Project Censored Progressive Radio Network

This week's Project Censored Show again focuses on the Israeli massacres in the Gaza Strip.
To open the program, Eleanor's guest, Jacqueline Luqman, notes that the Black liberation struggle in the US has always supported the Palestinian cause as well, and explains the common ground between the two; she also debunks some Zionist talking points. Then in the second half-hour, Eleanor and Mickey analyze corporate media coverage of the Middle East, and the contextual information that isn't mentioned.

For the first half of this week's show, Mickey brings on three guests to discuss the upcoming 2022 Whistleblower Summit and Film Festival in Washington, DC (www.whistleblowersummit.com). They also make the case for a broader public understanding of what whistleblowing is, and who is a whistleblower.
Then in the second half-hour, Eleanor Goldfield and her guest look at the recent election in Colombia, which saw leftist candidate Gustavo Petro
winning the presidency and Afro-Colombian environmental activist Francia Marquez the vice-presidency.
 



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Michael McCray and Marcel Reid are the co-founders of the International Association of Whistleblowers.
McCray is also General Counsel for the Federally Employed Women Legal Education Fund. Reid is a former member of the Pacifica Radio National Board.
Marsha Warfield is a nationally-known comedian and actress, and will be hosting some events at the Whistleblower Summit.Gimena Sanchez is a staff member at the Washington Office on Latin America (www.wola.org).

Program Summary:
 
New co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks first with Benjamin Norton, to learn how President Biden is "out-Trumping Trump" on immigration.
Norton also offers an update on political conditions in Latin America. In the second half of the show, Eugene Puryear explains racism's


deep roots in US history, and how it cannot be defeated by superficial actions. He also looks at the significance of Black History Month.
 
Benjamin Norton is an independent journalist who focuses on Latin America; he's also the founder of the news web site www.multipolarista.com.   
Eugene Puryear has been a peace-and-justice organizer since his high-school days; he's the author of "Shackled and Chained: Mass Incarceration
in Capitalist America," and he writes at www.breakthroughnews.org 
 
 


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Program Summary:
Mickey spends the hour with historian Peter Kuznick, who examines the current
U.S. confrontation with Russia over Ukraine, summarizes the recent history of
Ukraine, and emphasizes the urgency of settling the crisis peacefully.
 


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Peter Kuznick is Professor of History at American University in Washington DC,
and also directs the Nuclear Studies Program at that institution.
He and Oliver Stone wrote the groundbreaking book The Untold History of the United States,
and also produced a Showtime documentary series based on the book.
More information can be found at www.untoldhistory.com.

Program Summary:
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 Assange's case.
Then Jayeesha Dutta speaks with Eleanor about a possible future for the Gulf of Mexico that doesn't include
hazardous offshore oil drilling. In the final segment, Alan MacLeod looks at a purported fake-news watchdog,
Graphika, which actually is staffed by numerous retired military, CIA and NATO personnel, and dismisses
many domestic alternative media organizations as tools of foreign "enemies."

 

 


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Kevin Gosztola is the managing editor of the news web site www.Shadowproof.com 
He has covered the Julian Assange legal proceedings in the UK from the beginning,
as well as other press-freedom and whistleblower cases.Jayeesha Dutta is co-founder of AnotherGulf.com; she also works with the Climate Justice Alliance.
Alan MacLeod is a media scholar and a senior staff writer at Mint Press News.

Program Summary:


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 of threatening Russia, and the shallowness of commercial media. Then media scholar Nolan Higdon revisits the program to explain how tech giants
are infiltrating the classroom by sponsoring carefully-tailored "media-literacy" course materials.

 



Eleanor Goldfield is a journalist, artist, and organizer; her web site is www.artkillingapathy.com She also produced a documentary, Hard Road of Hope,
about West Virginia communities confronting pollution from fracking (www.hardroadofhope.com). The Craig Murray article she mentions (about Julian Assange)
can be found at  consortiumnews.com/2022/01/25/craig-murray-your-man-in-the-courtroom-is-there-an-exit 
Nolan Higdon is a lecturer in education at the University of California Santa Cruz campus. He's also the author of the book "The Anatomy of Fake News."
His recent article (co-written with Allison Butler) is titled "Time to Put Your Marketing Cap On." It appears in the Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies.