Censored 2010: Stories of 2008-2009
Archive for the Category ‘Top 25 of 2010’
25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon
Sources: PloS One, August 2008 Title: “Oil and Gas Projects in the Western Amazon: Threats to Wilderness, Biodiversity, and Indigenous Peoples” Authors: Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Stuart L. Pimm, Brian Keane, and Carl Ross The Guardian, August 13, 2008 Title: “Amazon rainforest threatened by new wave of oil and gas exploration” Author: Ian Sample [...]
24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion
Source: Global Research, March 29, 2009 Title: “Economic Meltdown: The “Dollar Glut” is What Finances America’s Global Military Build-up” Author: Michael Hudson Student Researcher: Frances Capell Faculty Evaluator: Mickey Huff Sonoma State University The worldwide surplus of dollars is forcing foreign central banks to bear the costs of America’s expanding military empire. Keeping international reserves [...]
23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud
Sources: AlterNet, March 17, 2009 Title: “Fifth World Water Forum Marked by Violence and Repression” Author: Jeff Conant AlterNet, March 18, 2009 Title: “An Inside Peek: Why the World Water Forum Is a Sham” Author: Jeff Conant Democracy Now! March 23, 2009 Title: “Water Rights Activists Blast Istanbul World Water Forum as ‘Corporate Trade Show [...]
22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team
Source: August Review.com, January 30, 2009 Title: “Obama: Trilateral Commission Endgame” Author: Patrick Wood Student Researcher: Sarah Maddox Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips Sonoma State University Barack Obama appointed eleven members of the Trilateral Commission to top-level and key positions in his administration within his first ten days in office. This represents a very narrow source [...]
21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare
Sources: Mother Jones, January 15, 2009 Title: “Brave New Welfare” Author: Stephanie Mencimer Associated Press, March 26, 2009 Title: “States consider drug tests for welfare recipients” Author: Tom Breen Student Researcher: Samantha Barowsky, Southwest Minnesota State University Malana Men, Sonoma State University Faculty Evaluator: Douglas Anderson, PhD Southwest Minnesota State University Many states are in [...]
20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates
Sources: Open Debates, September 18, 2008 Title: “Pro-democratic Groups Call on Debate Commission to Make Secret Contract Public” Author: George Farah Democracy Now! October 2, 2008 Title: “No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates” Interviewee: George Farah Student Researchers: Erin Galbraith, Natalie Dale, and Kerry Headley Faculty Evaluator: Mickey [...]
19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor
Source: Huffington Post, January 27, 2009 Article: “Bailout Spent to Defeat Labor” Author: Sam Stein Student Researchers: Ben Kaufman and Rosemary Scott Faculty Evaluator: Kelly Bucy, PhD Sonoma State University On October 17, 2008, three days after Bank of America Corporation received $25 billion in federal bailout funds, they hosted a conference call to organize [...]
18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature
Source: Upside Down World, September 25, 2008 Title: “Ecuador’s Constitution Gives Rights to Nature” Author: Cyril Mychalejko Student Researcher: Chelsea Davis Faculty Evaluator: Elaine Wellin, PhD Sonoma State University In September 2008 Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare constitutional rights to nature, thus codifying a new system of environmental protection. Reflecting [...]
17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan
Sources: Inter Press Service, March 9, 2009 Title: “Aren’t There War Crimes in The US? Legitimacy of Global Court Questioned Over Sudan” Author: Thalif Deen Dissindentvoice.org, Black Star News, and San Francisco Bay View, March 6, 2009 Title: “Africom’s Covert War in Sudan” Author: Keith Harmon Snow Michelcollon.info, April 1, 2009 Title: “The Darfur crisis: [...]
16. US Repression of Haiti Continues
Sources: Haiti Liberté, September 4, 2008 Title: “UN Military Base Expanding: What is Washington up to in Cité Soleil?” Author: Kim Ives Upside Down World, June 25, 2008 Title: “Bush Administration Accused of Withholding ‘Lifesaving’ Aid to Haiti” Author: Cyril Mychalejko Upside Down World, August 4, 2008 Title: “RFK Center Releases Documents Outlining US Actions [...]
15 World Banks Carbon Trade Fiasco
Source: Upside Down World, February 11, 2009 Title: “The World Bank and Climate Change: Sustainability or Exploitation?” Author: Mary Tharin Student Researchers: Victoria Masucci and Christine Wilson Faculty Evaluator: Elaine Wellin, PhD Sonoma State University In the name of environmental protection, the World Bank is brokering carbon emission trading arrangements that destroy indigenous farmlands around [...]
14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts
Source: Opensecrets, April 3, 2008 Title: “Strategic Assets” Author: Lindsay Renick Mayer Student Researchers: Leora Johnson and Michael Seramin Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips PhD Sonoma State University The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated that more than 151 members of Congress have up to $195 million invested in major defense contractors that are earning [...]
13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War
Sources: The Nation, December 17, 2008 Title: “Katrina’s Hidden Race War” Author: A.C. Thompson The Nation, December 18, 2008 Title: “Body of Evidence” Author: A.C. Thompson Democracy Now! December 19, 2008 Title: “Katrina’s Hidden Race War: In Aftermath of Storm, White Vigilante Groups Shot 11 African Americans in New Orleans” Student Researcher: Aimee Drew Evaluator: [...]
12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief
Sources: The Raw Story, September 29, 2008 Title: “Republican IT consultant subpoenaed in case alleging tampering with 2004 election” Authors: Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane The Brad Blog, December 22, 2008 Title: “OH Election Fraud Attorney Reacts to the Death of Mike Connell“ Author: Brad Friedman Democracy Now! December 22, 2008 Title: “Republican IT Specialist [...]
11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine
Sources: WhoProfits.org Title: “Who Profits? Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry” Authors: The Coalition of Women for Peace Palestine News Network, August 26, 2008 Title: “US Tax Breaks Support Israeli Settlers” Workers World Newspaper, February 9, 2009, and Global Research, February 11, 2009 Title: “The Tunnels of Gaza, An underground economy and resistance symbol” Author: Sara [...]
10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate
Sources: Alternet, November 26, 2008 Title: “As Crisis Mounts, Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate and Illegal” Author: Daniel Denvir Utube, Fall 2008 Title: “Invalid Loans to Ecuador: Who Owes Who” Producer: Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit Foreign Policy in Focus, December 15, 2008 Title: “Ecuador’s Debt Default” Authors: Neil Watkins and Sarah [...]
9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza
Sources: Human Rights Watch, March 25, 2009 Title: “White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes Report: Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza” Author: Fred Abrahams Consortium News, January 18, 2009 Title: “Is Israel’s Gaza War a New War Crime?” Author: Dennis Bernstein Flashpoint Radio ( KPFA) Gaza Special ( January [...]
8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions
Sources: Bloomberg, December 16, 2008 Title: “Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1% or $14 Million” Author: Christine Harper The Huffington Post, February 23, 2009 Title “Gimme Shelter: Tax Evasion and the Obama Administration” Author: Thomas B. Edsall Student Researcher: Valerie Janssen and Aimee Drew Faculty Evaluators: BC Franson, JD, SMSU and Robert Girling, PhD, [...]
7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past
Sources: ConsortiumNews.com, November 13, 2008 Title: “The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates” Author: Robert Parry Global Research, February 13, 2009 Title: “Obama’s Defense Department Appointees- The 3.4 Trillion Dollar Question” Author: Andrew Hughes Democracy Now! January 7, 2009 Title: “Obama Nominee Admiral Dennis Blair Aided perpetrators of 1999 church Killings in East Timor” Interviewee: Allan [...]
6. Lobbyists Buy Congress
Source: Open Secrets.org Title: “Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy” Authors: Center for Responsive Politics Student Researchers: Alan Grady and Leora Johnson Faculty Evaluator: John Kramer, PhD Sonoma State University According to a study by The Center for Responsive Politics, special interests paid Washington lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008—more than any [...]
5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products
Sources: Scientific American, September 30, 2008 Title: “European Chemical Clampdown Reaches Across Atlantic” Author: David Biello Environmental Defense Fund, September 30, 2008 Title: “How Europe’s New Chemical Rules Affect US” Democracy Now! February 24, 2009 Title: “US Lags Behind Europe in Regulating Toxicity of Everyday Products” Author: Mark Schapiro Student Researchers: Caitlin Ruxton (SSU), Annie [...]
4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina
Source: CounterPunch, August 9, 2008 Title: “Pools of Fire” Author: Jeffrey St. Clair Student Researchers: Krisden Kidd and Karene Schelert Faculty Evaluator: Heidi LaMoreaux, PhD Sonoma State University One of the most lethal patches of ground in North America is located in the backwoods of North Carolina, where Shearon Harris nuclear plant is housed and [...]
3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates
Sources: Al Jazeera English, October 11, 2008 Title: “Toxic waste behind Somali piracy” Author: Najad Abdullahi Huffington Post, January 4, 2009 Title: “You are being lied to about pirates” Author: Johann Hari WardheerNews, January 8, 2009 Title: “The Two Piracies in Somalia: Why the World Ignores the Other” Author: Mohamed Abshir Waldo Student Researcher: Christine [...]
2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s
Source: The Civil Rights Project, UCLA, January 2009 Title: “Reviving the Goal of an Integrated Society: A 21st Century Challenge” Author: Gary Orfield Student Researchers: Rena Hawkins, Southwest Minnesota State University Melissa Robinson, Sonoma State University Faculty Evaluator: Sangeeta Sinha, PhD Southwest Minnesota State University Schools in the United States are more segregated today than [...]
1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street
Truthout, October 2, 2008 Title: “Lax Oversight? Maybe $64 Million to DC Pols Explains It” Author: Greg Gordon Capitol Eye, February 10, 2009 Title: “Congressmen Hear from TARP Recipients Who Funded Their Campaigns” Author: Lindsay Renick Mayer Rolling Stone, March 19, 2009 Title: “The Big Takeover” Author: Matt Taibbi Student Researchers: Jocelyn Rapp and Caitlin [...]
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