The following article was originally published as a chapter in Mickey Huff, Andy Lee Roth, and Project Censored, Censored 2017: Fortieth Anniversary Edition (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2016). Join our mailing list here to be the first to get the book.

By Julie Frechette Bill O’Reilly’s abrupt dismissal from Fox News in April serves as a long, hard fought victory for those who have called him out for his sexist, racist, xenophobic, homophobic, and classist rhetoric.  Over the past two decades, viewers of Fox News have been subjected to O’Reilly’s histrionic tirades against women, people of […]

By Marc Pilisuk The US air strikes in Syria last week were conducted without Congressional authorization. They foreshadow a dangerous military escalation in the Syrian civil war and have no legal justification. The excuse was retaliation against the barbaric use of chemical weapons against innocent civilians authorized by Bashar Al-Assad. But the rush to retaliate […]

Project Censored director, professor Mickey Huff, recently gave a keynote presentation for the 3rd Annual Social Justice Week events at Sonoma State University. His talk was on “Critical Media Literacy Education: The Antidote to ‘Fake’ News, Propaganda, and Censorship in a Post-Truth World.”

By Elliot D. Cohen, Ph.D. Recently, President Trump accused former President Barrack Obama of wire tapping Trump Tower. He tweeted, “Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!” And he further tweeted, “How low has President Obama gone to tapp my […]

The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms By Peter Phillips The expansion of  public relations and propaganda (PRP) firms inside news systems in the world today has resulted in a deliberate form of news management. Maintenance of continuous news shows requires a constant and ever-entertaining supply of stimulating events and breaking news bites. Corporate […]

  The great Greek philosopher, Plato, more than 2000 years ago argued that a democracy will eventually deteriorate into an oligarchy (or plutocracy) which, in time, will further degenerate into a dictatorship where society is ruled by a man exhibiting only the basest of emotions. Today, there is nothing stopping the American republic, which has […]

By Peter Phillips Professor Watch List: A Racist Violation of Free Speech By Peter Phillips Turning Point USA is biased against black faculty and freedom of speech. Turning Point is a  501(c)3 non-profit organization founded on June 5, 2012. They sponsor Professor Watch List http://www.professorwatchlist.org a website meant to expose and document college professors who […]

by Peter Phillips Editor’s note: This is the text of a talk delivered at the 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, CA, September, 2016 Globalization of trade and central banking has empowered private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural […]

By Peter Phillips The Orlando mass murderer, Omar Mateen, worked for G4S, one of the largest private security employers in the world. G4S has some 625,000 employees spanning five continents in more than 120 countries. As a private security company it provides services for both governments as well as corporations. Some of its well-known contractors […]

Exciting News! Recently, consumer advocate, attorney, and former presidential candidate Ralph Nader invited Project Censored director Mickey Huff to speak at his historic “Breaking Through Power” event in Washington D.C., at Constitution Hall. Day two of the four day event, Tuesday May 24th, focuses on Breaking Through the Media, which is where Project Censored will […]

The presidential primaries offer a single choice for both Democrats and Republicans to vote for empire and permanent war. This year’s entertainment spectacle, what we call democratic elections, is a particularly gross circus of meaninglessness, misinformation, sound bites, and lies. Both parties are in support in the continuation of the US/NATO global empire of permanent […]

The following is a transcript of a speech given on April 16, in Oakland, CA, by By Peter Phillips A Socialist Action Public Forum: “Donald TRUMP and Co. Incipient Fascism in the U.S. today?” Neo Fascists, racists, and misogynistic people, always present is American society, are finding new voice with the Trump presidency bid. This is […]

The Initiative News Enlightenment is a non-governmental organization that informs the German-speaking public on topics and news that are neglected by the German mass media, but which are, nonetheless, particularly important for democratic opinion formation. Even highly important issues are often neglected due to a variety of factors, including, for example: journalistic self-censorship; the danger of legal […]

By Will Shonbrun Preface I believe that the conditions that govern the lives of human beings on Earth are not optimal for the full flowering of that individual. This is both to state the obvious and to then argue its validity, but what’s needed first is a definition or description of what is meant by […]

Adding to CNN’s Sizeable Dossier of Misreporting on the TWA Flight 800 Crash By Kristina Borjesson With stunning regularity, CNN’s reporters and producers have, for the last twenty years, egregiously misreported on the evidence and eyewitness accounts pertaining to TWA Flight 800. More recent crashes, this time Metrojet’s demise, are regularly seized upon to craft […]

As a vital supporter of Project Censored, your continued backing has encouraged the Project’s vitality and growth over the last four decades.  We are now ready to make significant advances in support of our mission, but we need your help both with funding and publicity. Project Censored currently coordinates students and faculty at 25 affiliated […]

By Peter Phillips Globalization of trade and central banking has propelled private corporations to positions of power and control never before seen in human history. Under advanced capitalism, the structural demands for a return on investment require an unending expansion of centralized capital in the hands of fewer and fewer people. The financial center of […]

Order the Book Now! Censored 2016: Media Freedom on the Line is now available for ordering. Be the first one on your block to have the latest from the Censored series, published by Seven Stories Press, by ordering now! Read about the latest news that didn’t make the news, what has happened to previously censored stories, the latest Junk […]

New York, NY, April 22, 2015 – Young Adult books will be the focus of Banned Books Week in 2015, the event’s national planning committee announced today. Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of the freedom to read, will run from September 27 through October 3, 2015, and will be observed in libraries, schools, bookstores […]

New York, NY, April 22, 2015 – Young Adult books will be the focus of Banned Books Week in 2015, the event’s national planning committee announced today. Banned Books Week, the annual celebration of the freedom to read, will run from September 27 through October 3, 2015, and will be observed in libraries, schools, bookstores […]

By Crystal Bedford, Darian Edelman, Ellie Kim, Lauren Freeman, Lisa Davis, with editing from Laura Wing, Nolan Higdon, and Mickey Huff The primary authors of this article are Project Censored interns and freshman or sophomore college students. They chose this topic, then researched and wrote this article collectively between fall of 2014 and spring of […]

It is with great sadness we announce that the founder of Project Censored, Dr. Carl Jensen, passed away on April 23rd. Carl was a professor emeritus of Sociology and Communications Studies at Sonoma State University in California and author of Censored—The News That Didn’t Make the News and Why (from 1976 to 1996), 20 Years of Censored News (1997), […]