FOREWORD: “Our Free Press” as a Clear and Present Danger by Mark Crispin Miller
INTRODUCTION: by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff
CHAPTER 1: The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2015–16 Compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth
Introduction
Note on Research and Evaluation of Censored News Stories
1. US Military Forces Deployed in Seventy Percent of World’s Nations
2. Crisis in Evidence-Based Medicine
3. Rising Carbon Dioxide Levels Threaten to Permanently Disrupt Vital Ocean Bacteria
4. Search Engine Algorithms and Electronic Voting Machines Could Swing 2016 Election
5. Corporate Exploitation of Global Refugee Crisis Masked as Humanitarianism
6. Over 1.5 Million American Families Live on Two Dollars Per Person Per Day
7. No End in Sight for Fukushima Disaster
8. Syria’s War Spurred by Contest for Gas Delivery to Europe, not Muslim Sectarianism
9. Big Pharma Political Lobbying Not Limited to Presidential Campaigns
10. CISA: The Internet Surveillance Act No One Is Discussing
11. CIA Warned Bush Administration of Terrorist Attack Prior to 9/11
12. Why Our Lives Depend on Keeping 80 Percent of Fossil Fuels in the Ground
13. US “Vaccine Court” Has Paid over Three Billion Dollars to Vaccine-Injured Families
14. FBI’s New Plan to Spy on High School Students across the Country
15. Understanding Climate Change and Gender Inequality
16. Over Three-Quarters of Freedom of Information Act Requests Not Fully Answered
17. Deadly Medical Neglect for Immigrants in Privatized US Jails
18. Women’s Movements Offer Global Paradigm Shift toward Social Justice
19. Global Epidemic of Electronic Waste
20. The Walmarting of American Education
21. Little Guantánamos: Secretive “Communication Management Units” in the US
22. Department of Education Cooperates with ALEC to Privatize Education
23. Modern-Day Child Slavery: Sex Trafficking of Underage Girls in the US
24. India’s Solar Plans Blocked by US Interests, WTO
25. NYPD Editing Wikipedia on Police Brutality
CHAPTER 2: Déjà Vu: Strolling Down Memory Hole Lane by Susan Rahman and Sheila Beasley, Larkin Bond, Katie Kolb, Stephanie Lee, Caitlin McCoy, Alexander Olson, Elizabeth Ramirez, Kenny Rodriguez, Karina Seiler, Claudia Serrano, Kady Stenson, Karl Wada; with Mickey Huff and Sierra Shidner
CHAPTER 3: The Corporate Media’s War on Reality: Faux Elections and the Facade of DeMockracy: Junk Food News and News Abuse for 2015–16 by Nolan Higdon with Mickey Huff, and student researchers Hanna Begnell, Taylor Bledsoe, Aimee Casey, Alexandra Castillo, Daniel Cerezo, Daniel Cervantez, Lauren Freeman, Mitchell Graham, Josh Gorski, Kyle Hunt, Jaspreet Kang, Justin Lascano, Brandy Miceli, George Petrucci, Sarah Powell, Jared Rodda, Edwin Sevilla, Chandler Saul, Sebastian Trucios, Jacob Trutanich, Mark Yolangco
CHAPTER 4: Media Democracy in Action by Mnar Muhawesh (MintPress News), Peter B. Collins ( The Peter Collins Show ), Eric Draitser (Stop Imperialism), Abby Martin ( The Empire Files ), Darcey Rakestraw (Food & Water Watch), Susan Rahman and Eliana Dimopoulos (College of Marin); with an introduction by Andy Lee Roth
CHAPTER 5: Contested Visions, Imperfect Information, and the Persistence of ConspiracyTheories by Susan Maret
CHAPTER 6: Played by the Mighty Wurlitzer: The Press, the CIA, and the Subversion of Truth by Brian Covert
CHAPTER 7: Selling Empire, War, and Capitalism: Public Relations Propaganda Firms in Service to the Transnational Capitalist Class by Peter Phillips, with Ratonya Coffee, Robert Ramirez, Mary Schafer, and Nicole Tranchina
CHAPTER 8: Remote Control: Electronic Surveillance and the Demise of Human Dignity by Elliot D. Cohen
CHAPTER 9: Ike’s Dystopian Dream, and How It Came True by Shahid Buttar
CHAPTER 10: Who’s Afraid of Critical Media Literacy? by Bill Yousman
Acknowledgments
Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President: Project Censored—Forty Years of American News Censorship and Propaganda Exposed by Peter Phillips
How to Support Project Censored
About the Editors