PROJECT CENSORED: Just released Top 25 Censored Media Stories 2002-2003

[Say_What]

The stories are listed at their website (with all references) and the report can be purchased at their website. Very valuable information, please keep this thread KICKED.

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Censored 2004: The Top 25 Censored Media Stories of 2002-2003
#1: The Neoconservative Plan for Global Dominance
#2: Homeland Security Threatens Civil Liberty
#3: US Illegally Removes Pages from Iraq U.N. Report
#4: Rumsfeld's Plan to Provoke Terrorists
#5: The Effort to Make Unions Disappear
#6: Closing Access to Information Technology
#7: Treaty Busting by the United States
#8: US/British Forces Continue Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Despite Massive Evidence of Negative Health Effects
#9: In Afghanistan: Poverty, Women's Rights, and Civil Disruption Worse than Ever
#10: Africa Faces Threat of New Colonialism

http://www.projectcensored.org/Publications/2004/index.html

[ryharrin]

1. That was on the cover of a small local paper...

the Syracuse New Times (has local events, classifieds, and such). I was blown away by the illustration of Bush standing on a globe with a huge flag in his hand. It was really nice to see that sitting there in restaurants around the city.

[mumon]

2. #19 U.S. Dollar vs. the Euro: Another Reason for the Invasion of Iraq

http://www.projectcensored.org/Publications/2004/19.html

while not heavily reported, I DID catch it in time to move some of my IRA money into foreign bonds.

I've done quite well from this, and advise others to do the same!

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

15. Should have been in the top 10.

[critical_thinker2]

3. Number 8

"#8: US/British Forces Continue Use of Depleted Uranium Weapons Despite Massive Evidence of Negative Health Effects"

LMAO

[proud patriot]

4. This is an excellent list for LTTE

if we all focuss on these stories perhaps
there will be more coverage of them.

[Say_What]

5. Heard an interview on Free Speech radio today with the Director of

Project Censored and he talked at length about how the news is becoming more and more focused on entertainment rather than information--the kind of tripe that we get a daily diet of on a regular basis from the corporate press. He pointed out that the news sources in the US are now down to a handful of elite who tell us what they want to know. Gave an example of how CNN folded when the Pentagon told them if they didn't retract a particular story they wouldn't be invited to the next war. Very informative interview, maybe catch it at their website.

http://www.fsrn.org/

[bpilgrim]

6. excellant choices...

check out the GFP's Hall Of Fame...
http://new.globalfreepress.com/hof.pl

if you liked that list ;->

psst... pass the word

peace

[Say_What]

9. # 21 3rd World Austerity Policies: Coming Soon To a City Near You

In the update to the story:

...There is something fundamentally wrong with the IMF and the World Bank, but Joseph Stiglitz did not finger it: these institutions represent the interests of First World finance capital, but they are never charged with this. Not by Mr. Stiglitz and not by the mainstream press. They represent themselves publicly as charitable institutions sincerely seeking to promote job growth and prosperity around the world, and Mr. Stiglitz let them get away with it. Coverage of them by Stiglitz and the press attributes increasing world misery to well-intentioned 'mistakes' on their part, rather than the systematic operation of the structural machinery of greed.

Organizations which genuinely oppose the policies of the IMF and the World Bank are Public Services International, which advocates on behalf of public sector trade unions (www.world-psi.org), the Bank Information Center, which promotes transparency at the Banks (www.bicusa.org), and the Citizens' Network for Essential Services (www.challenge globalization.org).

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Been keeping an eye on GFP. Always nice to see familiar names. ;-)

[Wickerman]

7. Our Large daily paper locally publishes this list yearly

I used to be puzzled as to why. Why would they want me to know that they didn't do their job? Latley, I think they publish it because they want to thumb their noses at us and say, in the immortal words of Paul Kantner, Fuck You, We do as We want.

[blm]

8. Send to your local papers.

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[govegan]

10. Good interview yesterday on KUOW in Seattle

Here is a link for the audio: http://www.kuow.org/weekday.asp?Archive=10-08

Peter Phillips, who is Director of Project Censored, was interviewed on the local NPR channel, 94.9 FM in Seattle.

Really appalling how these stories receive so little play, if any, in the major media outlets.

For those interested, also a good interview today with Paul Krugman from Steve Scher's show today. (http://www.kuow.org/weekday.asp)

"Is there a vast right wing conspiracy to change the basic nature of America's Social Contract? A conversation with Paul Krugman, author of The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century."

For locals: Related Events:
Paul Krugman will be at Town Hall in Seattle tonight, October 9th, at 7:30. Call 206-628-0888 for tickets or visit Foolproof Performing Arts.

[Paragon]

11. Civil war in Congo

If you're horrified by the number of deaths in Iraq, the slaughter in Congo will drive you over the edge.

[kwolf68]

12. Great stuff

But how many of us really give a hoot?

We are breeding a nation of drones.

On the college campuses I attend there is little in the way of awareness or exchange of ideas on our culture like in the 1960s...Nowadays its all about greed, selfishness, cars and cellphones.

[Say_What]

13. Some give a hoot!!

The 60s didn't start out as a popular movement--it grew into one, like it's growing again. The demonstrations against the war in Iraq, organizations such as Project Censored, websites like DU, BuzzFlash, etc., all are indicators that all is not well in Uncle Sams cozy world.

'muriKans were asleep then too. We had not long before just come out of the McCarthey era and were safely back under the blanket of false sense of security. As the war got worse and worse and folks began to see that we had no business in Vietnam, that it was an immoral war, we began to question everything. The movement grew from a few to the entire nation. Then there was the 1968 DNC in Mayor Daley's Chicago with the "whole world watching"--man did that open eyes--for the first time the nation saw police who acted like they remembered the Geztapo acting. Then there was the Chicago seven trial where the defendants were bound and gagged.

Today its worse--the media is down to a handful of corporate/global entities that disseminate what they want you to know, and then there's GITMO and the Patriot Act. I f*ck'n hope that a few wake up othewise we can kiss our a$$es goodbye.


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[JNelson6563]

14. thanks! great source!

Aslo bpilgrim, thanks for great link too! Stuff like this makes DU superb.

Julie

[Say_What]

16. Kick

for the lunch crowd