Censored 2000: The Year's Top 25 Censored Stories Book

	Preface	11
	Acknowledgments	15
	Introduction	25
Chapter 1	The Top 25 Censored News Stories of 1999	27
1	Multinational Corporations Profit from International Brutality	28
2	Pharmaceutical Companies Put Profits before Need	31
3	Financially Bloated American Cancer Society Fails to Prevent Cancer	32
4	American Sweatshops Sew U.S. Military Uniforms	35
5	Turkey Destroys Kurdish Villages with U.S. Weapons	37
6	NATO Defends Private Economic Interests in the Balkans	40
7	U.S. Media Reduces Foreign Coverage	44
8	Planned Weapons in Space Violate International Treaty	46
9	Louisiana Promotes Toxic Racism	51
10	The U.S. and NATO Deliberately Started the War with Yugoslavia	52
11	America's Largest Nuclear Test Exposed Thousands	57
12	Evidence Indicates No Pre-war Genocide in Kosovo and Possible U.S./KLA Plot to Create Disinformation	58
13	U.S. Agency Seeks to Export Weapons Grade Plutonium to Russian Organization Linked to Organized Crime	63
14	U.S. Media Ignores Humanitarian Aspects of Famine in Korea	64
15	Early Puberty Onset for Girls May be Linked to Chemicals in the Environment and Increases in Breast Cancer	67
16	Media Distorts Debate on Affirmative Action	70
17	World Bank's Resettlement Program Displaces Millions	73
18	California Convicts and Punishes Teenagers as Adults	75
19	Bacterium in Cow's Milk May Cause Crohn's Disease	77
20	IMF and World Bank Contributed to Economic Tensions in the Balkans	80
21	The Vatican's U.N. Status Challenged	84
22	U.S. and Germany Trained and Developed the KLA	86
23	International Conference Sets World Agenda for Peace	92
24	U.S. Nuclear Weapons Controlled by Unstable Personnel	95
25	U.S. Military Trains Solders to Kill and Eat Tame Animals	97
	Project Censored Honorable Mentions for 1999	103
Chapter 2	Censored Deja Vu: What Happened to Last Year's Most Censored Stories	119
Chapter 3	News Abuse of 1999	157
Chapter 4	Is the Press Really Free?	165
	Who is Killing the Press?	165
	Objectivity and the Limits of Press Freedom	171
	Is the Press Really Free in the 21st Century?	176
	What Free Press?	183
Chapter 5	Oligopoly: The Big Media Game has Fewer and Fewer Players	187
Chapter 6	The Media and their Atrocities	199
Chapter 7	The Media Battle of Seattle	211
Chapter 8	Information Equity for the 21st Century	221
Chapter 9	Media Accountability: News Councils and Ombudsmen	229
Chapter 10	The Battle for Free Speech Radio	235
Chapter 11	Falun Gong: Demonized in China, Downplayed in America	253
Appendix A	Most Censored News Stories for 1999 Publication Source List	265
Appendix B	Media Activist Resource Guide	271
Appendix C	Top 5 Censored Reprints	295
	About the Editor	340
	Project Censored Mission Statement	340
	Index	341
	Postscript: How to Nominate a Censored Story	352