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May 12, 2007

Stories you probably didn't hear about, and don't want to miss

The Project Censored series of books remains as important as ever, but for now, let's focus on the stories on this list, and make sure they are not forgotten.

Link: Amazon.com: Censored 2007: The Top 25 Censored Stories (Censored): Books: Peter Phillips,Project Censored,Tom Tomorrow,Robert Jensen.

From a helpful reviewer on Amazon:

This year's CENSORED 2007 is PC's 30th anniversary edition and, along with the top 25 censored stories of the year and the usual array of supplementary essays on media bias, this year's edition includes updates on the most important stories of the last 30 years - a nifty bonus. 2007 stories include:

1.  The Future of the Internet: giant cable companies seek a monopoly on cable Internet
2.  Halliburton charged with selling nuclear secrets to Iran - illegally - under Cheney
3.  The worldwide death of oceans: warming, toxic buildup, dead zones, changing PH balance, fish, grass and kelp die offs 
4. Hunger and homelessness in the US on the rise: Government solution? Discontinue Census surveys that keep statistical tables on poverty
5.  US supports genocide in the Congo to gain access to resources used to make high-tech gadgetry such as cell phones
6.  The end of federal whistleblower protections
7.  US operatives torture detainees to death in Afghanistan and Iraq
8.  Pentagon exempts itself from the Freedom of Information Act
9.  World Bank funds the Palestine-Israel Wall
10. The death toll of civilians in Iraq from the expanded air war
11. Dangers of genetically modified foods confirmed
12. The dangers of common pesticides like Roundup
13. Homeland Security contracts KBR (a Halliburton subsidiary) to build detention centers in the US
14. The EPA's primary research partner is the chemical industry
15. Ecuador and Mexico defy the US on the international criminal court
16. The Iraq reconstruction promotes OPEC agenda: profit for major US oil companies
17. Physicist concludes that official 9/11 explanation is scientifically implausible
18. Destruction of rainforests is at an all-time high
19. Bottled water: a global environmental problem
20. Gold mining threatens ancient Andean glaciers
21. Billions in homeland security undisclosed
22. US Oil targets Kyoto in Europe
23. Cheney's Halliburton stock rose of 3000 percent last year
24. Pentagon plans to build new landmines
25. US military in Paraguay threatens the region

May 12, 2007 in Books, Citizen Journalism, Civil Rights, Current Affairs, Democracy Theory, Education, Free Speech, Journalism, Politics, Research, Sustainable Living | Permalink |

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