The Project Censored Show

Evangelicalism, Conspiracy & the First Amendment

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up on the show, Christian Nationalism, Evangelicalism - some might say that its whats destroying our nation, but are we actually ready to sit wi...

Tracking ICE’s Detention Machine & Opposing the Cuba Blockade

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

What Corporate Media Won’t Tell You: Children in Dilley & Attacks on Iran

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up, journalist Stephanie Koithan joins the show to discuss Dilley, a concentration camp predominantly for children. Stephanie discusses some of ...

Narratives of Power: Cartel Media Spin and Epstein Cover Stories

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Cuba Under Siege & How the South Shapes the Nation

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Access Emergency: Reproductive Health Education and Independent Media

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program Eleanor sits down with Martha Dimitratou, founder and Executive Director of Repro Uncensored to talk about the battle...

Fact-Checking the Future: AI, Fracking, and Data Center Propaganda

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up, Mickey and Eleanor dive into some critical media literacy, including AI-generated videos and images that ping our confirmation biases, makin...

Déjà Vu News: Corporate Media Repeats Its Failures While Empire Marches On

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up, cohost Mickey Huff sits down with professor of communications Dr. Steve Macek to talk about Trumps war on epistemic institutions. Dr. Macek ...

Manufactured Borders, Manufactured Intelligence

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program we welcome back political and legal geographer Dr. Austin Kocher to talk about the immigration news that never makes ...

Corporate Complicity: A Whistleblower and the Eject Elbit Campaign

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This week, were covering two things youll never hear about on corporate media - or if you do, theyll be demonized: whistleblowers, and targeted boycot...

Venezuela, War Crimes, and the Media’s Dirty Work

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

First up, we welcome back to the program analyst and organizer Leonardo Flores to talk to us about what’s really going on on the ground in Venezuela...

Ghosts in the Machine: Israel’s Military Myths and the Private Equity State

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program we welcome back Dr. Shir Hever to talk about what’s really going on behind the media veil of an infallible Israel. ...

History, Myth, and Media in an Age of Disinformation

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show Italian philosopher and author Federico Campagna joins the show to discuss his most recent book, Otherworlds: Mediterran...

A Viscous Morass: SLAPP Suits, Secrecy, and Complicit Courts

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a special roundtable discussion with your Project Censored cohosts and the Freedom of the Press Foundation. Director of Advocacy Seth Stern...

Antizionist Futures and Immigrant Rights in Labor Organizing

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, we welcome back the editor-in-chief of Jewish Currents Arielle Angel to talk about the need for new Jewish institutions...

Scrutinizing Power: Epstein Coverage, AI Threats, and Higher Ed Under Pressure

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we are rejoined by media scholar Nolan Higdon to discuss his latest work, “Unmasking Epstein: Power, Blackmail, and the Press’s Failures...

Memory Work & Culture Wars: From Palestine to Corporate Media

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Palestinian-American journalist, translator, photographer, and media analyst Laura Albast joins the show to discuss ...

News that Didn’t Make the News: Atrocities in Sudan and Regional New Abuse

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

We start this week off with news that didn’t make the news from Sudan. Researcher and analyst Mosaab Baba joins us to contextualize the recent atroc...

Fifty Years of Project Censored: The Fight for a Free Press

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on this special episode of the Project Censored show, we look back at 50 years of the Project with a roundtable conversation about the forthcomi...

The Weight of Humanity: Gaza, Academia, and Acts of Solidarity

03 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Dr. Abdalhadi Alijila to talk about his forthcoming book Fearful in Gaza, an autobiog...

The State of the State: A Historical Lens on Trump 2.0

23 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we welcome back the esteemed historian, professor at American University, and co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the Uni...

Crisis without Coverage: Rwanda, the Congo, and the Unhoused

20 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Maurice Carney, co-founder and Executive Director of Friends of the Congo for this year...

US Military Power, Media Messaging, and Grassroots Strategies

13 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, cohost Eleanor Goldfield welcomes back to the show US marine veteran Matthew Hoh to talk about the realities vs. the...

Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights!

06 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the program, we celebrate Banned Books Week: Censorship Is So 1984, Read For Your Rights! Today we’ll speak with several people involved in...

Journalism and Free Expression from the US to Kashmir

29 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the program, cohost Mickey Huff welcomes back to the show journalist and author Kevin Gosztola to talk about several stories thre...

Economic Inequality, Immigration, and Media Spin

22 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Professor Richard Wolff about the state of our economy as a record number of Amer...

Palestine, Censorship, and the Responsibility to Reflect

15 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re talking about getting comfortable with uncomfortable ideas. First up, Thea Abu al-Haj joins the program to discuss the unprecedented...

Resisting Silence: From Palestine to Cop City

08 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Mickey Huff sits down with author and professor Omar Zahzah to talk about his upcoming book: Terms of Servitude: Zi...

Venezuela, Propaganda, and the Promise (and Peril) of AI

02 Sep 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, we welcome back to the show Leonardo Flores, co-founder of the Venezuela Solidarity Network, to talk about the US’...

Power & Exploitation: DC Overreach & Global Labor Injustice

25 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, DC organizer Natacia Knapper joins Eleanor Goldfield to discuss Trump’s takeover of DC, what makes DC particularly...

From the Frontlines: Media, Colonization, and Resistance in Palestine

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, we’re joined by Dr. Ramzy Baroud, a journalist, author, and editor of the Palestine Chronicle. Dr. Baroud discusse...

From Factory Farms to Firewalls: Resisting Corporate Power

11 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the show, Mickey welcomes back award-winning investigative reporter, Will Potter, author of Green is the New Red. They talk abo...

Oppression as Policy: Israel, Sanctions, and the Global Cost of Control

04 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Dr. Shir Hever joins us to discuss Israel’s disinformation economy, the zombie economy that is held together by no...

Systems of Control, Histories of Resistance

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Andrew Crespo, professor of law at Harvard University joins us to discuss the mass incarceration system, a system th...

Bill Moyers’ Legacy, Censored News, and Civil Liberties at Risk

14 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Mickey sits down with Jeff Cohen, founder of Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, founding director of the Park Center ...

Short Supply: Empathy, Attention, and America’s Legal Labyrinth

07 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, we’re joined by board-certified psychiatrist and writer Dr. Samaiya Mushtaq who details how empathy as a skill req...

The Right to Criticize: Honoring Independent Journalism at the Izzy Awards

30 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Indeed, as our first amendment rights continue to be gravely threatened, real, independent frontline journalists are more than truth-tellers, they are...

Marketing Mars and AI Battle Space

16 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today on the program in the first segment: Marketing Mars. Zara Zimbardo deconstructs the mythologies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny ...

Glen E. Friedman on His Photography, Bad Brains, and Rebellious American Music

13 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, guest host Mischa Geracoulis, Project Censored’s managing editor, speaks with legendary photographer, ...

Disinfo, Decline, and Dysfunction

09 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first segment of this week's Project Censored Show, Mickey welcomes back media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss his new podcast Disinfo De...

Out of the Frame: Hurricane Helene Aftermath and the Weaponization of Antisemitism

02 Jun 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Eleanor Goldfield begins by doing what corporate media rarely do, and that is check in on people beyond the 24-hour news cycle and disaste...

Press Freedoms and Civil Rights Under Attack; and Practicing Civic Self-respect

27 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Today in the first segment, Mickey welcomes back Lauren Harper and Seth Stern from the Freedom of the Press Foundation. They discuss several matters i...

Kashmir and Armenia: Voices from the Margins

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Two places of extreme oppression and turmoil that you won’t hear about on corporate media: Kashmir and Armenia. Today on the program, we’re first ...

Behind Bars and Binaries: Music, Identity, and the Fight for Liberation

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Nikki Morse, Noam Brown and Prince Jooveh talk about the album Bending the Bars, a project created via makeshift ja...

Lessons from Kent State 55 Years Later, and the Power of Truth-telling and Resisting Censorship

05 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first segment of today’s program Mickey talks with Laurel Krause, Emily Kunstler, and Kelley Lane 55 years after the Ohio National Guard kill...

Campus Life in the Crosshairs

28 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, campus life in the crosshairs. First up, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Kei Pritsker, the co-director of “The Encampments” and journalis...

Independent and Unafraid: Inside the 17th Annual Izzy Awards

21 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

The Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College is honored to announce this year’s Izzy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Independent Med...

Eyes Everywhere: Tech Tyranny and the Profiteers of Control

14 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we’re looking at the insidious and nefarious sides of tech - starting off, a conversation with Esra’a Al Shafei discussing her new site ...

Conversations on Environmental Justice, Abolition, and the Future We Build

07 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, author and Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund’s education director Ben Price joins the program to talk abo...

Challenging Injustice and Reclaiming Radical Labor History

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, journalist, researcher and policy director of Defending Rights and Dissent, Chip Gibbons comes back on the show to t...

Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists & Frame Checking the News

24 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In an era when algorithms are reshaping how news is gathered, produced, distributed, and consumed, every journalist, regardless of specialty, needs so...

The News That Didn’t Make the News: Gaza’s Reality, Propaganda, and the Fight for Justice

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Coming up first on the program, we welcome back Dr. Khalil Khalidy, an orthopedic doctor in Deir al-Balah, Gaza to give us what you’ll never hear on...

What To Us Is International Women’s Day?

10 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, a special Project Censored episode: “What To Us Is International Women’s Day?,” a variation on the question asked by Frederick Dougla...

Borders, Empire, and Resistance: Confronting Racism, Nationalism, and the Fight for Alternatives

03 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, author and organizer Harsha Walia joins the show to talk about the convergence of racist nationalism and border impe...

Debunking the Book Ban “Hoax” and Resisting Trump Administration Attacks on the First Amendment

24 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week, Mickey speaks with filmmaker Allyson Rice and researcher Dorri C. Scott about the growing number of books challenged and banned in US schoo...

Occupied Realities & Uncovered Strikes: The Struggle for Palestinian Rights and Immigrant Justice

17 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Up first on the program, associate editor and producer of the weekly livestream at Electronic Intifada, Tamara Nassar discusses the Gaza-like situatio...

Is This the Best We Can Do? Hope and Limitations in International Law

10 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program this week, Palestinian legal expert Hassan Ben Imran comes back on the show to talk about the recent formation of the...

Defending Local & Indigenous Media in an Age of Scarcity

03 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Mohawk journalist Isaac White speaks to Eleanor Goldfield about being guilty of journalism. Isaac was arrested last ...

Don’t Get Distracted: Bitter Economic Pills & Threats to Free Press Hit Everyone

27 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, economist Dr. Richard Wolff joins co-host Eleanor Goldfield to set the record straight on what tariffs really are, a...

Fires, Frontlines, and Surveillance: Looking into Environmental and Civil Rights Crises

20 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the program, co-host Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Leyna Quinn-Davidson, the Fire Network Director for the University of Californ...

Pressing Issues for 2025: Trump 2.0, Media Failures, and the Fight for Press Freedom

13 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This week we swing into the new year, 2025, with Mickey engaging media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss the incoming administration, Trump 2.0, the ...

Reporting Under Fire: Gaza, Genocide, and the Truth Behind the Headlines

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the program Eleanonr Goldfield speaks with Shrouq Aila, an investigative journalist, producer and researcher in Gaza. Shrouq desc...

Digital Settler Colonialism, Gaza, and the Struggle for Palestinian Liberation

30 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Mickey sits down with Omar Zahzah, a Lebanese/Palestinian organizer, writer, poet, freelance journalist and assistant p...

Unplugging the News: The Fight for Local Journalism and the State of the Free Press

16 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when wealthy investors buy up local news outlets? Well, in addition to gradually shutting them down and restricting what they report, iro...

Censored News, Media Framing, and the Threat of HR 9495: A Conversation with Project Censored

06 Dec 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Today in the first segment of the show, Mickey Huff speaks with associate director of Project Censored, Andy Lee Roth, and the Project’s digital and...

Connecting the Dots: The War on Workers Is The War Abroad

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

What does the genocide in Gaza have to do with the working class here at home? Well, quite a lot. Imperialism is a home game and the same corporations...

Rethinking Media Values: Climate Crisis and Hyper-Partisan Influence in the 21st Century

20 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode of the Project Censored Show, guest host Mischa Geracoulis, Project Censored’s curriculum development coordinator, speaks with two o...

Silenced Voices: Kashmir, Palestine, and BRICS Uncovered

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with an empty seat – a seat that could easily be filled by dozens if not hundreds of Kashmiri journ...

Let’s Start a Revolution; Usurping the Titans of Capital

13 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Iconic consumer and civil rights activist/author Ralph Nader returns to the program to discuss his latest two books with Mickey. They unpack Nader...

Algorithmic Literacy for Journalists; and a New Movement Media Alliance

04 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mickey's first guest this week is Project Censored's Associate Director, Andy Lee Roth. Roth is a 2024-25 Reynolds Journalism Institute Fellow where h...

Resilience Rising: Community, Care, and the Aftermath of Hurricane Helene in Appalachia

31 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Now that the cameras have long since left Hurricane Helene’s trail of devastation, what is the situation on the ground? And what was it about Appala...

Crisis, Culture, and Civility: Critical Media Literacy Education and Election 2024

28 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

With the 2024 US elections drawing near, host Mickey Huff moderates an expert panel discussion with three media scholars and educators about how criti...

Media Literacy Week: Guide to Fake News and Voices from the Frontlines

22 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

It’s the 10th annual US Media Literacy Week sponsored by NAMLE, the National Association for Media Literacy Education. We at Project Censored also c...

Attacks on Democracy from Press Freedoms to Dark Money in Politics

14 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the program, Mickey Huff speaks with independent journalist and author Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism about the c...

Greenwashing Genocide in Armenia & Targeting the Truth in Palestine

07 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, international human rights lawyer Karnig Kerkonian joins the show to discuss Azerbaijan’s ethnic cleansing of the Art...

Voices from Palestine: A Doctor’s Testimony from Gaza

30 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The voices of Palestinians in Gaza are some of the most censored in the world. If they are not killed outright, they are silenced by purposeful omissi...

Freed Between the Lines: A Banned Books Week Special

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mickey hosts the special annual Banned Books Week program. This year we celebrate being "Freed Between the Lines.”  In her best-selling novel Speak...

Unpacking the Jewish Claim of Indigeneity and Flights: Radicals on the Run

16 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Quechua and Jewish writer and student Rabbi Daniel Delgado joins us to confront the elephant in the room: are Jews Indi...

The Need for Independent Media: Voices For Peace in a World at War

09 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mickey recently spoke with Jeff Cohen, founder of FAIR, and author of Cable News Confidential, about his time as senior producer to the late Phil Dona...

Guilty of Journalism: The Future of Press Freedoms After the Release of Julian Assange

03 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we have a special program as we share an excerpt of a conversation held earlier this summer between Project Censored co-host Eleanor Goldfi...

Decoding Democracy: Excerpts From a Series Exploring Critical Media Literacy Education, Independent Journalism, and Civic Engagement

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the program, a special episode featuring Project Censored’s recent "Decoding Democracy" series, a collection of interviews showcasing m...

Colonialism and Capitalism: From Earth to Space

19 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we’re talking colonialism and capitalism - on earth and in space. In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield sits down with Jen Dee...

Dark Money and Project 2025: A Deep Dive into Political Secrecy and Conservative Ambitions

12 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first segment, we learn about the phenomenon of “dark money,” political campaign contributions designed to be difficult or impossible for t...

Exposing Prison Conditions and the Fight for Palestinian Rights

05 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with incarcerated journalist Jeremy Busby who joins us from prison to talk about his powerful ...

Scorched States and the Fight for Workers’ Rights: Unpacking Heat Exposure and Immigration Narratives

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield speaks with lawyer and worker health and safety advocate for Public Citizen’s Congress watch...

The Fight for Freedom: A Palestinian-American Veteran and the Julian Assange Case

22 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with Palestinian-American Mohammed Abouhashem, who on October 21st of last year left the US Ai...

America’s Media Literacy Deficit: Navigating Elections and Generational Divides

16 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Mickey's guest for the hour is media scholar Nolan Higdon. They discuss how the principles of critical media literacy could help the public make sense...

A Declining Empire & Its Delusional Allies

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first part of the program, Eleanor Goldfield speaks with journalist and analyst Ben Norton about the ongoing proxy war between Russia and NATO ...

Freedom for Julian Assange and Navigating our Digital Democracy

01 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Independent journalist Kevin Gosztola, author of Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange, rejoins the program to discuss Julia...

Critical Media Literacy and Civic Engagement in an Election Year

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The Progressive magazine teamed up with Project Censored for its June/July issue and took an in-depth look at media literacy in the context of the upc...

The No-State Solution & The Case For Open Borders

17 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 Pales...

The Apache Stronghold & Euphemizing Genocide

10 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, cohost Eleanor Goldfield talks with Vanessa Nosie from Apache Stronghold about the profit-driven priorities of what we’...

Reinvigorating Diplomacy: Global Tensions and Press Freedom

03 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

This week on the Project Censored Show, Mickey welcomes back to the program Peter Kuznick, Professor of History at American University and best-sellin...

Not Asking Permission for Abortion & New Hope for Assange

27 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Cofounder and Executive Director of Shout Your Abortion Amelia Bonow joins Eleanor Goldfield to highlight the shifting ...

Uncensoring Congo & Digging Up Buried Leads in Gaza

20 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, journalist and activist Eugene Puryear joins Eleanor Goldfield to pull back the curtain of imposed corporate censorship...

The Threat to Press Freedom in Congress and Beyond

13 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Andy Lee Roth, associate director of Project Censored, and Seth Stern, director of advocacy at the Freedom of the Press Foundation, join Mickey on the...

Echoes of Rebellion: Student Protests, State Violence, and Spatial Power

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first half of the show, Eleanor sits down with author and history professor Dr. Gerald Horne to discuss the ongoing and growing student protest...

World Press Freedom Day: Independent Media, Social Justice, and the Vox Populi

29 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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, Digi...

The Importance of Independent Journalism in Fighting Censorship and Countering Corporate Media Propaganda

23 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

In the first segment, Mickey speaks with Professor Raza Rumi, director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, who explains the de...

From East Palestine to Palestine, People Need Help

15 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...