Project Censored - 9-15-26

Welcome to the Project Censored show on Pacifica Radio.

I'm your host, Mickey Huff, with Eleanor Goldfield, my trusty co-host.

It's great to be back with Eleanor in conversation.

As you all know, each month we try to take a segment to catch up with each other about the current events and the current headlines, and we try to deconstruct through a critical media literacy lens the things that are happening around us to decode the establishment propaganda and to also highlight important independent news outlets that are actually trying to light the way forward to give us better understandings of the things that are happening around us.

And Eleanor, you've got a treasure trove of a few stories here for us to look into.

Why don't we start with a recent piece, anti-war activists are getting de-banked in the UK.

You and I do a lot of debunking, but explain to our listeners, Eleanor, what's, what's de-banking? And, uh, w- w- we, a lot of this has been paved, the way has been paved by big tech companies to de-platform-

Mm-hmm

... de-monetize, shadow ban, otherwise censor.

De-banking, though, that's, that's another one.

Tell us about that.

It is, Mickey.

It's kind of like internal sanctions[chuckles] It's basically sanctioning your own people.

So for instance, if f- listeners of the show might be familiar with George Galloway.

He's a former Labour MP, member of Parliament, and he has been very vocal about war in general, but r- recently, of course, specifically the, the genocide a- a- against Gaza that Israel continues to perpetrate.

And just recently, he found that one of his bank accounts had been closed, a bank account that he says he held for 39 years with the Bank of Scotland.

He's Scottish.

And his parliamentary and old age pensions are paid into those accounts.

The mortgage of his family home is paid out of it.

The mortgage that he has on his home is with that bank.

And so basically this means that all of a sudden he can't access that bank account.

And of course, the question is, well, why would they do that? Of c- you know, like, and apparently it was closed without explanation.

But anybody who, who scratches the surface is like, oh God, he's been very outspoken about, again, things like the anti-war stances and the genocide against Gaza.

And a- as the, I'm pulling right now from The Dissident, uh, folks can check out their, their Substack.

But basically this is, uh, the, the latest in a long line of authoritarian measures that the UK has meted out, particularly against people like Galloway.