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