fearless speech in fateful times : the top censored stories and media analysis of 2012-13
First Statement of Responsibility
[edited by] Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Sarah van Gelder ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib.
EDITION STATEMENT
Edition Statement
Seven Stories Press first edition
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
New York, NY
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Seven Stories Press, [
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2013]
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
431 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
CONTENTS NOTE
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Solutions in a time of climate meltdown : the most censored (and indispensible) story / by Sarah van Gelder --; Censored news and media analysis. Note on research and evaluation of censored news stories --; Top 25 censored stories from 2012-13 and censored news clusters --; Top 25 story summaries / compiled by Andy Lee Roth --; Bradley Manning and the failure of corporate media --; Richest global 1 percent hide trillions in tax havens --; Trans-Pacific partnership threatens a regime of corporate global governance --; Obama's war on whistleblowers --; Hate groups and antigovernment groups on rise across US --; Billionaires' rising wealth intensifies poverty and inequality --; Merchants of death and nuclear weapons --; Bank interests inflate global prices by 35 to 40 percent --; Icelanders vote to include commons in their constitution --; A "culture of cruelty" along Mexico-US border --; Bush blocked Iran nuclear deal --; The US has left Iraq with an epidemic of cancers and birth defects --; A fifth of Americans go hungry --; Wireless technology a looming health crisis --; Food riots : the new normal? --; Journalism under attack around the globe --; The Creative Commons celebrates ten years of sharing and cultural creation --; Fracking our food supply --; The power of peaceful revolution in Iceland --; Israel counted minimum calorie needs in Gaza blockage --; Monsanto and India's "suicide economy" --; Pennsylvania law gags doctors to protect Big Oil's "proprietary secrets" --; Transaction tax helps civilize Wall Street and lower the national debt --; Widespread GMO contamination : did Monsanto plant GMOs before USDA approval? --; Israel gave birth control to Ethiopian immigrants without their consent --; Censored news clusters. Whistleblowers and gag laws / by Brian Covert --; Plutocracy, poverty, and prosperity / by James F. Tracy --; Human rights and civil liberties / by Susan Rahman and Donna Nassor --; Technologies and ecologies of war / by Targol Mesbah and Zara Zimbardo --; Health and the environment / by Susan Rahman and Liliana Valdez-Madera --; Iceland, the power of peaceful revolution, and the Commons / by Andy Lee Roth --; Déjà vu : what happened to previous censored stories? / by Mickey Huff and Nolan Higdon ; with Andrew O'Connor-Watts, Jen Eiden, Allen Kew, Emmie Ruhland, Aaron Hudson, Rex Yang, Sam Park, Amitai Cohen, Michael Kolbe, and Matthew Carhart --; Can't touch this : junk food news and news abuse / by Mickey Huff, Michael Kolbe, Nolan Higdon, Sam Park, Jennifer Eiden, and Kimberly Soiero --; Media democracy in action : free press and free speech advocates that make a difference / compiled by Mickey Huff ; with contributions by Daniel Ellsberg, On civil courage; Josh Wolf, Journalism that matters; William Creely, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education; Christopher M. Finan, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression; Acacia O'Connor, National Coalition Against Censorship and Kids' Right to Read; Tony Diaz, Librotraficante; Beau Hodai, DBA Press; Sunsara Taylor, Stop patriarchy; John Collins, The Weave; and Ken Walden, What the world could be --; Critical thinking, media literacy, and narratives of power. Digging deeper : politico-corporate media manipulation, critical thinking, and democracy / by Elliot D. Cohen --; Diffusing conspiracy panics : on the public use of reason in the twenty-first century truth emergency / by James F. Tracy --; Censorship that dares not speak its name : the strange silencing of liberal America / by John Pilger --; Screening the homeland : how Hollywood fantasy mediates state fascism in the US of empire / by Rob Williams --; Case studies of "unhistory" in the making--; and how to build a better future. Exposing the financial core of the transnational capitalist class / by Peter Phillips and Brady Osborne --; Apple exposed : the untold story of globalization / by Nicki Lisa Cole and Tara Krishna --; The "new" American imperialism in Africa : secret Sahara wars and AFRICOM / by Brian Martin Murphy --; The sixth mass extinction / by Julie Andrzjewski and John C. Alessio --; The new story : why we need one and how to create it / by Michael Nagler.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2012-2013, covering such topics as global warming, hunger in America, GMO's, whistleblowers, human rights, hate groups, fracking, nuclear weapons, and income inequality.
PARALLEL TITLE PROPER
Parallel Title
14 censored
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Censorship -- United States.
History, Modern -- 21st century.
Journalism -- Political aspects -- United States.
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
PN4888
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P6
Book number
E358
2013
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
[edited by] Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth, with Project Censored ; foreword by Sarah van Gelder ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib.