Censored
1998: The Top 10
Censored Media Stories of 1997
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#1: Clinton Administration
Agressively Promotes Worldwide U.S. Arms Sales
#2: Personal Care
and Cosmetic Products May be Carcinogenic
#3: Big Business
Seeks to Control and Influence U.S. Universities
#4: Exposing the
Global Surveillance System
#5: U.S. Companies
are World Leaders in the Manufacture of Torture Devices for Internal
Use and Export
#6: Russian Plutonium
Lost Over Chile and Bolivia
#7: Norpland and
Human Experiments in Third World Lead to Forced Use in the United
States
#8: Little Known
Federal Law Paves the Way for National ID Card
#9: Mattel Cuts
U.S. Jobs to Open Sweatshops Countries
#10: Army's Plan
to Burn Nerve Gas Toxins in Oregon Threatens Columbia River Basin
#11: Death Behind
Bars
#12: Twenty-one
States Offer Corporations Immunity from Violating Environmental Laws
#13: American Drug
Industry Uses the Poor as Human Guinea Pigs
#14: The U.S. Blood
Supply is Increasingly Threatened by Parasites
#15: Mainstream
Newspapers Ignore Inner City Low-Income Communities and Rural "Fringe
Areas"
#16: U.S. Paper
Companies Conspire to Squash Zapatistas
#17: Toxins and
Environmental Pollution Contribute to Human Aggression in Society
#18: Pharmaceutical
Companies Mass Market Drugs
#19: Evidence of
Fluoridation Danger Mounts-With Little Benefit to Your Teeth
#20: Environmental
Regulations Create Jobs and Make American Corporations More Competitive
#21: Blood Tests
Suggest Reason Behind Gulf War Syndrome
#22: FBI: Sloppy,
Out of Touch, and Very Powerful
#23: The Scheme
to Privatize the Hanford Nuke Plant
#24: Profits-Before-People
Delays Release of New AIDS Drug
#25: Black Elected
Officials Targeted by Law