project censored top 25

You should buy Project Censored’s new book or otherwise support them if you can. And having said that, they appear to have posted their top 25 “most censored” stories of 2023 on RSS. Here are a few that caught my eye:

#22: Agricultural industry’s continued heavy use of antibiotics linked antibiotic resistance concerns in humans
#21: A lot of homeless people actually do some sort of paid work.
#19: One study estimated economic costs of gun violence in the U.S. at $557 billion per year. It may seem callous to “put a price on human life” this way, but hard nosed cost-benefit analysis can sometimes help justify better policy decisions, as it has for seat belts and air pollution controls, for example.
#16: Sixteen municipalities in Puerto Rico are suing fossil fuel giants under racketeering statutes for intentionally misleading the public about the causes of climate change. And #14: And it’s not just oil and gas companies – the electric industry was also very much in on the lies and cover ups that have altered our biosphere beyond the point of return over the past half century.
#15: In the U.S., data show black people are wrongfully convicted of murder about seven times more often than white people.
#5: The idea of buying carbon offsets to offset travel or other emissions-producing activities seems very attractive, but unfortunately, the objective evidence does not show them to be anywhere near as effective as advertised.

Project Censored has posted its annual list of most censored news stories. Well, sort of. These popped up in my RSS feed and are posted publicly on their website, but there don’t seem to be any links to them on the landing page. So, by all means support them by donating or buying their book if you feel guilty, or if these links are no longer active by the time you click on them.

Anyway, as usual I would classify some of these as “important but under-reported” rather than intentionally censored, but you can be the judge. Here are a couple that caught my eye:

#22 US Transportation System “Fuels” Inequality – Well, I think many of us involved in planning and infrastructure are well aware of this. But it has certainly not been covered in a way that has seeped into the public consciousness.
#18 The Human Mind as “New Domain of War”: NATO Plans for Cognitive Warfare – This used to be called propaganda or disinformation. Then it became “communications”. Now it is “cognitive warfare”. In a stroke of brilliant cognitive warfare, NATO is trying to convince us that it has just now discovered cognitive warfare. Everybody else is doing it, so even though we are the good guys we have to do it too.
#14 Repression of Palestinian Media – I leave Israel/Palestine politics alone for the most part, because I consider myself too ignorant to express an opinion. But read and judge for yourself.
#13 “Smart Ocean” Technology Endangers Whales and Intensifies Climate Change – The idea here seems to be to use sonar as a sort of wireless network on the ocean.
#11 Wealthy Nations Continue to Drive Climate Change with Devastating Impacts on Poorer Countries – Come on! Not news! We know, we just don’t care, or if we care we assume we are helpless.
#9 New Laws Preventing Dark Money Disclosures Sweep the Nation and #5 Dark Money Interference in US Politics Undermines Democracy– Because we need to make legalized political corruption even more legalized.
#6 Corporate Consolidation Causing Record Inflation in Food Prices and #1 Fossil Fuel Industry Subsidized at Rate of $11 Million per Minute – Because one thing legalized political corruption buys is the right to monopoly profits and taxpayer subsidies. These things are best combined with cognitive warfare to convince people that the opposite is happening. This combination provides a fantastic investment return compared to competition and innovation!

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