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 Georgia RICO – that’s Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) charges that her husband faced over a decade ago, and…
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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 while opposing efforts to ban or censor certain books from libraries, especially in school settings. This past year has seen…
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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, and how we can manifest true democracy in the workplace. He gives us a grotesque look inside the board room,…
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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 their communities in the dearth of government support and protection. In the first half of the show, Native Hawaiian Kamiki…
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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 the abundant evidence that Fox executives ordered the airing of stories they knew to be false (notably the purported “theft”…
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’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 the Teenage Atomic Spy Who May Have Saved the World. Lindorff is also a producer of the documentary about Hall…
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 and people of Appalachia. Crystal Mello, mom and pipeline fighter joins the show to discuss the intense and exhausting process…
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 that sees its world dominance ebbing away. He adds that the US sanctions against China actually hurt the US more…
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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 Neglect, Censorship, and Agenda Cutting Around the Globe.” In June, we unveiled our top selected international stories at the Deutsche…
Historian Peter Kuznick joins Mickey to discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie “Oppenheimer.” While his overall evaluation is positive, Kuznick notes that the movie fails to address the crucial fact that there was no military need to drop the atomic bomb on Japan. Kuznick also reminds listeners that had Henry…
