Project Censored

By Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon As we write for World Press Freedom Day, declared May 3, 1993, by the United Nations, Julian Assange of WikiLeaks languishes in Belmarsh prison awaiting possible e...

https://www.projectcensored.org/press-freedom-clock-tiktoking/

This week on the Project Censored Show, in advance of World Press Freedom Day, Mickey talks to media scholar Andrew Kennis about his recent book, Digital Age Resistance: Journalism, Social Moveme...

https://www.projectcensored.org/world-press-freedom-day-independent-media/

Latest Validated Independent News Stories As we prepare the April newsletter, Project Censored faculty, students, and judges are reviewing the Validated Independent News stories the Project recei...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-april-2024/

In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the declining relevance of “legacy” media and t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/independent-journalism-corporate-media/

“University of Florida Eliminates all DEI-Related Positions,” read a March 2, 2024, New York Times headline. The article documented how Florida’s decision to terminate funds for Diversity, ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ed-tech-diversity-equity-inclusion-deficit/

From East Palestine to Palestine, people need help. In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with East Palestine, OH residents Zsuzsa Gyenes and Chris Albright to discuss the ongoing fall...

https://www.projectcensored.org/east-palestine-palestine-people-need-help/

In March 2024, Carlos Ballestros of Injustice Watch reported that Lt. John D. Poulus, Chicago policeman and attorney, was running in the upcoming 2024 election for Cook County Judge and raised co...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corrupt-police-officer-candidate/

The power to control United States immigration policy has belonged to the federal government since the 1800s. However, Texas legislation proposed in 2023 uses an “invasion clause” in the Unit...

https://www.projectcensored.org/xenophobic-border-policies-texas/

Following major pushback from over a hundred civil society groups and thousands of petition signees, a pivotal amendment that would protect end-to-end encryption has been embraced by a prominent ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/parliamentary-online-encryption/

In an October 2023 article, The Appeal highlighted the FBI’s latest annual report on crime in the United States for 2022. Author Ethan Corey discusses how although crime rates are on a steady d...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fbi-crime-report-political/

According to a March 15th report from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the Russian government has introduced strict laws aimed at tightening its grip on the internet by outlawing VPN promotion an...

https://www.projectcensored.org/russian-online-censorship-election/

Almost 350 million children in South Asia—more than 55 percent of the under-18 population—are unsure where their next safe, clean sip of water will come from, according to a November 2023 rep...

https://www.projectcensored.org/350-million-asian-children-at-risk/

Companies are backtracking on their promises to implement green policies, despite being incentivized. E- The Environmental Magazine reported that in February 2024 three major investment companies...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-green-policies-hot-air/

The Caspian Tiger once roamed Central Asia near the Caspian Sea. Its habitat spanned 350,000 square miles across Iran, Turkey, China, and Kazakhstan. Caspian Tigers settled mainly along streams a...

https://www.projectcensored.org/caspian-tigers-re-introduced/

A new form of externally applied birth control for men continues to do well in clinical trials, thus challenging the traditional notion that reproductive health is a “women’s issue”—when,...

https://www.projectcensored.org/male-birth-control-gel/

Cannabis has been a hot topic in recent years. With its legalization for medicinal and recreational use in many states, countless Americans have come to view it in a brighter light. However, most...

https://www.projectcensored.org/adolescents-at-risk-thc/

Fanatics, a sports apparel company, makes large profits by paying teams big for licensing and then selling a cheap, inferior product. Criticism of quality issues has yet to hurt its market share,...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fanatics-de-facto-sports-apparel-monopoly/

Amid international furor over the ongoing humanitarian disaster of the Gaza war, the United States secretly sent weapons shipments to Israel at the rate of one every 1.5 days. US authorities disc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/amid-gaza-war-us-arming-israel/

Amid growing numbers of openly trans students in public schools, and an accompanying transphobic backlash, came the devastating news of a student’s death that might have been prevented. On Febr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/transgender-students-unprotected-in-school/

“Las preguntas que deja el fuego” (“The questions that the fire leaves”), by Ismaela Magliotto Quevedo and Benjamin Carvajal Ponce Chile, two environmental civil engineers, published Febr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/wildfires-challenge-chile-carbon-neutral/

The call center industry in Guatemala stands as a pillar of the nation’s economy but is also the cause of great emotional and mental health stress for the young people who work in it. Generatin...

https://www.projectcensored.org/guatemalan-call-center-workers-demand/

Violence against women and girls continues to be a major problem in Colombia, with femicides and other forms of gender-based violence occurring across the country. Through the media outlet Pilas,...

https://www.projectcensored.org/violence-against-women-in-colombia/

On January 30, 2024, the Paraguayan news outlet El Surtidor published “Criadazgo: la explotación infantile atrapada entre las paredes del silencio” (“Criadazgo: Child Exploitation Trapped ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/forced-labor-in-paraguay/

According to Middle East Eye, Morocco’s drone strikes have targeted 170 civilians in Western Sahara since 2021, resulting in the tragic loss of 86 lives. Some of these individuals were Moroccan...

https://www.projectcensored.org/morocco-western-sahara/

Environmental activists gathered from all over the world as they participated in a week-long global action movement against the fossil fuel industry, according to a March 2024 report by Inside Cl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/activists-insurance-fossil-fuel/

In an article for The Appeal, published in collaboration with the Phoenix New Times, Meg O’Connor reports on emerging evidence in the tragic police killing of Jacob Harris. Phoenix Police offic...

https://www.projectcensored.org/phoenix-police-department-shooting/

The Secret Service, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are illegally tracking Americans using cell-site simulators, Matthew Guariglia reported f...

https://www.projectcensored.org/illegal-tracking-cell-site-simulators/

In a December 2023 article for The Conversation, which was republished by Rewire News Group in January 2024, author Graham Gardner reported on the lawsuit that Texas opened alongside an anonymous...

https://www.projectcensored.org/texas-planned-parenthood-lawsuit/

In a December 2023 article for the American Friends Service Committee, author Firas Ramlawi shares the story of Fatima Shahin, a woman in her sixties currently suffering from chronic kidney disea...

https://www.projectcensored.org/palestinians-gaza-chronic-illness-medical/

Britain’s High Court of Justice has ruled whether Julian Assange can appeal an extradition order that would send him to the U.S. Independent journalist Kevin Gozstola, author or Guilty of Journ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/assange-green-colonialism-tribal-consent/

Many of the developing nations most vulnerable to climate change are “operating on increasingly tight budgets and at risk of defaulting on loans,” Natalia Alayza, Valerie Laxton, and Carolyn ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/climate-debt-trap-vicious-circle/

A leaked proposal from parties in a federal lawsuit over the impacts of dams on the lower Snake and Columbia rivers on federally-listed salmon and steelhead has revealed the Biden administration�...

https://www.projectcensored.org/plans-for-dam-removals-spur-controversy/

Artificial intelligence (AI) has been taking over the world. AI can be helpful in some cases, but use of the fast growing technology also entails risks. For example, “When using AI apps, the ri...

https://www.projectcensored.org/chatgpt-security-ethical-questions/

Government agencies in the Philippines have been attacked by cyberwarfare operations linked to the Chinese government, Hacker News reported in November 2023. Mustang Panda is the most recent name...

https://www.projectcensored.org/chinese-cyberattacks-continue/

Four leaders of a queer affinity group at Appalachian State University have been fired, according to the article “Firing of LGBTQ+ Staff Leaders Raises Questions,” published on March 29, 2024...

https://www.projectcensored.org/appalachian-fires-lgbtq-dei-initiatives/

Bottled water is the nation’s #1 bottled beverage. The average cost of bottled water consumption for a family of four, with the assumption that each person drinks 47 gallons a year, is between ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/low-income-minority-families-bottled-water/

A March 2023 survey by the Strategic Organizing Center found that 87 percent of 347 service workers polled in the US South were injured on the job in 2022, according to a report by People’s Dis...

https://www.projectcensored.org/service-workers-black-belt-injured-job/

 By Mischa Geracoulis and Heidi Boghosian On September 21, 1970, the New York Times ran its first “op-ed” page. Short for “opposite the editorial,” this new feature provided space for wr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/op-ed-abuse/

Florida is considering a bill that would ban houseless people from sleeping in public places and instead require them to stay in designated encampments, Alexandra Martinez of Prism reported on Fe...

https://www.projectcensored.org/florida-bill-treatment-houseless/

In an article for Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), authors Jason Kelly, Aaron Mackey, and Joe Mullin argue that updates to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) aren’t enough to fix its core F...

https://www.projectcensored.org/kosa-poses-first-amendment-concerns/

Terence Richardson, who was sentenced to life in prison in 2001 despite being found not guilty of murder, has been granted a hearing to present new evidence in the case, according to a February 2...

https://www.projectcensored.org/man-not-guilty-verdict-hearing/

Federal government efforts to reduce aerosol pollutants, including the US Clean Air Act, have led to what climate scientist James Hansen has described as a “Faustian bargain,” Jake Bittle rep...

https://www.projectcensored.org/restrictions-aerosol-pollution-climate/

The “Frank Unit” is an integral part of the police force in Omaha, Nebraska, Yanqi Xu, an investigative reporter at the Flatwater Free Press, reported in February 2024. Established in 2020 an...

https://www.projectcensored.org/bridging-gaps-in-mental-health-crisis/

Juan Mieles, the father of Anthony Mieles, a 17-year-old boy with cancer, filed a lawsuit against the Ronald McDonald House of the Greater Hudson Valley and Ronald McDonald House Charities, Inc (...

https://www.projectcensored.org/mcdonald-house-prevents-parents/

In the first half of the show, researcher and US military veteran Christian Sorensen joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss the business of war, the mapping of it, the remarkable spread of it, and th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/business-war-cost-of-american-delusions/

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Mickey Huff appeared on The Thom Hartmann Program to discuss State of the Free Press 2024 and the importance of independent journalism and critical media ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-march-2024/

This week’s show presents excerpts from a recent panel discussion about the “Military-Entertainment Complex.” Inspired by the recent documentary Theaters of War: How the Pentagon and CIA To...

https://www.projectcensored.org/military-entertainment-complex/

Working in the United States puts your life in danger more than it did in the past, according to a February 2024 report for Truthout by Tyler Walicek. According to data from the Bureau of Labor S...

https://www.projectcensored.org/6000-workers-killed-in-2022/

At a “Restore Roe” rally in Manassas, Virginia, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris called for the restoration and protection of reproductive rights in the wake of the Suprem...

https://www.projectcensored.org/womens-health-election-campaign/

In a 2024 article for the New Yorker, Rachel Monroe detailed the Spring 2014 disappearance of Melanie James in Farmington, New Mexico, in light of the ongoing trend of unsolved crimes against ind...

https://www.projectcensored.org/missing-murdered-indigenous-women-violence/

On October 18, 2023, NPR and the Climate Investigations Center (CIC) brought attention to the health risks linked to using gas stoves. Both reports discussed the gas industry’s long strategy to...

https://www.projectcensored.org/companies-hiding-health-risks-gas-stoves/

A much-publicized United Nations goal to end deforestation by 2030 is unlikely to be achieved, according to an independent assessment, as Olivia Rosane reported for Common Dreams in October 2023....

https://www.projectcensored.org/uns-forest-goals/

In November 2023, Panama’s Supreme Court struck down a 20-year concession to a Canadian company to operate a notorious open-pit copper mine 120 kilometers west of Panama City, after which the P...

https://www.projectcensored.org/panama-activists-shutdown-mine/

In coastal areas of the United States, sea levels are rising drastically because of climate change, and the topic has not received much attention from corporate media. In October 2023, Delany Nol...

https://www.projectcensored.org/saltwater-threatens-drinkingwater/

It’s no secret that TikTok trends and influencers are shaping fashion, but users’ feeds are being flooded with “microtrends” and marketing techniques that promote overconsumption and the ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/influencers-promote-fast_fashion-overconsumption/

The historic tourist region of Tuscany in central Italy is world-famous for food and wine, agrarian scenery, Renaissance art and architecture (including the Duomo, the Uffizi Gallery, Michelangel...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-climate-coverage-washout/

By avram anderson and Shealeigh Voitl The Heritage Foundation’s Mandate for Leadership series began in 1981 following the 1980 presidential election, marking the beginning of the Reagan era. Th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/heritage-foundation-project-2025/

In the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, online abortion services are facing global censorship on social media platforms.  Inst...

https://www.projectcensored.org/abortion-services-censored/

In the article featured in the Winter 2023-2024 edition of Rethinking Schools, titled “The Takeover of Houston Public Schools,” Larry Miller reported on the Texas state legislature taking con...

https://www.projectcensored.org/education-system-houston-public-schools/

In the first half of the show, Libertie Valance and Cindy Barukh Milstein join host Eleanor Goldfield to talk about how a small coop bookshop in Asheville, NC came to be the keeper of more than 2...

https://www.projectcensored.org/banned-books-we-are-all-sacrifice-zones/

In a January 2024 article for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Alison Chase reported that the Regional Wildlife Science Collaborative for Offshore Wind (RWSC) announced their plans t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/study-offshore-wind-farm-east-ecosystems/

In December 2023, the Hechinger Report’s Kelly Field reported the growing popularity of “themed” middle schools across America and the concerns raised by school consultants regarding both e...

https://www.projectcensored.org/themed-schools-popularity-equity-branding/

In the first segment, media scholars Robin Andersen, Nolan Higdon and Steve Macek come back on the show, this time to discuss their latest edited book, Censorship, Digital Media, and the Global C...

https://www.projectcensored.org/media-propoganda-framing-war-unhoused/

By Kevin Gosztola In March 2023, when my book on the case against Julian Assange was published, the detained WikiLeaks founder was waiting to find out if an appeals court in London would allow hi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-press-freedom-case-of-the-century/

By: Nolan Higdon “I understand you’re upset, we talked about this yesterday. I understand you are upset, but, you know, either we are going to fix it together or we are not. And the other gu...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-media-ceasefire-uncommitted-vote/

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Mischa Geracoulis, who organized and introduced the yearbook’s Media Democracy in Action chapter, coauthored an article, What the New York Times Gets Wr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-february-2024/

In the first half of the show, we welcome back Hassan Ben Imran, board member at the Law for Palestine organization. Hassan gives host Eleanor Golfield updates on the ICJ case of genocide and how...

https://www.projectcensored.org/legal-fights-against-israel-voices-assange/

On this week’s program, Mickey talks with communications professor and filmmaker Roger Stahl about his most recent documentary, Theaters of War: How The Pentagon and CIA Took Hollywood. They di...

https://www.projectcensored.org/hollywood-propaganda-disinformation/

By: Steve Macek In January 2024, top executives at X (formerly Twitter), Meta (parent company of Facebook and Instagram), Snap, Discord, and TikTok appeared at a Senate hearing to answer question...

https://www.projectcensored.org/kids-online-safety-act-hurt-young-people/

In the first segment, Mickey talks with Norman Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive magazine, founded in 1909. Stockwell discusses the vaunted history of the publication coming out of a golden...

https://www.projectcensored.org/muckraking-journalism-julian-assange/

In the first half of the show, David Lorant, a farmer based in Rennes, France joins host Eleanor Goldfield to contextualize the widespread farmer protests that just recently saw farmers in tracto...

https://www.projectcensored.org/french-farmers-protest-astroturfing-alaska/

By Shealeigh Voitl When Condé Nast bought the online music publication Pitchfork in 2015, Condé’s Chief Digital Officer Fred Santarpia told the New York Times that the acquisition brought “...

https://www.projectcensored.org/gq-absorbs-pitchfork-music-media/

By Nolan Higdon “It is no longer good enough for us just to say this is what happened or here, this is the news. We have to explain our working.” So exclaimed Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief of...

https://www.projectcensored.org/media-literacy-world-economic-forum-school/

Two women wearing hijabs were denied entry to Vice President Kamala Harris’s January 27 early voting rally in Las Vegas, Nevada. Video footage taken by the women, who reportedly RSVPed and rece...

https://www.projectcensored.org/nevada-hijabi-women-barred-from-event/

In the first half of the show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with attorney Art Belendiuk and media activist and journalist Sue Wilson to talk about the poisoning of our airwaves, with propaganda. ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/polluting-airwaves-yemens-moves-palestine/

In the first half of the show, journalist Alan MacLeod joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss his personal battle against censorship as well as the ways in which corporate media work to propagandize ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/censorship-propaganda-nuclear-colonialism/

By Sue Wilson (Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics) THE AIR BELONGS TO US – But they’re trying to take it away Media. Everybody is screaming about t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fcc-sinclair-tribune-broadcasters/

Mickey’s guests for the hour are philosophers Leonard Grob and John K. Roth, coauthors of the 2023 book, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy. They outline what i...

https://www.projectcensored.org/holocaust-us-global-relations-democracy/

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News Independent newsweeklies—from the North Bay Bohemian and Random Lengths News in California, to the Santa Fe Reporter (New Mexico), and the C-Ville Weekl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-january-2024/

We kick off this year focusing on press freedoms. We welcome back to the program independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange. ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/press-freedoms-julian-assanges-extradition/

By Mischa Geracoulis  Project Censored’s directors, Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, have repeatedly asked what would happen if journalism disappeared. With 2023 in the rearview and 2024 preside...

https://www.projectcensored.org/local-news-crisis-lowdown/

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 ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/international-law-thoughtcrimes-us-campus/

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 ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/discussing-ongoing-censorship/

By Andy Lee Roth and Steve Macek The power of news is often described using visual metaphors. Good journalism is said to be illuminating, meaning it provides clarity and insight; exemplary report...

https://www.projectcensored.org/light-through-the-slats-news-frames/

State of the Free Press 2024 in the News State of the Free Press 2024, the 31st edition of the Project’s award-winning yearbook series, officially released on December 5, 2023. You can ask for ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-december-2023/

A new federal regulation will make it more difficult for colleges to withhold students’ transcripts as a way of forcing them to repay loan debts, Sarah Butrymowicz and Meredith Kolodner reporte...

https://www.projectcensored.org/rule-challenges-transcript-withholding/

By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/navigating-the-news-void-news-deserts/

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...

https://www.projectcensored.org/exposing-jewish-national-fund-fracking/

According to a July 2023 report in the Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA), state legislators have proposed to add $60 million to the state’s annual budget to fund rural school districts. Those ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/legislation-lack-funding-rural-school/

In an article for Rethinking Schools, New York teacher Juan P. Córdova shares his experience teaching a “traditional bilingual classroom” of fourth- and fifth-grade students whose families w...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-york-teachers-approach-asylum-students/

In an article for The Imprint News, Jeremy Loudenback and Sara Tiano dive into the details of California’s June 30, 2023, signed budget, which incorporates investments in higher education for i...

https://www.projectcensored.org/californias-education-incarcerated-youth/

In September 2023, private K-12 schools in Arizona decided to raise their tuition between 6 and 20 percent in response to experimental vouchers given to families to make private education more ac...

https://www.projectcensored.org/arizona-schools-hiking-tuition/

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 G...

https://www.projectcensored.org/media-censorship-attacks-press-freedoms/

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 assemb...

https://www.projectcensored.org/suppression-free-speech-israel-palestine/

By Steve Macek During the past three years, the country has seen a dramatic increase in book bans at public and K-12 school libraries and in rightwing pro-censorship activism, usually targeting b...

https://www.projectcensored.org/attack-against-the-freedom-book-ban/

How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/note-research-evaluation-censored-news-9/

In August 2023, the Hechinger Report’s Rebecca Redelmeier reported findings from the University of North Carolina’s Neurosciences Hospital on how in-hospital schools open a road to recovery t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/hospital-program-bridges-education-student/

In a September 2023 article for ProPublica, produced in partnership with the Idaho Statesman, Becca Savransky reported that Salmon, Idaho’s elementary and middle schools are at serious risk of ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/idaho-schools-struggle-resources/

A Fall 2023 report, “Teaching While Undocumented,” by authors Esa Syeed and Abigail Rosas for Rethinking Schools describes the personal experiences and struggles of undocumented individuals n...

https://www.projectcensored.org/undocumented-teacher-undocumented-struggle/

Laws that criminalize HIV transmission—many enacted in the 1980s, when HIV was poorly understood—have not been changed to reflect scientific advances in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. In January ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/activism-outdated-laws-criminalize-hiv/

The “Twitter Files”—a trove of internal communications relating to Twitter’s content moderation practices, made available to select journalists by the platform’s owner, Elon Musk—reve...

https://www.projectcensored.org/twitter-files-suppress-alternative-views/

Across the United States, students with disabilities are being sent home from school because of behavioral issues in the classroom. In an October 2022 article for the Hechinger Report and the Ass...

https://www.projectcensored.org/informal-removal-students-disabilities/

Beef suppliers for major fast food and supermarket chains are sourcing meat from US farms that use antibiotics linked to the spread of “superbugs,” bacteria strains that are resistant to anti...

https://www.projectcensored.org/public-health-beef-suppliers-antibiotics/

Contrary to popular belief, many people who experience homelessness are employed, Julia Pagaduan reported for the National Alliance to End Homelessness in September 2022. Drawing on a study produ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/nearly-half-of-unhoused-people-employed/

After a Norfolk Southern train filled with hazardous chemicals derailed outside the town of East Palestine, Ohio, on February 3, 2023, causing a toxic inferno and a mass evacuation, corporate new...

https://www.projectcensored.org/derailment-frequency-toxic-chemical/

Gun violence costs Americans an astounding $557 billion per year in direct, indirect, and long-term costs, according to a July 2022 study by gun-control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety, r...

https://www.projectcensored.org/economic-consequence-gun-violence-costlier/

The world’s poorest countries will pay 35 percent more in debt interest bills in 2023 than they did in 2022 due to costs associated with the COVID-19 pandemic and a dramatic increase in the pri...

https://www.projectcensored.org/debt-crisis-worlds-poorest-nations/

A series of leaks have exposed plans by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to ramp up censorship of dangerous speech online. According to an October 2022 report from the Intercept, DHS ann...

https://www.projectcensored.org/homeland-security-regulate-disinformation/

Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico are suing Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and other fossil fuel companies for their efforts to deny the role of fossil fuels in causing climate change. In a Nove...

https://www.projectcensored.org/municipalities-puerto-rico-fossil-fuel/

As reported by the Innocence Project, Reuters, and Essence, a September 2022 National Registry of Exonerations study found that Black people are seven times more likely than White people to be wr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/black-americans-wrongfully-convicted/

Electric utility companies have been knowingly spreading disinformation about climate change for decades, Grist and the Atlantic reported in September 2022, citing a report published earlier that...

https://www.projectcensored.org/electric-utilities-climate-disinformation/

The Intercept’s Mara Hvistendahl uncovered hundreds of undisclosed accidents at biolabs in the United States. Her November 1, 2022, article spotlighted the case of a graduate student at Washing...

https://www.projectcensored.org/accidents-reveal-us-biolab-vulnerabilities/

Fossil fuel companies have been donating millions of dollars to US universities for climate and energy research projects, according to reports published in March 2023 by the Guardian and The Nati...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fossil-fuel-money-climate-energy-research/

Many coastal areas in the Pacific Northwest lose up to seventy feet of their land annually due to erosion caused by climate change, disproportionately impacting the region’s Indigenous communit...

https://www.projectcensored.org/tribal-towns-relocate-climate-crisis/

Corporate profits rose to an “all-time high” in 2022, producing an explosion in income for the very wealthy, Jake Johnson reported for Common Dreams in a series of 2022 articles. In August 20...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-profits-record-high/

Independent reporting in Fall 2022 revealed that, between 2012 and 2021, at least 1,733 environmental activists were killed—amounting, on average, to nearly one killing every two days across te...

https://www.projectcensored.org/9-deadly-decade-environmental-activists/

Two epidemiological studies, from 2021 and 2022, provide new evidence that living near oil and gas extraction sites is hazardous to human health, especially for pregnant mothers and children, as ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/proximity-oil-and-gas-sites-health-risk/

Big oil companies and their investors are suing governments to thwart climate change policies, Rishika Pardikar reported for The Lever in June 2022. These fossil fuel stakeholders claim that laws...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fossil-fuel-investors-block-regulations/

According to reporting by NPR in December 2022 and The Conversation in January 2023, unions won more than 70 percent of their certification elections in 2022. In fiscal year 2022, 2,510 petitions...

https://www.projectcensored.org/unions-won-70-percent-elections-2022/

About 90 percent of rainforest carbon offsets certified by Verra, the world’s largest offset certifier, do not reflect real reductions in emissions, according to reports produced jointly by the...

https://www.projectcensored.org/certified-rainforest-carbon-offsets/

Stalkerware—surveillance apps that secretly record and upload cellphone activities—could become a significant legal threat to people seeking abortions, according to a pair of articles publish...

https://www.projectcensored.org/stalkerware-incriminate-abortion-bans/

The United States consistently fails to ban and regulate harmful chemicals, ProPublica reported in December 2022. Neil Bedi, Sharon Lerner, and Kathleen McGrory explained how the Environmental Pr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/chemicals-go-unregulated-united-states/

Former employees of US and Israeli intelligence agencies now hold senior positions at Google, Meta, Microsoft, and other tech giants, where these individuals influence policy and control programs...

https://www.projectcensored.org/cia-employees-ex-israeli-agents-big-tech/

Environmental scientists have found hazardous levels of manufactured chemicals in rainwater, leading to the dramatic conclusion that rainwater is “no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth,” ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/forever-chemicals-rainwater-threat-health/

State of the Free Press 2024 Available for Preorder The Project’s newest yearbook, State of the Free Press 2024, is now available for preorder. Highlighting the year’s most significant ind...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-november-2023/

By Mischa Geracoulis In How to Interpret the Constitution (2023), Harvard law professor Cass Sunstein argues that any theory of constitutional interpretation used by Supreme Court justices must b...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dark-money-leonard-leo-and-supreme-court/

    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 Lu...

https://www.projectcensored.org/context-connections-propaganda/

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 Ele...

https://www.projectcensored.org/crisis-congo-capsizing-boats-mediterranean/

By Shealeigh Voitl Much has been said about how broken the music streaming structure is for artists. Music insiders have long criticized services for their lack of transparency and disregard for ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/considering-bandcamps-amid-layoffs/

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 c...

https://www.projectcensored.org/israeli-palestine-corporate-media/

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 t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/establishment-news-distorted-coverage-gaza/

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 f...

https://www.projectcensored.org/assange-cia-state-department-us-military/

Project Launches Digital Archive of Past Yearbook Chapters We are excited to announce the launch of a digital archive of chapters from past volumes of Project Censored’s yearbook series. The ne...

https://www.projectcensored.org/october-2023-newsletter/

All around the nation, unions, campuses, and governing bodies are debating the proper approaches for utilizing generative AI in education. Fears over AI were heightened by the release and popular...

https://www.projectcensored.org/students-or-data-mines/

By Robin Andersen On October 6, 2023, Hamas broke out of Gaza, lobbed rockets, and sent fighters into Israeli territory. The attacks killed hundreds of Israeli soldiers and civilians. Images of v...

https://www.projectcensored.org/big-media-israeli-war-crimes-in-gaza/

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 p...

https://www.projectcensored.org/unmasking-zionism-media-bias-earn-it-act/

If two people sit down for a cup of coffee in Georgia, they might leave with RICO charges. That’s how our first guest this week, Ellen Barfield explains the draconian Georgia RICO – that’s ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/look-at-georgia-rico-then-and-now-cop-city/

Mickey dedicates this show to Banned Books Week 2023 (Oct. 1-7). Now in its 41st year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting the freedom to read while opposing efforts to...

https://www.projectcensored.org/let-freedom-read-banned-books-week-2023/

Da’Taeveyon Daniels, Youth Honorary Chair, Banned Books Week, 2023 Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics In the land of the free and the home of the bra...

https://www.projectcensored.org/political-battle-over-censorship-danger/

Banned Books Week (BBW) is upon us, reminding readers all over the country to oppose censorship, as Project Censored has done since 1976. The Project implores students and educators to learn wher...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-september-2023/

It all comes back to capitalism. In the first half of the show, economist, author, and show host Dr. Richard Wolff joins us to talk about empowerment beyond the strike, and how we can manifest tr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/capitalism-the-ultimate-anti-life-system/

Mr. Associated Press makes clear that extremism in politics, rejection of facts in favor of trendy issues, devotion to cults of personality, public attacks on facts, and corporate media takeovers...

https://www.projectcensored.org/one-hundred-years-journalism-past-present/

You’ve likely heard a lot about Maui in recent weeks but chances are you haven’t heard a lot from Indigenous or frontline mutual aid activists working to protect and support their communities...

https://www.projectcensored.org/maui-indigenous-mutual-aid-activists/

Media scholar Steve Macek joins Mickey for a look at a case from Philadelphia, where media activists are challenging the broadcast-license renewal of the local Fox TV station. Macek says the abun...

https://www.projectcensored.org/media-integrity-sex-work-labor-rights/

On July 3, 2023, members of the Media and Democracy Project, a media watchdog group, petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to deny the renewal of the license for Philadelphia’s...

https://www.projectcensored.org/time-to-take-away-foxs-broadcast-licenses/

’Tis the season of the bomb. Muckraking investigate reporter and author David Lindorff joins Mickey Huff to discuss his forthcoming book: Spy For No Country: The Story of Ted Hall the Teenage A...

https://www.projectcensored.org/history-nuclear-arms-race-free-press/

Back to School! Project Censored in the Classroom The imminent start of the school year also signals the launch of the Project’s 2023-2024 Validated Independent News (VINs) story cycle. Thanks ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-august-2023/

The Mountain Valley Pipeline, a zombie fracked gas project that found new life in the dark corners of the debt ceiling relief bill continues to struggle through the rough terrain and people of Ap...

https://www.projectcensored.org/mountain-valley-pipeline-adult-supremacy/

By Shealeigh Voitl Just two days after the Hollywood writers’ strike began on May 2, 2023, Deadline Hollywood tweeted, “Saturday Night Live fans, want to know what you are missing? Kieran Cul...

https://www.projectcensored.org/whats-realistic-whats-disturbing-strike/

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s Project Censored Show. As US-China relations worsen, independent journalist Danny Haiphong says what lies at the root is the desperation of a US ruling class...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-china-relations-west-african-nations/

Earlier this year, members of the News Enlightenment Initiative (NEI-Germany) and Project Censored partnered to recruit an international jury of news professionals and media scholars to identify ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/international-news-neglect-censorship/

An investigation by Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer at MintPress News, shows how the US military is using young women to lure Gen Z recruits into service through sexually suggestive content on ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/military-personnel-social-media-gen-z/

On July 3-4, 2023, Israel Occupation Forces (IOF) launched an attack on the Jenin refugee camp in Israeli-occupied Palestine. The IOF did not attack on their own, they were aided by United States...

https://www.projectcensored.org/israeli-forces-hospital-kill-palestinians/

“We Believe in Israel,” an offshoot of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM) in the UK, is trying to censor Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists on the popular musi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/israel-censor-pro-palestinian-spotify/

Cancer is rampant among members of the Odawa Nation, with strong evidence that PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” which have polluted groundwater throughout the state of Michigan, are a major cont...

https://www.projectcensored.org/pfas-native-american-community-michigan/

Generally speaking, Swedes really love the US. And I don’t just mean, oh we love the Brad Pitt movies and the whimsical images of Sunset Blvd (which by the way is way less whimsical in real lif...

https://www.projectcensored.org/how-swedish-love-for-the-us-turned-deadly/

2023 Skipping Stones Book Award for The Media and Me The Media and Me has been recognized by Skipping Stones Magazine as one of its 28 Honored Books for 2023. Skipping Stones, an internati...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-newsletter-july-2023/

Historian Peter Kuznick joins Mickey to discuss the new Christopher Nolan movie “Oppenheimer.” While his overall evaluation is positive, Kuznick notes that the movie fails to address the cruc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/oppenheimer-criticism-atomic-bomb/

On this week’s Project Censored Show: In the first half of the program, host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with investigative reporters Taya Graham and Stephen Janis. They talk about police accounta...

https://www.projectcensored.org/police-global-women-peace-united-nato/

By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff California is currently considering two media literacy bills, both of which have sailed through the California State Assembly and are being reviewed by the Senate ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/media-literacy-education-california-school/

Attorneys general (AGs) for five US states are protecting fossil fuel companies rather than the public interest, according to a March 2023 report by Elliott Negin for the Equation, a publication ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/attorneys-general-fossil-fuel-constituents/

Raza Rumi, director of the Park Institute for Independent Media at Ithaca College in NY, joins Mickey for a wide-ranging conversation about the importance of non-corporate media and media literac...

https://www.projectcensored.org/independent-media-critical-media-literacy/

In light of the recent Fourth-of-July holiday, Eleanor’s first guest – historian Gerald Horne – shares his analysis of a likely motive for independence on the part of colonial America’s w...

https://www.projectcensored.org/origins-whiteness-bisexuality-native/

On the latest Project Censored Show, Mickey talks with independent journalist and author Norman Solomon about his new book, War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of its Military M...

https://www.projectcensored.org/war-on-terror-book-dangerous-ideas/

By Shealeigh Voitl and avram anderson Dangerous pieces of legislation have been introduced at the federal and state levels under the guise of protecting children online from exploitation and othe...

https://www.projectcensored.org/earn-it-ignores-privacy-censorship/

By guest writer Brian Martin Timor-Leste is a tiny nation just to the north of Australia, also known as East Timor. In 2004, its newly independent government began negotiations with the Australia...

https://www.projectcensored.org/burying-information-australia-journalists/

Media and Me Adopted for Teacher Education in One of Nation’s Largest Public School Districts Earlier this month, Project Censored celebrated the shipment of 15,000 copies of The Media and Me...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-june-2023/

On this Project Censored Show Eleanor Goldfield interviews Venezuelan political analyst Leonardo Flores, who gives updates on the ongoing illegal imprisonment of Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab by ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-illegal-war-venezuela-free-press-dead/

Kevin Gosztola returns to Project Censored to explain the latest developments in the Julian Assange extradition case, including the recent ruling from the UK’s High Court of Justice. He also co...

https://www.projectcensored.org/julian-assange-extradition-daniel-ellsberg/

The Top 5 Most Important but Under-Reported News Stories of 2022-2023, as Selected by an International Jury A Joint Endeavor of the News Enlightenment Initiative and Project Censored June 19, 202...

https://www.projectcensored.org/international-news-neglect-censorship-2/

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, ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/on-civil-courage-and-its-punishments/

By Cameron Samuels | Special Guest Writer for Project Censored’s Dispatches on Media and Politics Amid an unprecedented wave of censorship, many of our state legislators have left no mercy for ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/texas-book-ban-billsyoung-people-education/

On this Project Censored Show Mickey and former Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with Alan MacLeod, senior staff writer for MintPress News. He’s just written about a new phenomenon i...

https://www.projectcensored.org/military-recruitment-patriarchy-capitalism/

May Is Book Writing Month at Project Censored November may be National Novel Writing Month, but as the school year ends and summer beckons, we’ve been working energetically on the Project’s n...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-may-2023/

By Adam Bessie, Author of Going Remote: A Teacher’s Journey (with Peter Glanting, The Censored Press/Seven Stories Press). On Friday, March 13, 2020 the community college system as we knew it ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-end-of-community-college-pandemic/

In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey speaks with three students campaigning against censorship in Texas, including Banned Books Week’s Youth Honorary Chair, Cameron Samuels. They’r...

https://www.projectcensored.org/censorship-book-banning-texas-going-remote/

On this week’s Project Censored show, Eleanor speaks with journalist and activist Morgan Artyukhina for a powerful and vital analysis of the vicious attack on trans rights. Morgan highlights ho...

https://www.projectcensored.org/trans-right-activist-community-organizing/

220 Students Participate in Project’s 2022-23 Campus Affiliates Program As we prepare the April newsletter for distribution, the Project’s international panel of esteemed judges is beginning ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/april-newsletter/

On this week’s Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield recently spoke attorney Steven Donziger – the man caught in the crosshairs of one of the largest corporations in the world, Chevron –...

https://www.projectcensored.org/accountability-chevron-journalists/

Program Summary: In the first half of this week’s show, Mickey and Project Censored intern Reagan Haynie speak with investigative reporter Alan MacLeod of MintPress News. MacLeod explains that ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/state-propoganda-fourth-estate-press/

By Mickey Huff May 3rd marks the 30th anniversary of Press Freedom Day, inaugurated in 1993 by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) with support from the United Nations (UNESCO). RSF’s original 1991...

https://www.projectcensored.org/journalism-not-crime-protection-journalist/

On the latest program, we celebrate Daniel Ellsberg Week (April 24-30), co-sponsored by The Ellsberg Initiative for Peace and Democracy & and RootsAction Education Fund, as we honor whistleblow...

https://www.projectcensored.org/daniel-ellsberg-week-assange-press-history/

Special thanks to Project Censored’s Summer 2022 intern Sam Peacock for helping with data collection and analysis. Corporate news coverage of US gun violence skews heavily toward mass shootings...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-media-community-gun-violence/

By Andy Lee Roth Two cornerstones of democracy—freedom of expression and freedom of information—are under concerted attack, in the United States and around the world. In the US,  for example...

https://www.projectcensored.org/lifeblood-of-democracy-freedom-expression/

Mickey hosts the first segment of the show. His guest Kenn Burrows describes an upcoming conference “From Polarization to Integration,” to be held April 21 on the San Francisco State Universi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/polarization-propaganda-private-healthcare/

About ninety percent of rainforest carbon offsets certified by Verra, the world’s largest offset certifier, do not reflect real reductions in emissions, according to a report produced jointly b...

https://www.projectcensored.org/rainforest-carbon-offsets-worthless/

The world’s poorest countries will pay 35 percent more in debt interest bills this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a dramatic increase in food import prices, as reported by the World Bank...

https://www.projectcensored.org/debt-crisis-looms-worlds-poorest-nations/

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian published a collaborative investigation on November 21, 2022, exposing major fast food companies for their use of beef suppliers that emplo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/antibiotics-fast-food-meat-health-concern/

In the half-century since it became federal law, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 has generated countless headlines revolving around campus gender equity, mostly in sports. However, v...

https://www.projectcensored.org/university-title-ix-intimidate-journalist/

A Yale University study published in August 2022 on DeSmog indicates that there is a two to three times increased likelihood for children ages 2-7 to develop acute lymphoblastic leukemia when res...

https://www.projectcensored.org/correlation-childhood-leukemia-fracking/

During the past two years, the American government and other popular news outlets have come under increased scrutiny for a potential act of censorship following the publication of a leak that cla...

https://www.projectcensored.org/medias-evasion-wuhan-lab-allegations/

In June 2022, domestic violence was officially considered a crime in Ukraine, but the war in Ukraine has stunted access to support and resources for abuse victims. According to WhoWhatWhy, there ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/war-ukraine-spike-domestic-violence/

The “Twitter Files” disclose how US government agencies pressured Twitter’s content moderation practices over the last few years, resulting in widespread censorship of COVID-19 topics and a...

https://www.projectcensored.org/government-social-media-alternative-views/

Phyllis Santistevan-Sullivan, a former vice president of finance at TransDigm, filed a lawsuit against the aerospace and defense company in February 2023 for firing her when she called out accoun...

https://www.projectcensored.org/aerospace-firm-transdigm-sued-firing-whistleblower/

While most countries dealt with the COVID pandemic by mandating strict regulations to minimize the spread of the virus, Sweden chose a different approach. Its response emphasized the development ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/what-sweden-got-right/

In December 2022, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) News reported on a recent study by the Centre for Women’s Safety and Wellbeing that revealed an “alarming link between family viole...

https://www.projectcensored.org/correlation-between-suicide-rates-and-domestic-violence-in-western-australia/

Over the past year, “stalkerware” has become a significant threat to people seeking abortions, according to an article published by Slate in July 2022. According to author Danielle Keats Citr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/law-enforcement-can-use-stalkerware-data-to-incriminate-people-violating-abortion-bans/

Rural students are suffering as a result of an ongoing teacher shortage, preventing them from getting the education and advice they need to succeed in higher education and beyond. In September of...

https://www.projectcensored.org/rural-students-are-suffering-without-the-specialized-help-of-teachers/

In February 2023, an 83-second video surfaced online of a teen boy in Burkina Faso being murdered by men in military fatigues. One man is seen bashing the boy’s head with a rock in what seems t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/deadly-rock-to-head-in-burkina-faso-interrupts-long-media-silence/

Last December, President Biden signed a bill into law that allows federal judges to extrajudicially censor information on the internet, according to a recent article by the Freedom of the Press F...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-privacy-law-threatens-freedom-of-speech-online/

Juvenile prisons hold the lowest populations of incarcerated children ever, as of 2020. Juvenile incarcerations declined “as juvenile arrests have also dropped for most crimes except murder,”...

https://www.projectcensored.org/united-states-juvenile-prison-populations-reach-all-time-lows/

Globally, more than 160 million women are unable to access contraception, according to a July 2022 article by the Guardian that cited the largest study of its kind. Of that number, roughly half l...

https://www.projectcensored.org/more-than-160-million-women-worldwide-lack-access-to-contraception/

According to a March 2023 report in Sampan, anti-Asian violence in the United  States has not only taken an emotional and physical toll on the Asian-American community: it has had an economic im...

https://www.projectcensored.org/anti-asian-racism-in-the-united-states-takes-drastic-toll-on-economy/

On November 30, 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) officially declared May 15, 2023, as “Nakba Day,” the Palestine Chronicle reported in December 2022. As the largest democratic...

https://www.projectcensored.org/un-recognition-of-nakba-day-exposes-israeli-historical-revisionism/

Since their development in the 1980s, HIV criminalization laws in the United States have not evolved to keep up with scientific advances that treat AIDS/HIV. Black people and women are disproport...

https://www.projectcensored.org/outdated-hiv-criminalization-laws-targeting-people-of-color-and-sex-workers/

Namibia’s environmental minister has approved a plan for mining that will pose a threat to the endangered black rhino, according to a March 2023 article in Mongabay. The activity of the mine ha...

https://www.projectcensored.org/poaching-and-mining-further-endanger-namibian-rhino-populations/

In February 2023, Pink News published an article about Henry Edward Tse’s historic legal victory in Hong Kong, which declared that trans people should be able to have their genders put on their...

https://www.projectcensored.org/hong-kong-trans-rights-activist-wins-landmark-case-still-fighting-for-change/

Hawaii resource officials abandoned the 30×30 conservation goal in January 2023. Marcel Honore’s February 2023 article, “Hawaii’s Innovative Plan To Manage Marine Resources Is Being Quietl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/hawaii-quietly-abandoned-its-30x30-conservation-plan-to-prevent-biodiversity-loss/

A French petroleum company has displaced over 400 Congolese farmers as part of a move to “reforest” 40,000 hectares of land in the Lefini land reserve of the Batéké savannah, according to a...

https://www.projectcensored.org/total-energies-displaces-local-congolese-farmers-in-effort-to-combat-carbon-emissions/

On this week’s program, we hear an array of ideas about the condition of American journalism and the state of our so-called free press: red flags about the decline of local reporting and news d...

https://www.projectcensored.org/free-press-panel-st-marys-college/

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recorded a substantial rise of 200,000 unionized workers in the United States from 2021 to 2022, of which almost all included workers of color, the New Republ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/bls-data-underscores-racial-and-regional-diversity-in-2022-union-growth/

The relatively few students and educators around the United States who know about it are praising a new remedy for the mental health crisis. Peer-reviewed studies show Teen Mental Health First Ai...

https://www.projectcensored.org/amid-acute-provider-shortage-teens-can-help-teens-with-mental-health-struggles/

Black Americans are seven times more likely than Whites to be wrongfully convicted of murder, sexual crimes, and drug crimes, according to a September 2022 report by the National Registry of Exon...

https://www.projectcensored.org/black-americans-seven-times-more-likely-than-whites-to-be-wrongfully-convicted-of-serious-crimes/

The Biden administration implemented a “gag order” in January 2023 that restrains federal scientists from addressing controversial research topics to the public, the Guardian reported in Febr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/media-silence-as-bidens-gag-order-censors-federal-scientists/

According to a MintPress News article by Alan MacLeod, the United States Department of Defense (DoD) has partnered with the makers of the Call of Duty video game to create military propaganda to ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/documents-prove-call-of-duty-video-game-franchise-is-military-propaganda/

Tenants across the United States are being harassed by landlords with “smart locks” installed without the renters’ consent, and very little is being done about it. According to Mario Trujil...

https://www.projectcensored.org/unlocking-the-threats-to-privacy-posed-by-smart-locks/

Big Oil has been donating millions of dollars to US universities for climate and energy research projects. Princeton, Stanford, Harvard, and MIT are some of the universities that have been called...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fossil-fuel-money-skews-university-climate-and-energy-research/

In February 2023, the Mississippi House passed Bill 1020, which would create a majority-White district within the predominantly Black capital city of Jackson. State Representative Trey Lamar, the...

https://www.projectcensored.org/mississippi-legislature-would-give-capitals-white-residents-their-own-special-district/

As soon as 2024, Kentucky residents may have access to applications such as the “Rapid Refresh Forecast System” and the “New United Forecast System” as a response to shortcomings in Kentu...

https://www.projectcensored.org/urban-bias-in-weather-forecasting-results-in-disaster-for-rural-kentucky/

The Supreme Court’s June 2022 ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson, which overturned Roe v. Wade, has placed pregnant incarcerated women in an extremely vulnerable position. In some states, they will be ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/no-freedom-no-rights-the-impacts-on-incarcerated-women-of-overturning-roe-v-wade/

Government officials told residents of East Palestine, Ohio, that it was safe to remain in their homes after the February 3, 2023, train derailment and fire that spilled toxic chemicals in their ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/derailment-furor-ignores-corporate-malfeasance-alarming-frequency-of-spills/

While popular conceptions of hazing involve brutal rites of passage to join fraternities and other social organizations, the new digital trend is “friend hazing,” in which adolescents are vic...

https://www.projectcensored.org/friend-or-foe-no-corporate-coverage-of-friend-hazing/

By Nolan Higdon NOTE: The following article is another installment in our long-form Dispatches series. It is a detailed examination of establishment media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic. It cr...

https://www.projectcensored.org/no-turning-back-poor-pandemic-reporting/

In December 2022, the Guardian reported that 33 states in the US maintain laws that criminalize HIV exposure or transmission, “many developed long before the illness was understood.” These la...

https://www.projectcensored.org/challenging-state-laws-that-criminalize-hiv/

Many US colleges have made the SAT and ACT tests optional elements in the application process in order to increase student diversity on campus, but doing so has not necessarily had the intended e...

https://www.projectcensored.org/test-optional-college-admissions-policies-arent-necessarily-increasing-student-diversity-on-campuses/

Extreme weather in low-lying Bangladesh is leading to “worsening flooding, erosion and storms” that are forcing “thousands of families” from their rural homes into urban slums, Mosabber H...

https://www.projectcensored.org/climate-disasters-force-children-in-bangladesh-from-school-to-work/

Staff in a New Jersey prison have encouraged inmates to physically fight each other, according to complaints and allegations reported by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg in a February 2023 article publi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-jersey-corrections-ombud-investigates-charges-that-guards-organized-prisoner-fight-club/

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that, starting in January 2024, prison phone companies will be required to provide phone services with video, a major step forward for the in...

https://www.projectcensored.org/incarcerated-deaf-community-finds-new-lifeline/

On March 20, 2023, John K. Wilson of Academe Blog reported on the controversy surrounding a Bowling Green State University faculty member’s emails alleging misconduct in past hiring decisions. ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/bowling-green-whistleblower-on-koch-influence-in-faculty-hiring-faces-dismissal/

In a September 2022 article for the Tufts Daily, Liz Shelbred detailed the frustration of students as a result of makeshift living accommodations due to over-enrollment. For most college students...

https://www.projectcensored.org/tufts-students-urge-university-to-address-campus-housing-crisis-driven-by-over-enrollment/

Eleanor Goldfield hosts the program this week— Across France, millions of people are taking to the streets and blocking them in a rapidly escalating show of defiance and disdain for President M...

https://www.projectcensored.org/french-neoliberalism-us-political-economy/

By Kevin Gosztola In 2021, Pentagon Papers’ whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg shared a copy of a top-secret study with New York Times reporter Charlie Savage on the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1958. It...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-york-times-story-daniel-ellsberg/

Enemies of press and speech freedoms have concocted a new method for fighting truth though exploitation of US copyright law. According to an original report by the Organized Crime and Corruption ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/bogus-copyright-complaints-throttle-investigative-journalism/

In a time of unprecedented economic hardship, lawmakers tacked a last-minute provision on the 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to shield the nation’s multi-billion dollar defense ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/inflation-relief-for-defense-industry-a-terrible-setback-for-transparent-policymaking/

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s program, and in her first segment, she speaks with the Program Director of the National Priorities Project, Lindsay Koshgarian. They examine the Biden Admini...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-militarism-addiction-iraq-invasion/

Coastal habitats in most northern states lose up to seventy feet of their land annually due to erosion caused by climate change, forcing entire Indigenous communities to relocate. The Biden admin...

https://www.projectcensored.org/entire-tribal-towns-forced-to-relocate-due-to-climate-crisis/

Electric utility companies have been knowingly spreading misinformation about climate change for decades, Grist reported in September 2022, based on a report published that month in Environmental...

https://www.projectcensored.org/study-exposes-electric-utilities-climate-misinformation-campaigns/

Nearly 250,000 immigrants awaiting their court hearings have been forced to download an app by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as part of its Alternative to Detention (ATD) program. The...

https://www.projectcensored.org/glitchy-ice-app-jeopardizes-immigrants-raises-privacy-concerns/

Over the weekend, demonstrations took place in several US cities to mark the 20th anniversary of the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and to demand that the US and NATO stop escalating the Russia-Ukrain...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-peace-ukraine-iraq-war-20-years/

The United States and its Norwegian allies are responsible for attacks on the Nord Stream pipeline, according to a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh, published in February...

https://www.projectcensored.org/seymour-hersh-alleges-us-role-in-nord-stream-pipeline-blast/

Kevin Gosztola’s Guilty of Journalism Published On March 7th, the Censored Press celebrated the publication of Kevin Gosztola’s Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Ass...

https://www.projectcensored.org/march-2023-newsletter/

Gender-based violence escalated during the pandemic, which also forced many people to rely on online communication platforms such as Zoom, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Twitter. Unfortunately, the inc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/cyber-misogyny-on-the-rise-during-covid-19-pandemic/

North Carolina State University researchers have found that current editions of college textbooks provide less coverage of the climate crisis than previous editions did. The study found that biol...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-college-textbooks-include-less-about-climate-change-than-in-previous-editions/

An alarming increase in the population of invasive feral hogs is contributing to the spread of deadly diseases and the destruction of crops and endangered animal species, National Geographic repo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/feral-hogs-threaten-agriculture-and-human-health/

Mickey‘s guest for the first half-hour is Mnar Adley, CEO and editor-in-chief of MintPress News. She explains Israel’s everyday brutality against Palestinians and how most Western media fail ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/independent-media-palestine-east-africa/

Non-financial corporate profits in the United States hit a record high during the second quarter of 2022, amounting to two trillion dollars according to an August 2022 article by Jake Johnson for...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-profits-hit-2-trillion-dollar-all-time-high/

By Nolan Higdon “This is direct evidence of knowing falsity” exclaimed RonNell Anderson Jones, Professor of Law at the University of Utah, in a February 2023 interview with Jon Stewart. Jones...

https://www.projectcensored.org/journalistic-malpractice-dominion-voting/

On this week’s program, two critical media literacy scholars join Mickey to examine a range of current events. First, Allison Butler addresses the notorious “past her prime” comments by CNN...

https://www.projectcensored.org/don-lemon-sexism-sackler-russia-gate/

ATTN: TEENS—Stop Your Teacher (and Silicon Valley) from Spying on You In this bonus “Dispatches from Project Censored,” Allison Butler and Nolan Higdon, two of the most acclaimed media lit...

https://www.projectcensored.org/teacher-spying-technology-surveilling/

As we come to the end of Black History Month, Eleanor Goldfield recently talked with Pan-African theorist, organizer, and author Max Rameau about community control over policing – that’s not ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/community-control-policing-crises-in-peru/

By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff A January 2023 publication from the Columbia Journalism Review (CJR) spawned the latest round of spin and shifting baselines from Russiagate apologists. Russiagate...

https://www.projectcensored.org/russiagate-revisionist-reporting-election/

This week’s program focuses on the ongoing case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. In the first half of the program, Mickey speaks with Gabriel and John Shipton, brother and father of Assange...

https://www.projectcensored.org/documentary-film-ithaka-case-assange/

Censored Press Authors Making Waves Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, spoke at the fourth sitting of the Belmarsh Tribunal, in Washingto...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-february-2023-newsletter/

In the first half of the program, Shealeigh Voitl and Steve Macek look at how corporate-media coverage has failed over the course of years to adequately inform the public of corporate interferenc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/safety-birthing-breastfeeding-dark-money/

In October 2022, Alan MacLeod of MintPress News reported that hundreds of former Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spies have obtained high-standing positions at the world’s biggest tech companies, ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/big-tech-hires-hundreds-of-ex-israeli-spies/

According to a December 2022 article from ProPublica, the United States is failing to ban and regulate harmful chemicals. Journalists Neil Bedi, Sharon Lerner, and Kathleen McGory explain how the...

https://www.projectcensored.org/toxic-chemicals-continue-to-go-unregulated-in-the-u-s/

In a January 2023 article for MintPress News, Alan MacLeod highlights Elon Musk’s plans to support and aid in US regime-change efforts in Iran. The January 17 article discusses Musk’s attempt...

https://www.projectcensored.org/elon-musk-aids-us-regime-change-efforts-in-iran/

According to recent reports from the Intercept’s Akela Lacy, much of New York’s incarcerated population was forced to endure dangerous, slave-like working conditions throughout the COVID-19 p...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-yorks-incarcerated-population-forced-to-work-dangerous-jobs-for-slave-wages-during-covid-19-pandemic/

A series of web leaks have exposed the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) plans to expand its commitments to censor “dangerous” speech online. According to an October 31 report from t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-leaks-reveal-dhss-plans-to-regulate-disinformation-online/

Project Censored is pleased to publish the first long-form article in our “Dispatches from Project Censored: On Media and Politics” column. Authored by Andy Lee Roth, avram anderson, and Mick...

https://www.projectcensored.org/beyond-prior-restraint-censorship-by-proxy-and-the-new-digital-gatekeeping/

By Nolan Higdon and Allison Butler ChatGPT has sent shockwaves through higher education, creating a moral panic about the threat that artificial intelligence (AI) poses to the classroom. As criti...

https://www.projectcensored.org/stfu-about-chatgpt/

This week, Eleanor Goldfield addresses two radical frontline fights thousands of miles apart but deeply connected through their visions and struggles for a livable and just future. Eleanor sits d...

https://www.projectcensored.org/germany-coal-mining-murder-forest-defender/

On this week’s program, Mickey welcomes back author and media critic Alan MacLeod for the hour. MacLeod describes the close ties between the major Silicon Valley technology companies and the US...

https://www.projectcensored.org/link-between-silicon-valley-us-military/

By Nolan Higdon The increasing shift to remote work in higher education has threatened the power and influence of the professional managerial class (PMC). In response, the PMC are throwing everyt...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-professional-managerial-class-strikes-back/

Environmental scientists have found hazardous levels of manufactured chemicals in rainwater, leading to the dramatic conclusion that rainwater is “no longer safe to drink anywhere on Earth,” ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/forever-chemicals-in-rainwater-a-global-threat-to-human-health/

Independent reporting in Fall 2022 revealed that, between 2012 and 2021, at least 1733 environmental activists were killed—amounting, on average, to nearly one killing every two days. This figu...

https://www.projectcensored.org/deadly-decade-for-environmental-activists/

Monthly Supporters Empowered Project Censored in 2022 Project Censored accomplished a lot in 2022. We published two new books, The Media and Me and State of the Free Press 2023, produced 47 or...

https://www.projectcensored.org/january-2023/

It was recently Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and some may have noticed the US empire and its racist, capitalist, and imperialist cheerleaders were also cheerleading for Dr. King. If this made you ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dr-kings-real-legacy-immigration-policy/

According to reporting in various independent news outlets during the first week of January 2023, American law enforcement personnel—primarily police and sheriff deputies—killed more people i...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-law-enforcement-kill-more-people-in-2022-than-any-previous-year-on-record/

According to reporting by NPR in December 2022 and The Conversation in January 2023, unions won more than 70 percent of representation certification elections in 2022. In fiscal year 2022, 2,510 ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/unions-won-more-than-70-percent-of-elections-in-2022/

Coverage of an Economic Policy Institute (EPI) report, by Common Dreams in December 2022, revealed that the earnings of the top 0.1 percent in the United States grew by 465.1 percent between 1979...

https://www.projectcensored.org/earnings-of-top-0-1-have-increased-465-percent-since-1979/

Reporting in Spring 2022 by Inequality.org, Reuters, and Common Dreams has revealed that the average bonus for those working in New York City’s securities industry––in other words, on Wall ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/wall-street-bonuses-have-risen-1743-percent-since-1985/

According to a working paper by the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics at the University of Chicago, as reported on in the National Alliance to End Homelessness on September 2, 2022, stagger...

https://www.projectcensored.org/a-near-majority-of-unhoused-people-are-employed/

By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff The Washington Post’s coverage of a January 2023 study arguing that the post-2016 coverage of Russia election meddling may have been overblown, reveals a corrosi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/promoting-russia-falsehoods-marginalizing/

Kevin Gosztola returns to the program to explain the latest developments in the Julian Assange extradition case. Although Assange remains in a UK prison, there have been political developments el...

https://www.projectcensored.org/whistleblowers-independent-journalists/

With the U.S. having a military presence in nearly every African nation, Dr. Rose Brewer, a Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at the Unive...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-out-of-africa-childbirth-deaths/

The first Project Censored Show of 2023 is devoted to climate change, and the oil industry’s obstruction of policies that would seriously confront the climate crisis. The speakers on the progra...

https://www.projectcensored.org/climate-change-oil-industry-policies/

Plenty of Publicity for State of the Free Press 2023 and The Media and Me  December marks a first for Project Censored and its publishing imprint, the Censored Press: Not one, but two of our bo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-december-2022/

In the first half of today’s program, Mickey speaks with Project Censored’s Andy Lee Roth about some of the “Top 25” censored / under-reported news stories, as well as the common characte...

https://www.projectcensored.org/twitter-elon-musk-jfk-documents/

By Mischa Geracoulis Around the time of Richard Nixon’s presidency—a low point for public trust in government—families of K–12 students and adult college students raised concerns regardin...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ferpa-and-higher-ed-should-prioritize-the-safety-of-students-private-data/

Mickey, Eleanor and their guests spend the hour examining the background to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, going back to the eastward expansion of NATO, the 2014 Ukraine coup, and other factors. Th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/war-in-ukraine-and-prospects-for-peace/

Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico are suing Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and other fossil fuel companies for their efforts to deny the role of fossil fuel products in causing climate change. �...

https://www.projectcensored.org/municipalities-in-puerto-rico-sue-fossil-fuel-giants-under-organized-crime-law/

This edition of the Project Censored Show we feature two of the country’s best-known peace advocates, each with a new book out. First, Medea Benjamin discusses the Russia-Ukraine conflict, emph...

https://www.projectcensored.org/media-not-covering-russia-ukraine/

By Nolan Higdon More than two years since Big Tech made the historic decision to limit access to the New York Post’s story about President Joe Biden’s son Hunter, users are getting a glimpse...

https://www.projectcensored.org/hunting-the-twitter-files/

At least 9.3 million students go to public schools in rural areas, “more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts,” Nichole Dobo reported for the Hechinger Report...

https://www.projectcensored.org/rural-area-students-face-barriers-to-higher-education/

Less than seven percent of public school teachers across the United States are Black, notably less than the 15 percent of Black students who attend public schools, Devna Bose reported for the Hec...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-need-for-black-male-teachers-in-public-education/

An October 2022 article by Javeria Salman for the Hechinger Report examined how the metaverse—a developing online world that promises immersive experiences—will shape the future of education....

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-metaverse-is-not-virtual-reality-for-education/

In Southern Berkshire County, Massachusetts, families of Latinx students and Latinx organizations have taken action to advocate for their children and secure academic support and resources, as th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/massachusetts-community-models-successful-programs-to-support-latinx-students/

In September 2022, a school district in Medford, Oregon, began to field complaints from concerned parents and community members due to the district’s decision to hire a nonbinary elementary sch...

https://www.projectcensored.org/oregon-community-debates-hiring-of-nonbinary-elementary-school-teacher/

Across the United States, students with disabilities are being sent home from school because of behavioral issues in the classroom. In an October 2022 article for the Hechinger Report, Meredith K...

https://www.projectcensored.org/informal-removal-policies-deny-students-with-disabilities-of-educational-opportunities/

Earning a college degree creates opportunities for higher income and upward economic mobility. However, an August 2022 report, produced by Georgetown University’s Center on Poverty and Inequali...

https://www.projectcensored.org/field-of-study-segregation-limits-college-students-educational-and-job-opportunities/

In November 2022, faculty and students at Stanford University denounced a campus conference on academic freedom for its conservative bias and closed format, John K. Wilson reported for Academe Bl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/closed-conference-on-academic-freedom-at-stanford-sparks-controversy/

According to a 2018 study conducted by Human Rights Campaign and the University of Connecticut, only 27 percent of LGBTQ youth report that they can “definitely” be themselves in school, and j...

https://www.projectcensored.org/supporting-gender-expansive-students/

In October 2022, the Hechinger Report highlighted “a growing movement to stop assigning conventional A through F letter grades to first-year college students.” A small but increasing number o...

https://www.projectcensored.org/un-grading-seeks-to-prioritize-student-learning-and-mental-health/

College students across the United States, Canada, and the UK rely on Rate My Professors to decide what courses to take. The website allows students to search for professors by name or school, re...

https://www.projectcensored.org/rate-my-professors-sparks-debate-about-how-students-evaluate-their-teachers/

Reporting for The Lever in June 2022, Rishika Pardikar revealed how big oil investors are adopting new legal strategies to combat climate change policies. These fossil fuel shareholders are open...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fossil-fuel-investors-sue-governments-to-block-climate-regulations/

Google operates the world’s largest and most influential search engine. It has recently hired a number of former CIA employees to fill sensitive positions. As a result, these employees possess ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/influential-google-positions-filled-by-former-cia-employees/

In September 2022, commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces were authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Marjorie Cohn reported for Truthout. Hamas called...

https://www.projectcensored.org/israel-authorizes-drone-strikes-in-occupied-west-bank/

Recent reports from the Intercept highlight hundreds of undisclosed biolab accidents that have gone unreported by major news outlets. A November 1, 2022 article, titled “Bent Over in Pain,” b...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-media-ignores-increase-in-biolab-accidents/

In an article published by Medium on August 22, 2022, independent journalist Deborah L. Armstrong reported on the blacklisting of Roger Waters, co-founder of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd, by U...

https://www.projectcensored.org/roger-waters-declared-enemy-of-ukraine-on-myrotvorets-website/

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, your host Eleanor Goldfield discusses war and fascist violence – from the very personal history of a presidential candidate to the streets of Hebro...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ron-desantis-topic-of-zionism-apartheid/

Researchers from Oregon State University (OSU) measured the effects of oil- and gas- drilling sites on the health of pregnant women living within six miles of drilling operations during a thirtee...

https://www.projectcensored.org/proximity-to-oil-and-gas-drilling-sites-linked-to-pregnancy-complications-and-other-maternal-health-risks/

In October 2022, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a report showing that the Fulton County jail, near Atlanta, Georgia, was holding some 2,892 people, or 301 people more than it...

https://www.projectcensored.org/overcrowded-atlanta-jail-raises-justice-concerns/

Continuing a Trump-era policy to keep migrants from seeking asylum in the name of limiting the spread of COVID-19, the Biden administration expanded Title 42 to expel Venezuelan migrants to Mexic...

https://www.projectcensored.org/sin-una-casa-venezuelas-humanitarian-crisis-worsened-by-us-immigration-policy/

Through monthly calls starting in November 2020, the organizers of the Mother Earth Foundation offered advice––based on their experience establishing community composting systems in the Phil...

https://www.projectcensored.org/community-based-cross-national-responses-to-climate-change/

Citizen journalists in Myanmar, Cambodia, and Thailand “risk harassment, detention, and economic hardship for their work,” according to an October 2022 report for Global Voices by Mong Palati...

https://www.projectcensored.org/citizen-journalists-in-cambodia-thailand-and-myanmar-at-risk/

Mickey opens this week’s program in conversation with Aaron Good; they examine the post-WWII U.S. rise to global dominance, and how that underlies many of our current events, notably the Russia...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-post-wwii-u-s-rise-to-global-dominance-prospects-for-stronger-net-neutrality-protections/

How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/note-research-evaluation-censored-news-4/

Hundreds of incarcerated women in Maryland have been denied access to prerelease programs, which provide job opportunities and other vital re-entry services, Eddie Conway and Mansa Musa reported ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/25-injustice-for-incarcerated-women-in-maryland-after-state-defunds-prerelease-facility/

The pandemic has compounded a host of systemic issues in the United States, including food insecurity in Indian Country. In an interview for High Country News, B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster spoke with ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/24-indigenous-communities-using-data-sovereignty-to-address-food-insecurity/

In an August 2021 piece published simultaneously in four independent media outlets (Southerly, Drilled News, WWNO, and Energy News Network), environmental journalist Sara Sneath reported that the...

https://www.projectcensored.org/23-federal-safety-agency-underreports-deaths-of-offshore-oil-and-gas-workers/

The federal government disburses four times as much money for roadways as for public transit, a long-standing imbalance that has deprived the nation’s poorest of basic mobility for decades, Bas...

https://www.projectcensored.org/22-us-transportation-system-fuels-inequality/

To address inequities in technology access highlighted by the shift to remote learning since the onset of COVID-19, school districts across the United States have doubled the number of laptops an...

https://www.projectcensored.org/21-school-issued-technology-poses-surveillance-risks-for-students/

Despite the national poverty rate making its largest upward jump in recorded history, Hannah Dreyfus reported for ProPublica that states had stockpiled $5.2 billion in undistributed funds from th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/20-states-hoard-federal-assistance-funding-amidst-record-poverty-levels/

Severe lack of infrastructure contributes to a “digital divide” in many southern states that most impacts rural Black Americans, according to an October 2021 study produced by the Joint Cente...

https://www.projectcensored.org/19-poor-infrastructure-a-legacy-of-discriminatory-redlining-inhibits-rural-black-americans-internet-access/

On October 5, 2021, the NATO Association of Canada (NAOC) sponsored a forum on what panelists described as the “weaponization of brain sciences” to exploit “vulnerabilities of the human bra...

https://www.projectcensored.org/18-the-human-mind-as-new-domain-of-war-nato-plans-for-cognitive-warfare/

In a November 2021 Progressive magazine article, reporter Helen Christophi revealed that Brian P. Haughton, a former member of multiple racist skinhead bands and a past leader in the neo-Nazi mov...

https://www.projectcensored.org/17-former-neo-nazi-leader-now-holds-doj-domestic-counterterrorism-position/

The Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF), and other women’s groups leading the opposition to the Equal Rights Act (ERA) and the Equality Act are...

https://www.projectcensored.org/16-dark-money-fuels-transphobic-opposition-to-the-equal-rights-amendment-and-equality-act/

Last introduced in 2020, the EARN IT Act (Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act) is back—and more threatening to online freedom of expression than before, acco...

https://www.projectcensored.org/15-earn-it-act-threatens-online-freedom-of-expression-under-guise-of-policing-child-pornography/

The May 11, 2022, murder of Palestinian reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, evidently by Israeli soldiers, while she was covering one of their routine raids on a West Bank refugee camp sent ripples throu...

https://www.projectcensored.org/14-repression-of-palestinian-media/

Joint military and industry efforts to develop new ocean technologies and infrastructure—which engineers and advocates call the “smart ocean”—will have lethal consequences for whales, sig...

https://www.projectcensored.org/13-smart-ocean-technology-endangers-whales-and-intensifies-climate-change/

Facebook’s policy on “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” (DIO) has become “an unaccountable system that disproportionately punishes certain communities,” Sam Biddle reported for t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/12-facebooks-blacklist-of-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-stifles-public-debate/

In a November 2021 article for The Conversation, Sonja Klinsky outlined how and why poorer regions are disproportionately affected by climate change. Wealthier nations, such as the United States,...

https://www.projectcensored.org/11-wealthy-nations-continue-to-drive-climate-change-with-devastating-impacts-on-poorer-countries/

The world’s most popular social media apps and platforms—Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok—collect users’ data and employ it to target them with tailored advertising. This sort of “s...

https://www.projectcensored.org/10-major-media-outlets-lobby-against-regulation-of-surveillance-advertising/

Across the United States, Republican lawmakers are pushing legislation modeled after a policy authored by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) that makes it illegal to compel nonprofi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/9-new-laws-preventing-dark-money-disclosures-sweep-the-nation/

In late 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), then under the direction of Mike Pompeo, seriously considered plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/8-cia-discussed-plans-to-kidnap-or-kill-julian-assange/

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has donated more than $319 million to fund news outlets, journalism centers and training programs, press associations, and specific media campaigns, raising ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/7-concerns-for-journalistic-independence-as-gates-foundation-gives-319-million-to-news-outlets/

Corporate consolidation is a main driver of record inflation in food prices, despite claims by media pundits and partisan commentators to the contrary. As the economy attempts to shake off the li...

https://www.projectcensored.org/6-corporate-consolidation-causing-record-inflation-in-food-prices/

Conservative dark money organizations opposing President Biden’s Supreme Court nomination also helped fuel conspiracy theories of election fraud after the 2020 election, as Igor Derysh reported...

https://www.projectcensored.org/5-dark-money-interference-in-us-politics-undermines-democracy/

A series of Sludge articles written by David Moore in November and December of 2021 reported that at least 100 US Representatives and twenty-eight US Senators have financial interests in the foss...

https://www.projectcensored.org/4-at-least-128-members-of-congress-invested-in-fossil-fuel-industry/

Since January 2019, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has received more than 1,200 legally required disclosures about chemicals that present a “substantial risk of injury to health or t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/3-epa-withheld-reports-on-dangerous-chemicals/

Thousands of US companies illegally underpay workers yet are seldom punished for doing so, Alexia Fernández Campbell and Joe Yerardi reported for the Center for Public Integrity in May 2021. Sin...

https://www.projectcensored.org/2-wage-theft-us-businesses-suffer-few-consequences-for-stealing-millions-from-workers-every-year/

A comprehensive study of 191 nations, published by the International Monetary Fund in September 2021, found that globally the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute, th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/1-fossil-fuel-industry-subsidized-at-rate-of-11-million-per-minute/

City Lights and Project Censored Present “The Media and Us” Saturday, December 3, via Zoom Join the Project for The Media and Us, an online symposium on critical media literacy and political...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-3/

The 2022 Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas took place in Oakland, CA in late October. This week’s Project Censored Show presents excerpts from the plenary roundtable that addre...

https://www.projectcensored.org/critical-media-literacy-education-is-a-peaceful-means-to-humanitarian-ends/

This week, Eleanor Goldfield looks at COP, climate, and change with the Minister of State for Environment, Climate Change and Technology of the Republic of Maldives, Khadeeja Naseem. They discuss...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-climate-crisis-its-global-impacts-and-what-is-to-be-done/

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s episode, and spends the hour on conditions in Iran, where demonstrators have taken to the streets in response to the death of a young woman in the custody of...

https://www.projectcensored.org/contextualizing-the-events-of-the-past-month-in-iran/

Speaking to the January 6th Committee on September 29, 2022, Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, stood by her contention that the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election was stol...

https://www.projectcensored.org/electoral-denialism-cuts-across-party-lines-despite-what-the-corporate-media-would-have-us-believe-both-parties-engage-in-the-big-lie-and-the-rest-of-lose-because-of-it/

In-Person Events with Chris Hedges and the Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center On September 26, Project Censored director Mickey Huff hosted Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges at ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-october-2022/

On this Project Censored Show we discuss Media Literacy Week and more specifically Critical Media Literacy. We then discern the different approaches to media literacy which have been co-opted inc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/has-media-literacy-week-been-co-opted/

By Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff In 1995, early in the development of the global internet, sociologist Michael Schudson imagined how people might process information if journalism were to suddenl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/what-if-journalism-disappeared/

In this episode of the Project Censored Show Eleanor Goldfield looks at the potential for a Class I railroad strike. This struggle exemplifies the power of workers and how much corporations and t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-potential-for-a-class-i-railroad-strike/

On this week’s program we hear a panel discussion held in observation of Constitution Day (mid September) at Diablo Valley College, where Mickey teaches. Three expert panelists examined the sta...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-importance-of-academic-freedom-in-a-cancel-culture-obsessed-with-curtailing-curricula-and-banning-books/

By Nolan Higdon A September 2022 report from Tessa Jolls, president of the Center for Media Literacy, titled “Building Resiliency: Media Literacy as a Strategic Defense Strategy for the Transat...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-military-industrial-complex-wants-you-to-be-more-media-lliterate/

In August, 2022, two important acts of resistance hinted at a sea change in attitudes toward invasive surveillance technologies. First, New York University’s Brennan Center sued the Department ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/entering-the-resistance-phase-of-the-surveillance-education-cycle-finding-ways-to-protect-privacy-in-schools/

This week, Eleanor Goldfield digs into mining – past and present. First, author and organizer Mitch Troutman discusses his latest book, The Bootleg Coal Rebellion: The Pennsylvania Miners who...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-past-and-present-of-mining/

Celebrating Banned Books Week, September 18-24 This September marks the 40th anniversary of Banned Books Week, an annual celebration of the right to read. Book challenges and bans are at an al...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-2/

For the first segment of this week’s show, Mickey talks with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges shares some of the stories from his newest book, The Greatest Evil Is War. The book i...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-many-costs-of-war-and-the-legacy-of-mikhail-gorbachev/

By Mickey Huff In her best-selling novel Speak, young adult author Laurie Halse Anderson wrote, “Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.” Since the American Library Assoc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/banned-in-the-usa/

On this Project Censored Show, host Mickey Huff dedicates the hour to Banned Books Week 2022 (Sept. 18-24). Now in its 40th year, Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating and promoting th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/banned-books-week-2022/

The latest Project Censored Show features a recording of a panel discussion from this summer’s Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival, held in Washington DC. Mickey and Project Censored’s Ass...

https://www.projectcensored.org/whistleblower-summit-and-film-festival-and-an-update-on-julian-assange/

On the first half of this week’s show Eleanor speaks with musician, producer, and songwriter Samantha Blanchard – talking to her about the exploitation of artists in today’s often cookie cu...

https://www.projectcensored.org/music-the-clash-between-capitalism-and-art-and-solutions-to-the-student-loan-debt-crises/

The number of mass shootings in the United States has grown considerably in the past few years. In July 2022, the Gun Violence Archive, a nonprofit that tracks shootings in the US, reported at le...

https://www.projectcensored.org/economic-consequences-of-us-gun-violence/

On June 24, 2022, the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, ruling out the constitutional right to abortion. States can now prohibit pregnant women and girls from receiving an abortion, forcin...

https://www.projectcensored.org/false-balance-in-establishment-press-coverage-of-supreme-courts-decision-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/

By Kathleen Minelli and Steve Macek In the weeks since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, the corporate media has been saturated with analyses and reports about the implications of the rul...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-media-has-failed-to-report-accurately-on-the-threats-to-womens-reproductive-rights/

In the first half of the show, Mickey talks with attorney and author Heidi Boghosian and Project Censored associate director Andy Lee Roth about the confluence of surveillance and censorship, and...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-confluence-of-surveillance-and-censorship-and-violence-against-journalists/

By Nolan Higdon In August 2022, a Texas jury ruled that internet personality Alex Jones pay $49 million for defaming the parents of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary school massacre. ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-alex-jones-playbook/

Back to School The Summer of 2022 seems to have flown past and a new school year is already imminent. We at Project Censored couldn’t be more excited, because the start of the Fall school term ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter/

By Andy Lee Roth Violence is the most basic and blunt form of press censorship. To kill or imprison a journalist is to silence the public’s source of news. To date, 33 journalists around the wo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/journalists-deadly-business-reporting/

The recent reporting on the Uber Files—a series of 124,000 communications, dated from 2013 until 2017, that Mark McGann, one of Uber’s top lobbyists, leaked to The Guardian—has shed light o...

https://www.projectcensored.org/sleeping-at-the-wheel-the-uber-files-the-media-and-the-coup-against-labor-rights/

For the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield looks into unionizing workers at a Trader Joe’s store in Minneapolis and what issues they are facing. She speaks with organizer Sarah Beth Ryth...

https://www.projectcensored.org/trader-joes-employees-unionize-featuring-sarah-beth-ryther/

By Nolan Higdon The return of Chris Cuomo to television is the latest reminder that there is little accountability to speak of in corporate news media. Chris was ousted at CNN in late 2021 amidst...

https://www.projectcensored.org/elite-lapdogs-always-welcome-in-the-corporate-media/

This week on the Project Censored Show, Eleanor and Mickey begin the hour in conversation with esteemed historian Dr. David Goldfield, who is a long-time academic and author who has just recently...

https://www.projectcensored.org/attempting-to-censor-history-and-understanding-food-waste-and-climate-change-in-a-global-system/

Eleanor Goldfield hosts this week’s show. This past May, the US Supreme Court narrowed the protection of the Sixth Amendment, by ruling that a person convicted of a crime cannot cite ineffectiv...

https://www.projectcensored.org/protections-of-the-sixth-amendment-and-third-party-ballot-issues/

Project Censored at the Global Media Forum in Germany In June, Steve Macek represented Project Censored at the 15th Deutsche Welle Global Media Forum in Bonn, Germany. Sponsored by Germany’s...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-july-2022/

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 �...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-case-against-newsguard/

In July 2022, David Keppler, writing for the Associated Press, warned that as “trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise,” and people in the U.S. are increasingly “rejecting what they hear from...

https://www.projectcensored.org/did-lawmakers-finally-figure-out-that-critical-news-literacy-is-antidote-to-disinformation/

For the first half of this week’s show, Mickey brings on co-organizers and participants of the upcoming 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival in Washington, DC, including Marcel Reid, Mic...

https://www.projectcensored.org/whistleblower-summit-and-the-recent-election-results-in-colombia/

This piece is a Bonus Op Ed to help kick off our new column; Dispatches from Project Censored: On Media and Politics By Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff On July 8, President Joe Biden signed an execu...

https://www.projectcensored.org/did-dobbs-help-the-left-rediscover-how-political-change-is-made/

This week’s program begins with an update from Kevin Gosztola on the Julian Assange legal case in the UK, including the recent ruling by the Home Secretary authorizing Assange’s extradition t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/julian-assange-case-and-press-freedoms-politics-of-abortion-rights-and-the-democratic-party-cable-news-fail/

On June 16, 2022, USA Today announced that it would remove 23 stories written by their breaking news reporter Gabriela Miranda from its archive. The decision came after an internal audit found th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/from-fake-news-to-junk-news-gabriela-miranda-is-the-symptom-not-the-problem/

This week on the Project Censored radio show, we sit down with Fiore Longo of Survival International to discuss the colonialist and racist realities of so-called conservation, not least of all in...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-realities-of-so-called-conservation-and-the-importance-of-community-preparedness-for-extreme-weather/

This week’s program focuses on whistleblowers — their contributions to society, the retaliation they often endure, and the legal protections they need. Mickey’s guests for the hour include ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/whistleblowers/

  This week on the Project Censored Radio Show, Eleanor Goldfield dives into Pride: talking about some of the misconceptions of pride, the corporatization of pride, the radical roots of pride �...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-misconceptions-corporatization-and-radical-roots-of-pride/

Mickey’s guests for the hour are the creators of a forthcoming graphic book that explores the far-reaching consequences of replacing classroom teaching with remote instruction and increased tec...

https://www.projectcensored.org/going-remote/

Special Summer Fundraiser Featuring Let’s Agree to Disagree: Help Us Bring Interns to Our Fall Conference! The Project is raising money to bring our stellar summer interns to the Critical Med...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-june-2022/

Mickey’s guest for the first half of the program is the theologian and philosopher John Cobb; their topic is the Living Earth Movement. Cobb explains the need for humanity to change its behavio...

https://www.projectcensored.org/special-guests-john-cobb-and-lisa-wells/

On May 2, 2022, a rare leak from the US Supreme Court revealed that the court was likely to reverse its historic 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision, which established a legal right to abortion. On this w...

https://www.projectcensored.org/roe-vs-wade-and-the-pro-choice-state-of-california/

Eleanor Goldfield recently spoke with former leader of the Feminist Initiative party in Sweden, Farida al-Abani. They discussed the supposedly “neutral” country’s militaristic tendencies–...

https://www.projectcensored.org/swedish-neutrality-issues-with-nato-and-oil-politics-featuring-farida-al-abani-and-charlotte-dennett/

Meet the 2022 Project Censored Summer Interns The Project is pleased to introduce our four student interns for Summer 2022. We received a remarkably strong pool of applications in response to the...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-may-2022/

Mickey is joined for the hour by former co-host Peter Phillips and University of California, Santa Barbara sociologist William I. Robinson. They discuss Robinson’s new book “Global Civil War:...

https://www.projectcensored.org/global-civil-war-capitalism-post-pandemic/

Mickey’s first guest is Alan MacLeod, senior writer for MintPress News, speaks about PayPal’s sudden cutoff of service to MintPress, Consortium News, and other journalism sites that publish a...

https://www.projectcensored.org/paypal-us-nato-bidens-disinformation-governance-board-roe-vs-wade-and-more-featuring-guests-alan-macleod-steve-macek-and-shealeigh-voitl/

This week’s show is excerpted from a recent online panel discussion for the Sonoma County Library and Lumacon! in Northern California about efforts to ban certain books, keeping them from child...

https://www.projectcensored.org/book-banning-on-the-rise-in-the-us/

In the first half-hour of this week’s program, Mickey’s talks to author and professor Valena Beety and veteran investigative journalist Geoff Davidian about the widespread problem of wrongful...

https://www.projectcensored.org/special-guests-valena-beety-geoff-davidian-and-dr-margaret-flowers/

In November of 2021, MintPress News’ Alan Macleod uncovered documents exposing $319 million of donations granted by the Gates Foundation to various American and foreign media outlets. The main ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/state-of-the-billionaire-press-concerns-over-media-objectivity-after-bill-gates-gives-319-million-to-news-outlets/

Reporting by War on Want and The Independent in March 2022 revealed that McDonald’s employed various financial tricks, including a circular IOU transaction, to avoid paying at least 400 million...

https://www.projectcensored.org/mcdonalds-dodged-millions-in-taxes-with-an-iou-to-itself/

Donor-advised funds (DAFs) are a form of philanthropy intended to reduce a donor’s tax bill while cultivating their relationship with a charity through donations. However, DAFs have increasingl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/donor-advised-funds-take-advantage-of-tax-loopholes/

States across the country have issued bans on charity organizations, family members, and other outside groups donating books to prisoners, Alex Skopic reported in a November 2021 article for the ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/book-donation-bans-in-us-prisons-restrict-prisoners-rights-generate-corporate-profits/

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, one of the nation’s leading pediatric cancer research and treatment facilities, promises that, because “families never receive a bill” from St. Jude...

https://www.projectcensored.org/st-jude-hoards-billions-while-running-misleading-advertising-about-financial-support-for-its-patients/

The federal government continues to funnel four times as much funding for roadways as for public transit, a longstanding priority that has deprived the nation’s poorest of basic mobility for de...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-transportation-system-fuels-inequality/

A November 2021 report by The Progressive revealed that Brian P. Haughton, a former member of multiple racist skinhead bands and a past leader in the neo-Nazi movement, now holds an important cou...

https://www.projectcensored.org/former-neo-nazi-leader-now-holds-doj-domestic-counterterrorism-position/

Uruguan poet and political analyst Eduardo Galeano once wrote, “Every time the US ‘saves’ a country, it converts it into either an insane asylum or a cemetery.”  And this week on the Pro...

https://www.projectcensored.org/special-guests-leonardo-flores-and-jacquie-luqman-discuss-us-economic-warfare/

Severe lack of infrastructure contributes to a “digital divide” in many southern states that most impacts rural Black Americans, according to an October 2021 study produced by the Joint Cente...

https://www.projectcensored.org/poor-infrastructure-a-legacy-of-discriminatory-redlining-inhibits-rural-black-americans-internet-access/

In a January 21, 2022 article for The Conversation, Colin Page McGinnis, a doctoral candidate in Human Sciences at Ohio State University, shared a startling discovery he and his colleagues made i...

https://www.projectcensored.org/one-third-of-child-care-workers-in-us-going-hungry-despite-labor-shortage/

Many politicians and economists believe that cancelling student debt is regressive because cancellation would unfairly benefit wealthier households. However, a June 2021 Roosevelt Institute study...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-progressive-effects-of-canceling-student-debt/

While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to claim lives in 2021, lower-income nations in need of lifesaving vaccines were targeted and exploited by the monopoly pharmaceutical brand Pfizer. Througho...

https://www.projectcensored.org/in-push-for-profits-pfizer-pre-empting-national-governments-powers/

With over 65 million people in the United States who have recovered from COVID-19, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have released new data shifting the formerly dismissed deb...

https://www.projectcensored.org/covid-19-natural-immunity-vs-vaccine-induced-immunity/

When COVID-19 arrived, a frightened nation turned to two federal health agencies—the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for guidanc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/regulatory-capture-of-the-fda-and-cdc/

While the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) advocate vaccines as the best ways to protect individuals from infection and end the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries and health off...

https://www.projectcensored.org/covid-19-vaccine-safety-and-data-integrity-concerns/

In a March 2022 article for City Journal, Nicholas Wade, a former science editor at the New York Times, wrote: “Few science stories are more important than understanding where the Covid virus c...

https://www.projectcensored.org/establishment-news-bias-in-reporting-debate-on-covid-19-origins/

It’s book season at Project Censored. As we complete the April newsletter, we’re “deep in the shed,” to borrow the phrase jazz musicians use to describe periods of intense practice away f...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-april-2022/

According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, US federal and state prisons saw a 42 percent spike in inmate deaths from 4,200 in 2019 to 6,100 in 2020. In a January 2022 article for his Substack...

https://www.projectcensored.org/highest-prison-death-rates-ever-recorded-are-signs-of-long-standing-structural-issues/

Pension officials who manage the retirement savings of the working class are funneling employees’ pension savings to Wall Street and finance industry executives as investments, according to a J...

https://www.projectcensored.org/wall-street-leverages-working-class-pensions/

A joint investigation by Food and Water Watch and the Guardian provides new details on the “market dominance” of the largest US food producers, Nina Lakhani, Aliya Uteuova, and Alvin Chang re...

https://www.projectcensored.org/handful-of-food-giants-profit-from-illusion-of-consumer-choice/

Despite the national poverty rate making its largest upward jump in recorded history, states stockpile $5.2 billion in undistributed funds from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families...

https://www.projectcensored.org/states-hoard-federal-assistive-funding-amidst-record-poverty-levels/

Consolidated mega-corporations are responsible for record inflation despite their attempts to disguise increases as an inevitable side effect of pandemic realities and administration responses. A...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-consolidation-causing-record-inflation/

Across the United States, politicians are pushing legislation that follows in the footsteps of a model bill put forth by the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), seeking to make it illeg...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-laws-preventing-dark-money-disclosures-sweep-the-nation/

Since January 2019, the EPA has received more than 1,200 legally required disclosures of chemicals that present a “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment.” Internal whistlebl...

https://www.projectcensored.org/epa-withholds-reports-on-dangers-posed-by-1200-chemicals/

Between May 6 and May 18, 2021, 7amleh, the Arab Center for the Advancement of Social Media, found 500 cases of digital rights violations targeting Palestinians. Palestinians and pro-Palestine ac...

https://www.projectcensored.org/social-media-censor-palestinian-activists/

Since 2020, 26 Palestinian journalists based in the West Bank have been imprisoned for attempting to cover Palestinian resistance to Israeli occupation. According to an April 2022 report from The...

https://www.projectcensored.org/palestinian-journalists-detained-on-incitement-charges-for-covering-west-bank-demonstrations/

On October 5, 2021, the NATO association of Canada (NAOC) held a panel discussion on its current interests and developments in “Cognitive Warfare.” According to an October 2021 report by The ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-human-mind-as-a-new-domain-of-war-natos-plan-for-cognitive-warfare/

Censorship by proxy continues in the US with the latest wave of Big Tech censorship and deplatforming spurred by increased Russiaphobia that lead to the cancellation RT America. This week, Mickey...

https://www.projectcensored.org/big-tech-censorship-with-special-guests-chris-hedges-and-kevin-gosztola/

The Eagle Forum, Concerned Women for America (CWA), the Independent Women’s Forum (IWF) and other women’s groups leading the opposition to the Equal Rights Act and the Equality Act are funded...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dark-money-fuels-transphobic-opposition-to-the-equal-rights-amendment-and-equality-act/

A September 2021 working paper by the International Monetary Fund found that globally the fossil fuel industry receives subsidies of $11 million per minute, as reported on by The Guardian and Tre...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fossil-fuel-industry-subsidized-at-rate-of-11-million-per-minute/

K-12 school cafeteria staff are severely underpaid according to a March 2022 report in Jacobin. School cafeteria workers made an average of $12.32 per hour between 2014 and 2019, making them some...

https://www.projectcensored.org/k-12-cafeteria-staff-are-severely-underpaid/

Facebook’s policy on  “Dangerous Individuals and Organizations” (DIO) has become “an unaccountable system that disproportionately punishes certain communities,” Sam Biddle reported for...

https://www.projectcensored.org/facebooks-blacklist-of-dangerous-individuals-and-organizations-stifles-public-debate/

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, pharmaceutical company Johnson and Johnson funded experiments on incarcerated people, which intentionally exposed them to asbestos, according to March 2022 repo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/johnson-and-johnson-paid-to-inject-prisoners-with-asbestos-unsealed-documents-reveal/

Gone are the days when libraries lent out books and little else. Imagine going into a library that, in addition to books, also offers power tools, kitchen appliances, camping gear, party supplies...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-library-of-things-movement-cutting-waste-reclaiming-local-economies-and-community/

According to international research by TerraChoice, a Canadian-based environmental marketing agency, 98 percent of North American big-box retail brands are guilty of greenwashing, a practice in ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporations-increasingly-held-accountable-for-greenwashing/

The ocean is now becoming an integral part of an unprecedented global network of “smart” fifth-generation (5G) wireless infrastructure, according to a December 2021 report by Patricia Burke a...

https://www.projectcensored.org/expansion-of-wireless-5g-technology-to-oceans-threatens-wildlife/

It is an open secret that the world’s most popular social media apps and websites collect users’ data in order to tailor advertisements to those users. The worst offenders however may establi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/major-media-outlets-lobby-against-regulation-of-surveillance-advertising/

In the United States alone, over 167,000 children grieved the loss of at least one parent or caregiver during the pandemic. The term ‘COVID orphans’ was first used by Harvard professor Charle...

https://www.projectcensored.org/global-displacement-of-covid-orphans-the-pandemics-hidden-consequence/

According to a joint study conducted by School House Connection and the University of Michigan’s Poverty Solutions initiative, approximately 420,000 fewer children and youth experiencing homele...

https://www.projectcensored.org/homeless-students-further-marginalized-by-covid-19/

Last introduced in 2020, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2022 (EARN IT Act) is back and more threatening to online freedom of expression than before...

https://www.projectcensored.org/earn-it-act-threatens-online-freedom-of-expression-under-guise-of-policing-child-pornography/

In 2016, Gideon Sa’ar introduced a bill to the Knesset (Israel’s parliament) that would have expanded the government’s authority to censor online content; the Israeli prime minister, Sa’a...

https://www.projectcensored.org/how-israels-facebook-law-threatens-free-speech/

In recent years, clothing for children with disabilities, known as “adaptive wear,” has slowly become more commonplace in the fashion industry, providing parents of these children with option...

https://www.projectcensored.org/clothing-brands-becoming-more-oriented-to-children-with-disabilities/

In May 2021, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) approved a draft treaty that would give law enforcement officials broad, intrusive powers to access user information while ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/law-enforcement-given-invasive-access-to-internet-user-information/

Hundreds of low-income residents of Lowndes County, a rural, majority-Black county in Alabama, have lived for years with failing septic tanks, Connor Sheets reported for AL.com news in July 2021....

https://www.projectcensored.org/justice-department-investigates-discrimination-in-alabama-wastewater-crisis/

In January 2022, peaceful protesters gathered publicly in Brussels, Belgium and Washington, D.C., to demonstrate against COVID countermeasures, including lockdowns, vaccine passports, and vaccine...

https://www.projectcensored.org/global-resistance-to-vaccine-mandates-underreported/

As the United States and the world confront the consequences of human-caused climate change, advocates of solar engineering, including tech billionaire Bill Gates, seek to influence climate polic...

https://www.projectcensored.org/debate-over-solar-geoengineering-technologies/

Several recent independent news reports highlight a health-oriented approach to COVID-19 that is missing from most news coverage on the pandemic. These reports  highlight how healthy diet and li...

https://www.projectcensored.org/healthy-diet-and-lifestyle-reduce-risk-and-severity-of-covid-19-studies-find/

This week on the Project Censored show, we share audio from Code Pink’s recent panel on Media Censorship of Voices for Peace with Abby Martin, Lee Camp and Chris Hedges. Code Pink’s Jodie Eva...

https://www.projectcensored.org/code-pinks-panel-on-media-censorship-of-voices-for-peace-featuring-abby-martin-lee-camp-and-chris-hedge/

The Maryland Gender-Responsive Prerelease Act, which mandates the development of a prerelease facility for incarcerated women, was initially vetoed by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan in May 2020. T...

https://www.projectcensored.org/injustice-for-incarcerated-women-in-maryland-after-state-cuts-funds-for-prerelease-facility/

In February 2022, Bianca Fortis of ProPublica made multiple attempts to speak with White House officials about the Biden administration’s Pandemic Testing Board, which was developed shortly aft...

https://www.projectcensored.org/biden-administrations-pandemic-testing-board-remains-a-mystery-more-than-one-year-after-implementation/

In a March 2022 Atlantic article, Stephanie Murray discussed how mask mandates have impacted children with speech or language disorders. When the pandemic began in March 2020, many speech patholo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/how-mask-wearing-to-prevent-spread-of-covid-19-impacts-children-in-speech-therapy/

A federal appeals court ruled in April 2021 that the pesticide chlorpyrifos will be banned from all forms of use unless the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) can prove it’s safe. The popula...

https://www.projectcensored.org/child-safety-concerns-drive-potential-pesticide-ban/

After Russian forces invaded Ukraine on February 25, 2022, Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, called for civilian men to stay and fight against the Russians (Ukraine’s women were advise...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ukraines-women-warriors/

For young adults, street harassment is an ongoing obstacle that some face every day, American Friends Service Committee’s (AFSC) Rebecca Sandoval reported in January 2022. Sandoval’s report f...

https://www.projectcensored.org/youth-activists-in-el-salvador-take-stand-against-street-harassment/

In the first segment of this week’s show, Eleanor speaks with a member of Defend the Atlanta Forest. They discuss the group’s purpose and motivation. In the second half of the show, Eleanor ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/special-guest-coyote-from-defend-the-atlanta-forest-and-under-reported-climate-crisis-stories/

In a March 2022 article for Truthout, Igor Derysh reported that conservative dark money organizations opposing President Biden’s Supreme Court nomination also helped fuel conspiracy theories of...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dark-money-interference-in-us-politics-undermines-democracy/

The pandemic has compounded a host of systemic issues in the United States, including food insecurity in Indian Country. In an interview for High Country News, B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster spoke with ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/indigenous-communities-using-data-sovereignty-to-solve-food-insecurity/

When Russian forces escalated attacks in Ukraine in February, social media users were forced to sift through mounting misinformation. But a new TikTok phenomenon is preying on Sweden’s most vul...

https://www.projectcensored.org/scared-straight-tiktok-teens-and-children-battling-war-anxiety/

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, public schools have increased their reliance on technology, having nearly doubled the number of school-issued tablet and laptop devices...

https://www.projectcensored.org/school-issued-technology-poses-surveillance-risks-for-students/

Racially motivated acts of violence encompass not only mass shootings, but also self-induced deaths. Unlike any other racial group in the US, Asian American youth aged 15-24 grapple with suicide ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/lack-of-research-on-rise-of-suicides-among-asian-american-youth/

Looking ahead to the upcoming annual conference of the Alliance for Community Media West, Mickey speaks with two long-time activists in the community-media movement- Sue Buske and Tracy Rosenberg...

https://www.projectcensored.org/special-guests-tracy-rosenberg-sue-buske-and-simki-kuznick/

The Project Censored Show Covers Racism, Ukraine Crisis, Censorship of RT America The Project Censored Show has featured a series of timely and hard-hitting broadcasts this past month. Eleanor Go...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-march-2022/

Hazardous air quality throughout the United States is subjecting low-income and predominantly racial communities to at least double the acceptable cancer risk set by the Environmental Protection ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/over-a-quarter-of-a-million-americans-exposed-to-cancer-causing-air-pollution/

This week, Eleanor Goldfield hosts both segments of the show. Her first guest is Lee Camp, comedian and political writer, whose TV program (Redacted Tonight) ended with the recent shutdown of the...

https://www.projectcensored.org/russian-media-censorship-featuring-lee-camp-and-chris-garaffa/

To open this week’s show, Mickey speaks with pathbreaking reporter Danielle McLean about the perilous state of US journalism, as conglomerate-owned newspapers shed reporters or devalue substant...

https://www.projectcensored.org/guests-danielle-mclean-on-the-state-of-us-journalism-and-nolan-higdon-on-solving-political-divisiveness/

During a November 2021 episode of the Electronic Frontier Foundation podcast, hosts Cindy Cohn and Danny O’Brien spoke with the director of Stanford’s Program on Platform Regulation​​, Da...

https://www.projectcensored.org/solutions-to-biased-artificial-intelligence-may-include-establishing-a-new-social-network/

In a November 2021 article for The Conversation, Sonja Klinsky outlined how and why poorer countries and regions are disproportionately affected by climate change. Wealthier nations, such as the ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/wealthy-nations-continue-to-drive-climate-change-with-devastating-impacts-for-poorer-countries/

US House Representative John Yarmuth (D-KY) purchased tens of thousands of dollars in pharmaceutical and defense stocks in 2021. According to an August 2021 Sludge article, Rep. Yarmuth disclosed...

https://www.projectcensored.org/house-democrat-invests-in-pharmaceutical-companies-and-defense-contractors-despite-being-key-decision-maker-on-congressional-committee/

In August 2021, conservative politicians in several states began pushing for legislation that restricted what educators could teach their students, namely when it comes to lessons related to race...

https://www.projectcensored.org/conservative-lawmakers-in-several-states-push-sweeping-bans-on-critical-race-theory-in-classrooms/

Mickey and his guests examine the Russian invasion of Ukraine. First, author and activist Harvey Wasserman warns of the dangers of catastrophic radioactive contamination if one of Ukraine’s dec...

https://www.projectcensored.org/examining-the-russian-invasion-of-ukraine-with-harvey-wasserman-and-peter-kuznick/

In the News: Recent Publications and Interviews Featuring Project Censored We have been busy informing the public about the importance of independent investigative journalism and critical media l...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-february-2022/

This week, the Project Censored Show’s new co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks first with Benjamin Norton to learn how President Biden is “out-Trumping Trump” on immigration. Norton also offer...

https://www.projectcensored.org/special-guests-benjamin-norton-on-how-biden-is-out-trumping-trump-on-immigration-and-eugene-puryear-on-racisms-deep-roots-in-us/

Thousands of US companies illegally underpay workers and are seldom subject to punishment for doing so, Alexia Fernández Campbell and Joe Yerardi reported for the Center for Public Integrity in ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/wage-theft-american-businesses-steal-millions-from-workers-every-year/

In late 2017, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), then under the direction of Mike Pompeo, seriously considered plans to kidnap or assassinate WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/trump-administration-discussed-plans-to-kidnap-or-assassinate-julian-assange/

More than twenty percent of workers employed by Kroger, America’s largest grocery chain, which employs some 460,000 workers and recorded profits of $4.1 billion in 2021, were receiving governme...

https://www.projectcensored.org/employees-of-americas-largest-grocery-chain-cant-afford-groceries/

Between October and December, 2021, ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio published a series of reports on the jailing of 11 children, ranging from 8 to 12 years in age, who stood accused of not ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/tennessees-rutherford-county-jails-black-children-at-a-disproportionately-high-rate/

A series of articles written by David Moore and published by Sludge in November and December of 2021 reported that at least 100 Representatives and 28 Senators have financial interests in the fos...

https://www.projectcensored.org/at-least-128-members-of-congress-invested-in-fossil-fuel-industry/

Mickey spends the hour with American University historian Peter Kuznick, co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the current U.S. and NATO confron...

https://www.projectcensored.org/history-matters-peter-kuznick-on-us-nato-tensions-russia-ukraine-and-avoiding-catastrophic-war/

After several visits as a guest, Eleanor Goldfield joins the program as co-host with Mickey Huff. In the first segment of this week’s show, Kevin Gosztola delivers a brief update about Julian A...

https://www.projectcensored.org/update-on-julian-assange-case-future-of-gulf-of-mexico-drilling-and-is-graphika-really-a-fake-news-watchdog/

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, fo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/arrests-aim-to-silence-kashmiri-journalists-and-human-rights-defenders/

In May 2021, CorpWatch reported on British American Tobacco’s (BAT) plan to open a cigarette factory in Mali that year. This, the result of a complicated partnership between the Malian governme...

https://www.projectcensored.org/british-american-tobacco-funding-war-in-west-africa-by-oversupplying-region-with-cigarettes/

According to a report by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) reviewed a surveillance treaty, drafted by the Council of Europe’s ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/cross-border-police-surveillance-treaty-undermines-privacy-rights/

According to an August 2021 article by the Energy News Network, the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Agency (BSEE) underreported offshore oil and gas worker fatalities from 2005 to ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/federal-safety-agency-underreporting-deaths-of-offshore-drilling-industry-workers/

The rate at which ADHD goes undetected in girls is increasingly higher than their male counterparts. As of September 2021, 12.9 percent of boys were diagnosed with ADHD while only 5.6 percent of ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/adhd-in-girls-often-underdiagnosed/

An August 2021 article by Christine Chung for The City reported that Dr. Ferdous Khandker was at the center of a class-action complaint in which at least four Bengali women accused the physician ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/queens-new-york-women-sue-celebrity-doctor-for-serial-sexual-abuse/

Journalist and filmmaker Eleanor Goldfield returns to the program to address several topics in media and world events, including the ongoing scandal of Julian Assange’s imprisonment, the folly ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/eleanor-goldfield-and-nolan-higdon-return-to-the-program/

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 res...

https://www.projectcensored.org/cal-state-poly-pomona-professor-threatened-with-cancellation-on-false-charges-of-anti-semitism/

Project Censored is a nonprofit organization supported by members like you. All levels of support are appreciated and you can make a donation here! Recent Grant Supports Project’s Educational ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-january-2022/

Last year, Chinese producers released The Battle at Lake Changjin, a big-budget war movie celebrating a 1950 Chinese victory against US forces in the Korean War. The New York Times criticized the...

https://www.projectcensored.org/hollywoods-pentagon-propaganda-and-news-abuse-with-robin-andersen-and-a-new-book-on-decolonizing-podcasters-with-nicholas-baham-iii-and-nolan-higdon/

Mickey presents a discussion between political scientist Aaron Good and author David Talbot on the subject of the assassinations of John and Robert Kennedy. This conversation is excerpted from a ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/american-exception-empire-and-the-deep-state-with-aaron-good-and-david-talbot/

How can the arts play a role in addressing the global climate crisis? A December 2021 exhibit at the Ceres Gallery in Manhattan, Earth on the Edge, curated by M. Annenberg, featured the works of ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/earth-on-the-edge/

Independent journalist Kevin Gosztola of Shadowproof.com returns to the program to deliver another update about the Julian Assange extradition case in the UK, and its disturbing implications f...

https://www.projectcensored.org/a-julian-assange-update-featuring-kevin-gosztola/

Project Censored’s new annual volume, “State of the Free Press 2022,” has just been released from The Censored Press. It includes the well-known ‘Top 25’ censored stories of the precedi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/andy-lee-roth-and-steve-macek-discuss-the-under-reported-stories-of-the-year/

State of the Free Press 2022 Published–and Well Publicized! The new Project Censored yearbook is finally available. Paper shortages, another consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic, delayed the ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-december-2021/

Pulitzer-prize winning journalist and author Chris Hedges also teaches college-level courses through Rutgers University for the New Jersey state prison system. His latest book, “Our Class,” e...

https://www.projectcensored.org/chris-hedges/

First-generation college graduates have more trouble finding jobs and earn substantially less than their classmates whose parents also finished college, according to a September 24, 2021 article ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/college-degrees-less-beneficial-for-first-generation-grads/

In March 2021, Kate Way reported in Truthout that the urgency to reopen schools ignores fundamental educational inequalities across the United States that existed before the onset of the COVID-19...

https://www.projectcensored.org/covid-19-concerns-overshadow-pre-existing-inequalities-in-education/

On October 11, 2021, the Intercept reported on an Ohio State Board of Education member who has refused to condemn white supremacy. Board member Diana Fessler criticized Resolution 20—an anti-ra...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ohio-state-board-of-education-fails-to-condemn-white-supremacy-culture/

The blurring of academic and social skills is reshaping university and college curricula as higher education institutions across the country place increasing importance on student affairs program...

https://www.projectcensored.org/student-affairs-shadow-curriculum-undermines-higher-education/

Social distancing, necessary due to the COVID-19 pandemic, has transformed education. With the pivot to remote learning, one of these transformations, Nora Caplan-Bricker reports for the New York...

https://www.projectcensored.org/algorithmic-bias-in-online-test-monitoring-programs/

The COVID-19 pandemic and remote schooling have posed unique challenges for homeless students, according to a June 2021 report for Truthout by Eleanor J. Bader. Although the pandemic has impacted...

https://www.projectcensored.org/homeless-students-uniquely-challenged-by-covid-19-pandemic/

Pittsburg Unified School District, in the Bay Area of California, is accused of unequal opportunities for disabled students and will be taken to court by ACLU. On Monday, September 13, 2021 the s...

https://www.projectcensored.org/school-sued-for-denying-equal-education-to-students-with-disabilities/

Across the United States, inadequate funding for the maintenance of school buildings puts students at increased risk to COVID-19, according to a September 2021 report for Truthout by Eleanor J. B...

https://www.projectcensored.org/covid-19-risks-heightened-by-rundown-facilities-at-disadvantaged-schools/

On June 17, 2021, Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed a law declaring that teachers can no longer teach critical race theory in their classrooms. As Jennifer Bendery reported in the Black Agenda Re...

https://www.projectcensored.org/blockade-on-critical-race-theory-in-texas-public-schools/

In June 2021, the Hechinger Report’s Victoria Petersen reported that most US school facilities are in dire need of repair and will not be able to sustain the damages caused by worsening weather...

https://www.projectcensored.org/schools-infrastructure-in-crisis-as-climate-changes/

COVID-19 has led to increases in institutional debt for colleges and universities and significant decreases in faculty salaries and benefits, according to data from the American Association of Un...

https://www.projectcensored.org/covid-19s-negative-impact-on-higher-education-institutions-and-faculty-salaries/

Should a political lobbyist and real estate investor also be the owner of a major regional newspaper that happens to have bought up the most of the competition? Northern California’s Sonoma Cou...

https://www.projectcensored.org/local-journalism-matters-democracy-needs-more-muckrakers-and-fewer-buckrakers-as-project-censored-founder-carl-jensen-used-to-say/

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...

https://www.projectcensored.org/reassessing-the-legacy-and-power-of-dc-hardcore/

How do we at Project Censored identify and evaluate independent news stories, and how do we know that the Top 25 stories that we bring forward each year are not only relevant and significant but ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/note-research-evaluation-ocensored-news/

The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was created to protect children from being abducted and taken away from their home countries. But, as Misha Valencia observe...

https://www.projectcensored.org/25-abusers-benefiting-from-international-anti-abduction-treaty/

Juvenile justice reform continues to be ignored throughout the United States, despite President Biden’s campaign pledge to close youth prisons and establish a $100 million fund for youth and co...

https://www.projectcensored.org/24-juvenile-justice-reform-remains-elusive/

Researchers at the University of Oldenburg in Germany have concluded that pollution-related darkening of coastal waters in the world’s oceans poses a serious threat to ocean food chains.  Sinc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/23-coastal-darkening-threatens-ocean-food-chains/

In an October 2020 article published by the Intercept, Sam Biddle reported on racial bias at Dataminr, a New York company that monitors Twitter for “suspicious behavior,” which it reports to ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/22-dataminr-introduces-racial-bias-stereotypes-in-policing-of-social-media/

Major Christian organizations, including the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the Fellowship Foundation, have together spent close to a quarter of a billion dollars over the past 13 year...

https://www.projectcensored.org/21-conservative-christian-groups-spend-globally-to-promote-anti-lgbtq-campaigns/

The violent insurrection of January 6th, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump unlawfully occupied the US Capitol building, threatened members of Congress, and temporarily derailed certification ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/20-proposed-domestic-terrorism-legislation-imperils-civil-liberties/

Driven by demand in European Union countries, the southern United States is now the world’s largest producer and exporter of the wood pellets used to produce biomass energy, Danna Smith reporte...

https://www.projectcensored.org/19-european-demand-for-biomass-energy-propels-destruction-of-us-forests/

During the COVID-19 pandemic, women of color who are survivors of sexual violence have faced disproportionate hardships compared to white women survivors, ColorLines’s Shani Saxon reported in N...

https://www.projectcensored.org/18-collision-of-crises-for-black-and-brown-survivors-of-sexual-violence-during-covid-19/

In February 2021 independent news sources such as Progressive Soapbox, The Convo Couch, Franc Analysis, and Hannah Reloaded were demonetized by YouTube, the latest instance of YouTube penalizing ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/17-new-wave-of-independent-news-sources-demonetized-by-google-owned-youtube/

Fatal violence against women across the world is increasing. A November 2020 report from the UK-based nonprofit Femicide Census spanning nearly a decade found that, on average, “a woman was kil...

https://www.projectcensored.org/16-femicide-census-connects-uk-killings-with-global-wave-of-violence-against-women/

The prospect of Star Wars–esque battles in space has become much more likely with the rollout of fifth generation (5G) wireless technology, powered by tens of thousands of satellites approved b...

https://www.projectcensored.org/15-thousands-of-5g-satellites-pose-risk-of-future-space-wars/

As the impacts of COVID-19 continue to deepen, experts say global pandemic prevention programs should also focus on the United States, where intensive agricultural practices are breeding grounds ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/14-us-factory-farming-a-breeding-ground-for-next-pandemic/

As COVID-19 spread rapidly across the United States, so too did unclear (and sometimes contradictory) information about it. Establishment media outlets had the crucial task of clarifying informat...

https://www.projectcensored.org/13-corporate-media-sideline-health-experts-during-pandemic/

A 2020 report from Amazon Watch, entitled “Complicity in Destruction III,” shows how global corporations contribute to Indigenous rights abuses in the Brazilian Amazon. The report identifies ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/12-grave-threats-to-amazon-rainforest-from-domestic-industries-and-global-capital/

Throughout the world, seed sovereignty activists are reclaiming the right to plant, in resistance to seed laws that threaten food security by criminalizing farmers for using diverse crops, Charli...

https://www.projectcensored.org/11-seed-sovereignty-movements-challenge-corporate-monopolies/

During the 20th century, at least 60,000 Americans in some 32 states were sterilized without their consent. The majority of individuals subjected to forced sterilization at the hands of the gover...

https://www.projectcensored.org/10-activists-call-out-legacy-of-racism-and-sexism-in-forced-sterilization/

An investigation conducted by several independent news outlets coordinated by the Marshall Project lays bare mounting evidence of extensive and disproportionate deployment of police dogs against ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/9-police-use-dogs-as-instruments-of-violence-targeting-people-of-color/

Pfizer, whose global reputation as one of the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies has been bolstered by its development of a COVID-19 vaccine, has a record of exerting undue influence on l...

https://www.projectcensored.org/8-pfizer-bullies-south-american-governments-over-covid-19-vaccine/

Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a union avoidance firm, obtained by Vice’s Motherboard show the disturbing lengths to which companies will go in order to derail workplace organizing. The lea...

https://www.projectcensored.org/7-googles-union-busting-methods-revealed/

Pro-Palestinian activism—including the global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement that works to peacefully pressure Israel to obey international law and respect Palestinians’ hum...

https://www.projectcensored.org/6-canary-mission-blacklists-pro-palestinian-activists-chilling-free-speech-rights/

According to a pair of recent scientific studies, microplastics and a class of toxic chemicals known as polyfluoroalkyl substances (or PFAS) are becoming increasingly prevalent in the world’s o...

https://www.projectcensored.org/5-microplastics-and-toxic-chemicals-increasingly-prevalent-in-worlds-oceans/

In April 2021, President Joe Biden’s “Leaders Summit on Climate” brought together more than forty national leaders to address global carbon emissions. At the virtual summit, Biden outlined ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/4-climate-debtor-nations-have-colonized-the-atmosphere/

After the United States went into lockdown in spring 2020, millions of people were designated ‘essential workers’—individuals who were expected to continue laboring at their jobs as meatpac...

https://www.projectcensored.org/3-historic-wave-of-wildcat-strikes-for-workers-rights/

In November 2020 the Foreign Policy Centre (FPC) released “Unsafe for Scrutiny,” a report about the threats faced by journalists investigating the financial misconduct that lets ‘dirty mon...

https://www.projectcensored.org/2-journalists-investigating-financial-crimes-threatened-by-global-elites/

More than 1.1 million seniors in the federal government’s Medicare program could die prematurely over the next decade because they will be unable to afford the high prices of their prescription...

https://www.projectcensored.org/1-prescription-drug-costs-set-to-become-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-elderly-americans/

Independent journalist Kevin Gosztola returns to the program to deliver an update about the Julian Assange extradition case in the UK, and its disturbing impacts for press freedom in the US and a...

https://www.projectcensored.org/whistleblowing-matters-why-the-julian-assange-extradition-case-is-critical-for-press-freedoms-around-the-world/

Source: Center for the Study of Commercialism, 1875 Connecticut Avenue NW, Ste. 300 Washington, DC 20009-5728, Date: March 1992, Title: “Dictating Content: How Advertising Pressure Can Corrupt ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/__trashed/

State of the Free Press 2022 Available for Pre-Order Pre-order your copy of the newest Project Censored yearbook, State of the Free Press 2022, now! Balancing critical analysis with optimistic...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-november-2021/

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, As...

https://www.projectcensored.org/free-julian-assange-say-no-to-shooting-the-messenger-and-extradition-say-yes-to-supporting-whistleblowers-and-press-freedom/

With British courts nearing a possible decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the U.S., Jeff Mackler speaks to Mickey about the campaign to free Assange (founder of Wikileaks). Then w...

https://www.projectcensored.org/jeff-mackler-and-kevin-gosztola-discuss-julian-assange/

 Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Americas a Significant Success The second edition of this annual event took place via Zoom on October 15-17, 2021 and brought together scholars, activi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-october-2021/

September 17, 2021 was the tenth anniversary of the start of Occupy Wall Street. Journalist and author Michael Levitin was there at its beginning, and, among other roles, co-founded and edited Th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/occupy-wall-street-with-author-michael-levitin/

In the aftermath of Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen’s testimony to Congress, Mickey and his guests look at the ongoing issues of social media’s social responsibility, or lack thereof. G...

https://www.projectcensored.org/anti-social-media-can-our-already-volatile-political-culture-transcend-a-facebook-world/

This is Part 2 On the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Code Pink, Massachusetts Peace Action and several other co-sponsoring organizations, including Project Censored, held an onli...

https://www.projectcensored.org/part-2-never-forget-9-11-and-the-20-year-war-on-terror-excerpts-from-the-online-event/

This week is Banned Books Week, an annual affirmation of Americans’ right to read, founded by librarians and concerned booksellers in 1982 to combat efforts to ban books in US schools and libra...

https://www.projectcensored.org/banned-books-week-and-author-journalist-michael-levitin-on-the-impact-of-the-occupy-wall-street-movement/

Banned Books Week, September 26 – October 2 Join Project Censored and the Banned Books Week Coalition in celebrating the right to read. This year’s theme is “Books Unite Us, Censorship Divi...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-project-censored-newsletter-september-2021/

On the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, Code Pink, Massachusetts Peace Action and several other co-sponsoring organizations, including Project Censored, held an online seminar on t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/never-forget-9-11-and-the-20-year-war-on-terror-excerpts-from-the-online-event/

As the nation marks 20 years since the September 11 attacks, Mickey interviews Ray McGinnis, the author of a new book that looks at numerous questions that remain unanswered by official authoriti...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ray-mcginnis-and-ken-jenkins/

The US Empire and 9/11 in Historical Context For the twentieth anniversary and commemoration of the September 11th attacks, Mickey and his expert guests examine some still-unanswered questions ab...

https://www.projectcensored.org/still-unanswered-questions-on-the-9-11-attacks-featuring-peter-dale-scott-ben-howard-and-aaron-good/

In the first segment, journalist Dave Lindorff shares the little-known story of Ted Hall (1925-1999), a teenage science prodigy who worked on the WWII Manhattan Project, then shared his atomic se...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dave-lindorff-and-dan-oconnell/

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 pre...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dennis-kucinich-and-lisa-wells/

With summer coming to an end and the start of a new school year on the horizon, this month we feature a sneak preview from Adam Bessie and Peter Glanting’s book of graphic journalism, Going Re...

https://www.projectcensored.org/august-2021-project-censored-newsletter/

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...

https://www.projectcensored.org/kevin-gosztola-shahid-buttar-and-gloria-berry/

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...

https://www.projectcensored.org/susan-zakin-and-steve-erickson/

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 recen...

https://www.projectcensored.org/kallee-lasn-and-chase-palmieri/

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”), ultimate...

https://www.projectcensored.org/deep-fake-politics-historiography-of-the-cold-war-the-clandestine-state-and-political-economy-of-us-hegemony-with-aaron-good/

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...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dan-kovalik-speaks-about-his-latest-work-cancel-this-book-the-progressive-case-against-cancel-culture/

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...

https://www.projectcensored.org/emil-marmol-and-nolan-higdon/

Books in Progress The Project Censored team has been hard at work during the past month on four different books. The next Project yearbook, State of the Free Press 2022, will be the first volum...

https://www.projectcensored.org/july-2021-project-censored-newsletter/

Project Censored is supported by members like you. All levels of support are appreciated and you can make a donation here! We have a big announcement this month, updates on the next Censored yea...

https://www.projectcensored.org/june-2021-project-censored-newsletter/

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 Forgotte...

https://www.projectcensored.org/aviva-chomsky/

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 ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/third-installment-of-the-long-sili-con-power-and-censorship-in-the-digital-era/

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 presenti...

https://www.projectcensored.org/abby-martin-michelle-rodino-colocino-and-brian-dolber/

Project Censored is supported by members like you. All levels of support are appreciated and you can make a donation here! Each month, we’ll share an overview with our subscribers updating wha...

https://www.projectcensored.org/project-censored-media-freedom-foundation-may-2021-e-newsletter/

This week’s program presents excerpts from a live online discussion co-produced by Project Censored and the Real News Network. The second in a series of three programs examining media and socie...

https://www.projectcensored.org/can-democracy-exist-in-the-digital-era-part-iii/

This week’s program presents excerpts from “The Long Sili-CON: Power and Censorship in the Digital Era,” a live online discussion co-produced by Project Censored and The Real News Network. ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/excerpts-from-the-long-sili-con-power-and-censorship-in-the-digital-era/

On March 21st, 2021, an alliance of peace organizations presented the “Cold War Truth Commission,” a day of online lectures and discussion about the origins of the Cold War, and the millions ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-cold-war-truth-commission-part-2/

On March 21st, 2021, an alliance of peace organizations presented the “Cold War Truth Commission,” a day of online lectures and discussion about the origins of the Cold War, and the millions ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-cold-war-truth-commission/

The Foreign Policy Centre’s “Unsafe for Scrutiny” report details the threats facing journalists investigating the financial misconduct that lets ‘dirty money’ flow through the world’s...

https://www.projectcensored.org/journalists-investigating-financial-crimes-threatened-by-global-elites/

The City Council of Oakland, California started 2021 by strengthening its prohibitions on community surveillance through an amendment to its municipal code. The amendment, passed unanimously, pro...

https://www.projectcensored.org/oakland-california-extends-protections-against-predictive-policing-and-biometric-surveillance/

Researchers from the University of Maryland and Westat published a study in the journal Criminology & Public Policy, which found that increasing the number of police officers in schools led to ha...

https://www.projectcensored.org/police-officers-in-schools-fail-to-increase-safety-report-finds/

A January 2021 report by the American Friends Service Committee documents how local and state governments arounds the world have implemented “extreme emergency measures under the cover of respo...

https://www.projectcensored.org/report-documents-governments-use-of-covid-19-to-impose-authoritarian-policies/

Zoom’s popularity skyrocketed as the COVID-19 pandemic intensified in Spring 2020, and the company’s revenues rose more than 169 percent. Online conferencing has enabled people to continue th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/zoom-classrooms-raise-concerns-about-law-enforcement-surveillance-and-4th-amendment-rights/

Venture capital tech elites threatened by San Francisco’s homelessness and crime are pushing for a recall of San Francisco’s progressive district attorney, Chesa Boudin. Citing an astronomica...

https://www.projectcensored.org/tech-elite-threatened-by-progressive-san-francisco-da-push-for-his-recall/

Leaked files from IRI Consultants, a union avoidance firm, obtained by Vice’s Motherboard show the disturbing lengths to which companies will go in order to derail workplace organizing. The lea...

https://www.projectcensored.org/googles-union-busting-methods-revealed/

The January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol during certification of the presidential election in many ways is a kinetic distraction from an on-going, less visible, and possibly more damaging ass...

https://www.projectcensored.org/former-president-trump-called-off-capitol-rioters-but-the-assault-on-democracy-continues-via-washingtons-revolving-door/

As the COVID-19 pandemic became more widespread and dangerous in the US, information surrounding it became unclear and uncontrolled. Establishment media outlets had the crucial task of clarifying...

https://www.projectcensored.org/corporate-media-sideline-health-experts-during-pandemic/

As was widely reported by news outlets (including CNN, CBS, NPR, among others) in February 2021, a popular $15 minimum-wage hike was struck from President Biden’s COVID relief package when the ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/defeat-of-minimum-wage-increase-leaves-people-with-disabilities-behind/

“This is Healthy,” read a headline in the February 2021 Cosmopolitan UK that featured an array of women of different body shapes and sizes, including two who appear to be morbidly obese. As t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/debate-over-body-positivity-and-the-rise-in-obesity/

As of March 2021, more than 51,000 musical theater actors have been unemployed for over a year. This does not include the 150,000 members of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employe...

https://www.projectcensored.org/lack-of-federal-relief-leaves-theater-in-the-dark/

According to a March 2021 report from the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, Dr. Eric Nepute began posting misinformation regarding COVID-19 and coronavirus vaccines on Facebook and other social...

https://www.projectcensored.org/opportunists-game-facebook-with-covid-19-misinformation-for-profit/

The American Civil Law Union (ACLU) of Florida and Disability Rights Florida co-filed a class action lawsuit against the Sheriff of Broward County after receiving complaints of the county’s lac...

https://www.projectcensored.org/aclu-demands-improved-covid-19-protections-for-florida-detainees/

The rising cost of prescription drugs could lead to the premature deaths of 1.1 million seniors in Medicare programs in the next decade, according to a study conducted by the West Health Policy C...

https://www.projectcensored.org/rising-drug-prices-will-become-leading-cause-of-senior-citizen-deaths-report-finds/

As the impacts of COVID-19 continue to expand, experts say pandemic prevention should also focus on the United States, where intensive agricultural practices are breeding grounds for disease, acc...

https://www.projectcensored.org/factory-farming-in-us-creates-breeding-ground-for-next-pandemic/

In August 2020, Politico’s Bianca Quilantan reported on how COVID-19 has affected colleges and universities across the US. According to the article, the pandemic forced many schools to close th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/covid-19-exposes-extent-of-student-debt-crisis/

The Walker Corporation’s Toondah Harbor development would de-list over 67 hectares of land and water around Moreton Bay in Australia, threatening endangered species and indigenous sites, accord...

https://www.projectcensored.org/toondah-harbor-project-to-de-list-australian-wetlands-endangering-habitats-and-indigenous-sites/

Due to COVID-19, recycling programs in many bigger cities have ceased. Because the recycling process is hands-on and involves multiple processing steps, many recycling centers have either shutdow...

https://www.projectcensored.org/unexpected-environmental-consequences-of-covid-19/

In the 1990s Walter Schramm, a Delaware resident, invested in Amazon stock. As the stock’s value grew, Schramm left his Amazon investment alone only to learn in 2015 that it had been escheated ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-questionable-government-practice-of-escheatment/

“Pro-police advocates push a narrative that policing can’t be racist when there are Black officers on the force,” Bree Newsome Bass writes in an article published by the Black Agenda Report...

https://www.projectcensored.org/cities-use-black-cops-as-props/

An October 2020 Guardian article reported that West Cumbria Mining will open “the UK’s first new deep coalmine in 30 years” after local government officials approved the company’s plans, ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/uks-new-coal-mine-plans-foreshadow-massive-carbon-emissions/

On this week’s Project Censored Show: History Matters. Historian and author Claudio Saunt is featured on the program for the hour. He addresses the mass expulsion of Native American Indians fro...

https://www.projectcensored.org/claudio-saunt-the-mass-expulsion-of-native-american-indians-from-the-southern-us/

In November 2020, ColorLines reported the results of a study that found that women of color who are survivors of sexual violence have faced disproportionate hardships compared to whites during th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/collision-of-crises-impact-black-and-brown-survivors-during-covid-19/

In the January/ February 2021 issue of the Texas Observer, reporter Lise Olsen investigated the growing backlog of homicide cases in Texas and its impact on the state’s communities. This is par...

https://www.projectcensored.org/texas-families-feel-impacts-cold-case-crisis/

A joint investigation by ProPublica and The Desert Sun shows that California state regulators have allowed over two dozen inland oil spills—“surface expressions” caused by fracking—to occ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/fracking-continues-in-california/

For thousands of years of human agriculture, farmers freely exchanged and shared seeds. Today, four corporations control the majority of the world’s seeds. These staggering monopolies dominate...

https://www.projectcensored.org/seed-monopolies-are-controlling-the-worlds-food-supply-and-future-food-security/

“Our search for functional immunity to Sars-Cov-2 is less a biological quandary than a psychological one,” Angela Rasmussen wrote in the Guardian in November 2020. “t is tempting to think t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/our-immune-systems-can-cope-with-covid-19-with-nutritional-and-lifestyle-support/

Space battles are at the core of countless science fiction stories—yet recent technological and political developments make the prospect a more likely reality with the rollout of fifth generati...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ten-thousand-5g-satellites-pose-massive-environmental-threat-and-future-space-wars/

Research scientist Zorach Glaser spent decades archiving studies that examine the link between specific health issues and exposure to microwave and radio frequencies. His career spans decades wor...

https://www.projectcensored.org/documents-reveal-government-knew-decades-ago-about-health-impact-of-wireless-tech/

The Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction was created to protect children from being abducted and taken away from their home country. Abusers are now using this treat...

https://www.projectcensored.org/abusers-benefitting-from-international-anti-abduction-treaty/

During the 20th century, approximately 60,000 people in 32 states were sterilized without their consent. As reports from The Conversation and YES! Magazine document, forced sterilization continue...

https://www.projectcensored.org/activists-call-out-legacy-of-racism-and-sexism-in-forced-sterilization/

As Transgender Day of Remembrance came around on November 20, 2020, Transrespect Versus Transphobia Worldwide (TVT) released figures documenting the homicides of trans and gender-diverse people w...

https://www.projectcensored.org/transgender-lives-lost-to-violence/

Sworn police officers take an oath to protect and serve. Recent independent news reports have drawn attention to the growing number of white supremacists and white nationalists infiltrating local...

https://www.projectcensored.org/reporting-demonstrates-multiple-links-between-white-supremacists-and-police/

In February 2021 independent news sources such as Progressive Soapbox, The Convo Couch, and others were demonetized by YouTube, the latest instances in a history of YouTube penalizing independent...

https://www.projectcensored.org/new-wave-of-independent-news-sources-demonetized-by-google-owned-youtube/

In an October 2020 article published by the Intercept, Sam Biddle reported on racial bias at Dataminr, a New York company that monitors Twitter for “suspicious activity” that it reports to la...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dataminr-introduces-racial-bias-stereotypes-in-policing-of-social-media/

Writing for In These Times, Sarah Lazare lays out how countries in the so-called Global North (the United States, Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand and Japan) are creating a climate ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/colonizing-the-atmosphere-how-rich-western-nations-drive-the-climate-crisis/

In November 2020, French Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron established a new initiative titled “Islamist separatism,” which aims to monitor Muslim communities in France under the guise of preven...

https://www.projectcensored.org/the-rise-of-islamophobia-in-france/

Major religious organizations such as the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Fellowship Foundation have together spent close to a quarter of a billion dollars in the last 13 years against ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/trumps-connection-to-global-spending-by-anti-lgbtq-religious-organizations/

In a November 2020 article from the Guardian Annette McGivney reported how, in its final days, the Trump administration was actively trying to destroy native holy lands. As the Trump administrati...

https://www.projectcensored.org/trump-administration-rushed-to-allow-mining-on-sacred-native-lands/

Juvenile justice reform continues to be ignored across the United States, despite President Biden’s campaign pledge to close youth prisons and establish a $100 million fund for youth and commun...

https://www.projectcensored.org/juvenile-justice-reform-remains-elusive/

COVID-19 has led to hardships as individuals and households deal with lost jobs, social isolation, and the stresses of sheltering in place. A panel discussion presented by Boston University’s S...

https://www.projectcensored.org/domestic-violence-cases-on-rise-for-lgbtq-community-during-covid-pandemic/

An August 2020 report by Simone Soublet for Women’s eNews reveals how COVID-19 has negatively impacted women of color. Hauntingly, COVID-19 continues to take millions of lives around the world�...

https://www.projectcensored.org/covid-19s-never-ending-struggles-for-women-of-color/

The United States has been a superpower for decades, but new information suggests that US empire is in decline, Scott Ritter reported for OpEdNews. At a February 2021 meeting of the North Atlanti...

https://www.projectcensored.org/us-empire-a-dying-superpower-using-nato-as-its-financial-bandaging/

In June 2020, an executive at the pork giant Iowa Select Farms introduced former company truck driver Lucas Walker to an FBI agent who asked him to inform on the animal rights group Direct Action...

https://www.projectcensored.org/ag-gagged-how-the-fbi-tried-to-get-a-pork-industry-whistleblower-to-squeal-on-animal-rights-groups/

Almost twenty years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the January 6th protests that many establishment US news outlets called an ‘insurrection’ shed new light on previously drafted domestic t...

https://www.projectcensored.org/dc-protests-catalyze-patriot-act-style-domestic-terrorism-bill/

Today’s program focuses on the value of Critical Media Literacy, both for students and youth, and in wider public discourse. Mickey’s first guest is Alison Trope of the USC Annenberg School�...

https://www.projectcensored.org/alison-trope-and-nolan-higdon-discuss-critical-media-literacy/

Mickey’s first guest is Shahid Buttar, who in 2020 ran against Speaker Nancy Pelosi for her seat in the House of Representatives; he speaks about prospects for progressive change in 2021. Then ...

https://www.projectcensored.org/shahid-buttar-and-dan-kovalik/

Each month, we’ll share an overview with our subscribers updating what we’ve been up to, including a round up of important news and analysis around issues of media freedom, censorship, and th...

https://www.projectcensored.org/welcome-to-the-monthly-project-censored-newsletter/