Project Censored Announces Release of Censored 2004

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Project Censored at Sonoma State University Announces the Winners of the

2002-3 Most Censored News Stories

 

September 10, 2003

Contact: Trish Boreta

Project Censored: Sonoma State University

707-664-2500, E-mail: censored

 

 

Project Censored has announced the release of their picks for the Most

Censored News Stories of the Year for 2002-2003. The news stories were

selected by over 200 student researchers and faculty and represent the most

important under-covered news stories of the year. Full synopsis of the 25

most censored news stories is available on line at

http://www.projectcensored.org/publications/2004/index.html. The stories

may be reprinted and shared for non-profit use only. For permission for

commercial publication and reprint rights contact Project Censored. A full

review of the top ten censored stories is included below from the San

Francisco's Bay Guardian's coverage from September 10.

 

Project Censored's annual yearbook, Censored 2004 from Seven Stories Press

is now available in bookstores nationwide. This years books includes an

introduction by Amy Goodman, Co-host of the national radio news show

Democracy Now!. Censored 2004 is a comprehensive analysis of the dangers of

media consolidation in the United States and full review of the most

important issues involving freedom on information for the American public.

In addition to the 25 Most Censored News Stories for 2002-3 the Censored

2004 includes updates regarding last year's Most Censored Stories, a review

of the Junk Food News and News Abuse stories of the year, an analysis of

the Big Five Media Giants by Mark Crispen Miller, and guest chapters on

national media issues by Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, (FAIR), PR

Watch, and the International Index on Censorship. Commentaries on key media

issues are included by Robin Andersen, Peter Phillips, Michael Parenti,

Normon Soloman, Davey D, Herb Forestel, Nancy Kranich, Tom Lough, and

Kenichi Asano

 

Project Censored will host the winners of this year's awards on Saturday

October 4, 2003 at the annual Project Censored Awards Ceremony in the

Jewish Cultural Center 200 San Pedro Road, San Rafael, CA. A full reception

will start at 6:00 PM and the awards ceremony will begin at 7:30. Guests

can share wine and hors d'ouvres with authors and Project Censored national

judges starting at 6:00 PM with the awards ceremony beginning at 7:30.

Larry Bensky from KPFA will be master of ceremonies and former member of

Congress Cynthia McKinney will keynote on the " Importance of Freedom of

Information. " Free Speech TV will televise the program nationally on Dish

TV. For Reservations call 707-664-3373. Tickets will be sold at the door

for $25.00 until the seating is filled.

 

Below is the story from the San Franciso Bay Guardian's annual release of

the Most Censored news stories for 2004.

 

Censored! Neocons' Plans For Global Domination Top The Annual List Of

Stories Ignored Or Downplayed By The Mainstream Media.

 

By Camille T. Taiara

S.F. Bay Guardian September 10, 2003

If there's one influence that has shaped worldwide politics over the past

year, it's the extent to which the Bush administration has exploited the

events of Sept. 11, 2001, to solidify its military and economic control of

the world at the expense of democracy, true justice, and the environment.

But President George W. Bush hasn't simply been responding to world events.

The agenda his administration has followed fits perfectly with a clearly

defined plan that's been in place for more than a decade.

The neoconservative blueprint for U.S. military domination is hardly a

secret. A group called the Project for a New American Century - a think

tank founded by hawks who now hold prominent jobs in the White House -

released a version of it three years ago. The document is shocking in its

candor: it asserts that the United States should be moving unilaterally to

assert military control around the globe and that all that's necessary to

jump-start the effort is a " new Pearl Harbor. "

Yet none of the major news media in this country have reported on this

document or on the fact that Bush is so closely following its script.

That's the biggest " censored " story in the nation last year, according to

Sonoma State University's Project Censored, a 27-year-old program dedicated

to shining some light on the shortcomings of the major news media.

Researchers at Sonoma State meticulously combed through news reports from

2002 and the first quarter of 2003 to find stories that didn't get the

media attention they deserved. This year's big stories include the attack

on civil liberties at home, Donald Rumsfeld's plan to provoke terrorists,

and treaty-busting by the United States.

In many cases, these stories got little or no play - or else were presented

piecemeal, without any attempt to put the information in context.

" The stories this year reflect a clear danger to democracy and governmental

transparency in the U.S. - and the corporate media's failure to alert the

public to these important issues, " Project Censored director Peter Phillips

told the Bay Guardian. " The magnitude of total global domination has to be

the most important story we've uncovered in a quarter century. "

What follows is the Bay Guardian's rundown of Project Censored's top 10

censored or underreported stories for last year:

1. The Neoconservative Plan For Global Dominance

" Terror: A question of when, not if " read the front-page headline of the

Sept. 7, 2002, San Francisco Chronicle. Americans, the article argued, will

just have to get used to the fact that we're now engaged in a " perpetual

war. "

Later that day Bush went on TV to ask the nation for another $87 billion

for the fight against terrorism. But the concept of perpetual war, and the

military strategy that comes with it - of unilateralism, preemptive

strikes, and a " forward presence " in key regions throughout the globe - is

nothing new. The Sept. 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the

Pentagon simply provided the perfect rationale to implement existing plans.

Back in the early 1990s, hawks in Bush Sr.'s administration - notably,

then-<\d>Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, with the help of General Colin

Powell and Paul Wolfowitz (at the time, the Joint Chiefs of Staff chair and

Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, respectively) - drew up a plan that

was virtually identical to the National Security Strategy unveiled in

September 2002.

Their blueprint - first spelled out in a 1992 classified internal policy

statement titled " Defense Planning Guidance " (later repeated in Cheney's

" Defense Strategy for the 1990s, " formally released in January 1993) -

called for the United States to assert its military superiority to prevent

the emergence of a new superpower rival.

It called for the United States to diversify its military presence

throughout the world, offered a policy of preemption, argued for the

expansion of the U.S. nuclear program while discouraging those of other

countries, and foresaw the need for the United States to act alone, if need

be, to protect its interests and those of its allies. Sound familiar?

Yet the neocons knew they faced a hard sell as Bill Clinton took office.

" Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources, " a report

released by the Project for the New American Century in 2000, stated that

the United States needed a catastrophe - " a new Pearl Harbor, " as the

authors called it - to jump-start the neocons' blueprint for

all-encompassing military and economic world dominance. (PNAC was founded

by none other than Cheney, Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Donald Rumsfeld, and

other former Reagan and Bush administration hawks.)

Then came the attacks of Sept. 11 - just nine months after the Bush

administration took office. The events of that day provided the perfect

excuse for Cheney and company to finally see their plans to fruition.

Top on their list of targets was Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Within 24 hours of

the planes hitting the World Trade Center and the Pentagon - and without so

much as an inkling of evidence as to who had carried out the attacks -

Attorney General John Ashcroft was already calling for war on Iraq,

according to a report by Bob Woodward in the Washington Post.

Indeed, the neocons have had the Persian Gulf in their crosshairs for 30

years now. After the oil crisis of 1976 and the Gulf states'

nationalization of their petroleum industries in the years that preceded

it, the United States began building up forces in the region - primarily in

Saudi Arabia - and strengthening relationships with regional dictatorships.

The reasons seem simple: the region holds two-thirds of the world's oil.

" Control over the Persian Gulf translates into control over Europe, Japan,

and China, " Hampshire College professor and Resource Wars author Michael

Klare told Mother Jones. " It's having our hand on the spigot. "

David Armstrong, Harper's Magazine, October 2002; Robert Dreyfuss, Mother

Jones, March 2003; John Pilger, www<\d>.pilger<\d>.carlton<\d>.com, Dec.

12, 2002.

2. Homeland security threatens civil liberties

The year 2002 ought to be remembered as the year when Big Brother came of

age. As the Pentagon waged unending war abroad in the name of battling

terrorism, the Bush administration pursued a parallel, wholesale war on

dissent at home, fusing foreign intelligence operations with domestic

security.

Agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation were granted sweeping

powers to spy on U.S. citizens. Civil liberties took the greatest hit in

the last 30 years as the feds consistently slashed away at our basic

constitutional rights - including the right to privacy, to any semblance of

a fair trial in cases broadly defined as terrorism-related, and to the

freedoms of speech, association, and assembly.

The Bush administration undertook all this and much more by means of the

USA PATRIOT Act, executive orders, and the newly created Department of

Homeland Security.

On Oct. 1, 2002, the government established the Northern Command - a branch

of the U.S. armed forces empowered to coordinate military " assistance " to

domestic law enforcement agencies. That was just the latest in a push to

allow the federal government to use the U.S. military against its own

citizens in the event of mass civil unrest. (That trend wasn't without

precedent: an anonymous Justice Department official reportedly told the

Seattle Weekly, in late December 1999, that the feds had deployed an elite

U.S. Army strike force by the name of the Delta Force, to infiltrate the

now-infamous anti-<\d>World Trade Organization demonstrations in that city

weeks earlier.)

Yet media coverage of such measures was piecemeal at best - and failed to

shed light on the sordid details and ominous repercussions that accompanied

them.

But it gets worse: The administration is pushing the Domestic Security

Enhancement Act of 2003, dubbed Patriot Act II. Now that there's

opposition, the administration is trying to sneak major provisions through

as riders in other congressional bills.

" The second Patriot Act is a mirror image of powers that Julius Caesar and

Adolf Hitler gave themselves, " Alex Jones wrote on www.rense.com.

Frank Morales, Global Outlook, Winter 2003; Alex Jones,

www<\d>.rense<\d>.com, Feb. 11, 2003, and Global Outlook, Vol. 4; Charles

Lewis and Adam Mayle, Center for Public Integrity, Feb. 7, 2003.

3. U.S. illegally removes pages from Iraq U.N. report

Bush administration insiders often take extreme measures to protect their

own - including those who supplied Hussein's regime with weapons of mass

destruction and training on how to use them.

Even as Bush urged military action against Iraq for the country's failure

to divulge details of its alleged chemical, biological, and nuclear

arsenal, the U.S. government covertly removed 8,000 of the 11,800 pages of

the weapons declaration the Iraqi government had submitted to the United

Nations Security Council and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

But the Iraqis released copies of the full report to key media outlets in

Europe. It turns out that the missing pages may have contained damning

details on 24 U.S.-based corporations, various federal departments and

nuclear weapons labs, and several high-ranking members of the Reagan and

Bush administrations that, from 1983 until 1990, helped supply Hussein with

botulinum toxins, anthrax, gas gangrene bacteria, the makings for nuclear

weapons, and associated instruction. Among those implicated: Eastman Kodak,

Dupont, Honeywell, Hewlett-Packard, Bechtel, the U.S. Department of Energy

and Department of Agriculture, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,

the Los Alamos National Laboratory, and Sandia National Laboratories, and

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfield.

Michael I. Niman, ArtVoice, Jan. 1, 2003, and The Humanist, March/April

2003.

4. Rumsfeld's plan to provoke terrorists

Buried deep in one of its Sunday issues late last October, the Los Angeles

Times published a story by military analyst William Arkin about a slew of

secret armies the Pentagon had been creating around the world. One such

force caught the eye of Moscow Times columnist and regular CounterPunch

contributor Chris Floyd, who picked up on the tip and ran with it.

" According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld by his Defense

Science Board, the new organization - the 'Proactive, Preemptive Operations

Group (dubbed the 'Pee-Twos')' - will carry out secret missions designed to

'stimulate reactions' among terrorist groups, provoking them into

committing violent acts which would then expose them to 'counterattack' by

U.S. forces, " Floyd wrote.

In short, the alleged document seemed to show that the Pentagon was gearing

up to actively instigate terrorist acts, despite the risk to innocent

civilians. " The Pee-Twos will thus come in handy whenever the Regime

hankers to add a little oil-laden real estate or a new military base to the

Empire's burgeoning portfolio, " Floyd continued. " Just find a nest of

violent malcontents, stir 'em with a stick, and presto: instant

'justification' for whatever level of intervention/conquest/rapine you

might desire. " Or, he proffers, just make them up after the fact.

Chris Floyd, CounterPunch, Nov. 1, 2002.

5. The effort to make unions disappear

What better way to make those pesky unions disappear than by branding them

a threat to national security? That's precisely what the neocons in the

White House and on Capitol Hill have been doing - in a blatant move to

break some of the country's most powerful labor syndicates. And, so far,

they've gotten away with it.

Bush - certainly not known as a stalwart of workers' rights - invoked his

war on terrorism rhetoric in early October 2002 to force striking

International Longshore and Warehouse Union dock workers in Oakland back on

the job, thereby undermining the future of the ILWU's West Coast labor

agreement.

" Some $300 billion worth of cargo - equivalent to 30 percent of U.S. gross

domestic product - passes through ILWU members' hands each year, " Lee

Sustar wrote in Z Magazine. (The ILWU is also renowned as one of the

nation's most progressive unions - having shut down ports up and down the

Pacific Coast in solidarity with Mumia Abu-Jamal and, later, the anti-WTO

protesters in Seattle during the '90s.)

Then, when the Bush administration created the Department of Homeland

Security, its secretary Tom Ridge invoked similar reasoning to argue that

the department's employees be exempted from civil service regulations

governing pay scales, hiring and promotion practices, bans on

discrimination, whistle-blower protections, and - last but not least -

collective bargaining rights. The formation of the DHS accounted for the

largest restructuring of U.S. government since 1947 and brought together

more than 100 executive agencies under one roof - equaling a total of

180,000 workers.

Immigrant workers also took a big hit. The federalization of airport

screeners caused thousands of noncitizens to lose their jobs. Others were

swept up by Immigration and Naturalization Service raids targeting not only

baggage screeners but also other airport workers, including food servers.

Lee Sustar, Z Magazine, Sept. 20, 2002; David Bacon, War Times,

October-November 2002; Anne-Marie Cusac, The Progressive, February 2003;

Robert L. Borosage, The American Prospect, March 2003.

6. Closing access to information technology

All the stories that make up this year's Project Censored winners were

gleaned from alternative and international media sources. Likewise,

progressives quickly learned to seek out sources like CommonDreams.org,

truthout.org, and the U.K. Independent's Web site for the real news on the

latest war on Iraq. The Internet has functioned as the single most

important medium for accessing these kinds of information. But if the big

communications companies get their way, the Web could be compromised as a

democratic source of alternative news and perspectives. Soon what we get

from the Web could be a carbon copy of what we already get from corporate

TV, cable, radio, and newspapers.

For several years now, businesses that provide access to the Web - cable,

telephone, and (more recently) satellite companies - have been working to

cash in on their control over distribution.

Unlike the companies controlling telephone lines (which by law must grant

access to any company that wants to use them), the Federal Communications

Commission opted, in spring 2002, to grant cable companies full control

over who could use their cable networks - and under what terms. Cable

companies can now manage the speed at which different sites pop up, block

out any content they choose, and even deny sites and ISPs access to their

lines altogether. Of course, telephone companies have since been lobbying

for the same exclusive rights over DSL.

The telephone and cable lines are controlled by monopolies in most U.S.

cities and towns. (Comcast, now the world's largest cable company, exerts

sole control over cable lines serving almost one third of U.S. households -

including San Francisco.) Without any open-access laws to preserve

competition, those monopolies are sure to hike up their rates, making it

more difficult for small businesses and nonprofits to stay online.

The thousands of ISPs currently available could dwindle to just two or

three for any given region, as broadband distributors like AOL Time Warner

favor their own companies' ISPs over others. Customers might be forced to

pay more for a wider variety of sites, and companies could block whatever

sites they chose to.

Of course, the largest media conglomerates have already been merging with

the companies that provide Internet access to the vast majority of U.S.

households and that stand to gain handsomely from such a deal. So is it any

wonder they've blacked out the story?

Arthur Stamoulis, Dollars and Sense, September 2002.

7. Treaty busting by the United States

Even as the Bush administration publicly demanded that terrorists be

brought to justice and that Iraq, Iran, North Korea, and others dismantle

their (in Iraq's case, alleged) nuclear weapons programs, it consistently

worked to undermine hard-fought international agreements - including

numerous treaties and the international court system - meant to do just

that.

Bush has resuscitated the Reagan-era missile defense program, pursued the

development of a " Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator " bomb and other

small-size nuclear weapons for use in its military campaigns abroad,

declared its intent to create bio-warfare-agent facilities at the Lawrence

Livermore and Los Alamos labs, adopted a policy of preemptive military

strikes, waged an illegal war against Iraq, and actually voted to authorize

a U.S. military attack on the International Criminal Court in the Hague

should the ICC dare try any American for war crimes.

In fact, the United States has now " either blatantly violated or gradually

subverted " at least nine multilateral treaties on which it is a signatory,

Project Censored found. These include the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty,

the Chemical Weapons Commission, the Biological Weapons Convention, the

Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the

Treaty Banning Antipersonnel Mines, the Kyoto Protocol on global warming,

the U.N. Convention on Climate Change, and the Rome Statute of the ICC.

All these action have been taken in the name of national security. Yet,

" this unprecedented rejection of and rapid retreat from global treaties ...

will render these treaties and conventions invalid without the support and

participation of the world's foremost superpower, " wrote Project Censored's

authors.

Marylia Kelly and Nicole Deller, Connections, June 2002; John B. Anderson,

The Nation, April 2002; Eamon Martin, Ashville Global Report, June

20-<\d>26, 2002; John Valleau, Global Outlook, Summer 2002.

8. U.S. and British forces continue use of depleted uranium weapons despite

massive evidence of negative health effects

Former Sergeant First Class Carol Picou will never be the same after

serving in the first Gulf War. On the front lines with a mobile medical

unit, " I noticed that all the bodies that were on the highways and the

tanks and all the armament that was damaged was burnt, " the veteran nurse

told Hustler magazine last spring. " It was actually literally black, and I

thought the Iraqi people were black-skinned. It amazed me that they were

burnt that bad - that we would have used some type of armament that would

actually melt these people into their vehicles. "

Picou began experiencing serious health effects almost immediately. Back in

the United States, her muscles were deteriorating. She permanently lost

control of her bowels. She suffered from 104-degree fevers, and her skin

would break open and bleed. Rather than take care of Picou, who had served

in the armed forces since 1978, the Army medically discharged her against

her wishes in 1995.

" More than 9,600 of the relatively young Operation Desert Storm veterans

have died since serving in Iraq, a statistical anomaly, " wrote Dan

Kapelovitz, the reporter who interviewed Picou. Of those still living, more

than a third - upward of 236,000 - have filed Gulf War Syndrome-<\d>related

claims with the Veteran's Administration.

Research overwhelmingly suggests these ailments and deaths were caused by

depleted uranium, a metal the military uses in much of its hardware that is

so dense it can pierce through steel-armored tanks. But this radioactive

material has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, according to renowned

scientist Helen Caldicott. In Iraq incidences of cancer, childhood

leukemia, and rare mutations in newborns have skyrocketed.

A study conducted by the U.S. Army in 1990, at least six months before the

first Gulf War, shows the U.S. government knew what the effects would be.

Nonetheless, the Americans and Brits dropped anywhere between 300 to 800

tons of the stuff on Iraq over the four-day assault. They've done nothing

to clean up the radioactive mess left behind.

" In effect, George Bush Sr. used weapons of mass destruction on his own

people, " Kapelovitz continued.

But it didn't end there. The United States has since used depleted uranium

weapons in Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and again during its most recent

assault on Iraq - a fact that was reported in the European media but not

widely in the United States.

Dan Kaplevitz, Hustler, June 2003; Reese Erlich, Children of War, March

2003.

9. In Afghanistan: poverty, women's rights, and civil disruption worse than

ever

Rather than allow the international community to supply sufficient security

forces to safeguard Afghan citizens from brutal warlords - and thereby

create the foundation necessary for democracy and reconstruction - the

United States has instead financed and armed regional warlords in its

effort to root out the last remaining al-Qaeda forces.

As a result, by October 2002 - a year after the United States embarked on

its campaign to " liberate " that war-torn Central Asian country - private

armies were estimated to be 700,000 strong. (The International Security

Assistance Force, in contrast, consists of a scant 5,000 troops - only

enough to provide meager protection for Kabul, Afghanistan's capital.)

The practice has, in effect, strengthened the nation's endemic system of

military feudalism. The heroin trade has skyrocketed. Life expectancy is a

mere 46 years - with more than one in four children not making it to their

fifth birthday. Only 10 percent of those who survive have access to an

education. In many regions the constraints placed on women's basic

liberties have reverted to those imposed by the Taliban. Per capita average

yearly income is only $280. And the basic infrastructure needed to

reintroduce law and order - like a working justice system, banking

institutions, a national army - remains a pipe dream.

In short, thanks to American policies, Afghanis are more forsaken than

ever. Yet, as far as the mainstream U.S. media are concerned, Afghanis'

worst fear has come true: Afghanistan has once again dropped off the

corporate media's radar - and, with it, that of the American public.

Ahmed Rashid, The Nation, Oct. 14, 2002; Pranjal Tiwari, Left Turn,

February/March 2003; Jan Goodwin, The Nation, April 29, 2002; Scott

Carrier, with a photo essay by Chien-Min Chung, Mother Jones, July/August

2002.

10. Africa faces new threat of colonialism

Many Americans are now at least marginally aware of recent neoliberal

economic programs such as the Free Trade Area of the Americas and Plan

Colombia. But how many have heard of the New Partnership for Africa's

Development - a plan being forwarded by the world's most powerful

industrialized nations?

NEPAD was launched at the G8 meeting in June 2002 - presumably to help

combat poverty in Africa by encouraging outside investment. Curiously

enough, the architects of the program didn't bother to consult with

representatives of a single African nation while drawing up their plan.

Critics fear the program is just another bid by more powerful nations to

exploit the continent's last remaining natural resources - at the expense

of Africans themselves.

First-world meddling has already wrought havoc on Africa. During the cold

war, the United States alone injected $1.5 billion worth of weaponry and

training into the continent - now the most war-torn in the world. From 1991

to 1995 the United States increased its military contributions to 50 of

Africa's 53 nations. Millions have died from war, displacement, disease,

and starvation as a result.

Meanwhile, structural adjustment programs force-fed to African nations by

the International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and G8 in the name of

development have only resulted in the continent's foreign debt rising by a

whopping 500 percent over the past 20 years. More of the same isn't likely

to help.

Michelle Robidoux, Left Turn, July/August 2002; Asad Ismi, Briarpatch, vol.

32, no. 1 (excerpted from the CCPA Monitor, October 2002); Tewolde Berhan

Gebre Egziabher, New Internationalist, January/February 2003._

 

Project Censored's other picks for 2002-3

11. U.S. implicated in Taliban massacre Kendra Sarvadi, Asheville Global

Report; Adam Porter, In These Times.

12. Bush administration behind failed military coup in Venezuela Duncan

Campbell and Greg Palast, The London Guardian; Joe Taglieri, Global

Outlook; Karen Talbot, People's Weekly World; Jon Beasley-Murray, NACLA

Report on the Americas.

13. Corporate personhood challenged Thom Hartmann, CommonDreams and Impact

Press; Thom Hartmann, Wild Matters; Jim Hightower, The Hightower Lowdown.

14. Unwanted refugees a global problem Daniel Swift, In These Times;

Charles Bowden, Mother Jones; Bill Frelick, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.

15. U.S. military's war on the earth Bob Feldman, Dollars and Sense; David

S. Mann and Glenn Milner, Washington Free Press; John Passacantando, Wild

Matters.

16. Plan Puebla-Panama and the FTAA Miguel Pickard, CorpWatch.org; Timi

Gerson, Public Citizen's Trade Watch; Tom Hansen and Jason Wallach,

Labornotes; Rachel Coen, Asheville Global Report and Extra!

17. Clear Channel monopoly draws criticism Jeff Perlstein, MediaFile.

18. Charter forest proposal threatens access to public lands Kristin

Robison, Earth First! Journal; Jon Margolis, American Prospect.

19. U.S. dollar vs. the euro: another reason for the invasion of Iraq

William Clark, The Sierra Times; Cóilín Nunan, Feasta; William Greider, The

Nation.

20. Pentagon increases private military contracts Nelson D. Schwartz,

Fortune; Pratap Chatterjee, CorpWatch.org; Antony Barnett, London Observer.

21. Third-world austerity policies: coming soon to a city near you Greg

Palast, Harper's Magazine; Michael Parenti, Covert Action Quarterly;

Gabriella Bocagrande, Texas Observer.

22. Welfare reform up for reauthorization but still no safety net Barbara

Ehrenreich and Frances Fox Piven, Mother Jones; Neil deMause, In These

Times; Dave Hage, The American Prospect; Heather Boushey, Dollars and Sense.

23. Argentina crisis sparks cooperative growth Lisa Garrigues, Yes!

Magazine; Leif Utne, Utne Magazine.

24. U.S. aid to Israel fuels repressive occupation in Palestine John

Steinbach, Covert Action Quarterly; Matt Bowles, Left Turn; Bob Wing, War

Times.

25. Convicted corporations receive perks instead of punishment Emad Mekay,

Asheville Global Report; Ken Silverstein, Mother Jones.

 

Author contact: E-mail Camille T. Taiara at camille.

For reprint rights to this story contact city editor Steve Jones at

steve or (415) 487-2552 or Tim Redmond at tr or

415/487-2554.

Artwork accompanying the Project Censored story was done by freelance

artist Chad Crowe. For rights to use contact him directly

atinfo or at (503) 241-7382.

 

Peter Phillips Ph.D.

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