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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 01:17 PM
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Project Censored: Top 25 censored news stories of 2008 (over 2007)
http://www.projectcensored.org/censored_2008/index.htm

via Crooks and Liars

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/11/05/project-censoreds-top-25-censored-stories-of-2008/

Every year they compile a list of the top 25 news stories that you just didn’t hear about through the traditional media. Here’s 2008’s List:

# 1 No Habeas Corpus for “Any Person”
# 2 Bush Moves Toward Martial Law
# 3 AFRICOM: US Military Control of Africa’s Resources
# 4 Frenzy of Increasingly Destructive Trade Agreements
# 5 Human Traffic Builds US Embassy in Iraq
# 6 Operation FALCON Raids
# 7 Behind Blackwater Inc.
# 8 KIA: The US Neoliberal Invasion of India
# 9 Privatization of America’s Infrastructure
# 10 Vulture Funds Threaten Poor Nations’ Debt Relief
# 11 The Scam of “Reconstruction” in Afghanistan
# 12 Another Massacre in Haiti by UN Troops
# 13 Immigrant Roundups to Gain Cheap Labor for US Corporate Giants
# 14 Impunity for US War Criminals
# 15 Toxic Exposure Can Be Transmitted to Future Generations on a “Second Genetic Code”
# 16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
# 17 Drinking Water Contaminated by Military and Corporations
# 18 Mexico’s Stolen Election
# 19 People’s Movement Challenges Neoliberal Agenda (Free Trade through Central and South America)
# 20 Terror Act Against Animal Activists
# 21 US Seeks WTO Immunity for Illegal Farm Payments
# 22 North Invades Mexico
# 23 Feinstein’s Conflict of Interest in Iraq
# 24 Media Misquotes Threat From Iran’s President
# 25 Who Will Profit from Native Energy?

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deminks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 06:35 PM
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1. kick for the evening.
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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 06:39 PM
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2. I bought the "Project Censored" publication every year until,...
,...I joined the terminally un/underemployed.

Thank you for posting! :hi:

Project Censored is a wonderful organization.
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SpiralHawk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-05-07 07:37 PM
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3. # 16 - No Hard Evidence connecting Bin Laden to 9/11
Edited on Mon Nov-05-07 07:45 PM by SpiralHawk
That's a fact. The republicon homelander fascists have never, ever put forward even one shred of evidence that Bin Laden is connected...

What's the truth. I dunno.

But I do know that none of the 9/11 hijackers were from Iraq or Iran, and that almost all of them were from Saudi Arabia. Here's how Commander AWOL Bush and his republicon homelander cronies have responded to the Saudis:



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intheflow Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-06-07 11:38 AM
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4. kick - get out the censored news!
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