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Project Censored - the top twenty five stories
DATELINE: 8/12/09
Each year the Project Censored team from Sonoma State University in California in the USA select and evaluate thousands of published news stories in the national and international mainstream as well as the alternative press. Ultimately the team decides on the top twenty five stories that were the most under reported by the US corporate media.
To see the full report with sources etc visit: www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/category/two-thousand-and-ten book/
and go to right hand column headed Top 25 Censored Stories - 2010).
Top Censored Stories of 2009/2010
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. Lobbyists Buy Congress
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 AmazonLast modified: Friday, December 11, 2009
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