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Peter Phillips is a Professor Sociology at Sonoma State University and recent past Director of Project Censored. He teaches classes in Media Censorship, Investigative Sociology, Sociology of Power, Political Sociology, and Sociology of Media. He has published thirteen editions of Censored: Media Democracy in Acton from Seven Stories Press. Also from Seven Stories Press is Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney (2006) and Project Censored Guide to Independent Media and Activism (2003).
In 2009, Phillips received the Dallas Smythe Award from the Union for Democratic Communications. Dallas Smythe is a national award given to researchers and activists who, through their research and/or production work, have made significant contributions to the study and practice of democratic communication.
Phillips writes op-ed pieces for independent media nationwide having published in dozens of publications, newspapers and websites including: Common Dreams, Buzzflash, Dissident Voice, Global Research, and Minute Man Media. He frequently speaks on media censorship and various socio-political issues on radio and TV talks shows including Talk of the Nation, Air America, Talk America, World Radio Network, and Flashpoints.
Phillips has completed several investigative research studies that are available at Projectcensored.org including: The Global Dominance Group: 9/11 Pre-Warnings & Election Irregularities in Context, A Study of Bias in the Associated Press, Practices in Health Care and Disability insurance: Deny Delay Diminish and Blame, US Electromagnetic Weapons and Human Rights, Building a Public Ivy: Diversity at Three California State Universities, and The Left Progressive Media Inside the Propaganda Model.
Phillips earned a B.A. degree in Social Science in 1970 from Santa Clara University, and an M.A. degree in Social Science from California State University at Sacramento in 1974. He earned a second M.A. in Sociology in 1991 and a Ph.D. in Sociology in 1994. His doctoral dissertation was entitled A Relative Advantage: Sociology of the San Francisco Bohemian Club http://libweb.sonoma.edu/regional/faculty/Phillips/bohemianindex.htm

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(8 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Saturday, August 11, 2018
Giants: The Global Power Elite Central to the idea of a globalized power elite is the concept of a transnational capitalist class theorized in academic literature for some 20 years. Giants reviews the transition from nation state power elites, as described by Mills, to a transnational power elite centralized on the control of global capital around the world.
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(2 comments) SHARE More Sharing        Friday, March 17, 2017
The Diabolical Business of Global Public Relations Firms 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.
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Orlando Killer Worked Inside the Global Security System 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. G4S is a part of neoliberal imperialism that is leading to the substitution of and privatization of state police.

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