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Censored 2009 The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08

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ISBN-10: 1583228527

ISBN-13: 9781583228524

Edition: 2008

Authors: Project Censored, Peter Phillips, Andrew Roth, Khalil Bendib, Cynthia McKinney

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"Carefully orchestrated. . . . This well-researched work is highly recommended for most libraries."-Library Journal (starred review) "Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us."-The San Diego Review "Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well-informed citizens."-Los Angeles Times The best-selling Censored series-with over 150,000 copies in print-highlights each year's twenty-five most important underreported news stories, alerting readers to the negligence of corporate media and the resurgence of alternative media. Peter Phillips, director of Project Censored, is an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma…    
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Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Publication date: 10/7/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Project Censored, founded in 1976 by Carl Jensen, has as its principal objective the advocacy for and protection of First Amendment rights and the freedom of information in the United States.

Peter Phillips is the director of Project Censored & an associate professor of sociology at Sonoma State University. Phillips writes op-ed pieces in the alternative press & independent newspapers nationwide. He frequently speaks on media censorship & various sociopolitical issues on radio & TV talk shows, including "Talk of the Nation", "Public Interest", "Talk America", "Democracy Now!", & the "Jim Hightower Show".

Dedication: To Barbara Seaman
Preface
Introduction: Project Censored Addresses Truth in America
The Top Censored Stories of 2007 and 2008
Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
Seizing War Protesters' Assets
The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
APA Complicit in CIA Torture
El Salvador's Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
Worldwide Slavery
Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
UN's Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option
CARE Rejects US Food Aid
FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer
Censored 2008 Honorable Mentions
Censored Deja Vu: What Happened to Previous Censored Stories
Junk Food News and News Abuse
The News is Good!: Stories of Hope and Change from 2007 and 2008
Oiling the Dangerous Engine of Arbitrary Government: Newspaper Coverage of the Military Commissions Act
Universal Healthcare, Media, and the 2008 Presidential Campaign
US Media Bias, Human Rights, and the Hamas Government in Gaza
The Gardasil Sell Job
Fear & Favor 2007: How Power Still Shapes the News
Index on Censorship 2007-2008
Truth Emergency Meets Media Reform
Winter Soldier: Iraq & Afghanistan-Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupations
The Pentagon's Child Recruiting Strategy
Deconstructing Deceit: 9/11, the Media, and Myth Information
Thirty-Three Years of US Military Domination and Economic Deception
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
How to Support Project Censored
Index