Project Censored's top 25 censored stories for 2009

It's 2009 already?

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Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

1 Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture
11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
15 Worldwide Slavery
16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid
23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

I don't want to go too far with nitpickiness on this, since I think the intentions of this list are ultimately very good, but I take issue with calling some of these "censored stories." Many of them are not "censored" at all -- they are reported, but they are ongoing phenomena and not single, headline-grabbing events. Underreported? Arguably. But not exactly "censored." I mean on which news day do you put a big headline above the fold that says "Slavery Exists All Over The World"? Maybe on the day a major study comes out or something. But otherwise it's a little like having a headline that says "Shitloads of people are still really poor." Same could be said on a number of these.

Sure, although that does highlight some of the idiocy behind the current understanding of "what is news", where some random murder will make the news, but ongoing widespread slavery isn't worth talking about.

lol look at these fuckin cumlords

10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture

On behalf of Frank's APA, I would like to deny any involvement with the CIA.

I was hoping these would be Onion-style anticipatory headlines.

Cheney Revealed As Vampire

OBAMA IS ACTUALLY MUSLIM