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Project Censored Validated Independent News: Stories Under Review

Here are some stories currently under review at Media Freedom Foundation and Project Censored as compiled by the Director, Dr. Peter Phillips. These are validated independent news stories ignored, distorted, or undercovered by the corporate mainstream media. This is part of a new and ongoing role Project Censored is playing in reporting valid news, vetted by college and university students and professors, a ...

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Bush/Cheney Mission Accomplished Redux: 6th Anniversary Early Edition

Iraq by the numbers...OverviewMore SpecificsOne million dead Iraqis, four million refugees, almost 5,000 US soldiers dead and another 35,000 wounded Americans with hundreds of thousands applying for VA benefits...a bankrupt economy and a $3.2 trillion war. Blame the new guy. Mission Accomplished. Juan Cole, Professor of History at the University of Michigan, recently remarked upon former Vice President Dick ...

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The New American Censorship

Much has been afoot these few months of 2009. We are now not only promoting Censored 2009, but writing Censored 2010. For starters, and why I am not writing here as often, you can see the Project Censored blog at Daily Censored news. The Director of Project Censored, Dr. Peter Phillips, and I have been giving several talks about the future of Project Censored International and the Media Freedom Foundation a ...

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Dear Progressives For Obama: Say It Ain't So…

Barack Obama Administration Continues US Military Global Dominance By Dr. Peter Phillips, Professor of Sociology and Director of Project Censored The Barack Obama administration is continuing the neo-conservative agenda of US military domination of the world— albeit with perhaps a kinder-gentler face. While overt torture is now forbidden for the CIA and Pentagon, and symbolic gestures like the closing of th ...

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Another Year of Fear

Another Year of Fear has come and gone. See my latest bit at the new Project Censored blog The Daily Censored for more info you don't hear on the nightly corporate news. Also, feel free to give the gift of a tax deductible donation to Project Censored if you are so inclined. I'll have many updates of the past semester of activities as I was so busy I didn't have a lot of tome to post...but there's always ne ...

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Cautionary Tales From the Land of Hope

Post election waves of hope and exhilaration are hard to deny in the progressive circles of America. An end to eight years of the Worst rule the country has arguably ever seen is certainly cause for celebration. But how much? Friend and colleague, Professor Robert Abele, cautions on Obama: The Great Disappointment that may yet unfold. As we're reminded, Cornell West, the philosopher from Princeton, said it ...

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Project Censored 2009: The Top 25 Censored Stories of 2007-08

Project Censored, the media research group at Sonoma State University (SSU), has just released it's annual report on the top stories that didn't make the corporate mainstream news from the past year. The book is published by Seven Stories Press. Censored 2009, edited by director Dr. Peter Phillips with Dr. Andrew Roth, exposes the major stories Americans should know and care about that the "free press" just ...

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Seven Years of the 9/11 Truth Emergency

Seven years ago the New Pearl Harbor of the Twenty First Century took place. President Bush anointed it as such in his journal the very night of September 11th, 2001, and even suggested Osama bin Laden was to blame without a shred of evidence (that still has yet to be produced). What followed was a government and corporate media induced frenzy of nationalism, jingoism, and fear that paved the way to the dis ...

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A Mythic Return…

After some time on a couple writing projects, teaching "History of US Media" in Berkeley and a few online history courses this summer, and settling in to some new gigs, I am now trying to get back to the "blogosphere" on a more regular basis. So, an update and a few personal remarks seem in order.We're now getting into the Fall Semester for 2008, an election year, so, there will be much to report that goes ...

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"UnAmerican" Thoughts on the Fourth of July

Thomas Jefferson once said that dissent was highest form of patriotism. In recognition of the chief editor of the Declaration of Independence, let's take some of Tom's advice in this regard.Well, my friends at AK Press do. They always have a party for America in July. But, it's not the kind of party most Americans have. The San Francisco Bay Area is special that way. That's why the Left Coast is called home ...

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