CENSORED IN 1976: SUICIDES LEAD VIETNAM VETERAN DEATHS While accurate and current statistics from different sources tend to vary, they do agree on one thing — more than twice as many American Vietnam veterans have died after returning home than were killed in the fourteen years of actual combat. The estimated number of actual combat [...]

CENSORED IN 1994: AMERICA’S DEADLY DOCTORS The trust Americans put into their doctors may be sorely misplaced. According to estimates, five to ten percent of doctors — some 30,000 to 60,000 — could be hazardous to your health. A study by Public Citizen’s Health Research Group concluded that medical negligence in hospitals alone injures or [...]

CENSORED IN 1993: HOW TO SELL POLLUTION FOR PROFIT In early May, 1992, the Wisconsin Power and Light Company sold “pollution credits” to the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) for about $3 million. In effect, this deal gave TVA permission to spew into the air an additional 10,000 tons of sulfur dioxide, the primary source of [...]

CENSORED IN 1978: ASTROPOLLUTION HITS HOME Although it no longer makes headlines nor the six o’clock news, about twice a month somebody launches something into space. NASA’s current agenda alone calls for domestic communications satellites, weather satellites, new military communications and surveillance satellites, a satellite to test the magnetosphere, one to study propulsion principles, experimental [...]

CENSORED IN 1999: MONSANTO’S GENETICALLY MODIFIED SEEDS THREATEN WORLD PRODUCTION Over the 12,000 years that humans have been farming, a rich tradition of seed saving has developed. Men and women choose seeds from the plants that are best adapted to their own locale and trade them within the community, enhancing crop diversity and success rates [...]

CENSORED IN 1993: “WE ARE WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS” WAS A LIE When President George Bush went before the nation on September 6, 1989, to give a special address about the seriousness of the drug problem in the United States, the media and the public responded with alarm. By the end of that month, [...]

CENSORED IN 1978: AMERICA’S SECRET POLICE NETWORK J. Edgar Hoover knew that power lies between the manila covers of a personal dossier and he used that knowledge to build and maintain his empire for almost half a century. The FBI, the CIA and virtually every other agency given the authority to spy to defend us [...]

CENSORED IN 1991: THE SPECTER OF ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM No one segment of society should have a monopoly on clean air, clean water, or a clean workplace; nor should any one segment be targeted for society’s wastes. Nevertheless, some individuals, neighborhoods, and communities are forced to bear the brunt of the nation’s pollution problem. People of [...]

CENSORED IN 1983: DETAILED USSR NUCLEAR PROPOSAL IGNORED BY THE U.S. When the USSR representatives walk out of arms control talks, President Reagan vilifies them and the U.S. press provides front page coverage to their militant posture. But when the USSR makes a detailed public proposal to remove the threat of nuclear war, it seems [...]

CENSORED IN 1981: THE MILITARY’S UNKNOWN A-WASTE AT HANFORD Radioactive waste is building daily throughout the United States and the government doesn’t seem to know what to do with it. The failure of the media to fully address the issue of increasing radioactive waste qualifies this story for nomination as the #3 censored story of [...]