Project Censored’s “Censored 2011: The Top Censored Stories of 2009-2010″

Project Censored has once again released it's annual list of the most important global events that somehow didn't manage to make it into the mainstream media. Below we have the top 5 censored news stories and a link to the remaining 20. It makes for VERY interesting reading, I'm sure you will agree.

1. Global Plans to Replace the Dollar

Nations have reached their limit in subsidizing the United States’ military adventures. During meetings in June 2009 in Yekaterinburg, Russia, world leaders such as China’s President Hu Jintao, Russia’s President Dmitry Medvedev, and other top officials of the six-nation Shanghai Cooperation Organisation took the first formal step to replace the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The United States was denied admission to the meetings. If the world leaders succeed, the dollar will dramatically plummet in value; the cost of imports, including oil, will skyrocket; and interest rates will climb.

Project Censored Article

The American Empire Is Bankrupt

Iran and Russia nip at US global dominance

De-Dollarization: Dismantling America’s Financial-Military Empire

Medvedev Shows Off Sample Coin of New ‘World Currency’ at G-8

UN wants new global currency to replace dollar

Latin American Leftists Tackle Dollar with New Currency


2. US Department of Defense is the Worst Polluter on the Planet

The US military is responsible for the most egregious and widespread pollution of the planet, yet this information and accompanying documentation goes almost entirely unreported. In spite of the evidence, the environmental impact of the US military goes largely unaddressed by environmental organizations and was not the focus of any discussions or proposed restrictions at the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. This impact includes uninhibited use of fossil fuels, massive creation of greenhouse gases, and extensive release of radioactive and chemical contaminants into the air, water, and soil.

Project Censored Article

Pentagon's Role in Global Catastrophe: Add Climate Havoc to War Crimes

Can You Identify the Worst Polluter on the Planet? Here's a hint: shock and awe.

Guam Residents Organize Against US Plans for $15B Military Buildup on Pacific Island

U.S. navy plots Arctic push

Cancer – The Deadly Legacy of the Invasion of Iraq


3. Internet Privacy and Personal Access at Risk

Following in the steps of its predecessor, the Obama administration is expanding mass government surveillance of personal electronic communications. This surveillance, which includes the monitoring of the Internet as well as private (nongovernmental) computers, is proceeding with the proposal or passage of new laws granting government agencies increasingly wider latitude in their monitoring activities. At the same time, private companies and even some schools are engaging in surveillance activities that further diminish personal privacy.

Project Censored Article

Deep Packet Inspection: Telecoms Aided Iran Government to Censor Internet, Technology Widely Used in US

Obama Sides With Bush in Spy Case

Deep-Packet Inspection in U.S. Scrutinized Following Iran Surveillance

Bill would give president emergency control of Internet

Should Obama Control the Internet?

Exclusive: U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets


4. ICE Operates Secret Detention and Courts

Agents of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are holding thousands of US residents in unlisted and unmarked subfield offices and deporting tens of thousands in secret court hearings.

“If you don’t have enough evidence to charge someone criminally but you think he’s illegal, we can make him disappear.” Those chilling words were spoken by James Pendergraph, then executive director of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Office of State and Local Coordination, at a conference of police and sheriffs in August 2008.

Project Censored Article

America's Secret ICE Castles

Secret Courts Exploits Immigrants

ICE Agents' Ruse Operations

Locked Up Far Away


5. Blackwater (Xe): The Secret US War in Pakistan

At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and al-Qaeda operatives inside and outside Pakistan. The Blackwater operatives also gather intelligence and help direct a secret US military drone bombing campaign that runs parallel to the well-documented CIA predator strikes, according to a well-placed source within the US military intelligence apparatus.

Project Censored Article

The Secret US War in Pakistan

Blackwater Wants to Surge its Armed Force in Afghanistan

Ex-employees claim Blackwater pimped out young Iraqi girls

These are all massively important topics in their own right, but what makes them even more alarming is that they have consistently managed to stay out of the media spotlight, making the thought of a 'free press' absolutely laughable.

Make sure you check out the full list as each one is just as important as the last

The full list can be seen here.

Now that is a darn good site. All those goodies wrapped up in a nice tidy package. Thanks a lot for that link!

reply to post by erumisato


Yep, it's a great site that I make sure to visit regularly. It's a shabby state of affairs when something like Project Censored even has to exist, but I'm glad it does!

I remember when project censored themed threads used to get a ton of replies on ATS...

reply to post by TheBandit795


Have you not heard?

Wikileaks is king :shk: