Mickey Huff - Censored 2013: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2011-2012

At a time when the need for independent journalism and for media outlets unaffiliated with and untainted by the government and corporate sponsors is greater than ever, Project Censored has created a context for reporting the complete truths in all matters that matter.... It is therefore left to us to find sources for information we can trust.... It is in this task that we are fortunate to have an ally like Project Cen-sored.Dahr Jamail

Activist groups like Project Censored... are helping to build the media democracy movement. We have to challenge the powers that be and rebuild media from the bottom up.Amy Goodman

Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcasting outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism.Walter Cronkite

[ Censored ] should be affixed to the bulletin boards in every newsroom in America. And, perhaps read aloud to a few publishers and television executives.Ralph Nader

[ Censored ] offers devastating evidence of the dumbing-down of mainstream news in America.... Required reading for broadcasters, journalists, and well-informed citizens. Los Angeles Times

One of the most significant media research projects in the country.I. F. Stone

A terrific resource, especially for its directory of alternative media and organizations.... Recommended for media collections. Library Journal

[Project Censoreds] efforts to continue globalizing their reporting network could not be more timely or necessary.Kristina Borjesson

A distant early warning system for societys problems. American Journalism Review

Project Censored goes where the media conformist angels fear to tread.... Its the kind of journalism we need.Norman Solomon

Project Censored shines a spotlight on news that an informed public must have... a vital contribution to our democratic process. Rhoda H. Karpatkin, president, Consumers Union

Hot news, cold truths, utterly uncensored.Greg Palast

Buy it, read it, act on it. Our future depends on the knowledge this collection of suppressed stories allows us. San Diego Review

Those who read and support Project Censored are in the know. Cynthia McKinney

This volume chronicles 25 news stories about events that could affect all of us, but which we most likely did not hear or read about in the popular news media. Bloomsbury Review

Censored serves as a reminder that there is certainly more to the news than is easily available or willingly disclosed. To those of us who work in the newsrooms, its an inspiration, an indictment, and an admonition to look deeper, ask more questions, then search for the truth in the answers we get. Creative Loafings

This invaluable resource deserves to be more widely known. Wilson Library Bulletin

Copyright 2012 by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth
Foreword 2012 by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

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To Ray Bradbury (19202012),
champion of the freedom to think, feel, and express;
and of the responsibility to remember

CHAPTER 2: Dj Vu: What Happened to Previous Censored Stories?
by Mickey Huff and Dr. Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored interns Jen Eiden, Nolan Higdon, Aaron Hudson, Mike Kolbe, Michael Lucacher, Ryan Shehee, and Andrew OConnor-Watts

CHAPTER 3: American Idle: Junk Food News, News Abuse, and the Voice of Freedumb
by Mickey Huff and Dr. Andy Lee Roth, with Nolan Higdon, Michael Kolbe, and Andrew OConnor-Watts

CHAPTER 4: Media Democracy in Action
compiled by Mickey Huff, with contributions by Sarah van Gelder and Yes! Magazine ; Chris Woods of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism; Jay Costa and Darby Beck of MapLight; Michael Levitin of the Occupied Wall Street Journal ; Victoria Pacchiana-Rojas on Banned Books Week; Christopher Ponzi of Rebellious Truths; Nora Barrows-Friedman of Electronic Intifada; Andrew Phillips of Pacifica/KPFA Radio; J. R. Valrey of Block Report Radio; Steve Zeltzer of Work Week Radio

CHAPTER 5: Censorship Backfires: a Taxonomy of Concepts Related to Censorship
by Dr. Antoon De Baets

CHAPTER 6: The Global 1 Percent Ruling Class Exposed
by Dr. Peter Phillips and Kimberly Soeiro

CHAPTER 7: The Information War: How Government Is Seeking Total Information Awareness and What This Portends for Freedom and Democracy
by Dr. Elliot D. Cohen

CHAPTER 8: GerM Warfare: How to Reclaim the Education Debate from Corporate Occupation
by Adam Bessie.

CHAPTER 9: Kent State: Was It About Civil Rights or Murdering Student Protesters?
by Laurel Krause with Mickey Huff

CHAPTER 10: The Creative Tension of the Emerging Future: Facing the Seven Challenges of Humanity
by Kenn Burrows and Dr. Michael Nagler

CHAPTER 11: Guantnamospeak and the Manufacture of Consent
by Dr. Almerindo Ojeda

CHAPTER 12: Framing Al-Awlaki: How Government Officials and Corporate Media Legitimized a Targeted Killing
by Dr. Andy Lee Roth

CHAPTER 13: A Morally Disengaged America: Sacrificing Iraqi Refugees to Terrorism Fears and Anti-Immigration
by Angel Ryono.

CHAPTER 14: On the Road to Fukushima: The Unreported Story Behind Japans Nuclear-Media-Industrial Complex
by Brian Covert

CHAPTER 15: An Occupation of Truth: Indian-Administered Kashmir
by Tara Dorabji

REPORT FROM MEDIA FREEDOM FOUNDATION
by Dr. Peter Phillips

by Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

At a time when the world faces tipping points in the escalation of multiple crises, the publication of this volume is of momentous significance.

As I write, a sampling of the latest mainstream corporate news illustrates the unprecedented nature of our current predicament as a civilization. The bizarre and extreme weather of the early United States summer prompted one leading climate scientist to state boldly that we are certainly seeing climate change in action,

Simultaneously, the International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for the US economy, warning that the ongoing eurozone crisis, along with the weak housing market, risks triggering a recession by 2013 while the jobless rate morphs into higher structural unemployment.

As the defunct neoliberal model of casino capitalism wreaks havoc at home, it is doing the same abroad. Global food prices doubled between 2006 and 2008, and despite some fluctuation, remain largely at record levels. One of the key causes has been speculation in derivativesthirteen trillion dollars was invested in food commodities in 2006, then pulled out in 2008, and then reinvested again by 2011. The rocketing food prices for the global poor have generated an unprecedented global food crisis across the developing world.