Project Censored

Mickey Huff with Peter Phillips Co-hosts for the Project Censored show on KPFA Pacifica discuss Truth and Consequences: Hegemonic Mythologies in American Empire with Prof. As'ad AbuKhalil. The program deconstructs the developing march to war in Syria. They also interview Abby Martin of RT’s Breaking the Set on 9/11 and the propaganda of official historical narratives. They also talk about the upcoming 9/11 film festival in Oakland (50 years of betrayal from JFK to today), more events in NY 12 years later, and ongoing corporate media censorship and framing in maintenance of American Empire

On the Project Censored show August 30 from KPFA Mickey Huff inteviews Ethnomusicologist Dr. T.M. Scruggs on the music of resistance inside the Bolivarian revolution with original recordings from Caracas. During the second part of the show Chris Cox’s from Junkyard Empire joins in the discussion with samples of contemporary resistance music in the US.

Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio August 23, Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips talk about the Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning case and the state of whistle blowing and the so-called free press with independent journalist and author Kevin Gosztola; they then turn to a report on Apple Exposed: The Untold Story of Globalization by professors Nicki Lisa Cole and Tara Krishna; and conclude the show with a look at repression of the indigenous community Rio Blanco in Honduras with Vicki Cervantes ofLa Voz de los de Abajo.

This week's Project Censored program focuses on the hazards of hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") and federal officials' attempts to downplay some those hazards.U.S. EPA officials denied last year that groundwater contamination in Dimock, Pennsylvania was due to fracking, although EPA's own scientists knew that fracking was the culprit. And, whistleblowers say, EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson used a false name in internal correspondence about the Dimock situation. Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview Steve Horn, writer forwww.desmogblog.com, discusses these stories.Then Richard Heinberg of the Post-Carbon Institute speaks about his new book "Snake Oil: How Fracking's False Promise of Plenty Imperils Our Future." Heinberg explains the hazards to water and air from fracking.

Mickey Huff in studio with Peter Phillips discuss the decision to drop the atomic bomb at the end of World War II, was it necessary as the official historical narrative suggests?Guests challenge that narrative and bring the conversation to another level. Huff and Phillips interview Rev. Nobuaki Hanaoka, Nagasaki bombing survivor; Professor Jacques Pauwels, author ofThe Myth of the Good War;and Andrew Phillips who talks about his 1984 interview with Wilfred Burtcher (one of the first journalists on the ground at Hiroshima after the bomb dropped).

Mickey Huff in studio with Peter Phillips review the NEW award-winning documentary “Project Censored the Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News” AND newly released interview outtakes with Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky talking about Project Censored, war, history, and the media. These are only available to the general public here and now for the first time

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips play segments of  Project Censored the Movie: Ending the Reign of Junk Food News and discuss the forthcoming book, Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times.  Both can be pre-ordered on line at:  WWW.Projectcensored.org

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview two whistleblowers, Alicia Dabney and Lesa Donnelley, who filed sexual harassment complaints when they worked for the USDA Forest Service. Then they  take an in depth look at the accreditation process and the threatened closure of the largest community college in CA, CC San Francisco— speaking with independent reporter Rick Sterling and Wendy Kaufmyn of Save CCSF.  They conclude the show with educator and author Bill Bigelow talking about censorship in Indiana, the latest flap with former GOP Governor Mitch Daniels, now president of Purdue University, who tried to purge Howard Zinn's People's History text from the classrooms

Project Censored Show on KPFA, Pacifica Radio hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips talk religion and social justice with Dr. Matthew Fox, author most recently of Letters to Pope Francis: Rebuilding a Church with Justice and Compassion; near the bottom of the hour- censorship at PBS involving the new documentary Citizen Koch, which looks at the influential conservative billionaire Koch Brothers, award-winning filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin tell the story; and the show concludes with a discussion on the annual summer encampment of the San Francisco Bohemian Club now taking place on the Russian River in Northern California.

Join Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips for their special Independence Day After program as they move beyond the flag waving, jingoistic nationalism and discuss a patriotism for the people, the impact of money on democracy in the US, and much more with former CA Green Party gubernatorial candidate Laura Wells and Prof. Robert McChesney (author most recently w John Nichols of "Dollarocracy: How the Money and Media Election Complex is Destroying America")

On the June 28 Project Censored Show on Pacifica Radio Mickey Huff and  Peter Phillips speak to Napoleon Gomez about his new book Collapse of Dignity: The Story of a Mining Tragedy and the Fight Against Greed and Corruption in Mexico. the show also carries  a special report from Tara Dorobji who recently spoke with author Mat Johnson about how writers of color are often locked out of the publishing world. They conclude the show with a conversation with surveillance state expert and philosophy professor Elliot Cohen about the ramifications of NSA leaker Edward Snowen, how the corporate media are missing the story about living in a full blown 1984

On the Project Censored Show, KPFA Pacifica Radio, hosts Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips interview author Dr. Paul Palmer on Zero Waste and offer solutions to the growing problems of waste management and recycling programs. During the second half of the show they interview  journalist and activist Sunsara Taylor of StopPatriachy.org who talks about radical feminism, recent censorship on women's rights issues (especially concerning abortion rights), and  radically transforming a patriarchal world by addressing the overarching problems of capitalism and oppression.

Mickey Huff in studio with Peter Phillips analyze the state of the free press and civil liberties in the US.  They kick things off with Sue Wilson, founder of the Media Action Center, about the private censorship of public airwaves and the FCC’s possible ruling deciding whether or not right wing radio is “bonafide” news; then legendary free press proponent and documentary filmmaker John Pilger joins in from London for commentary on the state of the free press as well as his latest film project; and they close out the show with Beau Hodai, author of the new study published by the Center for Media and Democracy, “Dissent or Terror: how the nation's counter terrorism apparatus, in partnership with corporate America, turned on Occupy Wall Street.

Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips visit the issue of the new poverty in the United States as they play excerpts from the movie Ain’t I A Person directed by Dr. Keith Kilty. From the film we will hear the voices of people trapped in poverty by expanding structural unemployment, continuing racism, and a deep seated 30 year attack on the social safety net in the US. We’ll also hear live in studio from sociology professor Sheila Katz on increases in urban poverty and the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty.

Mickey Huff  and Peter Phillips revisit untold histories of the United States as they play excerpts from the Untold History event held at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, CA in February with Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick, and Daniel Ellsberg.  They also interview Laurel Krause just back from the 43rd anniversary of the May 4th Kent State Shootings where Oliver Stone was keynote speaker. They discuss the ongoing cover-up of that fateful event by federal, state, and university officials. Additionally, they hold a general discussion on the importance of untold history to an active democracy.