Former Congressman and presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich joins the program to discuss his recently published a memoir (The Division of Light and Power) about a lonely battle he waged to preserve public power in Cleveland during his term as mayor in the late 1970s. It’s a David and Goliath tale of…
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Mickey welcomes independent journalist Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof.com to discuss the importance of whistleblowers for journalists and why they need to be protected not prosecuted. Kevin shares updates regarding Julian Assange’s case, Reality Winner, and Daniel Hale, who was recently sentenced to 45 months in prison for revealing the alarming…
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Mickey’s guests for the hour are authors Susan Zakin and Steve Erickson. Zakin joined forces with other talent from the literary community to create the online publication Journal of The Plague Years as a place for a new kind of journalism, especially work examining life during COVID-19. Steve Erickson is…
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Mickey’s first guest is long-time media activist, author, and “culture jammer” Kalle Lasn, the founder of Adbusters magazine. He summarizes the history of Adbusters, and explains some recent developments, including the decision by Canada’s dominant drug-store chain to cancel selling the magazine in its 1,300 stores due to what it…
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Mickey’s guest for the hour is political scientist Aaron Good. Good recently completed a critique of the latest BBC documentary from Adam Curtis (“Can’t Get You Out of My Head”), ultimately concluding that the work is intended to distract and hide important elements of global power dynamics post-WWII rather than…
This week’s program presents edited audio of a July 13, 2021 Zoom conversation in which Mickey hosted a KPFA event with author Dan Kovalik. Kovalik spoke about his latest work, Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. While noting censorship is a problem oft associated with the right,…
How did the dominant corporate media cover Joe Biden’s first 100 days as President? And how has media coverage of Biden differed from that given to Donald Trump? Mickey is joined by Emil Marmol and Nolan Higdon to discuss a forthcoming article the three of them wrote on these topics…
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Prof. Aviva Chomsky joined Mickey for a Zoom lecture on April 29, an event presented by Project Censored and KPFA radio. The occasion was the release of her new book, Central America’s Forgotten History: Revolution, Violence, and the Roots of Migration, which revisits the history of how the region was…
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This week’s program presents excerpts from a live online discussion co-produced by Project Censored and The Real News Network. This is the third and final installment in the series “The Long Sili-CON: Power and Censorship in the Digital Era,” which examines media and society in our times of pervasive digital…
Mickey’s first guest, independent journalist Abby Martin of The Empire Files, provides background to the Israeli bombardments of Gaza, and explains how big U.S. media strenuously avoid presenting the truth about Palestine. In the second half of the show, media scholars Michelle Rodino-Colocino and Brian Dolber speak about their new…
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