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In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with professor and author Mohammed Bamyeh about the no-state solution, an idea rooted in Palestinian and regional history that speaks of legitimate liberation in the face of continued state-imposed oppression and colonialist violence. Mohammed also explains the origins and outgrowth of fundamentalism and the need to go beyond realism when reality has failed and continues to fail the people.
In the second half, Eleanor speaks with journalist and author John Washington about his book, The Case For Open Borders, and the historic, economic, political, and environmental reasons why and how open borders would not only be possible but beneficial to all. John also highlights the contradictions and hypocrisies of borders, the inefficacy of militarized borders, and the very real effects of the recent Biden administration move to essentially close the border.
Mohammed Bamyeh is Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. His areas of scholarship include anarchism, revolution, religion, and the Arab world.
John Washington is a staff writer for Arizona Luminaria (azluminaria.org). His work has also been published in the Atlantic, the Nation, the New York Review of Books, and elsewhere.
 
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In the first half of the show, we learn about the ongoing campaign to defend Oak Flat,
a region of Arizona’s Tonto National Forest sacred to the Apache and other Native peoples
of the region. Federal authorities want to allow a large copper mine to be dug there.
The San Carlos Apache say the struggle involves both land defense and religious freedom.
The Supreme Court is slated to hear the case.
In the second half, Mickey and Eleanor critique the recent performance of the media in covering Israel’s ongoing massacres of Palestinians in Gaza. Among other observations, they take note of an article explaining the bizarre tactics Palestinian journalists must use to avoid having their reporting censored by social-media algorithms.
Vanessa Nosie is a member of Apache Stronghold (www.apache-stronghold.com),
an organization working to defend Oak Flat (Chi’chil Bildagoteel).
 
 
 
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On this week’s show:
Mickey welcomes Peter Kuznick, Professor of History at American University and best-selling author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States. They discuss the ongoing Russian attacks in Ukraine along with U.S./NATO reactions, as well as U.S. support for Israel’s ongoing assaults on Gaza and how close we may be coming to WWIII, if we don’t reinvigorate diplomacy and actively promote peace.
Then, Mickey welcomes back Director of Advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, Seth Stern, to discuss some good news around bipartisan support for the PRESS Act, a much needed shield law for journalists in a time when press freedoms are on the decline in the U.S. and across the globe.
 
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In the first half of the show, cofounder and executive director of Shout Your Abortion Amelia Bonow joins Eleanor Goldfield to highlight the shifting times and paradigms on abortion access. Amelia points out that abortion has always been difficult to access for millions of women in the U.S, even before the Supreme Court’s reversal of its 49-year-old Roe vs Wade decision. But Bonow says changing attitudes, and the near-universal availability of abortion pills, mean that choice is still possible, despite repressive state laws.
Then, Kevin Gosztola returns to the show to discuss with Mickey Huff the latest news on — and hope for — Julian Assange. This includes a recent ruling by the UK High Court of Justice that could complicate or even halt the Biden Administration’s efforts to extradite Assange to the U.S. Kevin and Mickey also take note of new attacks on press freedom and whistleblower rights taking place in the U.S., Israel, and Australia, among other nations.
 
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Today’s Project Censored is preempted by special spring fund drive programming.
 
 
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Today’s Project Censored is preempted by a special fund drive episode of Voices of the Middle East and North Africa in which Rashid Khalidi discusses his book, The Hundred Years War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017.
 
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