The Project Censored Show
by Project Censored
We are Project Censored and after 40 years of creating an annual book showcasing media censorship we are bringing the fight to your ears and eyes. The Project Censored Show is a weekly public affairs program that discusses independent journalism, media censorship, deconstructing propaganda, and supporting a truly free press. The program focuses on “The News That Didn’t Make the News” and each week we conduct in depth interviews with guests and offer hard hitting commentary and analysis on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.The views and opinions expressed on this program/podcast are those of the guests and hosts and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Project Censored. This broadcast is intended for educational purposes as part of our mission to promote critical media literacy, independent journalism, and democratic engagement. We aim to foster thoughtful dialogue and encourage listeners to t
Episodes
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Black Youth in the Media: Hearing About Them— Not From Them
Featuring Tianna Jameswhite
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The Difference Between Local and Independent Media: From Baltimore To Palestine
Featuring Lawrence Grandpre
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A Spotlight on School Book Bans
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Mickey Huff sits down and speaks to Kasey Meehan, Director of Freedom to Read at PEN America. They discuss her recent coauthored report, A Spotlight on School Book Bans, published in time for Banned Books Week. They discuss the impact of rising...
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Tradwives: The Far Right’s Answer to the Girlboss
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with writer and journalist Madeline Peltz to talk about tradwives – the far right’s answer to the girlboss who has it all. But what if having it all just means doing it all? We can see why many would exchange that…
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Sudan: One Year after El Fasher
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Mosaab Baba joins the program again to give updates on Sudan one year out from the RSF attacks on El Fasher. Mosaab outlines the compounding oppressions and violences facing the Sudanese people, and how the war on Iran has changed regional politics....
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Updates from the Lone Star State: ICE, Data Centers, and News Deserts
Today on the Project Censored Show, journalist Stephanie Koithan returns to the program to give updates from the Lone Star State – and how what’s going on in Texas should be viewed as a canary in the coal mine for where the nation as a whole is headed. Stephanie talks about how ICE is adapting […]
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Banned Books Week 2026 – Protect The Right To Read
Featuring Marshall Romero
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Banned Books Week 2026 – Let Books Be
Featuring Dr. Maria McCauley
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The Detention Mortality Map
On this episode of The Project Censored Show, Dr. Austin Kocher comes back on the program to discuss the Detention Mortality Map, a new tool to track deaths in ICE custody so that those the system tries do disappear are not lost. Dr. Kocher also contextualizes our current moment in a long history...
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National Nurses United: Purging Palantir
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, president of National Nurses United Cathy Kennedy joins the program to talk about purging Palantir: how nurses are fighting back against the AI giant’s push to get inside hospitals and clinics. Cathy also discusses upcoming events to fight for…
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What Trade Restrictions for Israel Could Mean
On today’s episode of The Project Censored Show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield is joined once again by Dr. Shir Hever to discuss the most recent announcement by eleven EU nations who expressed their intent to restrict trade with illegal Israeli settlements, and what this means for Israel’s economy....
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The Elimination Project: Israel’s Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life
On this episode of The Project Censored Show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Yair Dvir from B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories to discuss their most recent report “The Elimination Project: Israel’s Dismantling of Palestinian Collective...
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News That Didn’t Make The News – University Pressure, DHS, and 9/11 Updates
On this episode of The Project Censored Show, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield sit down to dig into some news that didn’t make the news, focusing on attacks on journalists and academic freedom. They outline how Congress is blackmailing universities to swear loyalty to Israel, the myriad...
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Trump’s Dictator Toolkit
On this episode of The Project Censored Show, Trump’s ‘dictator’s toolkit’ and how we got here. Co-host Eleanor Goldfield sits down with journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights & Dissent Chip Gibbons to talk about the NSPM-7, the latest in a long line of attacks on our…
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Unmasking AI: 10 Myths Fueling the Silicon Mirage
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, media scholar Nolan Higdon discusses his latest piece “Unmasking AI: 10 Myths Fueling the Silicon Mirage.” AI systems are being deployed precipitously and often without foundational understanding from the very creators and advocates driving their...
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Celebrating FAIR’s 40th Anniversary
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) celebrates their 40th anniversary this fall. Cohost Mickey Huff is joined by founder Jeff Cohen, Janine Jackson and Olivia Riggio as they talk about their history, their contribution to media criticism and…
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Drones as First Responders
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Beryl Lipton from the Electronic Frontier Foundation to talk about the Drone-as-First-Responder Programs, which yes– are as horrifying as they sound. Beryl outlines the ever expanding grey area where...
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The Death of Freedom of Information
Today on the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield is joined by Ian Head from the Center for Constitutional Rights to talk about the slow death of the Freedom of Information Act. Ian outlines the various ways in which law enforcement agencies in particular avoid accountability, and...
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Media Dictates Democracy
On this episode of The Project Censored Show, independent journalist and winner of the Illinois Library Association’s 2026 Intellectual Freedom Award, Kevin Gosztola, joins co-host Mickey Huff in conversation about the importance of standing up for free expression, fighting against censorship in...
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Human Rights Education
On this episode of The Project Censored Show, Kristi Rudelius-Palmer and William Fernekes of Human Rights Educators USA (HREUSA) join co-host Mickey Huff to discuss their work, HRE programs, and their increased significance in a time of attacks on academic freedom and rising authoritarianism at...
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News That Didn’t Make The News From Palestine
On this episode of The Project Censored Show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with associate editor at the Electronic Intifada Nora Barrows Friedman. She returns to the show to discuss the latest news from Palestine: what’s the story with Hamas stepping down, as concentration camps are…
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State, Soldiers, and Systematic Sadism
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Palestinian writer and researcher Nadine N. Sayegh to discuss her latest piece State, Soldiers, and Systematic Sadism: The Israeli Military’s Normalization of Sexual Violence. Nadine explains the Israeli hasbara...
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Reframing AI: Human Creativity as Resistance
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Heidi Lim from AI Resist List to discuss reframing AI, and the possible futures that both buck the current iteration of AI and avoid the binary of anti-tech vs. pro-tech. Heidi points out that the purpose is not...
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ALPRs: The Surveillance State on Wheels
Featuring Ed from DeFlock
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Don’t Say Israel: Analyzing and Combating Censorship and Propaganda
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-host Mickey Huff speaks with media scholar Robin Andersen about her latest book, The Complicit Lens: US Media’s Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza. They discuss the distortions in Western media coverage and the lack of journalistic ethics and...
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Press Freedom Under Pressure: Media, Academia, and Gaza
On this episode of the Project Censored show, co-host Mickey Huff talks with media scholar Bill Yousman about press censorship, establishment propaganda, and attacks on academic freedom around issues pertaining to the war on Gaza. Yousman recently edited a special issue of the journal Democratic...
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Venezuela’s Earthquake Aftermath: Recovery Amid Sanctions and Propaganda
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Leonardo Flores joins the show again to talk about the fallout from the double earthquake in Venezuela. Leo outlines some of the recent US media propaganda attempting to smear Venezuela when, in fact, it is the US paralyzing Venezuela’s disaster...
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The Prairieland Case and the US Government’s Assault on Constitutional Rights
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield sit down Kels Menchaca, an organizer with the DFW Support Committee to talk about the Prairieland case. With combined sentences of 562 years, the defendants represent the latest intensification in the US government’s violent assault…
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Colonial Distortion of Palestine’s History
This week on the program, a special full show with Palestinian author, historian, and academic Dr. Ramzy Baroud about his latest book Before the Flood: A Gaza Family Memoir Across Three Generations of Colonial Invasion, Occupation, and War in Palestine. Dr. Baroud takes us through longue duree, a...
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The News That Did Make the News – But Was Wrong
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, co-hosts Mickey Huff and Eleanor Goldfield dig into some of the news that did make the news but was wrong. They highlight the need for critical media literacy, especially when we’re confronted with something that pings our confirmation bias. They also...
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The Sycophancy Machine: How AI Rewards Confirmation Over Accuracy
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Mickey Huff sits down with public health researcher and journalist Lily Minh Wass to talk about the sycophancy machine. Lily outlines the subtle and disturbing quirks of AI’s large language models, amplifying our human desire to be agreed with, which...
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LGBTQ Organizing Beyond Meta’s Censorship
Meta’s censorship of LGBTQ voices brings together digital activists, legal experts, and LGBTQ communities to combat invisibilization. We discuss the problematic dependency on social media platforms, how this can spur the creation of alternative comms and organizing methods, digital legal…
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The Misuse of History: Archaeology in Palestine
On this episode of the Project Censored Show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with professor Abboud Hamayel to discuss the misuse of history, in particular archaeology as a tool of ethnic cleansing and genocide. Abboud also deconstructs the performative solidarity of pity, the entangled histories…
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Big Tech’s Campus Takeover, ICE’s Expanding Reach
First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with media analyst Nolan Higdon to dig into big tech’s hold on higher ed – namely, their aims to surveil, extract, and breach. Nolan digs into a recent hacking scandal, how big tech aligns with the likes of Epstein, and a dark history of eugenics, big tech...
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News That Didn’t Make the News: Science Communicators and AI Data Centers
First up, Professor Dave explains. Science communicator Dave Farina joins the show to talk about the emergence of science communicators at a time when science denial is reaching ever soaring heights. Dave discusses the lure and prevalence of erroneous scientific claims and how science literacy…
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History is Not Past: 250 Years of the US Project and Examining HondurasGate
First up, Dr. Gerald Horne joins the show to ring in 250 years of the US project – how is that going? Dr. Horne sets the record straight not only about what’s missing in our ever censored history books but how that affects our understanding of issues and struggles today. As James Baldwin noted,...
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Reframing Mass Incarceration, Antiracism, and Abolition
First up, Wanda Bertram from the Prison Policy Initiative joins the show to talk about what we don’t know and what we think we know about mass incarceration. Wanda shares some stats and facts that you’ll never hear on corporate media, and debunks myths that betray our propagandized thinking. Next...
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Framing Atrocity: Photojournalism and Press Freedom
First up, researcher and editor Michelle Eid joins the show to talk about literal framing when it comes to photojournalism, and how extractive dehumanizing journalism turns people’s pain and suffering into career-boosting material, perpetuating harmful stereotypes and bolstering the dangerous...
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ICE Black Sites and Press Freedom Decline
First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with investigative reporter Logan M. Davis to talk about his exclusive reporting on ICE hold rooms, these unofficial black sites that serve as torturous liminal spaces in the larger network of kidnappings, forced disappearances, and deportations. Logan…
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Narratives of History and Israel’s Policing of Activists
In the first segment, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with author Nicola Griffith to talk about her recent book release, She is Here. Nicola digs into her work on understanding history as stories, not hard, immovable facts, and that history depends on who tells it. She discusses writing history as an...
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The Violation and Capitulation of Higher Education
First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Zachary Levenson to talk about the war on sociology and what happens when the academic governing body deems all existing sociology textbooks illegal to teach in the state of Florida. Zach highlights the purposefully vague verbiage of new policies, the...
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Muckrakers & Media Freedom: Celebrating the Izzy Award
This week on the program, we celebrate Independent Media and press freedom with Izzy Fest 2026 and the 18th annual Izzy Award named after the legendary muckraker, I.F. Stone. First up, we have documentary filmmaker Abby Martin of Empire Files who is sharing the Izzy Award this year for her...
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US Militarism in Latin America and Corporate Colonialism in Honduras
While corporate media focuses on the 24-hour wartime news cycle, a lot falls through the cracks, entire continents actually.First up this week, we welcome back to the program journalist Jose Luis Granados Ceja to talk about the Greater America plan, and Operation Total Extermination, the latest…
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Networks of Resistance: From Lebanon to College Newsrooms
First up, journalist Afeef Nessouli joins the show to talk about the situation in Lebanon, and how corporate media deliberately flattens and dehumanizes in service of US-Israeli regional goals. Afeef explains the complex and interconnected networks of resistance and solidarity on the ground, the...
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Paradox of Power: Judgment of Gender and Modern Warfare
First up, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with educator and author Allison Butler to talk about her latest book: The Judgment of Gender: How Women are Centered and Silenced in Pop Culture. Allison dissects this seeming contradiction of both centering and silencing women. We dive into some history to...
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Evangelicalism, Conspiracy & the First Amendment
First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism – some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit with how much it actually defines our nation? Jared Stacy, a former Evangelical Pastor and author of the newly released book, Reality in Ruins: How...
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Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade
In the first half of today’s show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Michael and Em from Project Saltbox to discuss their work of data gathering and analysis vis a vis DHS. They discuss their ICE Warehouse Tracker tool, and how ill-prepared these sites are to house tens of thousands of people....
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What Corporate Media Won’t Tell You: Children in Dilley & Attacks on Iran
First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of the horrific stories she’s uncovered through her investigative reporting including instances of gross medical neglect and how difficult it is to do...
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Narratives of Power: Cartel Media Spin and Epstein Cover Stories
First up this week, Mexico City-based journalist José Luis Granados Ceja joins the show to talk about the recent Mexican operation that captured and killed a notorious cartel kingpin, and how US corporate media is twisting this story to not only give the US undue credit but to further the…
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Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation
First up, Medea Benjamin joins the show to debunk a whole lotta US propaganda about Cuba. Having just returned from the island nation, Medea explains the terroristic domino effect that the US fuel blockade is having on the Cuban people, how the US weaponizes aid from Gaza to Havana, and creative...
About this show
We are Project Censored and after 40 years of creating an annual book showcasing media censorship we are bringing the fight to your ears and eyes. The Project Censored Show is a weekly public affairs program that discusses independent journalism, media censorship, deconstructing propaganda, and supporting a truly free press. The program focuses on “The News That Didn’t Make the News” and each week we conduct in depth interviews with guests and offer hard hitting commentary and analysis on the key political, social, and economic issues of the day with an emphasis on critical media literacy.The views and opinions expressed on this program/podcast are those of the guests and hosts and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Project Censored. This broadcast is intended for educational purposes as part of our mission to promote critical media literacy, independent journalism, and democratic engagement. We aim to foster thoughtful dialogue and encourage listeners to t
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