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Kenn Burrows of San Francisco State University returns to the program to talk about SFSU’s annual Gandhi-King Season of Nonviolence. Then Neal Gorenflo of Shareable.net explains how his website aims to facilitate cooperative problem-solving around the world. Finally, historian Michael Morey...
Mickey interviews two activists who work at the local and global levels, respectively. High School student Lucia Garay explains how she became motivated to work for social justice, and the challenges that young people face even in a “liberal” region. Then Steven Jay returns to the show to...
By Peter Phillips
This article appeared originally as Chapter 8 in Censored 2019: Fighting the Fake News Invasion
Historically the term “mainstream media” referred to the largest media outlets in the United States. Numbering in the hundreds, these...
Mnar Muhawish of MintPress News explains the recent US Senate bill aimed at suppressing the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement; she also looks at a new far-reaching establishment and corporate-media-backed initiative called NewsGuard that would “rate” websites for accuracy. Many...
On this very special episode of Along the Line, the listeners control the show. Listen as Nicholas “Dr Dredlocks” Baham and Dr. Nolan Higdon respond to listener questions about identity politics; Smedley Butler; and stand up comedy. ATL’s editor and sound Engineer is Janice Domingo....
This episode is a Nick’s Flix, which is where we use film to help us understand contemporaneous issues, examining the 1967 film The Manchurian Candidate. Nicholas “Dr Dredlocks” Baham and Dr. Nolan Higdon use the film to analyze Trump’s behavior in office. ATL’s editor and sound...
Nicholas “Dr Dredlocks” Baham and Dr. Nolan Higdon explain the politics of the 2019 government shutdown as well as the racial and political history of the wall. ATL’s editor and sound Engineer is Janice Domingo. ATL’s Creative Director is Jorge Ayala. Mickey Huff is ATL’s producer....
This episode of Along the Line analyzes the history and impact of government shutdowns. Starting with their 1980 origin, Nicholas “Dr Dredlocks” Baham and Dr. Nolan Higdon breakdown the destructive past of government shutdowns. ATL’s editor and sound Engineer is Janice Domingo. ATL’s...
Amid the ongoing corporate-media hue and cry about ‘Russian interference’ in the 2016 US election,
media scholar Rob Williams reviews the evidence, and the unexamined assumptions made by promoters of
the ‘Russian hacking’ position. Some of the discussion on the show revolves around...
A 2018 report shows that American citizens are actively being stripped of their First Amendment rights. As Glenn Greenwald, reported, 26 states have enacted Israel loyalty oath requirements for contract workers, and 13 other US states have similar bills pending. Greenwald’s reported cited...
By Rob Williams for Project Censored
The following is a critical book review of Kathleen Hall Jamieson’s Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect A President – What We Don’t, Can’t, And Do Know (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).
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by Susan Maret for Project Censored
As I write, the 24th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP24) to the United Nations Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has concluded. COP24 was held at Katowice, Poland from December 3-17, 2018 and brought together...
This week’s show presents speeches and conversation from Project Censored’s 2018 Media Freedom Summit 2.0
The first 2/3 of the show is from the keynote panel, then we hear part of the “News Abuse” discussion.
The panelists heard on the program are Abby Martin, Nora Barrows-Friedman...
A 2015 study found that the threat of plastic pollution to seabirds is “global, pervasive, and increasing.” As Lorraine Chow reported for Truthout in September 2018, the researchers estimated that ninety percent of seabirds have ingested some form of plastic, which birds mistake for food. If...
A September 2018 poll of 1,006 randomly selected 22-37-year-olds found that nearly half of millennial Democrats identified as “socialist” or “democratic socialist,” The Hill reported.
The poll was conducted by Maru/Blue and Buzzfeed, and the millennials surveyed were all members of Maru/...
Since 2012 farmers from a small, rural community in the mountains of eastern El Salvador have generated their own electricity, the Inter Press Service reported. For generations, the only light sources available to the people of La Joya de Talchiga were candles or wood fires. As IPS reported,...
Esther Ngumbi, a researcher in entomology at the University of Illinois, writes that, “in the race to beat food insecurity, achieve zero hunger, and address climate change, we must look down—to the soil.”
Noting that the director-general of the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
In October 2018, Greg Palast reported that as many as 20,000 voters may have been purged from Indiana’s electoral roles, “some apparently in violation of a federal court order.” According to the Palast Investigative Fund, “thousands of voters” were purged, in violation of a June 2018 federal...
A November 2018 study found that the number of Sunni militants has increased by 270% since the September 11, 2001, despite the US-led campaign to combat Al Qaeda and ISIS, the Independent and RT News reported.
The study, conducted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in...
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey answer listener questions about California wild fires and an Ohio politicians assessment of them, Hillary Clinton’s recent comments about Monica Lewinsky, the 2nd Amendment and its...
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey breakdown the timeline of events of Robert Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference during the 2016 election from its start through December of 2018
The post Episode...
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey bring listeners a Nick’s Flix. Nick’s Flix episodes analyze a film to help assess contemporaneous issues. This episode is based on the 1964 Stanley Kubrick film: Dr. Strangelove or...
Private data brokers are selling the personal information of 150 million Americans that could be used to predict health care costs. Companies such as LexisNexis Risk Solutions, IBM Watson Health, and Optum have collected over 78 billion records of personal data—including race, education level,...
Drawing on data from the Fatal Encounters project, in May, 2018, the Intercept reported that despite being only a small fraction of the New York Police Department (NYPD) force, on-duty officers who are not wearing uniforms are responsible for many police killings in New York. Plainclothes police...
In 2018, BGR and New Scientist reported on a scientific effort using electrical currents to stimulate regrowth of damaged coral reefs. As is generally known, coral reefs, which are crucial components of ocean ecosystems around the world, have been dying off due to climate change and destructive...
One of the UK’s leading scientists has called for organizations that fund medical research to acknowledge that genetic tests developed using samples from white Europeans do not necessarily provide accurate results when applied to other ethnic groups, the Guardian reported in October, 2018.
...Johnny Miller’s photography project, “American Unequal Scenes,” captures inequality across the United States by using aerial drone footage to show how the rich and poor live. From Oakland to Detroit and Baltimore, the stark contrast between rich and poor is evident from Miller’s striking images...
In March 2018, the Washington state legislature recently passed two measures that will help hold law enforcement officers accountable when they use lethal force. Measures I-940 and ESBH 3003 were passed to eliminate de facto immunity from Washington states use of force statute and to implement...
Documents recently obtained by the Freedom of the Press Foundation reveal troubling facts about how the government is secretly using the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) to spy on journalists. The documents were released as part of a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit filed by...
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), a branch in the Department of Homeland Security, is responsible for responding to disasters that have an overwhelming impact on communities and providing services that will allow those affected to rebuild their lives. Yet, a survey of 1,600 Texans...
The dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico is the largest ever recorded since dead zone mapping began in 1985. Dead zones are areas in a body of water that do not have enough oxygen to support marine life. At 8,185 square miles, the Gulf of Mexico’s dead zone is about the size of New Jersey. As the...
A 2018 report shows that people released from prison are being disproportionally discriminated against in the pursuit of work. The study—by Lucius Couloute, a doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Massachusetts, and Daniel Kopf, a reporter for Quartz—found that an average of 27%...
On November 5, 2018 a reporter from Al Jazeera interviewed Billy Noe Martinez, a Honduran immigrant, about why he traveled in a caravan through Mexican territory, to which Martinez responded that he felt safer in a large group of people than by himself.
During the interview, the reporter...
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey discuss Emmanuel Macron and the possible reemergence of French Fascism.
The post Episode 9 – Macron and French Fascism appeared first on Project Censored.
In Summer 2018, Rick Baum reported that wealth inequality has been on the rise even before the Trump administration. Undercutting any claims that the Obama administration made meaningful gains in making American society more equitable for ordinary families, Baum’s study detailed trends in wealth...
An Italian government agency has found that Apple and Samsung intentionally slowed older smartphones in order to induce customers to buy newer models. As Samuel Gibbs reported for the Guardian in October 2018, the Italian government’s antitrust agency fined Apple approximately $11.4 million and...
Pregnant Latinas who experience the stress of immigration raids and deportation are more likely to have pre-mature births than other women. There is a correlation between immigration raids and low birthweight among newborns of Latina mothers. As Carolina Moreno reported in the Huffington Post, “...
In May 2018, Facebook partnered with Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab to censor information on social media, while claiming to protect the integrity of US elections.
The partnership between Facebook and the Atlantic Council to fight fake news has resulted in the censorship...
Sweeping development throughout the Amazon rainforest is an abiding concern for indigenous groups. The Amazon’s extraordinary biodiversity is being destroyed for profits and political gain. In response, an alliance of some 500 indigenous groups from nine countries, known as COICA, is planning to...
“Unchecked exploitation” of Africa’s natural resources by corporations from outside countries has “forced desperate choices” on the citizens of African nations, Yasin Kakande reported for Truthout. In particular, Kakande described the challenges that confront African migrants to nations that...
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey answer listener questions about the concept of the violent left, female Trump voters, representations of Asians in media, and more.
The post Episode 8 – Listener Questions November 2018...
In this a companion episode, to Along The Line episode 6 (the Anatomy of fascism), Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey review contemporary stories of creeping fascism around the globe.
The post Episode 7 – Hate and Hurt appeared first on Project Censored...
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey define fascism and look at its history in order to contextualize contemporary global regimes.
The post Episode 6 – Anatomy of Fascism appeared first on Project Censored.
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey examine the elected officials who comprise the diverse body of congress taking office in 2019.
The post Episode 5 – – Meet Your New Congress People appeared first on Project Censored....
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey answer listener questions about Ben Shapiro, Colin Kaepernick’s Nike Ad, and more.
The post Episode 4 – Listener Questions October 2018 appeared first on Project Censored.
This episode of Along The Line is a Nick’s Flix companion to our previous two episodes concerning women and the Supreme Court. Nick’s Flix episodes breakdown a particular film in order to more closely examine a contemporary issue or topic. This episodes’ film is “Star Chamber.” Nicholas “Dr....
On this episode of Along The Line, Nicholas “Dr. Dredlocks” Baham III, Dr. Nolan Higdon and Aimee Casey discuss contemporary news stories concerning women and women’s issues.
The post Episode 2 – News and Gender appeared first on Project Censored.
M. Annenberg
Talk delivered at the Ceres Gallery, New York City, December 13, 2018
Thinking about propaganda, I turned to one of the world’s authorities, Hannah Arendt, who wrote, “The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but...
On World Refugee Day, June 20, 2018, the Middle East Monitor featured an article documenting how, in many war-torn places, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Palestine, Nigeria, and Yemen, education is inaccessible to students due to violence. Between 2013 and 2017, more than 2,700...
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