Episodes

  • Project Censored – July 11, 2025

    Project Censored – July 11, 2025
    Jul 11 2025
    The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The post Project Censored – July 11, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr
  • Project Censored – July 4, 2025

    Project Censored – July 4, 2025
    Jul 4 2025
    The News That Didn’t Make the News. Each week, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield conduct in depth interviews with their guests and offer hard hitting commentary on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy. The post Project Censored – July 4, 2025 appeared first on KPFA.
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    3 mins
  • A conversation with photographer Glen Friedman

    A conversation with photographer Glen Friedman
    Jun 27 2025
    Project Censored’s Managing Editor, Mischa Geracoulis, hosts this week’s program. Mischa’s guest is photographer Glen Ellis Friedman, who talks about his new book, Fearless Vampire Killers, a collection of his photos of the punk-rock band Bad Brains. Friedman is an American photographer, who began his work while still in junior high school, photographing his friends skateboarding. Later he covered the punk-rock and hip-hop music scenes, when those genres began drawing widespread public attention in the 1980s. Friedman’s photographs have been shown in exhibits around the world, and are included in many museum collections, including the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The post A conversation with photographer Glen Friedman appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr
  • Billionaire fantasies of colonizing Mars / Pentagon going all-in on AI

    Billionaire fantasies of colonizing Mars / Pentagon going all-in on AI
    Jun 20 2025
    Today’s show begins with Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny as they apply to settler colonialism in space, and the billionaire tech bro infatuation with our closest planetary neighbor, Mars. Looking through several analytical frames, Zimbardo debunks any notion that there is a Planet B to escape to, remarking, “we’re encouraged to believe that human ingenuity and industry can turn uninhabitable Mars into a habitable Earth. This fantasy is a distraction from the reality that Earth is being rapidly turned into Mars.” Then, we are rejoined by investigative journalist Peter Byrne. We look at his latest installments for Military AI Watch, including the Stargate Fiasco, how World War 3 will be fought inside data centers, and his most recent, AI Battle Space: Weaponizing the 5G Internet of Things. GUESTS: Zara Zimbardo coined the neologism Marsification in collaboration with the Bureau of Linguistical Reality, and co-created the concept album audio artwork Marsification: A Tale of Planetary Grief. She is an Interdisciplinary Studies faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Zara is a member of the curriculum design and facilitation team of Partners for Collaborative Change, with a focus on the interdependence of social justice and the environment, and community-driven climate resilience planning. Peter Byrne is an award-winning investigative reporter and science writer, author of the ongoing series for Project Censored, Military AI Watch. The post Billionaire fantasies of colonizing Mars / Pentagon going all-in on AI appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr
  • Disinfo, Decline, and Dysfunction / Ignorance and deception in high places

    Disinfo, Decline, and Dysfunction / Ignorance and deception in high places
    Jun 13 2025
    To begin this week’s show, Mickey welcomes back media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss his new podcast Disinfo Detox and recurring special feature “The Gaslight Gazette,” which analyzes current events and media coverage of them through a critical media literacy lens aiming to deconstruct deceptive media messaging. They also discuss legacy media’s failure to adequately cover Joe Biden’s physical and cognitive decline in the last election, which a new book co-authored by CNN’s Jake Tapper addresses. The authors shift blame from corporate media to the Democratic Party, without noting their own lack of in-depth coverage, even though there were stories published at the time in the independent press. Later in the show Eleanor Goldfield and Mickey present another installment in their “Is This the Best We Can Do?” segment that analyzes the competency of current government appointees for the positions they fulfill. They examine recent cases of astonishing ignorance by two of Trump’s department heads, as well as the way Biden’s former State Department spokesman changed his story once out of office. Nolan Higdon teaches in the Education Department at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. He’s also written extensively on media issues and is a frequent guest on the Project Censored Show. The post Disinfo, Decline, and Dysfunction / Ignorance and deception in high places appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr
  • Continuing impacts of Hurricane Helene / Governments weaponizing antisemitism

    Continuing impacts of Hurricane Helene / Governments weaponizing antisemitism
    Jun 6 2025
    Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program. In the first segment, we learn about the ongoing crisis that began with Hurricane Helene and why it continues, as federal and state authorities fail to address the actual needs of the people affected by the disaster. Next, a look at how the Trump administration, and some states, are working to suppress free speech by labeling any criticism of Israel as “antisemitism” and why this effort is actually a danger to Jewish people. Chelsea White-Hoglen is a lifelong Western North Carolina resident, a community organizer, and a mutual-aid worker. She also produces and hosts “Rednecks Rising,” a podcast about Appalachia. Alex Kane is a senior reporter at Jewish Currents magazine (www.jewishcurrents.org). The post Continuing impacts of Hurricane Helene / Governments weaponizing antisemitism appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr
  • Defending Freedom of Speech and Civil Rights Against Trump / Ralph Nader on “Civic Self-Respect”

    Defending Freedom of Speech and Civil Rights Against Trump / Ralph Nader on “Civic Self-Respect”
    May 30 2025
    In the first segment of today’s Project Censored, Mickey welcomes back Lauren Harper and Seth Stern from the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss several matters including their latest FOIA work on how the Trump administration has been treating immigrants, students and other vulnerable groups across the country. They provide an update on Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk and her release from detention in Louisiana, as well as updates on attacks on non-profits and the press at large, including attacks on major establishment media outlets. Later in the program, Mickey welcomes back the iconic attorney and prolific author Ralph Nader. They discuss his new book, out from Seven Stories Press, Civic Self-Respect. It’s a how-to guide on being a more meaningfully engaged citizen with steps anyone can use to fight against growing authoritarianism in the U.S. and how we can create a more robust and representational democratic republic and protect our civil liberties before it’s too late. GUESTS: Lauren Harper is Daniel Ellsberg Chair on Government Secrecy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (www.freedom.press). Seth Stern is Director of Advocacy, also at the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Founded in 2012, the Foundation is a non-profit organization that defends both freedom of the press and freedom of speech. Among its projects is the Press Freedom tracker, a database of press-freedom violations in the U.S. Ralph Nader’s name has been a household word in the US since the 1960s. His activism has covered issues from product safety to health-care policy, and he has founded multiple public-interest organizations. The post Defending Freedom of Speech and Civil Rights Against Trump / Ralph Nader on “Civic Self-Respect” appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr
  • Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Malcolm Harris on Saving the World

    Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Malcolm Harris on Saving the World
    May 23 2025
    Today’s episode of Project Censored is preempted by special programming for KPFA’s 2025 Spring Fund Drive. Brian Edwards-Tiekert speaks with author and political commentator Malcolm Harris about his latest book, What’s Left: Three Paths Through the Planetary Crisis. To support our mission and receive the Malcolm Harris’s book What’s Left as a thank-you gift, please donate here or call (800) 439-5732 (800-HEY-KPFA). The post Special Spring Fund Drive Programming: Malcolm Harris on Saving the World appeared first on KPFA.
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    1 hr