The Project Censored Show

The Legality of Genocide: On International Law & Thoughtcrimes on US Campuses

This week – the legal criminality of genocide: of perpetrating it, supporting it – and in the US, of decrying it. In the first half of the show, Hassan Ben Imran from Law For Palestine joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss the recent case of genocide brought by South Africa to…
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State of the Free Press 2024: A Discussion of Ongoing Censorship

Project Censored’s yearly publication, State of the Free Press 2024, hit the shelves in December. The work details the many issues regarding corporate media, from the spread of news deserts to biased and incomplete reporting, while highlighting the public interest journalism of the independent press. On this week’s program, Mickey…
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Exposing the Jewish National Fund and Radioactive Fracking

The Jewish National Fund sounds nice enough, especially with their quaint tree-planting campaigns, but as our guest, Palestinian organizer Abdullah Elagha points out, this greenwashed front hides a myriad of atrocities, from ecocide to ethnic cleansing. Elagha outlines the history and present of the organization, a recent fundraising for Israel…
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Media Censorship and Attacks on Press Freedoms: Genocide in Gaza, Julian Assange

Mickey’s first guest, journalist Abby Martin of The Empire Files, explains how corporate media has carefully avoided presenting the full atrocity of the Israeli attacks on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and the years of oppression in both Gaza and the West Bank. She also discusses the tragic consequences, which…
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The Stranglehold of Silence: Suppression of Free Speech in the Israel/Palestine Conflict

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with bestselling author and Emmy-nominated filmmaker James Bamford to discuss Israel’s nefarious attacks on our rights to free speech and assembly here in the US. Bamford shares details about the clearly illegal activity of foreign agents working to suppress movements…
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Context, Connections & Cracks in the Facade of Propaganda: A Deeper Look at Israel/Palestine

    Our understanding of every issue suffers without context, and perhaps most glaringly today – the issue of what’s happening in Israel/Palestine. In the first half of the show, Jacquie Luqman joins the show again to contextualize Israel as a settler colonialist project, how that links to the pan-African…
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Colonialism Today: From The Crisis in Congo to Capsizing Boats in the Mediterranean

Be it in the Mediterranean or the heart of Africa in Congo, colonialism isn’t past, it’s a modern day disaster. In the first half of the show, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear joins Eleanor Goldfield to bring us information on the so-called silent holocaust taking place in the Congo where…
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The Israeli-Palestine Conflict: Corporate Media Failure and Big-Tech’s Facilitation of War Crimes

This week Mickey examines media coverage of the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and the ensuing Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, particularly the one-sided reporting of the Israel-Palestine conflict by corporate media, and Big Tech actions to suppress Palestinian perspectives. Today’s guests discuss how media bias and lack…

A Look At Assange From Inside the CIA, State Department & US Military

You may have heard of Julian Assange, but chances are that you haven’t heard about him from inside the CIA, State Department and US military. In this special episode, Eleanor first talks with former CIA counterterrorism officer and whistleblower John Kiriakou about what Assange would face if extradited to the…
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Challenging Narratives: Unmasking Zionism, Media Bias, and the ‘EARN IT’ Act

Eleanor Goldfield opens the program with a conversation about Gaza; her guest, Nora Barrows-Friedman, rebuts common Israeli / US talking points, and identifies Zionism as the actual obstacle to peace. Then Shealeigh Voitl tells Mickey about some of her recent research and writing. She finds fundamental differences in how corporate…