Top 20 Underreported Stories for 2009

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2Solitudes has put together a nice intro for each of the 20 stories on their site HERE.

source: Project Censored - Founded by Carl Jensen in 1976, Project Censored is a media research program working in cooperation with numerous independent media groups in the US. Project Censored’s principle objective is training of SSU students in media research and First Amendment issues and the advocacy for, and protection of, free press rights in the United States.

Here are the headings;
1 Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation
2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA
3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business
4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?
5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets
6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (HR1955 & S1959)
7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking
8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly
9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify
10 APA 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 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq
14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste
15 Worldwide Slavery
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