Censored 2016: media freedom on the line: the top censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15 [Seven Stories Press first edition] 9781609806453, 9781609806460, 160980645X

Chapter 2: Deja vu: what happened to previous Censored stories? / by Susan Rahman ; with research and writing from Colle

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Censored 2016: media freedom on the line: the top censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15 [Seven Stories Press first edition]
 9781609806453, 9781609806460, 160980645X

Table of contents :
Foreword: Censorship, its causes and cures / by Nicholas Johnson --
Introduction / by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth. Chapter 1: The top Censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15 / compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth. Half of global wealth owned by the 1 percent --
Oil industry illegally dumps fracking wastewater --
89 percent of Pakistani drone victims not identifiable as militants --
Popular resistance to corporate water grabbing --
Fukushima nuclear disaster deepens --
Methane and Arctic warming's global impacts --
Fear of government spying is "chilling" writers' freedom of expression --
Who dies at the hands of US police --
and how often --
Millions in poverty get less media coverage than billionaires do --
Costa Rica setting the standard on renewable energy --
Pesticide manufacturers spend millions on PR response to declining bee populations --
Seeds of doubt: USDA ignores popular critiques of new pesticide-resistant genetically modified crops --
Pentagon and NATO encircle Russia and China --
Global forced displacement tops fifty million --
Big sugar borrowing tactics from big tobacco --
US military sexual assault of Colombian children --
Media "whitewash" Senate's CIA torture report --
ICREACH: the NSA's secret search engine --
"Most comprehensive" assessment yet warns against geoengineering risks --
FBI seeks backdoors in new communications technology --
The new Amazon of the north: Canadian deforestation --
Global killing of environmentalists rises drastically --
Unprocessed rape kits --
NSA's AUROAGOLD Program hacks cell phones around the world --
Greenland's meltwater contributes to rising sea levels. Chapter 2: Deja vu: what happened to previous Censored stories? / by Susan Rahman
with research and writing from College of Marin students Nathan Bowman [and 17 others]
with further research assistance by Diablo Valley College students Darian Edelman and Ellie Kim --
Chapter 3: A vast wasteland: the ongoing reign of junk food news and news abuse / by Nolan Higdon [and 16 others] --
Chapter 4: Media democracy in action / compiled by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff, with contributions by [15 others] --
Chapter 5: A vision for transformative civic engagement: the Global Critical Media Literacy Project / by Julie Frechette, Nolan Higdon, and Rob Williams --
Chapter 6: Modern Herlands: the significance of Gilman's Herland for the next 100 years / by Sheila Katz --
Chapter 7: "Dark alliance": the controversy and the legacy, twenty years on / by Brian Covert --
Chapter 8: Twenty-first-century fascism: private military companies in service to the transnational capitalist class / by Peter Phillips, Ray McClintock, Melissa Carneiro, and Jacob Crabtree --
Chapter 9: Existence is resistance: women in occupied Palestine and Kashmir / by Tara Dorabji and Susan Rahman --
Chapter 10: The contours of long-term systemic crisis and the need for systemic solutions / by Gar Alperovitz, James Gustave Speth, and Joe Guinan --
Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President / by Peter Phillips.

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