Project Censored – 07.20.21

This week’s program presents edited audio of a July 13, 2021 Zoom conversation in which Mickey hosted author Dan Kovalik. Kovalik spoke about his latest work, “Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture.” Kovalik warns of the dangers of ‘cancel culture’ on the left, and advocates instead for dialogue and tolerance of differing opinions.   Dan Kovalik is a law professor and a prolific author; …

Project Censored – 05.11.21

This week’s program presents excerpts from a live online discussion co-produced by Project Censored and the Real News Network. The first in a series of three programs examining life and media in the modern age of pervasive digital communication, it examines the question “Is Freedom Possible in the Digital Era?” The panelists were Andy Lee Roth, Allison Butler and John …

Project Censored – 04.06.21

Mickey’s first guest is Shahid Buttar, who in 2020 ran against Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in the House of Representatives; he speaks about prospects for progressive change in 2021. Then author Dan Kovalik returns to the program to discuss his latest work, “Cancel This Book,” which warns of the dangers of ‘cancel culture.’ Notes:   Shahid Buttar is a civil-rights …

Project Censored – 03.30.21

Mickey’s guest for the first half of this week’s show is Jordan Elgrably, editor of a new publication: the Markaz Review www.themarkaz.org They explore some of the topics covered in this month’s issue, “Why Truth?” In the second half of the show, Andy Lee Roth explains how nonhuman censors — algorithms — are exerting tremendous, yet unseen, control over which stories …

Project Censored – 03.23.21

In the first half of the program, peace organizer Medea Benjamin looks at the Biden Administration’s foreign policy, and finds it mainly a disappointment. Then Rebecca Grace and John Gray introduce the Complete Picture Project, an organization that assembles videos of nonviolent offenders facing sentencing, so that a sentencing judge will learn more about an offender’s entire life, including family …

Project Censored – 03.17.21

Aaron Good teaches at a Quaker high school in Pennsylvania. He invited Daniel Ellsberg to speak to his class via Zoom, and also secretly invited several of Ellsberg’s fellow authors or whistleblowers, making the event a surprise tribute to Ellsberg, and a panel discussion of both historic and recent events in the peace movement. Notes:   Daniel Ellsberg is best-known …

Project Censored – 03.11.21

Today’s guests say that the National Park Service is betraying its mission at California’s Point Reyes National Seashore by favoring legacy cattle ranches and dairies over preservation of the land and the survival of the native Tule Elk. Peter Byrne and Will Carruthers also present examples of the local ranch and dairy businesses wielding undue influence in the region’s  politics, …

Project Censored – 02.17.21

Mickey’s guest for the hour is John K. Wilson, author of a recent report about freedom of the press on US college campuses. They speak about the findings of Wilson’s report, as well as the multiple threats to journalism and freedom of speech on campuses. Wilson also revisits some of the landmark events of the past generation’s media history, including …

Project Censored – 02.03.21

Although a new administration has taken office in Washington, the administrators of the world’s wealth have not changed. Project Censored presents a rebroadcast of “Giants: The Global Power Elite.” Project Censored Show cofounder Peter Phillips returned to the show as a guest in August 2018 to discuss his book about the ‘transnational corporate class.’ The product of years of research, …

Project Censored – 01.20.21

Mickey’s first guest is veteran technology entrepreneur John Marshall. In his new book “Free is Bad,” he contends that internet users’ expectation that everything online should be provided free has been a disservice to themselves  and to society, because it makes advertisers, not internet users, the real customers of the tech firms. In the second half of the show, History and Media Studies …