“Project Censored educates students and the public about the importance of a truly free press for democratic self-government. We expose and oppose news censorship and we promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking.
The growth of independent media and journalism in recent years shows that people throughout the world yearn to hold not only their leaders accountable, but their media sources as well. For that reason, the Project Censored research program continues, in its small way, to support and highlight those who tell the truth about the powerful (no matter the consequences) and are relentless in their quest to hold Big Media accountable for their decisions”.
The Project Censored Award is granted to the authors of news stories which are censored or excluded from the mainstream media. Global Research from the outset has supported the endeavors of the Project Censored Team.
This year, five Global Research authors are the recipients of the 2012-2013 Project Censored Award. Global Research is indebted to these distinguished authors for their outstanding contributions.
The Project Censored award was granted to:
Kevin Zeese for his contribution to the debate on the Trans Pacific Partnership, Ellen Brown for her analysis of how bank interest leads to hikes in the prices of consumer goods, James Tracy on the detrimental impacts of wireless technology on the health of Americans. Cassandra Anderson and Anthony Gucciardi on the insidious role of Monsanto.
Kevin Zeese: The Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens a Regime of Corporate Global Governance
Below is the complete list of Project Censored awards
Top 25 Censored Stories from 2012-2013
25. Israel Gave Birth Control to Ethiopian Immigrants Without Their Consent
In January Israel acknowledged that medical authorities have been giving Ethiopian immigrants long-term birth-control injections often without their knowledge or consent…
24. Widespread GMO Contamination: Did Monsanto Plant GMOs Before USDA Approval?
Monsanto introduced genetically modified alfalfa in a full two years before it was deregulated according to recently released evidence…
23. Transaction Tax Helps Civilize Wall Street and Lower the National Debt
In February United States senators Tom Harkin D-Iowa and Peter DeFazio D-Oregon introduced a bill to implement a new tax of three basis points that is three pennies for every hundred dollars on most nonconsumer stock trades…
22. Pennsylvania Law Gags Doctors to Protect Big Oil’s “Proprietary Secrets”
In communities affected by hydraulic fracturing or fracking people understand that this process of drilling for natural gases puts the environment and their health at risk…
21. Monsanto and India’s “Suicide Economy”
Monsanto has a long history of contamination and cover-up and in India another Monsanto cover-up is ongoing…
20. Israel Counted Minimum Calorie Needs in Gaza Blockade
Declassified documents reveal that the Israeli military calculated how many calories a typical Gazan would need to survive in order to determine how much food to supply the Gaza Strip during the blockade…
19. The Power of Peaceful Revolution in Iceland
After privatization of the national banking sector private bankers borrowed billions of dollars or ten times the size of Iceland s economy creating a huge economic bubble that doubled housing prices and made a small percentage of the population exceedingly wealthy…
18. Fracking Our Food Supply
The effects of hydraulic fracturing or fracking on food supply and the environment are slowly emerging…
17. The Creative Commons Celebrates Ten Years of Sharing and Cultural Creation
Creative Commons CC is celebrating ten years of helping writers artists technologists and other creators share their knowledge and creativity with the world…
16. Journalism Under Attack Around the Globe
Journalists are increasingly at risk of being killed or imprisoned for doing their jobs a situation that imperils press freedom…
15. Food Riots: The New Normal?
Reduced land productivity combined with elevated oil costs and population growth threaten a systemic global food crisis…
14. Wireless Technology a Looming Health Crisis
As a multitude of hazardous wireless technologies are deployed in homes schools and workplaces government officials and industry representatives continue to insist on their safety despite growing evidence to the contrary…
13. A Fifth of Americans Go Hungry
An August Gallup poll showed that percent of Americans lacked sufficient money for needed food at least once over the previous year…
12. The US Has Left Iraq with an Epidemic of Cancers and Birth Defects
High levels of lead mercury and depleted uranium are believed to be causing birth defects miscarriages and cancer for people living in the Iraqi cities of Basra and Fallujah…
11. Bush Blocked Iran Nuclear Deal
According to a former top Iranian negotiator Seyed Hossein Mousavian in Iran offered a deal to the United States France Germany and the United Kingdom that would have made it impossible for Iran to build nuclear weapons…
10. A “Culture of Cruelty” along Mexico–US Border
Migrants crossing the Mexico US border not only face dangers posed by an unforgiving desert but also abuse at the hands of the US Border Patrol…
9. Icelanders Vote to Include Commons in Their Constitution
In October Icelanders voted in an advisory referendum regarding six proposed policy changes to the Constitution…
8. Bank Interests Inflate Global Prices by 35 to 40 Percent
A stunning thirty-five to forty percent of everything we buy goes to interest…
7. Merchants of Death and Nuclear Weapons
The Physicians for Social Responsibility released a study estimating that one billion people one-seventh of the human race could starve over the decade following a single nuclear detonation…
6. Billionaires’ Rising Wealth Intensifies Poverty and Inequality
As a direct result of existing financial policies the world s one hundred richest people grew to be billion richer in…
5. Hate Groups and Antigovernment Groups on Rise across US
The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC which monitors hate groups and antigovernment groups released a report showing that radical antigovernment patriot groups and militias actively operate within the United States…
4. Obama’s War on Whistleblowers
Obama signed both the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act expanding whistleblower protections in November and the National Defense Authorization Act NDAA furthering these protections in January…
3. Trans-Pacific Partnership Threatens a Regime of Corporate Global Governance
The Trans-Pacific Partnership TPP branded as a trade agreement and negotiated in unprecedented secrecy is actually an enforceable transfer of sovereignty from nations and their people to foreign corporations…
2. Richest Global 1 Percent Hide Trillions in Tax Havens
The global percent hold twenty-one to thirty-two trillion dollars in offshore havens in order to evade taxes according to James S Henry the former chief economist at the global management consulting firm McKinsey Company…
1. Bradley Manning and the Failure of Corporate Media
In February United States military intelligence analyst Bradley Manning confessed in court to providing vast archives of military and diplomatic files to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks saying he wanted the information to become public to make the world a better place and that he hoped to spark a domestic debate on the role of the military in US foreign policy…Continue Reading…
