ll talk about Alvarez’s coverage of the great train derailment there from 2023. Later in the program, we’re also joined by Arielle Angel of Jewish Currents to talk about their important work.

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Independent and Unafraid: Inside the 2024 Izzy Awards

Kate Horgan — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 15:39:08 +0000

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Framing the Feed: How Social Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality

Kate Horgan — Thu, 17 Apr 2025 15:00:35 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl In 2024, Project Censored introduced Beyond Fact-Checking: A Teaching Guide to the Power of News Frames to critically analyze narrative strategies media outlets use to present news stories. Framing shapes how we understand these stories by emphasizing certain aspects and downplaying others, ultimately promoting a particular interpretation…

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Eyes Everywhere: Tech Tyranny and the Profiteers of Control

Kate Horgan — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 17:30:32 +0000

This week we’re looking at the insidious and nefarious sides of tech - starting off, a conversation with Esra’a Al Shafei discussing her new site Surveillance Watch, an incredible trove of data formulated into an easily searchable and interactive site that exposes the vast interconnected web of global authoritarian surveillance systems. Esra’a discusses the impunity with which these corporations and financial institutions operate, with no care for borders, side-stepping sanctions, and using genocide as a marketing tool. She highlights the importance of bringing this information to light, of acting to protect ourselves and each other and never normalizing the Orwellian panopticon. Next up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with investigative journalist Peter Byrne to unveil a new 10-part series titled Military AI Watch: the dangerous militarization of AI and the profiteering behind it. Peter and Mickey discuss the first piece in the series, One Ring to Rule them All where Peter names the cast of characters in this dark fantasy turned reality, their terrifying aims, the monopoly on murder, and more.

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PFAS Found in Condoms and Lubricants

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:46:21 +0000

According to a study by the consumer safety advocacy group Mamavation, popular brands of condoms and lubricants contain PFAS, per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or so-called “forever chemicals,” Tom Perkins reported for the Guardian in July 2024. PFAS are known informally as “forever chemicals” because they take a long time to…

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Water Scarcity a Threat to 27 Million People in United States

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:42:09 +0000

“Nearly 30 million people are living in areas of the US with limited water supplies,” Carey Gillam reported for The New Lede, an environmental website, in January 2025. Gillam’s report was based on a US Geological Survey (USGS) study that assessed water availability in the United States from 2010 to…

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Antarctic Ice Sheets Approaching Tipping Point, Studies Find

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 16:36:24 +0000

A June 2024 study published in the journal Nature Geoscience warned that increases in ocean temperature could lead to a tipping point in the melting of Antarctic marine ice sheets, potentially triggering “runaway melting.” In June 2024, Robert Hunziker reported for CounterPunch on this research and other scientific studies of…

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Meat Industry Disinformation Misleads Public About Impacts on Health and the Planet

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:36:53 +0000

The meat industry has attempted to rebrand itself, promoting disinformation about the environmental impacts and negative health consequences of meat consumption, Jessica Scott-Reid reported in December 2024 for Sentient, a nonprofit news organization that reports on factory farming and its impacts. “Amidst a climate crisis driven in no small part…

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200,000 Unreported Traffic Stops by Chicago Police in 2023

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:31:42 +0000

The Chicago Police Department (CPD) made 200,000 undocumented traffic stops in 2023, according to an August 2024 investigation conducted jointly by Bolts and Injustice Watch. The investigation examined police radio dispatch data to identify 200,000 stops that violated a 2003 Illinois state law requiring law enforcement agencies to report specific…

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Documents Reveal Extent of Toxic Mold in Privatized Military Housing

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:27:17 +0000

Military housing around the country is made hazardous by toxic mold, and the military and private, for-profit housing companies have taken advantage of a gap in federal standards to avoid testing and appropriate mediation, René Kladzyk reported for the Project On Government Oversight and Mother Jones (in May 2024) and…

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Parents Forced to Sacrifice Careers to Remain Eligible for Childcare Assistance

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:21:55 +0000

Mothers across the United States are being forced to quit their jobs and pass on promotions in order to qualify for government-subsidized child care, according to Jackie Mader for the Hechinger Report. Advocates say this “broken and underfunded system … traps families, especially women, in poverty.” Many states have stricter…

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Post-Assad Syria Faces Economic Upheaval

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:16:53 +0000

Following the ousting of Bashar al-Assad and the emerging leadership policies of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), Syria is experiencing a period of significant economic transformation, according to a December 2024 report by Kit Klarenberg for MintPress News. The new administration has swiftly deconstructed the old model of Assad’s state-controlled economy,…

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Negative Repercussions of Digital Censorship for K-12 Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:12:59 +0000

A January 2025 report, “Out of Step,” published by the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT), shows that K-12 schools across the United States frequently use web filtering software to block student access to a wide range of content, and that students and parents are largely unaware of these restrictions.…

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Governor Vetoes Bill to Grant California Tribal Police Peace Officer Status

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 20:06:28 +0000

California Governor Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill, proposed by Native American Assembly member James Ramos, that would have granted tribal police more power in the state justice system, Kevin Tidmarsh reported for LAist in September 2024. Despite a 76 to 3 vote in support of AB2138, the Peace Officers: Tribal…

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Returning Wolverines to Colorado a Milestone for US Biodiversity Efforts

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:51:28 +0000

In February 2024, Governor Jared Polis of Colorado signed a groundbreaking wildlife conservation bill into law. The new legislation sought the aid of Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) to reintroduce wolverines into approved sites around the state’s wilderness areas. These sites were chosen because they would make resilient, if not…

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Conversations on Environmental Justice, Abolition, and the Future We Build

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:37:24 +0000

In the first part of the program, author and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s education director Ben Price joins the program to talk about his new book, Wouldn’t You Say, A Collection of Essays on Environment and Community. In the book and in our conversation, Ben explains that what we’re seeing today is not a perversion of the promise of America, it’s actually a proof of concept, a continuation of foundational ideologies never meant to protect we, the people, and certainly not to protect the ecosystems of which we are a part. Ben discusses rights of nature not as a legal north star but as a need to shift our thinking about relationships, between ourselves, the law, and empirical reality. Next up, Dr. Kim Wilson and Maya Schenwar join the show to discuss the book which they co-edited, We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition. Maya and Kim discuss this multi-generational project which also combines voices from the inside and outside, highlighting the contrasts and connections between the carceral systems of literal and figurative cages, and how prisons are and have been the canaries in the coal mine for the restrictions on our basic rights. They discuss abolition as a tearing down but perhaps even more so of a building up, how kids are integral to the creative imagination necessary for building new worlds, and the emergent possibilities outside of our current death-making system.

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“All Governments Lie”: Why We Need a Radical and Independent Free Press Now

Kate Horgan — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 16:35:17 +0000

If the Government makes a mistake, the newspapers will find out and the problem may then be fixed. But if freedom of the press were lost, the country would soon go to pieces. — I.F. Stone By Mickey Huff Media scholar Carl Jensen was deeply influenced by the independent muckraking…

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Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History

Kate Horgan — Mon, 31 Mar 2025 16:24:53 +0000

In the first part of the program, journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to talk about attacks on journalists in Gaza, attacks on free press here at home, the links between them, and the long history of our shaky and fragile access to first amendment rights. Chip places the targeting of students like Mahmoud Khalil in a timeline of authoritarian moves to protect US political interests over basic freedoms, and how our ignorance of the past is wrecking our present and predetermining a dark future. In the second half of the show, labor activist and co-founder of the National Labor Network for Ceasefire Gene Bruskin joins the show to connect the dots on US foreign and domestic policy, on how chronic injustices here at home make us blind to the fact that we don’t have to live this way, not here, and not over there. Gene talks about the importance of bringing our demands together, of thinking globally, of tactics that work and tactics that don’t, and of reclaiming OUR radical labor history.

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Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists & Frame Checking the News

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 16:54:28 +0000

In an era when algorithms are reshaping how news is gathered, produced, distributed, and consumed, every journalist, regardless of specialty, needs some degree of algorithmic literacy. We’re joined by 2024-25 RJI fellow Andy Lee Roth, who led a team to create a website about Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists. It provides a practical toolkit to help journalists and the general public better understand the functions, impacts, and ethics of algorithms, including shadowbanning and other forms of censorship. In the second half of the show, we present Frame Check, a new monthly series that will be available on social media and podcast platforms. This new segment on The Project Censored Show is hosted by Reagan Haynie, Kate Horgan, and Shealeigh Voitl. Frame Check explores pop culture, news, and feminism through a critical media literacy lens, helping audiences deconstruct dominant news frames. In the debut segment, the hosts examine how corporate media sensationalizes the manufactured spectacle of Elon Musk and Donald Trump’s relationship—amplifying their antics while failing to critically assess their influence—turning even significant political developments into junk food news.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:47:00 +0000

Project Censored in the Classroom Check out the Validated Independent News section of the Project Censored website for a fresh batch of important but under-reported news stories, as identified, vetted, and summarized by college and university students developing their critical media literacy skills through the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program. The…

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Resisting Digital Gatekeeping by Promoting Algorithmic Literacy

Kate Horgan — Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:00:37 +0000

Andy Lee Roth and Kate Horgan Algorithms are the building blocks for a host of artificial intelligence (AI) systems that are revolutionizing how news is produced, distributed, and consumed. Earlier this month, for example, Patrick Soon-Shiong, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Times, launched Insights, an AI-powered tool that…

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New York Officials Call for Criminal Prosecution of Fossil Fuel Companies and CEOs

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:37:52 +0000

In October 2024, New York prosecutors set the groundwork for filing criminal charges against major fossil fuel companies for their significant role in contributing to the climate crisis. A fifty-page report released by Public Citizen and endorsed by New York officials detailed “admissible evidence, possible charges, and legal issues” pertaining…

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“Segregation Academies” Leave Lasting Impact on Deep South Long After Brown v. Board of Education

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:24:48 +0000

“Segregation academies,” private schools founded by white parents in opposition to desegregation, have left a lasting impact in the Deep South decades after Brown v. Board of Education, according to a recent ProPublica report. Jennifer Berry Hawes investigated two schools in Alabama, including Wilcox Academy, a predominantly white private school,…

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Big Tech Companies Creating Legal “Patchwork” to Undermine Data Privacy Rights

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 20:13:58 +0000

Big Tech companies are actively attempting to undermine legislation that protects consumer data privacy, Jake Snow reported in an article published by Tech Policy Press and the ACLU of Northern California in October 2024. “The biggest names in technology are trying to use their might to force Congress to override…

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Shared Ethnonationalism and Militarized Technology Bond India and Israel

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:50:36 +0000

Since 2020, India’s right-wing Hindu nationalist ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has been strategically displacing Muslims across the country, including in Assam, where Bengali Muslims, who constitute a small minority of the northeastern state’s multi-ethnic population, are subject to evictions and the stripping of their citizenship under baseless…

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Underpaid, Unrecognized Labor of Prisoners During Climate Crises

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:33:59 +0000

Inmates in prisons across the US are used as an expendable, low-to-no-cost labor source during natural disasters, according to an October 2024 article by Panagioti Tsolkas for Earth Island Journal. Incarcerated people, who are already neglected in the wake of natural disasters, can be forced to work and are often…

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Universities Profit in the Millions from Fossil Fuel Corporations, According to Student Reporting

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 17:20:12 +0000

The Guardian, in partnership with Climate Campus Network, and Common Dreams reported on six student-led analyses, revealing prestigious universities’ investment ties and research funding from oil and gas companies, including some universities that claimed to have “dissociated” from the fossil fuel industry. Researchers combed through “tax forms for publicly disclosed…

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The News That Didn’t Make the News: Gaza’s Reality, Propaganda, and the Fight for Justice

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 16:58:04 +0000

Coming up first on the program, we welcome back Dr. Khalil Khalidy, an orthopedic doctor in Deir al-Balah, Gaza to give us what you’ll never hear on corporate media: updates on the situation in Gaza from Gazans since the end of phase one of the so-called ceasefire. Dr. Khalidy also discusses the insidious Israeli propaganda machine, the psychological effects of colonialism, and some vital history many in the US likely don’t know, including the divide-and-conquer strategy to pull Palestinians from each other, geographically and culturally, from the West Bank to Gaza to the diaspora. Later in the program, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of the most recent news that didn’t make the news, in particular the abduction of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil, the history of who the US deems a terrorist, and the importance of critical media literacy and independent media in these - to put it mildly, turbulent times.

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UN Cybercrime Treaty Supported by Autocrats Raises Human Rights Concerns

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:46:46 +0000

On December 24, 2024, the United Nations adopted the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime, which aims to “prevent and combat” cybercrime and “strengthen international cooperation in sharing electronic evidence for serious crimes.” Several human rights and independent news organizations noted that the international treaty raised serious human rights concerns. On…

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UBS, the World’s Largest Private Bank, Accused of Scamming Customers

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:42:01 +0000

According to documents from a lawsuit, UBS Bahamas refused to send required confirmations of trades made in US markets, Lucy Komisar reported, in October 2024, for Inside Paradeplatz, a Swiss outlet that specializes in financial news. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires such confirmations by law. “The clients…

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US News Media Miss News Out of Africa

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:27:51 +0000

US news outlets often ignore or marginalize important stories out of Africa. In a September 2024 report for Current Affairs, Alex Scopic highlighted a number of current events taking place in African nations that US outlets have failed to cover adequately. For example, Scopic noted that PBS was one of…

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People with Disabilities Especially Vulnerable to Medicaid “Unwinding”

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:23:07 +0000

Medicaid “unwinding” is affecting over 20 million Americans—predominantly Americans with disabilities. In April 2023, after the continuous enrollment provisions ended—which had previously allowed people to remain on Medicaid temporarily during the COVID pandemic, regardless of changes in their income—many states began reevaluating people’s Medicaid coverage, according to Daniel Chang for…

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Mass Layoffs as CEO Salaries Skyrocket

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:18:13 +0000

In March 2024, Oxfam, an international non-profit focused on alleviating global poverty, issued a report on how two hundred of the largest US corporations contribute to global and domestic inequality. Examining each company’s “inequality footprint,” the Oxfam report showed how, year after year, US corporations were directing higher percentages of…

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ICE Solicits Social Media Surveillance Contracts to Identify Critics

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:07:18 +0000

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to hire private contractors to “monitor and locate ‘negative’ social media discussion” about the federal agency, according to February 2025 articles by Sam Biddle for The Intercept and Brett Wilkins for Common Dreams. Biddle and Wilkins reviewed ICE documents that cited increased threats to…

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Hazardous Chemicals in Food Packaging Found in Humans

Kate Horgan — Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:00:41 +0000

A study published in September 2024 by the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology found some 3,600 food contact chemicals (or FCCs) in humans, including eighty FCCs with “hazard properties of high concern” for human health. “Thousands of chemicals used in food packaging and food production are leaching into…

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What To Us Is International Women’s Day?

Kate Horgan — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 16:37:42 +0000

This week, a special Project Censored episode: “What To Us Is International Women’s Day?,” a variation on the question asked by Frederick Douglass: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? March 8th is International Women’s Day, and while many will and do celebrate this day in revolutionary ways, the truth is that IWD like so many other holidays is often used to serve the vehemently anti-feminist goals of the architects of our oppression. So-called white feminism perpetuates the evils of white supremacy, colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and imperialism - but with a femme facade, pushing us to ask what to us is an international women’s day which doesn’t seek to dismantle the very systems that use, abuse & torment women across the US and the globe? Award-winning journalist Mnar Adley and organizer Afeni Evans will join Eleanor Goldfield for this special hour-long dive into the insidious machinations of white feminism, who gets violently othered and why, the internationalist demands of a revolutionary feminism, and what really to us, is - or could be - International Women’s Day?

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Meta Shifts Right: Big Tech, Project 2025, and the Assault on DEI

Kate Horgan — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:22:15 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis and avram anderson Editor’s note: This is the second article in a two-part series. Read the first article, “Technogarchy Goes to Washington,” here. When Mark Zuckerberg terminated Meta’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs for hiring and training employees and procuring suppliers in January 2025, he forged…

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Meta Shifts Right: Big Tech, Project 2025, and the Assault on DEI

Kate Horgan — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 17:22:15 +0000

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Borders, Empire, and Resistance: Confronting Racism, Nationalism, and the Fight for Alternatives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 18:24:14 +0000

In the first part of the program, author and organizer Harsha Walia joins the show to talk about the convergence of racist nationalism and border imperialism, and how the attacks on migrants are inextricably linked to the attacks on Indigenous peoples. Harsha also discusses the globalization of border violence, and offers a class analysis that contextualizes the border as a spatial fix for capital accumulation. Later in the show, community organizer Kamau Franklin comes back on the show to talk about the very real fears taking hold of people in these times, how these are different from manufactured fears, and how real leftist media is needed to push through the cacophonous propaganda of empire. Kamau also discusses the importance of the build and fight, imagining and actually creating alternatives to our current system that can scale and provide in the here and now.

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Debunking the Book Ban “Hoax” and Resisting Trump Administration Attacks on the First Amendment

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 18:37:31 +0000

This week, Mickey speaks with filmmaker Allyson Rice and researcher Dorri C. Scott about the growing number of books challenged and banned in US schools and libraries, something the Trump administration has called a hoax. We hear about the soon-to-be-released documentary, Banned Together, that looks at efforts by local school boards and state-level politicians to restrict student access to books while highlighting the very students who are protesting and fighting back for the right to read. Then, Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, and Lauren Harper, the first Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy there, warn that the Trump Administration is engaged in unprecedented, and possibly illegal, efforts to reshuffle how federal agencies’ records are kept. They also survey Trump’s multiple attacks on journalists and press in his first month back in office and caution that more assaults on the First Amendment and the public’s right to know will be forthcoming, which, they argue, should be vigorously resisted.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—February 2025

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:17:50 +0000

Call for Summer Internship Applications Project Censored is seeking undergraduate students with strong interests in independent journalism and critical media literacy to apply for our summer internship program. Summer interns will be engaged in the Project’s daily work, which includes identifying and vetting independent news stories, researching current news topics…

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Technogarchy Goes to Washington

Kate Horgan — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:00:49 +0000

Billionaire tech owners who align themselves with whatever administration occupies the White House undermine democracy by threatening a dangerous consolidation of private and public power. By Mischa Geracoulis and Mickey Huff On January 7, 2025, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on “Fox & Friends” that the recent US elections point…

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Occupied Realities & Uncovered Strikes: The Struggle for Palestinian Rights and Immigrant Justice

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 18:35:37 +0000

Up first on the program, associate editor and producer of the weekly livestream at Electronic Intifada, Tamara Nassar discusses the Gaza-like situation unfolding in the West Bank, violence that has been escalating since the start of, and indeed before, the genocide. Tamara outlines the myriad ways in which the occupation oppresses, dehumanizes and murders Palestinians including tricks the Israelis inherited from the British colonial government, and the twisted use of the Palestinian Authority to support Israeli aims behind a Palestinian name. Next, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with journalist and founder of Payday Report, Mike Elk, to talk about corporate media’s failure to cover Day Without Immigrant strike events that happened in more than a hundred cities across 40 states, and how this also speaks to the presence of news deserts and an anemic alternative independent press. Mike also speaks about the need for a multicultural media system, and how unions can protect against raids and other violence aimed at immigrants.

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Is This the Best We Can Do? Hope and Limitations in International Law

Kate Horgan — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:26:55 +0000

In the first part of the program this week, Palestinian legal expert Hassan Ben Imran comes back on the show to talk about the recent formation of the Hague Group, the ongoing cases against Israel and the limitations of, and hope in international law. Later in the show, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield banter about the sad state of the 4th estate vis a vis coverage of the genocide in Gaza, and how legacy media couldn’t even be bothered to truthfully report on the carnage meted out by US tax dollars. In a new segment that we’ll come back to in many arenas of life, Mickey and Eleanor ask if this is the best we can do — be it these so-called journalists, or the latest cabinet picks.

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TikTok Running on Borrowed Time

Kate Horgan — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 16:00:12 +0000

By Stephen Rohde On January 17, for the first time in modern US history, a unanimous Supreme Court upheld a sweeping prior restraint on free speech imposed by Congress, restricting more than 170 million users in the United States from accessing the popular social media platform TikTok. As the Court…

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Defending Local & Indigenous Media in an Age of Scarcity

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Feb 2025 19:40:57 +0000

In the first part of the program, Mohawk journalist Isaac White speaks to Eleanor Goldfield about being guilty of journalism. Isaac was arrested last year while covering a land claim demonstration despite clearly identifying himself as press and having credentials on his person. Isaac’s story also highlights the importance of and dangers to local and Indigenous media. As we’ve covered before on Project Censored, there’s already a dearth of local media, but add to that Indigenous local media, and this forced scarcity means that reporters like Isaac who would be connecting communities and holding local leaders to account have to find a living elsewhere, a move that affects the entire local area. In the second half of the show, my cohost Mickey Huff sits down with Dr. John Collins, a founder & editorial director at Weave News, author, and professor at St. Lawrence University to talk about the power and mandate of grassroots independent media in these times. John explains that journalism is too important to be left to the powers that be and what we need right now more than ever is news of, for and by the people. John also talks about his books and years of work on Palestine, and how Palestine is in fact not only an issue unto itself but also a lens for examining colonialism, capitalism, media, the politics of representation and more.

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Selective Outrage and the Palestine Exception

Kate Horgan — Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:26:00 +0000

By Mireille Rebeiz The Hamas attacks of October 7 and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza showed serious cracks in higher education in the United States and how it addresses the Israel–Palestine conflict. The initial impulse was to condemn Hamas and express solidarity with Israeli civilians, an honorable and, quite honestly,…

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Don’t Get Distracted: Bitter Economic Pills & Threats to Free Press Hit Everyone

Kate Horgan — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:03:50 +0000

In the first part of the program, economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins co-host Eleanor Goldfield to set the record straight on what tariffs really are, and how bizarrely hypocritical it is that the famously anti-tax republican party is now the party that wants a lot of taxes - taxes aimed at you and me. Professor Wolff also explains the wrong-headed thinking about immigration - that in fact, steady immigration into the US is and has been a sign of a healthy economy, so the fact that the nation can’t and won’t embrace immigration today is actually a big red flag that our economy is weak - as further evidenced by how well the BRICS nations are doing compared to the G7. In the second half of the show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with journalists Maya Schenwar and Negin Owliaei about how media must NOT back down to Trump’s threats against press freedom. Maya and Negin outline the multi pronged attacks that journalists and media organizations are facing, remarking that none of us alone can surmount these problems but that real active solidarity and community building is key - along with contextualizing our today in the struggles of yesterday, and NEVER complying in advance.

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From #MeToo to Misdirection

Kate Horgan — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 16:00:19 +0000

By Shealeigh Voitl “I think the Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni thing is such a hot-button thing right now that even a mere mention of it will seem like I could be on the wrong side of things, even though I would never be,” Nikki Glaser told Yahoo Entertainment, in early January,…

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Fires, Frontlines, and Surveillance: Looking into Environmental and Civil Rights Crises

Kate Horgan — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:47:37 +0000

In the first half of the program, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Leyna Quinn-Davidson, the Fire Network Director for the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources about the confluence of issues that are quite literally fueling the fires in LA County. Leyna highlights how we have to shift our thinking about not only how fires burn but their historic and vital role in bolstering healthy ecosystems. She also pinpoints some simple actions people in the area can take to protect their homes and perhaps more importantly their communities, since what your neighbor does or doesn’t do in these situations will directly affect you. In the second half of the show, experienced conflict correspondent Theia Chatelle joins the program to talk about suing Yale PD, a frustrating but enlightening process that uncovered a vast and deep web of surveillance and repressive tactics aimed at students engaging in constitutionally protected speech and protest. Theia discusses the frightening levels of coordination between campus police, local and federal law enforcement, Zionist organizations and even counter-terrorism agencies. She connects this to a larger pattern of repression across US colleges, universities, and towns and cities beyond campus borders, where the panopticon-style surveillance follows anyone and everyone who could be deemed a threat to the status quo.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—January 2025

Kate Horgan — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:42:44 +0000

Censored Press News As we at Project Censored turned our calendars from 2024 to 2025 and hurtled into the new year, State of the Free Press 2025 has been receiving tremendous positive publicity. The coeditors of State of the Free Press 2025 have been making the rounds for radio and…

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Pressing Issues for 2025: Trump 2.0, Media Failures, and the Fight for Press Freedom

Kate Horgan — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 18:00:19 +0000

This week we swing into the new year, 2025, with Mickey engaging media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss the incoming administration, Trump 2.0, the failures of the punditocracy and what might mean for press freedom in his second term; social media and an end to so-called fact-checking; and why we will continue to need a truly independent press to keep us informed moving forward. Later in the program, media scholar Steve Macek joins the conversation, and it’s Deja Vu all over again as they revisit previously censored news stories around significant current events (including in Gaza) and how the ongoing lack of establishment media coverage around key issues contributes to low information voters and allows myriad injustices to persist at home and around the globe.

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Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines

Kate Horgan — Mon, 06 Jan 2025 18:17:50 +0000

In the first half of the program Eleanonr Goldfield speaks with Shrouq Aila, an investigative journalist, producer and researcher in Gaza. Shrouq describes the situation on the ground in Gaza, the target on her back as a journalist, what she asks of her fellow journalists in these times, and the layered struggles of being the story that you are covering.

In the second half of the program, Marine corps veteran Matthew Hoh comes back on the show to talk about his recent trip to occupied Palestine / Israel. Matt describes the parallel phases of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and the West Bank, as well as Israeli culture that makes entertainment out of genocide while simultaneously denying that genocide

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Digital Settler Colonialism, Gaza, and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 15:29:02 +0000

In the first half of the show, Mickey sits down with Omar Zahzah, a Lebanese/Palestinian organizer, writer, poet, freelance journalist and assistant professor of Arab/Muslim ethnicities and diaspora studies at San Francisco State University. Omar discusses his forthcoming book from the Censored and Seven Stories presses titled Terms of Servitude:…

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Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:05:28 +0000

What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, ironically creating news deserts, they can also memory hole online news archives. For the first part of the program, Mickey Huff is joined by investigative reporter Peter Byrne. Byrne talks about unplugging the news and history in San Francisco, navigating the existential fragility of online news archives.

Later in the program, you’ll hear excerpts from an event held at Ithaca College in November, cosponsored by the Park Center for Independent Media, Project Looksharp, and Project Censored. Mickey Huff hosted co-editor of State of the Free Press 2025 Shaeleigh Voitl, and contributors Robin Andersen, and Steve Macek. You’ll get an overview of Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025, hear some of the top underreported news stories of the year, and much more.

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Exposing Gaps in Corporate Control over News

Kate Horgan — Thu, 12 Dec 2024 16:00:15 +0000

By Andy Lee Roth Editor’s Note: This Dispatch is adapted from State of the Free Press 2025, edited by Mickey Huff, Shealeigh Voitl, and Andy Lee Roth, and published on December 3, 2024, by The Censored Press and Seven Stories Press. The power to keep an occurrence out of the…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—December 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 11 Dec 2024 22:04:59 +0000

State of the Free Press 2025 “Shines A Spotlight on the Issues That Matter Most” As public trust in the media drops to an all-time low—only a third of adult Americans believe US media are completely free to report news—Project Censored released the 2025 edition of its award-winning yearbook series.…

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Alabama School District Fires Superintendent Who Made Strides to Accommodate Immigrant Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 21:01:49 +0000

The superintendent of the Russellville City School District in Alabama was fired after implementing changes that benefited immigrant students but frustrated the local community, as reported by Kavita Cardoza for the Hechinger Report in August 2024. Superintendent Heath Grimes was hired to lead Russellville’s schools in 2015. Over the course…

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Censored News, Media Framing, and the Threat of HR 9495: A Conversation with Project Censored

Kate Horgan — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 20:51:18 +0000

Today in the first segment of the show, Mickey Huff speaks with associate director of Project Censored, Andy Lee Roth, and the Project’s digital and print editor, Shealeigh Voitl. They talk about Project Censored’s new book State of the Free Press 2025 that looks at the top underreported or censored news stories from the past year that corporate media censored, otherwise distorted or ignored altogether. Later in the conversation, Andy and Shealeigh talk about moving beyond fact-checking and their educator resource guide on the power of news frames, and how news framing helps shape public opinion. Later in the program, cohosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield talk about a recent piece she wrote on news literacy for activists and organizers: Critical Media Literacy provides grassroots movements with practical tools for pursuing their goals. Eleanor and Mickey also discuss the troublesome bill, HR 9495 that passed through the House recently. It is a draconian bill that would allow the Treasury Secretary to unilaterally strip a nonprofit of their status if they’re deemed a terrorist-supporting organization. This is incredibly dangerous given the political motivations of a potential Treasury Secretary to silence particular nonprofits on the basis of the focus of their message.

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Tribal Colleges Remain Underfunded Decades After Congressional Commitment To Indigenous Higher Ed

Kate Horgan — Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:22:29 +0000

Tribal colleges across the United States face severe infrastructural challenges due to federal underfunding, making it difficult for schools to provide adequate facilities and resources for their students, according to an October 2024 report by Matt Krupnick for ProPublica and the Hechinger Report. After “decades of financial neglect,” increased funding…

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Philadelphia Gun Violence Driving Higher Enrollment in Cyber-Charter Schools

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 18:44:31 +0000

Motivated by fears of increasingly frequent youth gun violence, Philadelphia families are enrolling their children in online charter schools. Nearly 15,000 of 197,000 students have switched to online classes because their parents “see them as a safe and flexible educational option,” according to an October 2024 story by Carly Sitrin…

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NOTE ON RESEARCH AND EVALUATION OF CENSORED NEWS STORIES

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:31:46 +0000

How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but also trustworthy? The answer is that every candidate news story undergoes rigorous review, which takes place…

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#25. Israel-Linked Group Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestinian Artists on Spotify

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:30:32 +0000

“We Believe in Israel,” a subsidiary of Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre (BICOM) in the United Kingdom, has been attempting to remove Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists from the music streaming giant Spotify. MintPress News senior staff writer Alan MacLeod reported that the group has been lobbying Spotify and the…

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#24. Forced Labor Traps Adopted Children in Paraguay

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:29:17 +0000

In January 2024, the Paraguayan news outlet El Surtidor published an article by Jazmin Bazán about the practice of criadazgo, forced domestic labor involving adopted children who receive neither wages nor an adequate standard of living. Paraguay’s Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas estimates that about forty-seven thousand children, ages 5-17 (approximately…

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#23. Hospital School Programs Support Students’ Mental Health and Education

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:28:06 +0000

In-hospital schools are developing groundbreaking means to address the mental health crisis among young people, Rebecca Redelmeier reported in August 2023 for The Hechinger Report. Amidst a surge of in-patient mental health hospitalizations, original programs such as the University of North Carolina’s Hospital School are providing transformative educational support for…

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#22. FBI’s Annual Crime Report Misunderstood and Misrepresented by Media

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:27:39 +0000

In an October 2023 article, The Appeal highlighted the FBI’s latest annual report on crime in the United States for 2022. Although crime rates are on a steady decline, messaging from corporate media conveys the opposite, with alarmist headlines announcing “the most dangerous cities in America” and conflating crime rates…

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#21. California’s Groundbreaking Investment in Education for Incarcerated Youth

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:26:09 +0000

Genuine education reform is based on the premise that every young person deserves access to high-quality education. Although federal law guarantees the right to education to all, incarcerated youth are often disregarded. However, efforts to build robust education programs for young people in California juvenile detention facilities have received a…

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#20. Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) Poses Serious First Amendment Concerns

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:25:44 +0000

Growing concerns about social media use allegedly causing mental health problems in young people have spurred a bipartisan push in Congress for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA), an ill-considered piece of internet censorship legislation. First introduced in the US Senate in 2022, KOSA (S. 1409) has gone through multiple…

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#19. Unregulated PFAS Harming Native American Communities

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:24:18 +0000

Native Americans have been disproportionately affected by the presence of PFAS—often referred to as “forever chemicals”—in their water sources, according to 2023 reports by The Real News Network and Grist. PFAS chemicals are widely used in consumer and industrial products, ranging from food wrappers to firefighting foam, because of their…

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#18. Constitutional Loophole Propels Xenophobic Border Policies in Texas

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:23:41 +0000

The federal government has controlled US immigration policy since the 1800s. However, in 2023, Texas Republicans, led by far-right Governor Greg Abbott, proposed legislation—SB 4—that invokes the Invasion Clauses of the United States and Texas constitutions to challenge the federal government’s sovereignty over the Texas-Mexico border. The clause authorizes the…

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#17. Palestinians in Gaza Suffering from Chronic Illnesses Cannot Access Medical Care

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:22:00 +0000

Palestinians in Gaza suffering from chronic illness are unable to get necessary medical care due to Israel’s ongoing bombardment of the occupied territory. While the war has been a focal point of global news coverage since October 7, few reports have addressed the lack of medicine and treatment for chronically…

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#16. Activists Rally outside Insurance Giants, Denouncing Fossil Fuel Investments

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:21:03 +0000

Environmental activists rallied globally from February 26 to March 3, 2024, to protest insurance companies’ support of the fossil fuel industry, according to reports by Common Dreams and Inside Climate News. The movement was organized by Insure Our Future, a coalition whose mission is to promote a healthy transition to…

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#16. Activists Rally outside Insurance Giants, Denouncing Fossil Fuel Investments

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:21:03 +0000

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#15. Bottled Water Consumption Exacerbates Socioeconomic Inequalities

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:20:14 +0000

Bottled water is the top-selling beverage in the United States, and annual global sales are in the hundreds of billions of dollars.110 Much of that market consists of people from low-income communities. “This commodity is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers,” reported Portland State…

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#14. Companies’ Net-Zero Promises Have Near Zero Credibility

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:19:31 +0000

Despite heralding their intent to implement “net-zero” policies to limit carbon emissions, most of the world’s biggest companies are spectacularly failing to live up to those commitments. “Hundreds of companies across the world are backtracking on commitments toward green policies, despite growing concerns that the planet is reaching a crisis…

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#13. Homeland Security, ICE Using Cell-Site Simulators for Illegal Tracking

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:18:08 +0000

The Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are illegally tracking Americans using cell-site simulators, Matthew Guariglia reported for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in March 2023. The devices, often referred to as “stingrays,” mimic cell phone towers, tricking cell phones in the vicinity to connect…

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#12. Indigenous Activists in Panama Shut Down Notorious Copper Mine

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:17:48 +0000

In November 2023, following years of protest by Indigenous activists, Panama’s Supreme Court struck down Canadian company First Quantum Minerals’s twenty-year concession to operate a controversial thirteen-thousand-hectare open-pit copper mine, Cobre Panamá, 120 kilometers west of Panama City. After the ruling, Panamanian President Laurentino Cortizo announced the mine would be…

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#11. One-Third of Children Globally Face Water Scarcity Due to Climate Change

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:16:37 +0000

Nearly one-third of all children on the planet face water scarcity, including a “staggering” 347 million in South Asia alone, according to reports from Al Jazeera and several additional international news sites in November 2023. This news was based on a report from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), “The…

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#10. Generative AI Apps Raise Serious Security Concerns

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:15:30 +0000

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) apps, such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Copilot, can be used to accomplish a range of tasks, from coding programs and analyzing massive collections of data to generating completely unique texts, images, and videos. Use of such apps is increasingly popular with businesses, government agencies, and…

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#9. Controversial Acquitted-Conduct Sentencing Challenged by US Commission

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:14:40 +0000

Under a legal practice known as acquitted-conduct sentencing, judges presiding over federal cases can determine defendants’ sentences based on charges that juries previously acquitted them of. However, in April 2024, the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) voted to “exclude conduct for which a person was acquitted in federal court from…

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#8. New Federal Rule Limits Transcript Withholding by Colleges and Universities

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:13:24 +0000

A new federal regulation will make it more difficult for colleges and universities to withhold students’ transcripts to force them to repay loan debts, Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner reported for The Hechinger Report in December 2023. Transcript withholding is a strategy colleges use to recover outstanding debt despite questions…

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#7. Military Personnel Target Gen Z Recruits with Lurid Social Media Tactics

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:12:18 +0000

The US military is taking the old adage “sex sells” to another level by using sexually suggestive social media posts on TikTok and Instagram—known as thirst traps—in an effort to recruit members of Generation Z in response to military recruitment numbers falling below goals in recent years. The main subject…

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#6. Global Forest Protection Goals at Risk

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:11:57 +0000

According to an independent assessment, a much-publicized United Nations goal to end deforestation by 2030 is unlikely to be achieved, as Olivia Rosane reported for Common Dreams in October 2023. The problem is money and where it’s directed, according to the latest Forest Declaration Assessment released in October 2023. “We…

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#5. Abortion Services Censored on Social Platforms Globally

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:10:29 +0000

In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, online abortion services are facing global censorship on social media platforms. Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and Google have all allegedly restricted digital access to reproductive health organizations, according to a November 2023 report by…

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#4. Natural Gas Industry Hid Health and Climate Risks of Gas Stoves

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:09:55 +0000

The natural gas industry adapted the tobacco industry’s tactics to promote the use of gas stoves, reported environmental journalist Rebecca Leber for Vox in 2023. In a series of articles, Leber documented how the gas utility industry used strategies previously employed by the tobacco industry to avoid regulation and undermine…

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#3. Saltwater Intrusion Threatens US Freshwater Supplies

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:08:14 +0000

In fall 2023, saltwater traveling from the Gulf of Mexico up the Mississippi River infiltrated the freshwater systems of the delta region, contaminating drinking and agricultural water supplies as well as inland ecosystems. This crisis prompted a scramble to supply potable water to the region and motivated local and federal…

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#2. A “Vicious Circle” of Climate Debt Traps World’s Most Vulnerable Nations

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:07:07 +0000

Low-income countries are disproportionately impacted by poverty and climate-related disasters. Many of the developing nations most vulnerable to climate change are also “operating on increasingly tight budgets and at risk of defaulting on loans,” Natalia Alayza, Valerie Laxton, and Carolyn Neunuebel reported for the World Resources Institute in September 2023.…

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#1. Thousands Killed and Injured on the Job, with Significant Racial Disparities in Deaths and Injuries

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Dec 2024 17:06:48 +0000

Working in the United States is becoming more dangerous, and Black and Latiné workers in particular are at heightened risk of being killed or injured on the job, according to recent studies reported on by Truthout and Peoples Dispatch. According to a February 2024 report for Truthout by Tyler Walicek,…

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Connecting the Dots: The War on Workers Is The War Abroad

Kate Horgan — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:10:50 +0000

What does the genocide in Gaza have to do with the working class here at home? Well, quite a lot. Imperialism is a home game and the same corporations and international interests that make bank off of blood oppress the US workforce for that same bottom line. This week in a special hour interview episode, three guest experts join the Project Censored Radio show to discuss the US supply chain and war: labor educator Gifford Hartman, researcher and CGPU-UAW union member Abdullah Farooq, and 40 year rail and marine transportation veteran Fritz Edler.
Together they outline not only the current actions and efforts of workers to connect the dots between oppression here at home and abroad, but also the silenced and buried history of workplace organizing against war, including direct action and strikes. Our guests also dive into the importance of public ownership of transportation such as rail, the nefarious ways in which automation fuels both the war machine and destitution here in the US, and what a just transition away from war could mean not only for workers here but indeed around the whole world.

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Connecting the Dots: The War on Workers Is The War Abroad

Kate Horgan — Mon, 25 Nov 2024 21:10:50 +0000

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News Literacy for Activists

Kate Horgan — Thu, 21 Nov 2024 16:00:51 +0000

By Eleanor Goldfield I could hit you with a garden shovel, but I wouldn’t call it gardening. Likewise, I wouldn’t call it journalism when the corporate media uses the blunt tools of mis- and disinformation to kneecap movements for justice. Still, much like a shovel, media is a tool. And…

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Rethinking Media Values: Climate Crisis and Hyper-Partisan Influence in the 21st Century

Kate Horgan — Wed, 20 Nov 2024 17:51:39 +0000

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, guest host Mischa Geracoulis, Project Censored’s curriculum development coordinator, speaks with two of the contributors to the “Media Democracy in Action” chapter from Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2024.

In the first segment, Mischa talks with Maria Armoudian—senior lecturer at the University of Auckland in New Zealand, and co-director of the Center for Climate Biodiversity and Society—about the need to rethink traditional news values in the 21st century. Focusing on issues around the climate crisis, Armoudian argues that because the media too often report climate issues as news items, they fail to communicate the urgency of these issues while normalizing a perpetual economic growth-expansion model that exacerbates these challenges.

In the second segment, media critic, award-winning documentary filmmaker, and author Jen Senko joins the program. Senko is best known for her film The Brainwashing of My Dad. Senko's work tracks the history of media in the United States, particularly the rise of hyper-partisan media, and its ongoing effects on society. Highlighting some of that history, she illuminates the calculated moves made by politicians and billionaires that have brought us to where we are today.

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Northern California School District Adds Resources for Students of Color

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 21:17:50 +0000

During the 2024–2025 school year, the Tamalpais Union High School District in Northern California will fund four new positions to provide support and resources for students of color, the Marin Independent Journal reported in August 2024. The districts’ trustees approved $430,000 for the consultant contracts after racial incidents in 2023-24…

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Silenced Voices: Kashmir, Palestine, and BRICS Uncovered

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:02:58 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with an empty seat – a seat that could easily be filled by dozens if not hundreds of Kashmiri journalists and activists who cannot speak out due to the complex and constant threat of violence by the Indian government. Eleanor contextualizes the current situation in Kashmir while paralleling it to another settler colonialist struggle in Palestine, why we must connect these struggles, and how critical media literacy is vital in the case of silenced stories such as Kashmir. In the second half of the show, Ben Norton joins the program to discuss the recent BRICS summit, how our corporate media fell over itself to frame it as no big deal, the what, how and when of de-dollorization, and what the recent election means for our economy, or rather our economies – one for the rich and the one for the rest of us.

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Unplugging the News (and History) in San Francisco

Kate Horgan — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:00:16 +0000

By Peter Byrne Reporters are tasked with wading into the maelstroms of current events—fires, hurricanes, battle spaces, crime scenes, accidents, political riots—to record what we see, to print, televise, and preserve stories of events in the world as viewed through our professional lensing. Hence the adage, “Journalism is the first…

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Empowering Students To Examine How Historical Redlining Impacts Contemporary Communities

Kate Horgan — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 21:06:32 +0000

Redlining continues to weave profound injustices, in the form of neighborhood and school segregation, into the fabric of contemporary American society. “During the 1930s and ’40s, racist government-sponsored mortgage loan practices effectively segregated every metropolitan area in the United States,” Carl Faucher, a middle school English teacher from Seattle, reported…

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Let’s Start a Revolution; Usurping the Titans of Capital

Kate Horgan — Wed, 13 Nov 2024 17:21:41 +0000

Iconic consumer and civil rights activist/author Ralph Nader returns to the program to discuss his latest two books with Mickey. They unpack Nader’s analysis from Out of Darkness and Let’s Start the Revolution, which includes commentary on the need to dismantle the corporate state, boost civic engagement from the grassroots level up, and demand that dark money and billionaires be driven of the political system. Next, Mickey talks with former Project Censored director, political sociologist Peter Phillips about his new book Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—November 2024

Kate Horgan — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:55:54 +0000

Statement on the 2024 Presidential Election With the election of Donald Trump to a second presidential term, Project Censored reaffirms its longstanding dedication to press freedom. Project Censored remains steadfastly committed to investigating and highlighting actions, by any administration, that undermine journalistic freedom or the public’s rights to freedom of…

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Israel’s Genocide, War Profiteers, and the Titans of Capital

Kate Horgan — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 15:53:56 +0000

By Peter Phillips On March 26, 2024, Francesca Albanese, Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian Territory occupied since 1967, stated before the UN Human Rights Council that there are “reasonable grounds” to believe that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Citing international law,…

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Unsolved Text Campaign Targets Female Law Faculty and Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:52:22 +0000

Since January 2024, female law school professors, deans, and students across the country have been subjected to anonymous online harassment based on their gender, according to a report for Inside Higher Ed by Ryan Quinn. Text messages, addressed individually to the personal cell phones of specific professors, deans, and students,…

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Principal Fired After Coming Out as Gay Receives Support from Conservative Community

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:46:48 +0000

Vestavia Hills Schools in Alabama placed Lauren Dressback, a beloved principal who’s served two decades at the school, on administrative leave after she came out as gay to a coworker in late February 2024. According to an article published by Laura Pappano on September 19, 2024, for the Hechinger Report,…

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Missoula Child Care Advantage Program Works to Solve “Childcare Desert” Crisis

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:30:01 +0000

Families in Missoula, Montana, are experiencing the detrimental effects of living in a “childcare desert,” as reported by Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report. Like so many other places across the country, Missoula, Montana, has a severe shortage of attainable childcare. Families are forced to go to great lengths so…

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Unregulated Boarding Schools for Autistic Youth Siphoning Money and Harming Students

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 21:13:44 +0000

Shrub Oak International School, a boarding school for autistic youth in Yorktown, New York, continues to operate unregulated, according to a May 2024 report by ProPublica. The lack of oversight leaves parents unaware of their children’s well-being and unable to do much of anything about it: “No state agency oversees…

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Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists; and a New Movement Media Alliance

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Nov 2024 20:49:09 +0000

Mickey's first guest this week is Project Censored's Associate Director, Andy Lee Roth. Roth is a 2024-35 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow where he is developing an "algorithmic literacy" toolkit for journalists. He explains why today's journalists need a basic understanding of the algorithms used by internet and social media tech giants to better serve the public. Issues around horse race poll coverage, shadow banning, and algorithmic gatekeeping are discussed. Then in the second half of the show, Maya Schenwar of Truthout and Lara Witt of Prism introduce the organization they co-founded, the Movement Media Alliance; they explain why social-justice-oriented media outlets should work together, both to enhance their impact and to better the working conditions for journalists in independent media.

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Resilience Rising: Community, Care, and the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Appalachia

Kate Horgan — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 17:15:12 +0000

Now that the cameras have long since left Hurricane Helene’s trail of devastation, what is the situation on the ground? And what was it about Appalachia that made the devastation so great, and the mutualist response so powerful?
In the first half of the show Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Mutual Aid Disaster Relief coordinator and street medic Jena about her work in Western North Carolina and elsewhere, how bad the destruction really is, the dearth of government support, and how communities are using their own cultural roots to get what they need. Jena outlines the vast and varied mutual aid web, current needs on the ground, and creative and beautiful ways in which we can all engage in solidarity rather than charity. In the second half of the program, Eleanor speaks with Chelsea White-Hoglen, a lifelong resident of Western North Carolina with a vast background in community organizing. Chelsea explains the scale of the impact on such a rural, poor and geologically complex area as Appalachia, how disaster relief blossomed out of existing community structures, how this next phase of the crisis is an economic one, and how this could be a turning point for a region historically misunderstood, cast aside and disenfranchised.

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Crossing the Podcast Rubicon

Kate Horgan — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 16:00:24 +0000

By Nolan Higdon “Can you imagine Kamala doing this show?” asked former President Donald Trump on the October 2024 episode of The Joe Rogan Experience. “I could imagine her doing this show,” responded Rogan before Trump interrupted, “She would be laying on the floor… If she did this kind of…

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Crisis, Culture, and Civility: Critical Media Literacy Education and Election 2024

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 16:20:25 +0000

With the 2024 US elections drawing near, host Mickey Huff moderates an expert panel discussion with three media scholars and educators about how critical-media-literacy education can enhance civic engagement. They outline the many challenges posed by social media, hyper-partisanship, and fake news, but also explore what educators can do to engage today's students and equip them with critical tools necessary to deconstruct media messaging and bridge communication barriers, both inside and outside the classroom. This program is also a special broadcast that is part of the Big Rhetorical Podcast Carnival. See here for more details.

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The Power of the Lens

Kate Horgan — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 16:57:34 +0000

By Leo Koulish What is a story when it has no walls? How can we see making a photograph as a conversation between the image’s maker, its subject, and the truth? Photographers sometimes underestimate the power they wield. When we “take” photos, we create a memory, taking something from before…

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Media Literacy Week: Guide to Fake News and Voices from the Frontlines

Kate Horgan — Tue, 22 Oct 2024 17:00:14 +0000

It’s the 10th annual US Media Literacy Week sponsored by NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education. We at Project Censored also celebrate Media Literacy Week, critically. On the program today, co-host Mickey Huff welcomes Dr. Nolan Higdon, media scholar and author of many books including The Anatomy of Fake News. Today we’ll talk to Nolan about a brief resource guide to fake news in the 2024 election with helpful hints for the voting public. We’ll talk about the history of fake news, mis- and disinformation and its impacts on the public, and what we can do about it that doesn’t involve censorship. In the second half of the show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield sits down with photojournalist Orin Langelle to talk about his new photography book release, Portraits of Struggle, a small but powerful selection of photographs and stories from a 50-year career. Orin talks about what he’s learned from the frontlines, how he was shunned by corporate media for telling the truth, the importance of documenting a history that is constantly stolen from us, and more.

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“This is Where the Problem Starts”

Kate Horgan — Thu, 17 Oct 2024 18:38:08 +0000

By Lamees Hijazi Western colonialism and imperialism are the roots of the Palestinian struggle. A common characteristic of western powers is their shared history of colonization and oppression of indigenous populations. This distinction is important because it is clear that there is heavy bias against Palestinians in both western political…

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Attacks on Democracy from Press Freedoms to Dark Money in Politics

Kate Horgan — Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:29:16 +0000

In the first half of the program, Mickey Huff speaks with independent journalist and author Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism about the cast of Julian Assange. Gosztola joins the show to talk about the Council of Europe Parliamentarians vote that agreed that Julian Assange was in fact a political prisoner. Assange recently spoke to the Parliament and urged them to oppose the US government’s transnational repression and assaults on journalists and press freedoms around the world. Later in the program, Mickey speaks with media scholar Steve Macek about foreign spending to influence US elections and how it goes well beyond Russian covert operations, and in fact involves many other countries and even other entities. But are the corporate media paying attention? Steve Macek explains how they’re not, and what you need to know about the influence of dark money in advance of Election 2024.

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The Project Censored Newsletter—October 2024

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 17:48:34 +0000

Project Censored, Alliance for Democracy Partner on Building a New Media Landscape The Fall 2024 issue of Justice Rising, the flagship publication of the Alliance for Democracy, focuses on the theme of “Building a New Media Landscape for a Stronger Democracy.” The issue features original articles by a number of Project…

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Greenwashing Genocide in Armenia & Targeting the Truth in Palestine

Kate Horgan — Mon, 07 Oct 2024 16:30:47 +0000

In the first half of the show, international human rights lawyer Karnig Kerkonian joins the show to discuss Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of the Artsakh Armenians from the region of Nagorno-Karabakh. Karnig outlines the genocidal intent of President Ilham Aliyev, what the US knew and didn’t do to stop it, and how the international community should respond, not least of all as this year’s climate summit, COP29 is being held so ironically in what Karnig calls the petrol-dictatorship of Azerbaijan. Next up, journalist, researcher and policy director at Defending Rights and Dissent Chip Gibbons joins the show to discuss Israel’s targeted and mass killing of journalists on the ground in Gaza. Chip highlights the vehement hypocrisy with which the US pretends to uphold freedom of the press while not only ignoring the murder of journalists but while pushing for a media blackout and censorship of reports from Gaza.

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Foreign Spending to Influence US Elections Goes Well Beyond Russian Covert Operations

Kate Horgan — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:00:15 +0000

Steve Macek On September 4, the Department of Justice seized 32 internet domains alleged to be part of a Russian government “covert operation to interfere in and influence the outcome of” US elections. That same day, the DOJ unveiled an indictment of two employees of RT, a Russian state-controlled media…

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Selective Outrage

Kate Horgan — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 20:10:42 +0000

Nolan Higdon “It went from being unheard of to something everyone is talking about, and now it feels like a virus that escaped the lab and is just here to stay,” remarked Bill Maher on the September 6, 2024, episode of Real Time with Bill Maher. Maher and his panel…

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Voices from Palestine: A Doctor’s Testimony from Gaza

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 20:53:27 +0000

The voices of Palestinians in Gaza are some of the most censored in the world. If they are not killed outright, they are silenced by purposeful omission in order to support Israel’s narrative. It is therefore vital that alternative media work to find and platform these voices, and that people who are not fooled by pro-Israel propaganda engage with it, share it, and allow it to inform our actions. This week Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Khalil Khalidy, an orthopedic doctor in Deir al-Balah, Gaza. His testimony is necessary and powerful and understandably distressing. We are therefore here including a content warning for this week’s show as Dr. Khalidy does not sugarcoat his lived experiences. The following program includes descriptions of an ongoing genocide, of psychological and physical suffering from the perspective of a doctor trying to work in abominable conditions with little to no supplies.

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Freed Between the Lines: A Banned Books Week Special

Kate Horgan — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:18:33 +0000

Mickey hosts the special annual Banned Books Week program. This year we celebrate being "Freed Between the Lines.”

In her best-selling novel Speak, young adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the American Library Association (ALA) and Association of American Publishers helped launch Banned Books Week (BBW) 42 years ago on the heels of the Supreme Court Pico case, that dysfunctional family of censorship has unfortunately grown significantly. Across the United States, the past several years has brought a staggering increase in book challenges, bans, and other attacks on the right to read and academic freedom, but there are many signs of hope which BBW celebrates.

On today’s program we welcome the new president of ALA, Cindy Hohl. We discuss the latest report just released from ALA on the state of the right to read with some hopeful notes. Then we’re joined by BBW Youth Honorary Chair Julia Garnett about how young people are on the front lines of censorship battles in schools and they are fighting back and winning, as we hear from the interim director of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, attorney Jeff Trexler, about a history of attacks on comics and other literature, and we’ll learn of some recent legal victories, but also of challenges to come. Project Censored has been a proud supporter and part of the Banned Books Week Coalition for more than a decade.

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Freed Between the Lines: A Banned Books Week Special

Kate Horgan — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 17:18:33 +0000

Mickey hosts the special annual Banned Books Week program. This year we celebrate being "Freed Between the Lines.”

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Unpacking the Jewish Claim of Indigeneity and Flights: Radicals on the Run

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Sep 2024 16:54:31 +0000

In the first half of the show, Quechua and Jewish writer and student Rabbi Daniel Delgado joins us to confront the elephant in the room: are Jews Indigenous? As someone who is both Indigenous and Jewish, Daniel discusses the history and context of the term Indigenous and how the claim…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—September 2024

Kate Horgan — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 17:29:47 +0000

Censored Press News: Peter Phillips’s Titans of Capital and more Peter Phillips, the former director of Project Censored, has published a new book with the Censored Press. In Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity, he examines the world’s most wealthy and influential asset management firms, showing how their…

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Titans of Capital Threaten Humanity

Kate Horgan — Thu, 12 Sep 2024 16:44:35 +0000

By Peter Phillips The number of trillion and multi-trillion dollar capital investment management companies has nearly doubled from seventeen in 2017 to thirty-one in 2022. These companies now collectively manage more than $83 trillion. These firms hold the core of global capital wealth, with the top ten managing $50 trillion…

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The Need for Independent Media: Voices For Peace in a World at War

Kate Horgan — Mon, 09 Sep 2024 18:00:40 +0000

Mickey recently spoke with Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR, and author of Cable News Confidential, about his time as senior producer to the late Phil Donahue’s MSNBC program. It was among the highest rated shows on the network at the time but was cancelled on the run up to the…

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The Power of News Frames

Kate Horgan — Thu, 05 Sep 2024 15:00:47 +0000

Project Censored introduces a new guide to frame-checking. Shealeigh Voitl and Andy Lee Roth Tell all the truth but tell it slant —Emily Dickinson Current media literacy efforts place great emphasis on fact-checking as a means to counter misinformation and disinformation. Without a doubt, fact-checking—the process of confirming the factual…

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Guilty of Journalism: The Future of Press Freedoms After the Release of Julian Assange

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 16:34:33 +0000

This week, we have a special program as we share an excerpt of a conversation held earlier this summer between Project Censored co-host Eleanor Goldfield; The Real News Network Editor-in-Chief, Maximillian Alvarez; author and journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism; and Policy Director at Defending Rights and Dissent,…

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Decoding Democracy: Excerpts From a Series Exploring Critical Media Literacy Education, Independent Journalism, and Civic Engagement

Kate Horgan — Mon, 26 Aug 2024 18:04:22 +0000

This week on the program, a special episode featuring Project Censored’s recent “Decoding Democracy” series, a collection of interviews showcasing media scholars, journalists, and activists discussing how an informed public and an independent press are vital aspects of any free and just society. These excerpts are part of the larger…

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Harris-Walz and the politics of gender and race

Kate Horgan — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:00:17 +0000

By: Allison Butler and Paulina Ortiz-Orive Upon the announcement of Tim Walz, governor of Minnesota, as Kamala Harris’s Vice Presidential running mate, the internet went wild. It did not take long for the Trump campaign to latch onto the lunatic left insults, calling Walz Tampon Tim. Conservative commentator Liz Wheeler…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—August 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 15:00:30 +0000

Huff Takes Leadership Role with Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College Project Censored is pleased to announce that Mickey Huff has accepted a position as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media (PCIM), based at Ithaca College in New York. In addition, he will also…

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Colonialism and Capitalism: From Earth to Space

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 19:02:40 +0000

This week, we’re talking colonialism and capitalism – on earth and in space. In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Jen Deerinwater and Ezra Star to discuss Disability Divest, a project that seeks to hold disability advocacy groups accountable – more specifically: how can you…

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Dark Money and Project 2025: A Deep Dive into Political Secrecy and Conservative Ambitions

Kate Horgan — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 22:04:40 +0000

In the first segment, we learn about the phenomenon of “dark money,” political campaign contributions designed to be difficult or impossible for the public to know about or trace. Mickey talks with media scholar Steve Macek about GOP plans for legislation to make it even easier to keep these contributions…

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The Corporate Press (Finally) Sounds the Alarm on Project 2025

Kate Horgan — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 17:50:42 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis After months of expert legal and public policy analysis, advocacy group warnings, and independent press reporting on the Presidential Transition Project 2025 (Project 2025 for short), the corporate press is finally catching up. Capturing headlines is Project 2025’s Mandate for Leadership, a 180-day playbook for the next…

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Exposing Prison Conditions and the Fight for Palestinian Rights

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:51:12 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby who joins us from prison to talk about his powerful work in exposing horrendous prison conditions and the sadistic treatment of prisoners. Jeremy speaks of extreme retaliation that he’s faced from prison officials for his…

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Scorched States and the Fight for Workers’ Rights: Unpacking Heat Exposure and Immigration Narratives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Jul 2024 18:10:15 +0000

In the first half of the show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield speaks with lawyer and worker health and safety advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress watch division, Juley Fulcher about her recent report, Scorched States, an expose of the inadequate or wholly lacking protections for workers facing extreme heat in the age…

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Is the Press Working Hard or Hardly Working?

Kate Horgan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 18:56:19 +0000

By: Nolan Higdon “I represent the heart of a congressional district once represented by Lyndon Johnson. Under very different circumstances, he made the painful decision to withdraw. President Biden should do the same,” exclaimed Democratic Representative Lloyd Doggett on July 2, 2024. Doggett was critical of 81-year-old President Joe Biden’s…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:15 +0000

State of the Free Press 2025 to the Printer After several months of deep digging and fastidious fact-checking, earlier this month we sent the manuscript of the forthcoming Project Censored yearbook to be designed and printed. We’re excited to announce that State of the Free Press 2025 will be published…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:15 +0000

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The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2024

Kate Horgan — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 15:00:15 +0000

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The Fight for Freedom: A Palestinian-American Veteran and the Julian Assange Case

Kate Horgan — Mon, 22 Jul 2024 17:46:16 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Palestinian-American Mohammed Abouhashem, who on October 21st of last year left the US Air Force after 22 years of service. Abouhashem discusses his decision to leave amidst the murder of six of his family members in Palestine. He describes…

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House Passes Bill Threatening Tax-Exempt Status of Nonprofit Organizations

Kate Horgan — Thu, 18 Jul 2024 19:51:46 +0000

In April 2024, the House of Representatives passed HR 6408, legislation that would grant the Secretary of Treasury authority to suspend the tax-exempt status of any nonprofit organization deemed to be a “terrorist supporting organization.” “Although the label is supposed to apply to supporters of designated terrorist groups, nothing in…

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America’s Media Literacy Deficit: Navigating Elections and Generational Divides

Kate Horgan — Tue, 16 Jul 2024 18:11:46 +0000

Mickey’s guest for the hour is media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss how the principles of critical media literacy could help the public make sense of the current, chaotic election season in the US, and also how the divide and contrasting worldviews between the older and younger generations can be…

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Private Companies in California Reap More than $100m to Sweep Homeless Camps

Kate Horgan — Fri, 12 Jul 2024 17:17:54 +0000

Cities across California such as San Jose and Los Angeles have paid private contractors millions of dollars to sweep homeless encampments, Brian Barth reported in an article copublished in April 2024 by The Guardian and Type Investigations. Local governments have increasingly sought the services of private contractors to deal with…

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United Auto Workers Put 32-Hour Work Week on the Agenda

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:58:17 +0000

The demand for a 32-hour workweek with no loss in pay has “the potential to radically shift organized labor’s priorities and unify an often fractious movement in ways not seen in decades,” Sarah Jaffe reported for In These Times in April 2024. Jaffe’s report focused on the efforts of the United…

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State Governments Profiting from Tribal Lands

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:44:04 +0000

A combined 1.6 million acres of state “trust lands” fall within the borders of 83 federal Indian reservations in ten states, according to data analysis by High Country News and Grist in February 2024 and published in High Country News in April. Trust lands managed by state agencies “generate millions…

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Amazon and Walmart Employ Hostile Surveillance Technology against Warehouse Employees

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:30:51 +0000

An April 2024 report from Oxfam America detailed how Amazon and Walmart utilize workplace surveillance technology to intimidate their warehouse workers into increasing their output—at the expense of employees’ physical and mental health, as Alex N. Press reported for Jacobin. Walmart and Amazon are the two largest employers in the…

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Transit Workers and Climate Activists Alliance Stage Massive Strike in Germany

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 21:23:42 +0000

In April 2024, public transit workers in 57 cities across Germany went on strike in a bid to double bus services in response to the country’s worsening climate change, Berit Ehmke and Yanira Wolf, who are staff members of Germany’s second-largest union, Ver.di, reported for Labor Notes. Ehmke and Wolf,…

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Internal Displacement Numbers on the Increase in 2023

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:44:56 +0000

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC), the leading source of data on internally displaced people used by the United Nations, reported that some 75.9 million people had been displaced from their homes in 2023. Olivia Rosane, staff writer for Common Dreams, reported on the IDMC’s 2023 Global Report on Internal…

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Nonprofit Watchdog Suffers Due to Elon Musk’s SLAPP Suit

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 17:37:17 +0000

The nonprofit media watchdog Media Matters for America (MMFA) has recently announced layoffs in response to financial difficulties caused by its legal battles with Elon Musk, billionaire owner of the social media platform X (formerly Twitter). In a May 2024 report for Common Dreams, Jon Quealley detailed how Musk’s frivolous…

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Russia Creates State-Sponsored, Censored Clone of Wikipedia

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:32:17 +0000

Russia has created Ruviki, a Wikipedia replacement that contains copies of all 1.9 million Russian-language Wikipedia articles, censored and edited to portray the Russian government in a more positive light, Jules Roscoe reported for 404 Media, a tech news website, in April 2024. Russian Wikipedia editors used to call the…

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You’re a Hypocrite, And So Am I

Kate Horgan — Thu, 11 Jul 2024 16:13:55 +0000

By Eleanor Goldfield We’re all hypocrites. For the most part, it’s not our fault. We necessarily live in the systems we’re working to change. I’m writing this on a device made possible by conflict materials dug up by children in Congo. I’m sitting in an air-conditioned home that most likely…

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A Declining Empire & Its Delusional Allies

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 15:14:05 +0000

In the first part of the program, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with journalist and analyst Ben Norton about the ongoing proxy war between Russia and NATO happening in Ukraine, the US’ bludgeoning of multiple peace deals, and the ultimately pointless struggle against a multipolar world. Ben also highlights the recent media…

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Freedom for Julian Assange and Navigating our Digital Democracy

Kate Horgan — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 17:46:43 +0000

Independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, rejoins the program to discuss Julian Assange’s plea bargain with the US Department of Justice that finally frees the WikiLeaks founder from Britain’s Belmarsh Prison. Assange, who was detained there for more than five years,…

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Refusing the Language of Silence

Kate Horgan — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 16:10:32 +0000

By Omar Zahzah It’s an increasingly familiar contradiction: digital platforms that position themselves as an accessible alternative to corporate media emerge as new censors in their own right. Social media and the internet make it possible to disseminate material that would otherwise have been suppressed, thereby helping to bring alternative…

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Critical Media Literacy and Civic Engagement in an Election Year

Kate Horgan — Mon, 24 Jun 2024 20:43:56 +0000

The Progressive magazine teamed up with Project Censored for its June/July issue and took an in-depth look at media literacy in the context of the upcoming election. On this week’s program, Mickey speaks with Norman Stockwell, publisher of the venerable political journal about how and why the partnership came about;…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2024

Kate Horgan — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 15:00:00 +0000

Special Issue of The Progressive Magazine on Media Literacy in an Election Year Project Censored has partnered with The Progressive to create a special issue of the esteemed magazine focused on the importance of critical media literacy for the 2024 presidential election. Spearheaded by guest editor Mischa Geracoulis, the Project’s…

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The No-State Solution & The Case For Open Borders

Kate Horgan — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:14:43 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with professor and author Mohammed Bamyeh about the no-state solution, an idea rooted in Palestinian and regional history that speaks of legitimate liberation in the face of continued state-imposed oppression and colonialist violence. Mohammed also explains the origins and outgrowth…

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Reporters Without Borders Finds Significant “Barriers to Press Freedom” in the United States

Kate Horgan — Thu, 13 Jun 2024 16:19:22 +0000

By Mischa Geracoulis Since 1993, the United Nations General Assembly has commemorated the third of May as World Press Freedom Day, reminding governments around the world that press freedom is a human right. It’s also when Reporters Without Borders (RSF) releases its annual World Press Freedom Index. Founded on Article…

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The Apache Stronghold & Euphemizing Genocide

Kate Horgan — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 16:24:30 +0000

In the first half of the show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield talks with Vanessa Nosie from Apache Stronghold about the profit-driven priorities of what we’d assume are protective agencies like the US forest service. Vanessa draws a red thread of connection between historical and present-day colonization, uplifting the spiritual and survivalist…

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Reinvigorating Diplomacy: Global Tensions and Press Freedom

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:57:07 +0000

This week on the Project Censored Show, Mickey welcomes back to the program Peter Kuznick, Professor of History at American University and best-selling author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the ongoing Russian attacks in Ukraine along with US/NATO reactions, as well as…

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Reinvigorating Diplomacy: Global Tensions and Press Freedom

Kate Horgan — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 16:57:07 +0000

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A Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression

Kate Horgan — Thu, 30 May 2024 16:00:50 +0000

By Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon, and Steve Macek According to a 2022 report by Article 19, an international organization that documents and champions freedom of expression, 80 percent of the world’s population lives with less freedom of expression today than did ten years ago. The eradication of basic freedoms and…

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Navigating the Digital Democracy

Kate Horgan — Wed, 29 May 2024 18:38:38 +0000

Social media has the power to influence voters.

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Not Asking Permission for Abortion & New Hope for Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 27 May 2024 16:32:51 +0000

In the first half of the show, Cofounder and Executive Director of Shout Your Abortion Amelia Bonow joins Eleanor Goldfield to highlight the shifting times and paradigms on abortion access. Amelia points out that Roe v Wade was never enough, that everyone deserves safe and easy abortion care, and that…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2024

Kate Horgan — Fri, 24 May 2024 20:25:42 +0000

Project Censored Welcomes Our Summer Interns Project Censored is delighted to welcome our student interns for Summer 2024. Da’Taeveyon Daniels, a dedicated student activist from Fort Worth, Texas, currently studying at Lonestar Virtual, is a leading voice in youth advocacy and civic engagement. He fosters collaboration among youth advocates and…

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Uncensoring Congo & Digging Up Buried Leads in Gaza

Kate Horgan — Mon, 20 May 2024 16:38:13 +0000

In the first half of the show, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear joins Eleanor Goldfield to pull back the curtain of imposed corporate censorship on Congo. Eugene highlights the myriad forces of green imperialism scarring both land and people as the Congolese find themselves in a crowded crossfire of countries…

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Free People Read Freely

Kate Horgan — Wed, 15 May 2024 20:02:14 +0000

By Nancy Kranich People have challenged books for centuries. But following the pandemic, newly formed parents groups such as Moms for Liberty grew to include more than 200 local chapters, which shifted their attention from opposing mask mandates and school closures to restricting reading materials in public schools and libraries.…

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The Threat to Press Freedom in Congress and Beyond

Kate Horgan — Mon, 13 May 2024 19:41:26 +0000

Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored, and Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, join Mickey on the Project Censored Show to discuss the latest moves in Congress to go after nonprofits, especially news outlets, that challenge official policies and narratives of the…

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Echoes of Rebellion: Student Protests, State Violence, and Spatial Power

Kate Horgan — Mon, 06 May 2024 20:11:44 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with author and history professor Dr. Gerald Horne to discuss the ongoing and growing student protests across the country, the violent response to them by the police state, and how this tracks with a history of student uprisings. Dr. Horne…

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World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:52:32 +0000

This week on the Project Censored Show, in advance of World Press Freedom Day, Mickey talks to media scholar Andrew Kennis about his recent book, Digital Age Resistance: Journalism, Social Movements, and the Media Dependence Model. They talk about how legacy media frame various social movements, applying the “worthy and…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2024

Kate Horgan — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 16:28:45 +0000

Latest Validated Independent News Stories As we prepare the April newsletter, Project Censored faculty, students, and judges are reviewing the Validated Independent News stories the Project received in 2023-2024. Students participating in the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program identify, vet, and summarize important but under-reported independent news stories as part of…

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The Importance of Independent Journalism in Fighting Censorship and Countering Corporate Media Propaganda

Kate Horgan — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:35:08 +0000

In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the declining relevance of “legacy” media and the essential work of a truly independent press. They go on to talk about media censorship and propaganda around Israel…

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Ed-Tech’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Deficit: The Galactic Gulf Between Rhetoric and Action

Kate Horgan — Thu, 18 Apr 2024 16:31:43 +0000

“University of Florida Eliminates all DEI-Related Positions,” read a March 2, 2024, New York Times headline. The article documented how Florida’s decision to terminate funds for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) related programs resulted in the University of Florida removing all DEI-related positions from their campus. This is but one…

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From East Palestine to Palestine, People Need Help

Kate Horgan — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 16:13:04 +0000

From East Palestine to Palestine, people need help. In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with East Palestine, OH residents Zsuzsa Gyenes and Chris Albright to discuss the ongoing fallout from the catastrophic train derailment in February of last year. Zsuzsa and Chris talk about a purgatory…

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Press Freedom and the Assange Appeal; Green Colonialism, Tribal Consent, and the Climate Crisis

Kate Horgan — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:49:26 +0000

Britain’s High Court of Justice has ruled whether Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order that would send him to the U.S. Independent journalist Kevin Gozstola, author or Guilty of Journalism, explains to Mickey the implications of the order, and whether the US might file new charges against the Wikileaks…

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Appalachian State Fires LGBTQ+ Staff Amidst Rollback of DEI Initiatives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 16:50:28 +0000

Four leaders of a queer affinity group at Appalachian State University have been fired, according to the article “Firing of LGBTQ+ Staff Leaders Raises Questions,” published on March 29, 2024, by Johanna Alonso for Inside Higher Ed. The terminations were sudden, and the only explanation given was that North Carolina…

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The Business of War & The Cost of American Delusions

Kate Horgan — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 17:43:23 +0000

In the first half of the show, researcher and US military veteran Christian Sorensen joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss the business of war, the mapping of it, the remarkable spread of it, and the very real ability and need to shift this trillion dollar industry to something more sustainable and…

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The Project Censored Newsletter- March 2024

Kate Horgan — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 16:30:53 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Mickey Huff appeared on The Thom Hartmann Program to discuss State of the Free Press 2024 and the importance of independent journalism and critical media literacy amid a rise in news deserts. Mickey also spoke about this year’s book with Steve…

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Silver Screen War Machine: Decoding the Military-Entertainment Complex

Kate Horgan — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:33:38 +0000

This week’s show presents excerpts from a recent panel discussion about the “Military-Entertainment Complex.” Inspired by the recent documentary Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood by media scholar Roger Stahl, the expert panelists examined the remarkable extent of US governmental influence over films, television, and video…

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Silver Screen War Machine: Decoding the Military-Entertainment Complex

Kate Horgan — Wed, 27 Mar 2024 20:33:38 +0000

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Blueprint for Regression

Kate Horgan — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 14:00:21 +0000

By avram anderson and Shealeigh Voitl The Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership series began in 1981 following the 1980 presidential election, marking the beginning of the Reagan era. The 20-volume publication, totaling 3,000 pages, presented a series of policy proposals that the conservative think-tank believed would “revitalize our economy, strengthen…

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Banned Books Back! & We Are All Sacrifice Zones

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Mar 2024 19:56:56 +0000

In the first half of the show Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein join host Eleanor Goldfield to talk about how a small coop bookshop in Asheville, NC came to be the keeper of more than 20,000 youth books banned in Florida, the emergence of the Banned Books Back! initiative,…

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Global Momentum of Censorship & Debunking Corporate Media

Kate Horgan — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 14:49:51 +0000

In the first segment, media scholars Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek come back on the show, this time to discuss their latest edited book, Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global Crackdown on Freedom of Expression. The recent upsurge in censorship is a global phenomenon taking many forms across…

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The Press Freedom Case of the Century

Kate Horgan — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 17:45:07 +0000

By Kevin Gosztola In March 2023, when my book on the case against Julian Assange was published, the detained WikiLeaks founder was waiting to find out if an appeals court in London would allow him to appeal extradition to the United States. Now, Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against…

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Corporate Media Say No On Ceasefire, Want To Cease “Uncommitted” Voters Instead

Kate Horgan — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 19:27:39 +0000

By: Nolan Higdon “I understand you’re upset, we talked about this yesterday. I understand you are upset, but, you know, either we [Democrats] are going to fix it together or we are not. And the other guy [Donald Trump] is not going to fix it at all,” exclaimed comedian Whoopi…

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The Project Censored Newsletter—February 2024

Kate Horgan — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 18:42:18 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Mischa Geracoulis, who organized and introduced the yearbook’s Media Democracy in Action chapter, coauthored an article, What the New York Times Gets Wrong About Lemkin’s Work on Genocide, with Heidi Boghosian, host of the Law and Disorder radio show. Geracoulis and…

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The Growing Legal Fights Against Israel & Many Voices For Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 17:40:28 +0000

In the first half of the show, we welcome back Hassan Ben Imran, board member at the Law for Palestine organization. Hassan gives host Eleanor Golfield updates on the ICJ case of genocide and how he believes the case is pushing the movement for Palestinian rights from the streets into…

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Hollywood’s Pentagon Propaganda, Deconstructing Disinformation, and Critical Media Literacy Education in the US

Kate Horgan — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:07:05 +0000

On this week’s program, Mickey talks with communications professor and filmmaker Roger Stahl about his most recent documentary, Theaters of War: How The Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood. They discuss…

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Despite Its Popularity, The Kids Online Safety Act Won’t Help Young People, It Will Hurt Them

Kate Horgan — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 20:03:37 +0000

By: Steve Macek In January 2024, top executives at X (formerly Twitter), Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Snap, Discord, and TikTok appeared at a Senate hearing to answer…

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Muckraking Journalism and The Progressive Magazine; Updates on Julian Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:31:04 +0000

In the first segment, Mickey talks with Norman Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive magazine, founded in 1909. Stockwell discusses the vaunted history of the publication coming out of a golden…

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It’s Not What It Seems: French Farmers Protest Outside of Political Ideologies & Astroturfing in Alaska

Kate Horgan — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:31:02 +0000

In the first half of the show, David Lorant, a farmer based in Rennes, France joins host Eleanor Goldfield to contextualize the widespread farmer protests that just recently saw farmers…

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Villainizing Media Literacy at the World Economic Forum: Time to Mandate it in US Schools

Kate Horgan — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 19:30:29 +0000

By Nolan Higdon “It is no longer good enough for us just to say this is what happened or here, this is the news. We have to explain our [inner]…

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Polluting Airwaves & Yemen’s Bold Moves for Palestine

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:01:01 +0000

In the first half of the show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with attorney Art Belendiuk and media activist and journalist Sue Wilson to talk about the poisoning of our…

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Polluting Airwaves & Yemen’s Bold Moves for Palestine

Kate Horgan — Mon, 05 Feb 2024 18:01:01 +0000

In the first half of the show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with attorney Art Belendiuk and media activist and journalist Sue Wilson to talk about the poisoning of our…

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Battling Censorship, Propaganda, and Nuclear Colonialism

Kate Horgan — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 18:09:58 +0000

In the first half of the show, journalist Alan MacLeod joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss his personal battle against censorship as well as the ways in which corporate media work…

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Warnings: the Holocaust, US Global Relations, and our Endangered Democracy

Kate Horgan — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:51:21 +0000

Mickey’s guests for the hour are philosophers Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. They outline what is…

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Exploring Press Freedoms: Updates on Julian Assange’s Extradition

Kate Horgan — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 18:54:55 +0000

We kick off this year focusing on press freedoms. We welcome back to the program independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.…

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The Legality of Genocide: On International Law & Thoughtcrimes on US Campuses

Kate Horgan — Mon, 08 Jan 2024 18:21:05 +0000

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…

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State of the Free Press 2024: A Discussion of Ongoing Censorship

Kate Horgan — Tue, 02 Jan 2024 23:16:20 +0000

Project Censored’s yearly publication, State of the Free Press 2024, hit the shelves in December. The work details the many issues regarding corporate media, from the spread of news deserts…

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Project Censored Newsletter December 2023

Kate Horgan — Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:48:18 +0000

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News State of the Free Press 2024, the 31st edition of the Project’s award-winning yearbook series, officially released on December 5, 2023.…

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Exposing the Jewish National Fund and Radioactive Fracking

Kate Horgan — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 18:12:25 +0000

The Jewish National Fund sounds nice enough, especially with their quaint tree-planting campaigns, but as our guest, Palestinian organizer Abdullah Elagha points out, this greenwashed front hides a myriad of…

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Media Censorship and Attacks on Press Freedoms: Genocide in Gaza, Julian Assange

Kate Horgan — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 18:08:09 +0000

Mickey’s first guest, journalist Abby Martin of The Empire Files, explains how corporate media has carefully avoided presenting the full atrocity of the Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza…

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The Stranglehold of Silence: Suppression of Free Speech in the Israel/Palestine Conflict

Kate Horgan — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 23:40:46 +0000

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with bestselling author and Emmy-nominated filmmaker James Bamford to discuss Israel’s nefarious attacks on our rights to free speech and…

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Context, Connections & Cracks in the Facade of Propaganda: A Deeper Look at Israel/Palestine

Kate Horgan — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 18:12:38 +0000

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…

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Colonialism Today: From The Crisis in Congo to Capsizing Boats in the Mediterranean

Kate Horgan — Fri, 03 Nov 2023 17:54:52 +0000

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…

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The Israeli-Palestine Conflict: Corporate Media Failure and Big-Tech’s Facilitation of War Crimes

Kate Horgan — Tue, 31 Oct 2023 17:29:48 +0000

This week Mickey examines media coverage of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and the ensuing Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, particularly the one-sided reporting of the Israel-Palestine…

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The Israeli-Palestine Conflict: Corporate Media Failure and Big-Tech’s Facilitation of War Crimes

Kate Horgan — Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:55:17 +0000

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…

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A Look At Assange From Inside the CIA, State Department & US Military

Kate Horgan — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 16:21:59 +0000

You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven’t heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and US military. In this special episode, Eleanor…

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Challenging Narratives: Unmasking Zionism, Media Bias, and the ‘EARN IT’ Act

Kate Horgan — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 16:56:33 +0000

Eleanor Goldfield opens the program with a conversation about Gaza; her guest, Nora Barrows-Friedman, rebuts common Israeli / US talking points, and identifies Zionism as the actual obstacle to peace.…

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More Draconian Than You Thought: A Look at Georgia RICO Then and Now

Kate Horgan — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 18:17:54 +0000

If two people sit down for a cup of coffee in Georgia, they might leave with RICO charges. That’s how our first guest this week, Ellen Barfield explains the draconian…

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Let Freedom Read: Banned Books Week for 2023

Kate Horgan — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 21:39:34 +0000

Mickey dedicates this show to Banned Books Week 2023 (Oct. 1-7). Now in its 41st year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting the freedom to read…

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Capitalism: The Ultimate Anti-Life System

Kate Horgan — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:20:14 +0000

It all comes back to capitalism. In the first half of the show, economist, author, and show host Dr. Richard Wolff joins us to talk about empowerment beyond the strike,…

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Capitalism: The Ultimate Anti-Life System

Kate Horgan — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 16:20:14 +0000

It all comes back to capitalism. In the first half of the show, economist, author, and show host Dr. Richard Wolff joins us to talk about empowerment beyond the strike,…

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Unveiling Maui’s Unheard Voices: Indigenous and Mutual Aid Activists Speak Out

Kate Horgan — Mon, 18 Sep 2023 16:22:05 +0000

You’ve likely heard a lot about Maui in recent weeks but chances are you haven’t heard a lot from Indigenous or frontline mutual aid activists working to protect and support…

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Challenging Media Integrity and Labor Rights: Fox TV Renewal and Sex Work Perspectives

Kate Horgan — Mon, 11 Sep 2023 20:48:47 +0000

Media scholar Steve Macek joins Mickey for a look at a case from Philadelphia, where media activists are challenging the broadcast-license renewal of the local Fox TV station. Macek says…

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The Untold History of the Start of the Nuclear Arms Race with Dave Lindorff; & Ongoing Attacks on Freedom of the Press Must Stop

Kate Horgan — Mon, 28 Aug 2023 16:06:44 +0000

’Tis the season of the bomb. Muckraking investigate reporter and author David Lindorff joins Mickey Huff to discuss his forthcoming book: Spy For No Country: The Story of Ted Hall…

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Resilience Amidst Controversy: Unveiling the Struggles of the Mountain Valley Pipeline and Unearthing Adult Supremacy

Kate Horgan — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:11:11 +0000

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain…

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Imperialism and Neocolonialism Around the Globe: US-China Relations; West African Nations

Kate Horgan — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 01:01:41 +0000

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. As US-China relations worsen, independent journalist Danny Haiphong says what lies at the root is the desperation of a US ruling class…

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Media Freedom Matters: Exposing International News Neglect, Censorship, and Agenda Cutting Across the Globe

Kate Horgan — Tue, 08 Aug 2023 21:19:59 +0000

Earlier this year, members of the News Enlightenment Initiative (NEI-Germany) and Project Censored partnered to recruit an international jury of news professionals and media scholars to identify and highlight “News…

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Kate Horgan – Radio Free

The AI Nuclear War Dead Hand

Project Censored’s 2025 Summer Reading List

CEO Salaries Skyrocket While Workers’ Wages Stagnate

The Project Censored Newsletter—July 2025

Big Tech Data Centers Deplete Water From Scarce Sources Around the World

Nobel Economists Urge Minimum Tax on World’s 3,000 Billionaires

ECONOMIC TERROR AND THE TURBOCHUGGF*CK IN TEXAS

Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk

The Militarization and Weaponization of Media Literacy

The Project Censored Newsletter—June 2025

The Holocaust in Gaza Enabled by Corporate and Public Service Media

Short Supply: Empathy, Attention, and America’s Legal Labyrinth

The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards

The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards

The Problem with AI War Games

Insufficient Press Coverage on the Big Data Surveillance Complex

Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space

Glen E. Friedman on His Photography, Bad Brains, and Rebellious American Music

Disinfo, Decline, and Dysfunction

MARKETING MARS

Out of the Frame: Hurricane Helene Aftermath and the Weaponization of Antisemitism

AI Battlespace: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things

Press Freedoms and Civil Rights Under Attack; and Practicing Civic Self-respect

Inmate Pregnancy Losses Under-reported in Ohio Jail and by Establishment Press

Title VI Invoked to Curb Pro-Palestinian Language in Higher Ed

“A Chilling Message”: FBI Visits Independent Journalist Who Published Leaked Vance Dossier

Scarce Reporting of Police Violence Despite Rise in Killings by Police

Egyptian Firms Subject Commercial and Aid Deliveries to $20,000 “Bribes” to Enter Gaza

Survey Documents “Alarming Tolerance” for Politicians’ Attacks on the Press

Kashmir and Armenia: Voices from the Margins

The Project Censored Newsletter—May 2025

Dispatch from Texas: The Billion-Dollar Heist of Public Education​

Language as Liberation: One Man’s Mission to Teach ASL in Prison

Mental Health Crisis Grows for Farmers as Federal Aid Runs Out

Michigan’s Incarcerated Women: The Urgent Need for Resources

Behind Bars and Binaries: Music, Identity, and the Fight for Liberation

Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request

Meta Undertakes “Sweeping Crackdown” of Facebook and Instagram Posts at Israel’s Request

Working Class Is Severely Underrepresented in State Legislatures

Palestinian-American Educator Shares Strategies for Talking to Kids About Gaza

Student Interest in Apprenticeships Surge, Employers Struggle to Meet Demand

Gardena, California, Students Simulate Starbucks Union Drive to Learn Workplace Rights

Laying the Foundation: Essential Math Skills Missing from Early Education

Lessons from Kent State, 55 Years Later and the Power of Truth-telling and Resisting Censorship

Beyond Earth Day and May Day

Campus Life in the Crosshairs

The Project Censored Newsletter—April 2025

Stargate Fiasco

Independent and Unafraid: Inside the 2024 Izzy Awards

Independent and Unafraid: Inside the 2024 Izzy Awards

Framing the Feed: How Social Media Shapes Our Interpretation of Reality

Eyes Everywhere: Tech Tyranny and the Profiteers of Control

PFAS Found in Condoms and Lubricants

Water Scarcity a Threat to 27 Million People in United States

Antarctic Ice Sheets Approaching Tipping Point, Studies Find

Meat Industry Disinformation Misleads Public About Impacts on Health and the Planet

200,000 Unreported Traffic Stops by Chicago Police in 2023

Documents Reveal Extent of Toxic Mold in Privatized Military Housing

Parents Forced to Sacrifice Careers to Remain Eligible for Childcare Assistance

Post-Assad Syria Faces Economic Upheaval

Negative Repercussions of Digital Censorship for K-12 Students

Governor Vetoes Bill to Grant California Tribal Police Peace Officer Status

Returning Wolverines to Colorado a Milestone for US Biodiversity Efforts

Conversations on Environmental Justice, Abolition, and the Future We Build

“All Governments Lie”: Why We Need a Radical and Independent Free Press Now

Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History

Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists & Frame Checking the News

The Project Censored Newsletter—March 2025

Resisting Digital Gatekeeping by Promoting Algorithmic Literacy

New York Officials Call for Criminal Prosecution of Fossil Fuel Companies and CEOs

“Segregation Academies” Leave Lasting Impact on Deep South Long After Brown v. Board of Education

Big Tech Companies Creating Legal “Patchwork” to Undermine Data Privacy Rights

Shared Ethnonationalism and Militarized Technology Bond India and Israel

Underpaid, Unrecognized Labor of Prisoners During Climate Crises

Universities Profit in the Millions from Fossil Fuel Corporations, According to Student Reporting

The News That Didn’t Make the News: Gaza’s Reality, Propaganda, and the Fight for Justice

UN Cybercrime Treaty Supported by Autocrats Raises Human Rights Concerns

UBS, the World’s Largest Private Bank, Accused of Scamming Customers

Dispatch from Texas: The Billion-Dollar Heist of Public Education