Censored
1999: The Top 25
Censored Media Stories of 1998
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#1: Secret International
Trade Agreement Undermines the Sovereignty of Nations
#2: Chemical Corporations
Profit Off Breast Cancer
#3: Monsanto's Genetically
Modified Seeds Threaten World Production
#4: Recycled Radioactive
Metals May Be In Your Home
#5: U.S. Weapons
of Mass Destruction Linked to the Deaths of a AHalf-Million Children
#6: U.S. Nuclear
Program Subverts U.N.'s Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty
#7: Gene Transfers
Linked to Dangerous New Diseases
#8: Catholic Hospital
Mergers Threaten Reproductive Rights for Women
#9: U.S. Tax Dollars
Support Death Squads in Chiapas
#10: Environmental
Student Activists Gunned Down on Chevron Oil Facility in Nigeria
#11: Private Prison
Expansion Becomes Big Business
#12: Millions of
Americans Received Contaminated Polio Vaccine Between 1955 and 1963
#13: China Violates
Human Rights in Tibet
#14: Political
Contributions Compromise American Judicial System
#15: SWAT Teams
Replace Civilian Police: Target Minority Communities
#16: Mercenary
Armies in Service to Global CorporationU.S. Media Promotes Biased
Coverage of Bosnias
#17: U.S. Media
Promotes Biased Coverage of Bosnia
#18: Manhattan
Project Covered Up Effects of Fluoride Toxicity
#19: Clinton Administration
Lobbied for Retention of Toxic Chemicals in Children's Toy Developers
Build on Flood Plains at Taxpayers' Expenses
#20: Developers
Build on Flood Plains at Taxpayers' Expense
#21: Global Oil
Reserves Alarmingly Overestimated
#22: Academia at
Risk as Tenured Professors Vanish
#23: Bureau of
Land Management Charged with Human Rights Violations Against the Shoshone
Nation
#24: Coca-Cola
Fails to Meet Recycling Pledge
#25: ABC Broadcasts
Slanted Report on Mumia Abu-Jamal