Project Censored

Project Censored is a media research, education, and advocacy initiative that champions the importance of a free press for democratic self-government. The Project’s mission is to expose and oppose news censorship and to promote independent investigative journalism, media literacy, and critical thinking.It was founded at Sonoma State University (California, USA) in 1976.

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 * Regime changes in Iraq and Libya, Syria’s war, Venezuela’s crisis, sanctions on Cuba, Iran, Russia, and North Korea are reflections of a new global imperialism imposed by a core of capitalist nations in support of trillions of dollars of concentrated investment wealth. This new world order of mass capital has become a totalitarian empire of inequality and repression...Recognizing global imperialism as a manifestation of concentrated wealth, managed by a few hundred people, is of utmost importance for democratic humanitarian activists. We must stand on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and challenge global imperialism and its fascist governments, media propaganda, and empire armies.
 * Wealth Concentration Drives a New Global Imperialism (13 March 2019)


 * The federal Bureau of Land Management (BLM) continues to push ahead with their latest attempt to lease land near Chaco National Historical Park in New Mexico and other sites, which are sacred to Native American tribes, to oil and gas drilling companies... There has been little to no media coverage regarding...the BLM’s plans for these sacred grounds.
 * BLM Pushes Ahead with Oil Drilling Permits on Sacred Ground, Unhindered By Shutdown  (12 March 2019)


 * In 2009 Illinois legislators signed into law the Video Gaming Act which legalized video gambling and paved the way for rapid and massive installation of such machines across the state. These machines were supposed to solve the state’s woeful finances—instead, a decade later, the state has lost over $1 billion on video gambling and has opened the gates to a flood of new problems—including a whirlwind rise in gambling addiction... Coverage of video gambling in Illinois has been limited... The Chicago Tribune—Illinois’s largest paper—has ignored the negatives of video gambling, and no other major national paper has covered the topic in any depth.
 * Illinois Places Disastrous Bet on Video Gambling; Other States Likely to Follow (12 March 2019)