Censored 2014
Subtitle: fearless speech in fateful times : the top censored stories and media analysis of 2012-13
By: [edited by] Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Sarah van Gelder ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib
Contributors: Project Censored (U.S.)
Edition: Seven Stories Press first edition.
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 431
ISBN-13: 9781609804947
Subjects: Modern History; Journalism; Censorship; American Reportage literature
Other titles: 14 censored
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Solutions in a time of climate meltdown : the most censored (and indispensible) story / by Sarah van Gelder; title: Censored news and media analysis. Note on research and evaluation of censored news stories ; Top 25 censored stories from 2012-13 and censored news clusters. Top 25 story summaries / compiled by Andy Lee Roth. Bradley Manning and the failure of corporate media ; Richest global 1 percent hide trillions in tax havens ; Trans-Pacific partnership threatens a regime of corporate global governance ; Obama's war on whistleblowers ; Hate groups and antigovernment groups on rise across US ; Billionaires' rising wealth intensifies poverty and inequality ; Merchants of death and nuclear weapons ; Bank interests inflate global prices by 35 to 40 percent ; Icelanders vote to include commons in their constitution ; A "culture of cruelty" along Mexico-US border ; Bush blocked Iran nuclear deal ; The US has left Iraq with an epidemic of cancers and birth defects ; A fifth of Americans go hungry ; Wireless technology a looming health crisis ; Food riots : the new normal? ; Journalism under attack around the globe ; The Creative Commons celebrates ten years of sharing and cultural creation ; Fracking our food supply ; The power of peaceful revolution in Iceland ; Israel counted minimum calorie needs in Gaza blockage ; Monsanto and India's "suicide economy" ; Pennsylvania law gags doctors to protect Big Oil's "proprietary secrets" ; Transaction tax helps civilize Wall Street and lower the national debt ; Widespread GMO contamination : did Monsanto plant GMOs before USDA approval? ; Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian immigrants without their consent; title: Censored news clusters. Whistleblowers and gag laws / by Brian Covert ; Plutocracy, poverty, and prosperity / by James F. Tracy ; Human rights and civil liberties / by Susan Rahman and Donna Nassor ; Technologies and ecologies of war / by Targol Mesbah and Zara Zimbardo ; Health and the environment / by Susan Rahman and Liliana Valdez-Madera ; Iceland, the power of peaceful revolution, and the Commons / by Andy Lee Roth; title: Déjà vu : what happened to previous censored stories? / by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon ; with Andrew O'Connor-Watts, Jen Eiden, Allen Kew, Emmie Ruhland, Aaron Hudson, Rex Yang, Sam Park, Amitai Cohen, Michael Kolbe, and Matthew Carhart ; Can't touch this : junk food news and news abuse / by Mickey Huff, Michael Kolbe, Nolan Higdon, Sam Park, Jennifer Eiden, and Kimberly Soiero ; Media democracy in action : free press and free speech advocates that make a difference / compiled by Mickey Huff ; with contributions by Daniel Ellsberg, On civil courage; Josh Wolf, Journalism that matters; William Creely, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; Christopher M. Finan, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; Acacia O'Connor, National Coalition Against Censorship and Kids' Right to Read; Tony Diaz, Librotraficante; Beau Hodai, DBA Press; Sunsara Taylor, Stop patriarchy; John Collins, The Weave; and Ken Walden, What the world could be; title: Critical thinking, media literacy, and narratives of power. Digging deeper : politico-corporate media manipulation, critical thinking, and democracy / by Elliot D. Cohen ; Diffusing conspiracy panics : on the public use of reason in the twenty-first century truth emergency / by James F. Tracy ; Censorship that dares not speak its name : the strange silencing of liberal America / by John Pilger ; Screening the homeland : how Hollywood fantasy mediates state fascism in the US of empire / by Rob Williams; title: Case studies of "unhistory" in the making; title: and how to build a better future. Exposing the financial core of the transnational capitalist class / by Peter Phillips and Brady Osborne ; Apple exposed : the untold story of globalization / by Nicki Lisa Cole and Tara Krishna ; The "new" American imperialism in Africa : secret Sahara wars and AFRICOM / by Brian Martin Murphy ; The sixth mass extinction / by Julie Andrzjewski and John C. Alessio ; The new story : why we need one and how to create it / by Michael Nagler.