Project Censored has news from under the radar in the United States

Censored 2009 was released today, an annual yearbook that examines the top 25 most important news stories not covered by the corporate mainstream media in the United States.

More than 200 faculty, students, and community experts at Sonoma State University participated in selecting the most important censored news stories. Founded in 1976, Project Censored has been under the directorship of professor Peter Phillips for the past 12 years.

“In modern society censorship is any interference with the free flow of information,” Phillips said in a media release. “We are faced with a Truth Emergency in the United States that will require a renaissance of independent media to correct.”

Here’s a list of the 25, but it’s worth checking them out in full.

1) Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
2) Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
3) InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
4) US International Law Enforcement Academy is Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America
5) War Protesters’ Assets can be Seized by the Treasury Department
6) The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act
7) Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
8) Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
9) Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
10) American Psychology Association Complicit in CIA Torture
11) El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror
12) Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind
13) Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
14) Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
15) Worldwide Slavery Spreads
16) Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights
17) UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights
18) Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers
19) Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction
20) Marijuana Arrests Set New Record
21) NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option
22) CARE Rejects US Food Aid
23) FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs
24) Japan’s Parliament Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror
25) Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer