Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

American website Project Censored has compiled a list of the top 25 Censored stories for 2009. If the press was truely free, these stories would receive more coverage but the mainstream media continues to churn out the same irrelevant nonsense to ensure people have more in common with mushrooms (kept in the dark and fed on shite) than they do with intelligent thinking beings.

Top of the list is the information from prestigious polling organisation Opinion Research Business that over one million Iraqi people have been killed as a result of the US occupation. Reliable research also concludes that up to 4 million Iraqis have been made refugees during the same period. Out of this, there are 1.5 million Iraqis in Syria alone. Where are the extensive media reports and interviews from the people suffering from this massive humanitarian disaster caused by imperialism? They don’t exist because for the mainstream media, the Iraqi people are non-people. The BBC for example spent most of one of its news programmes on the snowfall across Britain. By the way it was reported you’d think it was the start of the next ice age with the world as we know it coming to an end. Another example is the latest coverage about an ex-Big Brother celebrity who happens to be dying of cancer and getting married. I’m ashamed I even know about it, but you couldn’t escape it. That’s what people are paying their TV licences for. I can only imagine how angry and disturbed the average Iraqi is at everything that’s happened. Their country has been mercilessly ripped apart. I read an emotional article last week by an Iraqi woman, expressing some of this anger. You’d never be let hear anything as real as that on the BBC (or indeed, the RTE).

This top 25 list is a good reminder to anyone interested in knowing what’s actually happening in the world; real human stories effecting real humans. Massive government corruption, undercover ‘security’ agreements and general erosions of civil liberties are not new revelations to anyone regularly looking at independent media. This also goes for the stories about slavery (there are more slaves in the world today than at any other time in history) and the widespread oppression of indigenous peoples. I’m sure so much more could be added to the list – it’s just a snippet of underreported stories.