LINES OF THE DAY

". . . But the past does not exist independently from the present. Indeed, the past is only past because there is a present, just as I can point to something over there only because I am here. But nothing is inherently over there or here. In that sense, the past has no content. The past -- or more accurately, pastness -- is a position. Thus, in no way can we identify the past as past." p. 15

". . . But we may want to keep in mind that deeds and words are not as distinguishable as often we presume. History does not belong only to its narrators, professional or amateur. While some of us debate what history is or was, others take it into their own hands." p. 153

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995) by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Monday, September 7, 2009

Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009

Each story is hyperlinked to the sources.  From Project Censorship's "The News That Didn't Make the News:"

■#1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation

■# 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA

■# 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business

■# 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America?

■# 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets

■# 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act

■# 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking

■# 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly

■#9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify

■# 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture

■# 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror

■# 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind

■# 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq

■# 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste

■# 15 Worldwide Slavery

■# 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights

■# 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights

■# 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers

■# 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction

■# 20 Marijuana Arrests Set New Record

■# 21 NATO Considers “First Strike” Nuclear Option

■# 22 CARE Rejects US Food Aid

■# 23 FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs

■# 24 Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror

■# 25 Bush’s Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer

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