Project Censored 2005 – Top 25 Censored Stories:
* 1: Wealth Inequality in 21st Century Threatens Economy and Democracy
* 2: Ashcroft vs. the Human Rights Law that Hold Corporations Accountable
* 3: Bush Administration Censors Science
* 4: High Levels of Uranium Found in Troops and Civilians
* 5: The Wholesale Giveaway of Our Natural Resources
* 6: The Sale of Electoral Politics
* 7: Conservative Organization Drives Judicial Appointments
* 8: Cheney’s Energy Task Force and The Energy Policy
* 9: Widow Brings RICO Case Against U.S. government for 9/11
* 10: New Nuke Plants: Taxpayers Support, Industry Profits
* 11: The Media Can Legally Lie
* 12: The Destabilization of Haiti
* 13: Schwarzenegger Met with Enron’s Ken Lay Years Before the California Recall
* 14: New Bill Threatens Intellectual Freedom in Area Studies
* 15: U.S. Develops Lethal New Viruses
* 16: Law Enforcement Agencies Spy on Innocent Citizens
* 17: U.S. Government Represses Labor Unions in Iraq in Quest for Business Privatization
* 18: Media and Government Ignore Dwindling Oil Supplies
* 19: Global Food Cartel Fast Becoming hte World’s Supermarket
* 20: Extreme Weather Prompts New Warning from UN
* 21: Forcing a World Market for GMOs
* 22: Censoring Iraq
* 23: Brazil Holds Back in FTAA Talks, But Provides Little Comfort for the Poor of South America
* 24: Reinstating the Draft
* 25: Wal-Mart Brings Inequality and Low Prices to the World
I don’t know if I’d call these censored so much as ignored or under-reported: censorship implies external control, and my guess is this internally-controlled, ie, self-censorship. No less evil, but I’d like it to be clear which it is.
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