The presentation of this year’s Top 25 stories extends the
tradition originated by Professor Carl Jensen and his Sonoma State
students in 1976, while reflecting how the expansion of the Project to
include affiliate faculty and students from campuses across the country
and around the world—initiated several years ago as outgoing director
Peter Phillips passed the reins to current director Mickey Huff—has made
the Project even more diverse and robust. During this year’s cycle,
Project Censored reviewed 233 Validated Independent News stories (VINs)
representing the collective efforts of 219 college students and 56
professors from 18 college and university campuses that participate in
our affiliate program and 13 additional community evaluators.
In January 2013, Israel acknowledged that medical authorities have
been giving Ethiopian immigrants long-term birth-control injections,
often without their knowledge or consent.
Monsanto introduced genetically modified alfalfa in 2003—a full two
years before it was deregulated, according to recently released
evidence...
In February 2013, United States senators Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and
Peter DeFazio (D-Oregon) introduced a bill to implement a new tax of
three basis points (that is, three pennies for every hundred dollars) on
most nonconsumer stock trades.
In communities affected by hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,”
people understand that this process of drilling for natural gases puts
the environment and their health at risk
Monsanto has a long history of contamination and cover-up and in India another Monsanto cover-up is ongoing
Declassified documents reveal that the Israeli military calculated
how many calories a typical Gazan would need to survive, in order to
determine how much food to supply the Gaza Strip during the 2007–2010
blockade.
After privatization of the national banking sector, private bankers
borrowed billions of dollars or (ten times the size of Iceland’s
economy), creating a huge economic bubble that doubled housing prices
and made a small percentage of the population exceedingly wealthy
The effects of hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) on food supply and the environment are slowly emerging
Creative Commons (CC) is celebrating ten years of helping writers,
artists, technologists, and other creators share their knowledge and
creativity with the world
Journalists are increasingly at risk of being killed or imprisoned
for doing their jobs, a situation that imperils press freedom.
Reduced land productivity, combined with elevated oil costs and population growth, threaten a systemic, global food crisis
As a multitude of hazardous wireless technologies are deployed in
homes, schools, and workplaces, government officials and industry
representatives continue to insist on their safety despite growing
evidence to the contrary.
An August 2012 Gallup poll showed that 18.2 percent of Americans
lacked sufficient money for needed food at least once over the previous
year.
High levels of lead, mercury, and depleted uranium are believed to be
causing birth defects, miscarriages, and cancer for people living in
the Iraqi cities of Basra and Fallujah.
According to a former top Iranian negotiator, Seyed Hossein
Mousavian, in 2005 Iran offered a deal to the United States, France,
Germany, and the United Kingdom that would have made it impossible for
Iran to build nuclear weapons.
Migrants crossing the Mexico–US border not only face dangers posed by
an unforgiving desert but also abuse at the hands of the US Border
Patrol
In October 2012, Icelanders voted in an advisory referendum regarding six proposed policy changes to the 1944 Constitution
A stunning thirty-five to forty percent of everything we buy goes to interest.
The Physicians for Social Responsibility released a study estimating
that one billion people—one-seventh of the human race—could starve over
the decade following a single nuclear detonation
As a direct result of existing financial policies, the world’s one
hundred richest people grew to be $241 billion richer in 2012.
The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which monitors hate groups
and antigovernment groups, released a report showing that 1,360 radical,
antigovernment “patriot” groups and 321 militias actively operate
within the United States
Obama signed both the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act,
expanding whistleblower protections, in November 2012, and the National
Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) furthering these protections in January
2013
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), branded as a trade agreement and
negotiated in unprecedented secrecy, is actually an enforceable
transfer of sovereignty from nations and their people to foreign
corporations.
The global 1 percent hold twenty-one to thirty-two trillion dollars
in offshore havens in order to evade taxes, according to James S. Henry,
the former chief economist at the global management consulting firm,
McKinsey & Company.
In February 2013, United States military intelligence analyst Bradley
Manning confessed in court to providing vast archives of military and
diplomatic files to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, saying he wanted
the information to become public “to make the world a better place” and
that he hoped to “spark a domestic debate on the role of the military in
(US) foreign policy.
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