By: Nolan Higdon “I understand you’re upset, we talked about this yesterday. I understand you are upset, but, you know, either we [Democrats] are going to fix it together or we are not. And the other guy [Donald Trump] is not going to fix it at all,” exclaimed comedian Whoopi…
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It began with a man rowing a 1,200-pound pumpkin down the Missouri River. That was the first news item I saw on TV after one of the major cable networks broadcast horrifying, graphic footage of the deadly airstrikes into Gaza launched by Israel Defense Forces on October 7th. The jarring…
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By Daniel Ellsberg Editor’s Note: The late Daniel Ellsberg’s article, “On Civil Courage and its Punishments,” was originally published in Censored 2014: Fearless Speech in Fateful Times, edited by Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth, and Project Censored (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2013), 208-13. The article was based in part…
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Updated and corrected 2/17/23 Educators and educational organizations and institutions would be wise to refuse any endorsement of the NewsGuard browser extension. The extension, branded as the “Internet Trust Tool,” distracts from the ways in which Newsguard’s leadership and mission operate counter to the principles of democratic education and interests…
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By Tara Dorabji India, the world’s largest democracy, continues to use draconian laws to silence and incarcerate journalists and human rights defenders in Kashmir. On February 4, Fahad Shah, founder and editor of the Kashmir Walla was arrested by local police for “uploading anti-national content…to create fear among the public.”…
By Mischa Geracoulis Jaime Scholnick, a Los Angeles-based artist and adjunct professor at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona is under pressure from university administration as a result of unfounded accusations of “anti-Semitism” by a former student. In November 2021, the associate director of Cal Poly’s Office of Equity and Compliance…
by Mischa Geracoulis Politics As Sound: The Washington, DC Hardcore Scene, 1978-1983 Shayna L. Maskell University of Illinois Press (October 2021) ISBN 978-0-252-08622-9 Premised on the idea that the development, experience, and messaging of music are indivisible from geography and chronology, Shayna L. Maskell, professor in the College of Humanities…
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The following article is based on a prepared statement from Project Censored director Mickey Huff in support of freeing WikiLeaks whistleblower Julian Assange from prison in the UK. This week, Assange awaits an appeal decision on his potential extradition to the US, where he would be tried under the Espionage…
A Film Review by Mickey Huff History Matters Scott Noble’s latest documentary series, The War at Home, takes a deep dive into the history of labor movements and state repression in the United States. Soon to be a multi-part series, the first entry is titled ‘Rebellion’ and can be viewed…
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By: Aaron Good Famed Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg joined my peace studies class on February 2nd. Ellsberg came prepared to answer questions from students, which he did, but only after being surprised by a number of luminaries who had previously agreed to join the famous whistleblower and peace activist. …
