Censored 2006: The Top 25 Censored Stories

by Project Censored and Peter Phillips

Book Overview

The yearly volumes of Censored, in continuous publication since 1976 and since 1995 available through Seven Stories Press, is dedicated to the stories that ought to be top features on the nightly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583226923
• ISBN13: 9781583226926
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Seven Stories Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

thanks for this project

Kudos to the program getting students involved in putting together this series. This is an excellent project especially since we are still in a democratic society. I hope more people get to participate in this.

Read this book!

A great read. If you have the accasional thought that runs along the lines of "well, maybe it's not too bad" - then you need to read this. Freedom of speech, huh! Nice concept.

free media at stake

Since the right-wing owned corporate mainstream media sides with corporations (who own them) and their agenda, we must turn to alternative source of information in order to learn what is going on around us. Censorship is apprently immense and many people do not realize it, hence they remained uninformed what affects them on a daily basis. Spend less time watching football games or American Idol-type of shallow and useless shows, and read books instead. You will be surprised how little you know. Thank you.

The book seems to never end but it is full of good stuff

In this book Dahr Jamail records witnesses to the assault on Fallujah in late 2004 who describe U.S. troops killing civilians trying to swim across the Euphrates to escape the fighting, rolling tanks over wounded bodies, killing people waving white flags and invading homes and killing people when they didn't respond to commands in English. At the Fallujah General hospital and a hospital ten miles away, U.S. forces engaged in a quite blatant violation of the Geneva Convention by invading the hospitals and making doctors and patients lie on the ground shackled, shooting out lights, firing at ambulances killing one drivers, shooting out doors, blocking access roads and access out of the hospital for ambulances and so on. Jamail records the feeling of people in the Al Dura region outside Baghdad who report U.S destruction of their wells and fields and records witnesses to the civilian deaths of U.S. bombs dropped on civilian areas. It is explained in the book that according to the Lancet/John Hopkins study which estimated 100,000 Iraqi civilians killed in the year after the March 2003 invasion as a result of that invasion, died for the most part not by direct killing by U.S. soldiers, but by rocket and missile attacks, unexploded cluster bombs, etc. He notes that while violent crimes against women averaged about once every several months under Saddam, this increased to several per week by July 2003 under the blessings of American occupation. The Iraqi government commission on the media set up by Bremer has banned and threatened news outlets, which don't toe its line. The book has a section surveying abuses of freedom of speech and press in the world. In U.S. allies like Egypt and Morrocco, excuses are still found to jail journalists and send out masked men to beat them up. In Tunisia, the country's press association was expelled by the International Federation of Journalists after the former gave an award for press freedom to the country's virtual dictator President Ben Ali, a notorious persecutor of opposition journalists. In Afghanistan, journalists report that they heavily exercise self-censorship for fear of facing retaliation from the warlords, the real rulers of the country. The book points out the deception behind the Oil for Food scandal uproar. It notes that it was not the demonized UN leadership but the U.S. and UK dominated the UN sanctions committee which approved all the Oil For Food Deals. U.S. allies Turkey and Jordan gained U.S. acquiescence in the billion dollar smuggling of Iraqi oil that went on over their borders. 80 percent of Iraqi oil during the sanctions period ended up in the hands of U.S. companies. Another section deals with the situation in Haiti. The old barbaric military and police have regained power on behalf of the U.S. installed Latortue government and gone around beating up judges who try to prosecute them. Thousands are in jail w/o charge.. Rape has been a particular tool used by this regime.. Amnesty Inter

If The Majority Are Unaware Of A Crime, Then ....Did It Really Happen?

"They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality...and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." ~ Orwell, 1984 You are being to lied to at every turn. Truth is dismissed as propaganda, while propaganda is presented as truth. It's been this way for so long that most people aren't capable or willing to examine it. It's too alien, unfamiliar. Project Censored helps by serving as a counterbalance. How could so many be part of what would have to be a broad, intricate "conspiracy" to lie to the public? ..people ask. It's complex, not always black and white, and largely has taken root through the individual's internalization of self-serving, illusory truths and facts as doing so is seen as benefitial for advancement, wealth and social status. "That's just how it is," is the resounding collective concession, not willing, of course, to likewise concede that dire problems long ignored invariably courts disaster. Regulated media through corporate consolidation, and Orwellian "de-regulation" policies = the demise of democracy. Naturally, if, from birth, a person is indoctrinated into a system of beliefs and values, that is, a 'worldview,' via mass media, that reinforces highly deceptive perceptions of self, society, and state, than to address those views with fact-based skepticism is akin to pulling a rug out from underneath those whose propagandized perceptions constitute the very fabric of their consciousness ...so, it's little wonder why many won't or don't want to face the magnitude of the truth, and instead attack the messenger. People will always take mental shortcuts, and if the encouraged daily round of living, through example, doesn't permit or condone critical thinking, reading, research, ability and confidence to voice views beyond that which they have been strategically 'instructed' to abide, you end up with this bizarre experiment that we have in the U.S.: constitutional strongholds that permit many rights and liberties for all, yet, a majority that take those rights for granted to the extent that when broad, unprecedented measures are taken to eliminate and subvert those rights and march us toward a closed, totalitarian society, they fail to acknowledge that it's actually happening ...because they're unable to see it. They can't see it because the all-reaching media apparatus assures them it isn't so. And if their disbelief persists, they'll have to take on some thick skin as they'll be personally attacked and shouted-down. And once someone becomes a somewhat established dissident, the facts and views she/he brings are routinely ignored, because the personal attacks brought against them only misdirect away from those views and facts for so long. If you're skeptical of the lies being sold, you're largely considered an enemy, a malcontent, and within establishment rhetoric and policy[Patriot Act], are on par with "the terrorists." One doesn't have to look too far back into his