Top Censored Stories of 2016-2017
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#25 Juvenile Court Fees Punish Children for Their Families’ Poverty
#24 Eight Use of Force Policies to Prevent Killings by Police
#23 Facebook Buys Sensitive User Data to Offer Marketers Targeted Advertising
#22 Lawsuit against Illinois Department of Corrections Exposes Militarization of Law Enforcement inside Prisons
#21 Fossil Fuel Industry “Colonizing” US Universities
#20 Seattle Activist Group Leads First Successful Campaign to Defund Police
#19 Inmates and Activists Protest Chemical Weapons in US Prisons and Jails
#18 Rise in Number of Transgender People Murdered
#17 Young Plaintiffs Invoke Constitutional Grounds for Climate Protection
#16 “Resilient” Indian Communities Struggle to Cope with Impacts of Climate Change
#15 Shell Understood Climate Change as Early as 1991—and Ignored It
#14 Judges across US Using Racially Biased Software to Assess Defendants’ Risk of Committing Future Crimes
#13 Right-Wing Money Promotes Model Legislation to Restrict Free Speech on University Campuses
#12 US Quietly Established New “Anti-Propaganda” Center
#11 Law Enforcement Surveillance of Phone Records
#10 2016: A Record Year for Global Internet Shutdowns
#9 DNC Claims Right to Select Presidential Candidate
#8 Maternal Mortality a Growing Threat in the US
#7 The Toll of US Navy Training on Wildlife in the North Pacific
#6 Antibiotic Resistant “Superbugs” Threaten Health and Foundations of Modern Medicine
#5 Big Data and Dark Money behind the 2016 Election
#4 Voter Suppression in the 2016 Presidential Election
#3 Pentagon Paid UK PR Firm for Fake Al-Qaeda Videos
#2 Over Six Trillion Dollars in Unaccountable Army Spending
#1 Widespread Lead Contamination Threatens Children’s Health, and Could Triple Household Water Bills
Top Censored Stories of 2015-2016
A Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
25. NYPD Editing Wikipedia on Police Brutality
24. India’s Solar Plans Blocked by US Interests, WTO
23. Modern-Day Child Slavery: Sex Trafficking of Underage Girls in the US
22. Department of Education Cooperates with ALEC to Privatize Education
21. Little Guantanamos: Secretive “Communication Management Units” in the US
20. The Walmarting of American Education
19. Global Epidemic of Electronic Waste
18. Women’s Movements Offer Global Paradigm Shift toward Social Justice
17. Deadly Medical Neglect for Immigrants in Privatized US Jails
16. Over Three-Quarters of Freedom of Information Act Requests Not Fully Answered
15. Understanding Climate Change and Gender Inequality
14. FBI’s New Plan to Spy on High School Students across the Country
13. US “Vaccine Court” Has Paid over Three Billion Dollars to Vaccine-Injured Families
12. Why Our Lives Depend on Keeping 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
11. CIA Warned Bush Administration of Terrorist Attack Prior to 9/11
10. CISA: The Internet Surveillance Act No One is Discussing
9. Big Pharma Political Lobbying Not Limited to Presidential Campaigns
8. Syria’s War Spurred by Contest for Gas Delivery to Europe, Not Muslim Sectarianism
7. No End in Sight for Fukushima Disaster
6. Over 1.5 Million American Families Live on Two Dollars Per Person Per Day
5. Corporate Exploitation of Global Refugee Crisis Masked as Humanitarianism
4. Search Engine Algorithms and Electronic Voting Machines Could Swing 2016 Election
3. Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Threaten to Permanently Disrupt Vital Ocean Bacteria
2. Crisis in Evidence-Based Medicine
1. US Military Forces Deployed in Seventy Percent of World’s Nations
Top Censored Stories of 2014-2015
A Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
#25 Greenland’s Meltwater Contributes to Rising Sea Levels
#24 NSA’s AURORAGOLD Program Hacks Cell Phones around World
#23 Unprocessed Rape Kits
#22 Global Killing of Environmentalists Rises Drastically
#21 The New Amazon of the North: Canadian Deforestation
#20 FBI Seeks Backdoors in New Communications Technology
#19 “Most Comprehensive” Assessment Yet Warns against Geoengineering Risks
#18 ICREACH: The NSA’s Secret Search Engine
#17 Media “Whitewash” Senate’s CIA Torture Report
#16 US Military Sexual Assault of Colombian Children
#15 Big Sugar Borrowing Tactics from Big Tobacco
#14 Global Forced Displacement Tops Fifty Million
#13 Pentagon and NATO Encircle Russia and China
#12 Seeds of Doubt: USDA Ignores Popular Critiques of New Pesticide-Resistant Genetically Modified Crops
#11 Pesticide Manufacturers Spend Millions on PR Response to Declining Bee Populations
#10 Costa Rica Setting the Standard on Renewable Energy
#9 Millions in Poverty Get Less Media Coverage Than Billionaires Do
#8 Who Dies at the Hands of US Police—and How Often
#7 Fear of Government Spying is “Chilling” Writers’ Freedom of Expression
#6 Methane and Arctic Warming’s Global Impacts
#5 Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Deepens
#4 Popular Resistance to Corporate Water Grabbing
#3 89 Percent of Pakistani Drone Victims Not Identifiable as Militants
#2 Oil Industry Illegally Dumps Fracking Wastewater
#1 Half of Global Wealth Owned by the 1 Percent
Top Censored Stories of 2013-2014
A Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
Censored 2015 Honorable Mentions
25. “Chaptered Out”: US Military Seeks to Balance Budget on Backs of Disabled Veterans
24. Restorative Justice Turns Violent Schools Around
23. Number of US Prison Inmates Serving Life Sentences Hits New Record
22. Corporate News Media Understate Rape, Sexual Violence
21. Questioning the Charter School Hype
20. Estonia a Global Example of E-Government, Digital Freedom, Privacy, and Security
19. Agribusiness Giants Attempt to Silence and Discredit Scientists Whose Research Reveals Herbicides’ Health Threats
18. National Database of Police Killings Aims for Accountability
17. 2016 Will Find Gaza out of Drinking Water
16. The Beef Industry’s “Feedlot Feedback Loop”
15. Reporting Miscarriages, Criminalizing Pregnant Women’s Bodies
14. Accumulating Evidence of Ongoing Wireless Technology Health Hazards
13. Lawsuit Challenges Nuclear Power Industry Immunity from Liability in Nuclear Accidents
12. Pentagon Awash in Money Despite Serious Audit Problems
11. Wealthy Donors and Corporations Set Think Tanks’ Agendas
10. World Health Organization Suppresses Report on Iraqi Cancers and Birth Defects
9. US Media Hypocrisy in Covering Ukraine Crisis
8. Corporate News Ignores Connections Between Extreme Weather and Global Warming
7. FBI Dismisses Murder Plot against Occupy Leaders as NSA and Big Business Cracks Down on Dissent
6. The Deep State: Government “without Reference to the Consent of the Governed”
5. Bankers Back on Wall Street Despite Major Crimes
4. Corporate Internet Providers Threaten Net Neutrality
3. WikiLeaks Revelations on Trans-Pacific Partnership Ignored by Corporate Media
2. Top Ten US Aid Recipients All Practice Torture
1. Ocean Acidification Increasing at Unprecedented Rate
Top Censored Stories of 2013
25. Evidence Points to Guantánamo Dryboarding
24. Alabama Farmers Look to Replace Migrants with Prisoners
23. US Covers up Afghan Massacre
22. Wachovia Bank Laundered Money for Latin American Drug Cartels
21. Conservatives Attack US Post Office to Break the Union and Privatize Postal Services
20. Stealing from Public Education to Feed the Prison-Industrial Complex
19. New York Police Plant Drugs on Innocent People to Meet Arrest Quotas
18. Palestinian Women Prisoners Shackled during Childbirth
17. Students Crushed By One Trillion Dollars in Student Loans
16. Sexual Violence against Women Soldiers on the Rise and under Wraps
15. Dangers of Everyday Technology
14. Who Are the Top 1 Percent and How Do They Earn a Living?
13. Education “Reform” a Trojan Horse for Privatization
12. US Joins Forces with al-Qaeda in Syria
11. Members of Congress Grow Wealthier Despite Recession
10. HR 347 Would Make Many Forms of Nonviolent Protest Illegal
9. Prison Slavery in Today’s USA
8. NATO War Crimes in Libya
7. 2012: The International Year of Cooperatives
6. Small Network of Corporations Run the Global Economy
5. First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions Loaned to Major Banks
4. FBI Agents Responsible for Majority of Terrorist Plots in the United States
3. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Worse than Anticipated
2. Oceans in Peril
1. Signs of an Emerging Police State
Top Censored Stories of 2012-2013
25. Israel Gave Birth Control to Ethiopian Immigrants Without Their Consent
24. Widespread GMO Contamination: Did Monsanto Plant GMOs Before USDA Approval?
23. Transaction Tax Helps Civilize Wall Street and Lower the National Debt
22. Pennsylvania Law Gags Doctors to Protect Big Oil’s “Proprietary Secrets”
21. Monsanto and India’s “Suicide Economy”
20. Israel Counted Minimum Calorie Needs in Gaza Blockade
19. The Power of Peaceful Revolution in Iceland
18. Fracking Our Food Supply
17. The Creative Commons Celebrates Ten Years of Sharing and Cultural Creation
16. Journalism Under Attack Around the Globe
15. Food Riots: The New Normal?
14. Wireless Technology a Looming Health Crisis
13. A Fifth of Americans Go Hungry
12. The US Has Left Iraq with an Epidemic of Cancers and Birth Defects
11. Bush Blocked Iran Nuclear Deal
10. A “Culture of Cruelty” along Mexico–US Border
9. Icelanders Vote to Include Commons in Their Constitution
8. Bank Interests Inflate Global Prices by 35 to 40 Percent
7. Merchants of Death and Nuclear Weapons
6. Billionaires’ Rising Wealth Intensifies Poverty and Inequality
5. Hate Groups and Antigovernment Groups on Rise across US
4. Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
3. Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens a Regime of Corporate Global Governance
2. Richest Global 1 Percent Hide Trillions in Tax Havens
1. Bradley Manning and the Failure of Corporate Media
Top Censored Stories of 2012
1. More US Soldiers Committed Suicide Than Died in Combat
2. US Military Manipulates the Social Media
3. Obama Authorizes International Assassination Campaign
4. Global Food Crisis Expands
5. Private Prison Companies Fund Anti–Immigrant Legislation
6. Google Spying?
7. U.S. Army and Psychology’s Largest Experiment–Ever
8. The Fairytale of Clean and Safe Nuclear Power
9. Government Sponsored Technologies for Weather Modification
10. Real Unemployment: One Out of Five in US
11. Trafficking of Iraqi Women Rampant
12. Pacific Garbage Dump—Did You Really Think Your Plastic Was Being Recycled?
13. Will a State of Emergency Be Used to Supersede Our Constitution?
14. Family Pressure on Young Girls for Genitalia Mutilation Continues in Kenya
15. Big Polluters Freed from Environmental Oversight
16. Sweatshops in China Are Making Your iPods While Workers Suffer
17. Superbug Bacteria Spreading Worldwide
18. Monsanto Tries to Benefit from Haiti’s Earthquake
19. Oxfam Exposes How Aid Is Used for Political Purposes
20. US Agencies Trying to Outlaw GMO Food Labelling
21: Lyme Disease: An Emerging Epidemic
22. Participatory Budgeting – A Method to Empower Local Citizens & Communities
23. Worldwide Movement To Ban or Charge Fees For Plastic Bags
24. South Dakota Takes Extreme Measures to Be the Top Anti–Abortion State
25. Extension of DU to Libya
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