Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

[Joanne98]

#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
# 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
#9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
# 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture
# 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
# 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
# 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
# 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
# 15 Worldwide Slavery
# 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
# 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
# 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
# 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
# 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
# 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
# 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid
# 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
# 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
# 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/y-2009/

You can read these stories in detail by clinking on the link.

[Greyhound]

1. K & R.

Please don't make me read anything that might scare me...:scared:


WAKE UP AMERICA!

[G_j]

2. project censored is a vital resource

my friends at www.agrnews.org have won a number of awards from them.

[cyberpj]

3. Is it me? Shouldn't these say "for 2008" ?

[emlev]

5. I believe this is a prediction/eom

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Thank you for posting! Project Censored does great work. n/t

[GuvWurld]

6. how about...

US federal election results UNPROVABLE, media report them as fact anyway

[robertpaulsen]

7. Project Censored is always a MUST READ.

:kick:

[Blue_Tires]

19. +1

i read it religiously some years ago (i even have one of their books)...for some reason i keep forgetting they are around...

[BrklynLiberal]

8. Defintely a resource worth examining.

[curious one]

9. Rec'd.

[jimlup]

10. I'd put Republicans purge millions from voter rolls higher up

(Like actually on the list!)

[autorank]

11. Over 1,000,000 dead Iraqi civilians - that's it.

They knew that civil strife would cause violence in the extreme.

What did they do about it? Nothing.

That's the #2 story - they knew and did nothing.

Maybe next year.

[readmoreoften]

14. 1/6th of the way to a holocaust--not even counting Afghanistan.

Or Tajikistan
Or Pakistan
Or wherever else we're killing folk...

[OakCliffDem]

12. K & R

[Kitty Herder]

13. K&R

[readmoreoften]

15. Infragard is T-E-R-R-I-F-Y-I-N-G.

Think about that asshole Republican business guy who owns that warehouse down the block from the 7-11. Now think about that guy armed and deputized by Homeland Security.

[Douglas Carpenter]

16. KICK AND RECOMMENDED!!!! Another VERY important post!!

[SpiralHawk]

17. "Move along. There's nothing to see here." - Corporate media borg

"Smirk." - Republicon-owned media corporations

[ogneopasno]

18. How are they censored if we know the stories?

I've seen more than half of these on the AP wire, and several more in magazines such as Rolling Stone and Vanity Fair.

[JohnyCanuck]

20. Guidelines from Project Censored for nominating a story.

GUIDELINES:

1. A censored news story is one which contains information that the general United States population has a right and need to know, but to which it has had limited access.

2. The news story has direct connections to and implications for people in the United States, which can include activities that U.S. citizens and entities are engaged in abroad.

3. The story is timely and ongoing, with clearly defined concepts and verifiable documentation.

4. The news story has been published, either electronically or in print, in a circulated newspaper, journal, magazine, newsletter, or similar online publication from either a foreign or domestic source.

http://www.projectcensored.org/censorship/nominate/

The point is that although the story might have been published in anything from a small, local newspaper to a big, established media organization or flagship of the mainstream media, because it is a story damaging to the establishment's position or world view, the story gets no in-depth follow up or further investigation and reporting by the corporate media whores and it is left to "die on the vine" so to speak.

That is one of the corporate media's favorite techniques when challenged as to why they suppress some stories that could be seen as perhaps politically damaging to the financial/political elites or that could have a potential negative affect on the media/political/financial establishment's credibility. Usual response: "Oh we didn't suppress that story. There was a story on that printed in such and such a paper or it was reported on such and such TV news show, but it didn't seem to generate much interest from the public so there was no motivation for us to follow up."

[OneBlueSky]

21. once . . . just once . . . I'd like to see a "mainstream" newspaper . . .

(e.g. The New York Time, Washington Post, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, etc.) print this list in a story on Page 1 of their Sunday edition . . . just once . . .

[crickets]

22. Thanks for the reminder.

Given the state of our media, periodically checking Project Censored to find out what is really going on is a must.