CENSORED IN 1977: SALT: THE END OF ARMS CONTROL The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) began by raising hopes for legitimate and intelligent arms reduction. But SALT, far from limiting strategic nuclear weapons has actually spurred the arms trade to dangerous proportions. It now appears that the SALT talks have been a boon for new weapons procurement. This story, the #17 censored story of 1977, appeared ...

CENSORED: 2001-2008 HURRICANE KATRINA TRAGEDY; THE “REAL” REASON FOR IRAQ INVASION; WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; IMMIGRATION ISSUE; ECONOMIC PROBLEMS; FANNIE MAE AND FREDDIE MAC CRISIS; ABU GHRAIB PRISON MISTREATMENT; AND MUCH MORE REPORTED IN 2010 GEORGE W. BUSH: “I COULD HAVE DONE THINGS BETTER” USA TODAY reported on November 9, 2010, how an “Unusually reflective Bush gives his side of the story. … Almost ...

CENSORED IN 1994: THERE’S A LOT OF MONEY TO BE MADE IN POVERTY Want to know what is the hottest new profit center for big blue-chip corporations like ITT, General Motors, American Express, and others? The acceptable term is “fringe banking,” the less acceptable, but more accurate, term is “loan sharking.” Fringe banks are pawn shops and check cashing outlets--operations that serve low-income people, usually ...

CENSORED IN 1980: SOMETHING ROTTEN IN THE GLOBAL SUPERMARKET While modern technology has increased worldwide food production and raised per capita income, millions of landless peasants in Third World countries face starvation and malnutrition. Prime agricultural lands in Third World countries have increasingly been converted to the production of cash export crops by vast transnational agribusiness firms. Wh ...

CENSORED IN 1991: “JUSTICE” AND THE TRIALS OF AMERICA’S AGENT ORANGE VETS For the second time in the past decade, Vietnam veterans and the families of deceased vets have brought a class-action suit against the manufacturers of the lethal herbicide Agent Orange. Hoping to hold the defense contractors that produced Agent Orange accountable for causing their health woes, veterans and their families have filed ...

CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY AND THE USDA The number of cases of salmonella has risen to 2.5 million a year and led to an estimated 500,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths. This national epidemic was caused by a massive leap in consumer demand for the “healthier food” of chicken and by a massive failure of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While the chicken industry has grown ...

CENSORED IN 1976: SUICIDES LEAD VIETNAM VETERAN DEATHS While accurate and current statistics from different sources tend to vary, they do agree on one thing -- more than twice as many American Vietnam veterans have died after returning home than were killed in the fourteen years of actual combat. The estimated number of actual combat deaths ranges from 45,806 to 46,520. Data from the Veterans Administration ...

CENSORED IN 1994: AMERICA’S DEADLY DOCTORS The trust Americans put into their doctors may be sorely misplaced. According to estimates, five to ten percent of doctors -- some 30,000 to 60,000 -- could be hazardous to your health. A study by Public Citizen’s Health Research Group concluded that medical negligence in hospitals alone injures or kills 150,000 to 300,000 Americans each year. Experts cite two majo ...

CENSORED IN 1993: HOW TO SELL POLLUTION FOR PROFIT In early May, 1992, the Wisconsin Power and Light Company sold “pollution credits” to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for about $3 million. In effect, this deal gave TVA permission to spew into the air an additional 10,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, the primary source of acid rain. The sale, the first to be implemented under the pollution credit trading s ...

CENSORED IN 1978: ASTROPOLLUTION HITS HOME Although it no longer makes headlines nor the six o’clock news, about twice a month somebody launches something into space. NASA’s current agenda alone calls for domestic communications satellites, weather satellites, new military communications and surveillance satellites, a satellite to test the magnetosphere, one to study propulsion principles, experimental TV b ...