Censored 2010: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2008-09

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The Censored Yearbooks are bright suns in the dark and dismal US media scene, which spews nearly only circus sideshows or propaganda for the military-industrial complex and its quest for global dominance. The media are becoming irrelevant and even destructive for democracy. The newspaper `business’ is dying. People don’t like to pay for propaganda.
Censure, manipulation of reality or non-inclusion of important stories under legal (threat of lawsuits), economic (advertising) or political pressure are legion.
The following important issues were not worth making headlines in 2008-2009: the systemic erosion of human rights and civil liberties (habeas corpus), the world’s catastrophic climate change, the depletion of the world’s natural resources, the 35 year decline in real labor wages, the height of the child mortality in the US, an US unemployment rate of at least 15 %, a US multi-trillion national debt, a US defense budget as big as that of the rest of the world combined, the real culprits of the global economic meltdown or military misadventures in sovereign States.

The Top 25 Censored stories of 2008-2009 contain such important issues as the roots of the Somalian piracy (toxic waste dumping and illegal fishing in their waters), the investments of members of Congress in major defense contractors, election fraud and the mysterious death of a `man in the middle’, secret control of Presidential debates, destruction of the environment by oil exploration (Amazon rain forest) or by the dumping of toxic and nuclear waste (US, Somalia), racism, lobbyism, welfare cuts and (for the Nobel Prize Committee) Barack Obama’s appointments of members of the Trilateral Commission and corrupt military leaders (trillions of dollars disappeared in the Department of Defense accounts).

In the follow-up of former Top 25 censored stories, this yearbook signals the settlement by Shell Oil of a lawsuit launched by anti-oil protesters and by the family of the great writer K. Saro-Wiwa scandalously condemned and executed on order of a Nigerian tribunal. Also, flammable thermitic materials have been found in dust samples produced by the destruction of the WTC towers on 9/11 (!).

This all important yearbook, brilliantly illustrated by Khalil Bendiz, is a must read for all those who want to understand the world we live in.

Their research methods say it all. They comb through 200 publications and 1000 websites to find the news not covered in the U.S. media. They then pump up the volume on their dig for the truth by delving into three different databases — Lexis Nexis, Dow Jones, and PearlQuest — looking for any coverage of the stories by mainstream media. When they do find a story, they examine it to see how long the story was and whether it was broadcast during prime times or in off hours. If that isn’t enough, they then send the stories to industry experts to check the veracity of the information. By the time they’re done, the staff at Project Censored have completely vetted each and every story. Their exhaustive research gives them the perfect platform to report what’s missing in the news and to challenge those in power, both on the left and on the right.

Censored 2010 is just another example of their exemplary reporting skills. Nice job, Project Censored! Keep up the great work.

This years Project Censored Yearbook, documents many important stories that have been negleted by the mainstream media such as the origins of Somali piracy, the continued U.S. backed repression in Haiti, the fact that U.S. schools are as segregated as they were in 1954 at the time of the Brown Vs Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, and the corrupt backgrounds of many of Obama’s military appointees.

The stories may depress the reader, but the Project Censored Year Book also contains uplifting stories of how people around the world are organizing to fight for social change.