Censored 2010: the top 25 censored stories

Preface

Introduction / Dahr Jamail

Chapter 1. The Top Censored Stories of 2008 and 2009 / Peter Phillips Tricia Boreta, and Project Censored

Introduction: Die, Newspapers Die: The dailies really died a generation ago, and now their corpses are following suit / Michael I. Niman

1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street

2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s

3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates

4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina

5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products

6. Business Booms for Lobbyists

7. Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past

8. Bailed-Out Banks and America's Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions

9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza

10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate

11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine

12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell-Karl Rove's Election Thief

13. Katrina's Hidden Race War

14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts

15. World Bank's Carbon Trade Fiasco

16. US Repression of Haiti Continues

17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan

18. Ecuador's Constitutional Rights of Nature

19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor

20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates

21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare

22. Obama's Trilateral Commission Team

23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud

24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion

25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon

Censored 2010 Honorable Mentions

Chapter 2. Censored Deja vu: What Happened to Previous Censored Stories / Ben Frymer / Kate Sims Project Censored

Chapter 3. Infotainment Society: Junk Food News and News Abuse for 2008/2009 / Mickey Huff / Frances A. Capell Project Censored

Chapter 4. Signs of Health: Stories of Hope and Change from 2008 and 2009 / Kate Sims Yes! Magazine

Chapter 5. Truth Emergency: Inside the Military-Industrial Media Empire / Peter Phillips / Mickey Huff

Chapter 6. Lying About War: Deliberate Propaganda and Spin by the Pentagon / Diane Farsetta / Sheldon Rampton / Daniel Haack / John Stauber of the Center for Media and Democracy

Chapter 7. Fear & Favor: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting / Peter Hart

Chapter 8. Index on Censorship / Jo Glanville

Chapter 9. The Hyperrealilty of a Failing Corporate Media System / Andrew Hobbs / Peter Phillips

Chapter 10. Analysis of Project Censored: Are We a Left-Leaning, Conspiracy-Oriented Organization? / Peter Phillips / Mickey Huff

Chapter 11. Election 2008: Vanishing Votes, Disappearing Democracy, and Media Misdirection / Brad Friedman

Chapter 12. Expanding Investigative Research for Independent Media and Human Betterment / Peter Phillips

Chapter 13. No "Pretty Woman": Human Trafficking and Domestic Prostitution Reconsidered / Aashika N. Damodar

Chapter 14. Water as Commodity or Commons? Issues from the 2009 World Water Forum / Andrew L. Roth

Chapter 15. Lesbian and Gay Standpoint Films / James Dean

Acknowledgments

About the Editors

How to Support Project Censored

Index