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American Kompromat - Kompromat: noun, Russian for “Compromising Information”

January 2, 2026 at 5:00pm (PT)

American Kompromat is "the counterintelligence that was promised by the Mueller Report but which failed to materialize" - Journal of Cyber Policy

Craig Unger's bestseller, American Kompromat, shows that something much more sinister has been taking place than the public could ever imagine–that from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, kompromat operations documented the darkest secrets of the most powerful people in the world and transform them into potent weapons.

American Kompromat is based on extensive, exclusive interviews with dozens of high-level sources–Soviets who defected from the KGB, former officers in the CIA, FBI counterintelligence agents, lawyers at white shoe Washington firms–and analysis of thousands of pages of FBI investigations, police investigations, and news articles from across the globe.

Is Donald Trump a Russian asset? How could such an audacious feat have been accomplished? Craig Unger will answer these questions and more by explaining the operations that amassed compromising information on the richest and most powerful men on earth.

Interview Guest:

Craig Unger is the author of six books, including the New York Times bestsellers House of Trump, House of Putin and House of Bush, House of Saud. For 15 years, he was a contributing editor at vanity fair, covering National Security, the Middle East, and other political issues. A frequent television analyst, he was a longtime staffer at New York Magazine, served as editor and chief of Boston magazine, and has contributed to Esquire, The New Yorker, and many other publications. Craig Unger has written about the Trump-Russia scandal for The New Republic, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. His graduate of Harvard University and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday, December 15, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

“First they came for the journalists. We don’t know what happened after that.” – Maria Ressa

Every year, Project Censored highlights the vital stories that corporate media underreported, exposes rampant news abuse, and tracks emerging threats against the press from financial and political powers

“State of the Free press 2025” comes at a time when trust in the media is at an all-time low. A 2024 Pew Research Poll found that a remarkable 73 percent of adult Americans believe a free press is either extremely or very important to the well-being of society—though only a third of those polled believe that US media are completely free to report news.

Half of those surveyed believe that US news organizations are influenced a great deal by corporate/financial or government/political interests. Reporters Without Borders gave the US a score of 66.59 out of a possible 100 points in their 2024 World Press Freedom Index—a drop of nearly five points from 2023.

Tragically, 2024 stands out as the year that the corporate media failed to adequately cover Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people and the threat it poses to the whole world. With their gaze trained elsewhere, the powerful got a pass from the very institution that should hold them to account.

In 2023 Reporters Without Borders labeled US press freedom “satisfactory;” in 2024, they called it “problematic.”

Interview Guest:

SHEALEIGH VOITL is the digital and print editor at Project Censored. She first began her research with the Project at North Central College alongside Steve Macek, co-authoring the Déjá Vu News chapter in the State of the Free Press 2022 and 2023 yearbooks, and the Top 25 chapter in SFP 2023.

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“Be Bold America!” Sunday,

December 1, 2024 at 5:00pm (PT)

“Severe problems of democracy are much in the news, but actually go way back to the beginning of the country. We now want to look at how both the deep state and American fascist forces played a key role from the very beginning of the United States.” – Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology at Boston College

The two “deep states” of cultural and ideological ideals, as well as their clashing trade and other economic interests, led, as in many marriages, to an increasingly troubled relationship, that led ultimately to a violent divorce and military destruction of the Confederate deep state. But it did not end the enduring legacy of both deep states that shapes our nation’s divisive politics today.

A MAGA conspiratorial concept is that there is a “deep state.” But could there be a very real “deeper state” that has been evident throughout history, back to the founding of American democracy?

Interview Guest:

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College and has written 26 books - on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, culture and conversation, and social change. His bestselling books include The Pursuit of Attention and the Wilding of America. He writes for and has been reviewed in the NY Times, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, Truthout, and other leading media.

His books are translated into 14 languages including Chinese, Korean, Tamil, German, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian and Polish- and he is a bestseller in South Korea, done extended book tours in German bookstores and blues coffee houses, and has lectured in Italy in June for seven years. Derber is a public intellectual - shortlisted in 2006 by the American Independent Booksellers Association for Hidden Power, the best book in current affairs - who believes that serious ideas should be written in an accessible and entertaining style. His most recent books include Dying for Capitalism(https://ksqd.org/are-we-dying-from-capitalism/), Welcome to the Revolution, Moving Beyond Fear, Sociopathic Society: A People's Sociology of the United States; Capitalism: Should You Buy It?