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Top Ten Censored Stories of 1993
WHY ARE WE REALLY IN SOMALIA?
Sources: Los Angeles Times, 1/18/93, "The Oil Factor In Somalia" by Mark
Fineman; Propaganda Review, Nov. 10, 1993, "Somoilia?" by Rory Cox; EXTRA!,
March 1993, "The Somalia Intervention: Tragedy Made Simple" by Jim Naureckas.
While the media touted "humanitarian" reasons for our intervention in
Somalia, one investigative journalist reported that "four major U.S. oil
companies are quietly sitting on a prospective fortune in exclusive
concessions to explore and exploit tens of millions
of acres of the Somali countryside."
THE U.S. IS KILLING ITS YOUNG
Sources: Dallas Morning News, 9/25/93, "U.N. Says U.S. Dangerous for
Children" by Gayle Reaves
An alarming report by the United Nations, revealing that the United
States has become one of the most dangerous places in the world for young
people -- a situation which continues to worsen -- was ignored by the
nation's major news media.
THE REAL WELFARE CHEATS: AMERICA'S CORPORATIONS
Source: Multinational Monitor, Jan/Feb 1993, "Public Assets, Private
Profits: The U.S. Corporate Welfare Rolls" by Chris Lewis, Laurence H.
Kallen, Jonathan
Dushoff, David Lapp, and Randal O'Toole.
While all administrations call for welfare reform, the jailing of
welfare cheats, and the need for workfare, they rarely mention the largest
recipients of taxpayer largesse: major U.S. corporations.
U.S. QUIETLY RESUMES BIOWARFARE TESTING AFTER 10-YEAR HIATUS.
Sources: Salt Lake Tribune, 1/27/93 & 7/28/93, "Army Resumes
Biological-Agent Tests At Dugway After 10-Year Cessation"; "Dugway to test
disease-causing agents at
remote lab" by Jim Woolf, 9/21/93; "Dugway Base Cited for 22 Waste
Violations" by
Laurie Sullivan; High Country News, 8/9/93, "Biowarfare is back" by Jon
Christensen;
High Desert Advocate, 9/15/93, "Utah biowarfare oversight group wants to do
its work behind closed doors."
Although few people outside of Dugway, Utah, are aware of it, the U.S.
Army has brought biological warfare testing back -- to a site declared unsafe
a decade earlier.
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Top Ten Censored Stories of 1991
UNCENSORED IRAQ COVERAGE SPIKED BY NETWORKS
Sources: SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, 3/20/91, "Sights unseen" by Dennis
Bernstein and Sasha Futran.
CBS and NBC rejected professional videotape footage taken at the height
of the air war in Iraq by two Emmy-award-winning documentary producers.
The footage substantially contradicted U.S. administration claims
that civilian damage from the American-led bombing campaign was light.
OPERATION CENSORED WAR
Sources: EDITOR & PUBLISHER, 7/13/91, "Military Obstacles Detailed";
San Francisco Bay Guardian, 3/6/91, "Inside the Desert Storm Mortuary" by
Jonathan Franklin; THE PROGRESSIVE REVIEW, Mar 1991, "Collateral Damage, What
We've Lost Already" by Sam Smith.
The Gulf War set new, questionable standards for wartime secrecy.
Many important stories, which the public had a right to know, are still
not being reported by the major media. It took a freelance journalist, posing
as a mortician, to get a more accurate estimate of battlefield casualties
from the Dover AFB mortuary, the only one handling Desert Storm casualties.
VOODOO ECONOMICS
Sources: KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWSPAPERS, 11/3/91-11/8/91, "Caught In The
Middle" by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele of the Philadelphia
Inquirer; USA TODAY, 10/1/91, "Interest to take largest slice of budget pie"
by Mark Memmott.
The media failed to explain how bad the national deficit was and why the
economy went into a tailspin in 1991. The interest alone on the federal debt
will be the nation's single largest expenditure this year, exceeding even the
military budget.
THE $250 BILLION POLITICAL COVER-UP
Sources: PBS-TV FRONTLINE and THE CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING,
10/22/91, "The Great American Bailout," Glenn Silber, producer/director;
George Clyde, coordinating producer; Robert Krulwich, correspondent; Wendy
Wank, editor; associate producers were Diana Hembree (Texas), Juan A. Avila
Hernandez
(Texas), and William Kistner (Washington, DC); Dan Noyes, project director;
Sharon Tiller, executive producer for CIR; David Fanning, executive producer
for FRONTLINE
An hour-long television documentary, produced by PBS Frontline and the
San Francisco- based Center for Investigative Reporting, revealed the truth
about the extent of the savings and loan scandal and how it was covered-up so
that it would not threaten
George Bush's candidacy in 1988.
THE BUSH FAMILY'S CONFLICTS OF INTEREST
Sources: SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, 7/28/91, "Crime-linked firms hired
Prescott Bush"; SANTA ROSA PRESS DEMOCRAT, 7/19/91, "Neil Bush's new boss
...", 8/6/91, "Son's S&L not closed ..."; SPIN, 12/3/91, "See No Evil" by
Jefferson Morley;
THE TEXAS OBSERVER, 7/12/91, "Oil in the Family"; 9/20/91, "Global
Entanglements" by David Armstrong.
No president in recent history has had the blatant but unexplored
familial conflicts of interest comparable to that of George Bush.
These include his brother, Prescott, a financial consultant with
influential contacts in Japan, South Korea, and the Philippines; his sons:
Neil, a former director of Silverado Savings and Loan whose failure cost
taxpayers about $1 billion; Jeb, a Miami real estate developer with
questionable ties to a drug trafficker; and George W., a director and
consultant to Harken Energy Corporation which has a lucrative oil-production
agreement with Bahrain, a tiny island off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
DoD'S UNTOLD SCANDAL
Sources: COMMON CAUSE MAGAZINE, Nov/Dec 1990, "The Devil and Mr. Jones"
by John Hanrahan; THE ST. LOUIS JOURNALISM REVIEW, March 1991, "The
documents were sealed and the public shut out" by Philip Dunn.
A Justice Department investigation into possible fraud and bribery in
securing defense contracts could equal or exceed the "Teapot Dome" scandal or
the publication of the Pentagon Papers in its scope but we may never know.
Search warrants and affidavits that contain transcripts of wiretapped
conversations of Department of Defense employees with a major defense
contractor have now been sealed by court order.
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