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^33.
Barbara Fredrickson, “Your Brain on Love: The Fascinating Biochemical Reactions That Make Sparks Fly,”
AlterNet,
March 5, 2013,
http://www.alternet.org/books/your-brain-love-fascinating-biochemical-reactions-make-sparks-fly
.

^34.
See, e.g., Marc Pilisuk and Michael N. Nagler, “A Final Word,” in
Peace Movements Worldwide: History and Vitality of Peace Movements,
vol. 2, ed. Marc Pilisuk and Michael N. Nagler (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2011), 370.

^35.
Chris Hedges, “Don't Look Away: We Must Confront the Horrific Industrial Violence the American Military Is Capable of,”
AlterNet,
March 17, 2013,
http://www.alternet.org/world/dont-look-away-we-must-confront-horrific-industrial-violence-american-military-capable
.

^36.
Joe R. Feagin and Hernan Vera,
Liberation Sociology
(Boulder CO: Westview Press, 2001), 17. “Our humanity is affirmed in struggles to achieve freedom and social justice. Dehumanization marks and defines the oppressor as much as it torments the oppressed. For Freire, the struggle to recover humanity is a struggle of the oppressed ‘to liberate themselves and their oppressors as well.'”

^37.
John Saybrook, “It Came From Hollywood,”
New Yorker,
December 1, 2003, 54.

^38.
On Senator Vandenburg advising President Truman to “scare the hell out of the American people,” see, e.g., Gore Vidal,
Imperial America: Reflections on the United States of America
(New York: Avalon, 2004), 97.

^39.
Saybrook, “It Came From Hollywood,” 62.

^40.
Ibid., emphasis added.

^41.
Marco Iacoboni,
Mirroring People: The New Science of How We Connect With Others
(New York: Farrar, Strauss, and Giroux, 2008), 124. “Although we commonly think of pain as a fundamentally private experience, our brain actually treats it as an experience shared with others.”

^42.
Carolyn Merchant,
The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution
(New York: HarperCollins, 1990[980]).

^43.
Tom Hayden, “Calls for Withdrawal from Iraq Echoing in Washington,”
AlterNet,
September 19, 2005,
http://www.alternet.org/story/25686/calls_for_withdrawal_from_iraq_echoing_in_washington
.

^44.
Bombay Chronicle,
November 18, 1932. See
http://www.mkgandhi.org/momgandhi/chap05.htm
.

^45.
See, e.g., Amit Goswami,
God Is Not Dead: What Quantum Physics Tells Us about Our Origins and How We Should Live
(Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2012[2008]).

^46.
See the glossary on our website, MettaCenter.org.

^47.
Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” Oberlin College Commencement Address, June 1965,
http://www.oberlin.edu/external/EOG/BlackHistoryMonth/MLK/CommAddress.html
.

^48.
By stark contrast, the US military also attempts to use the image and words of Martin Luther King Jr. to legitimize its military mission. In January 2013, the US Air Force's Global Strike Command published a promotional piece titled “Dr. King's Dream for the Global Strike Team.” Independent media have been quick to point out the travesty, but this shows that King and his legacy
have
a moral cachet that the military feels a need to appropriate. See, e.g., Glenn Green-wald, “US Military Says Martin Luther King Would Be Proud of Its Weapons,”
Guardian,
January 22, 2013,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jan/22/martin-luther-king-military-weapons
; and David Sirota, “Martin Luther King Jr., Champion of Military Defense?,”
Salon,
February 1, 2013,
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/01/martin_luther_king_jr_champi-on_of_military_defense
.

^49.
For a good example of how independent media can provide more “New Story” insights, see Sarah van Gelder's foreword to this volume.

^50.
Folks in Strike Debt and Occupy Wall St., “Colonizer as Lender: Free Palestine, Occupy Wall Street, Strike Debt,”
Tidal,
February 2013,
http://tidalmag.org/issue4/colonizer-as-lender
, as quoted in Nathan Schneider, “A New Kind of Palestine Solidarity—The Strike Debt Analysis,”
Waging Nonviolence,
March 4, 2013,
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2013/03/a-new-kind-of-pal-estine-solidarity-the-strike-debt-analysis
.

Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth

We would like to thank everyone that has contributed to Project Censored over the past thirty-seven years. For those who contributed directly to this year's volume, we offer thanks and pay our respects:

To the courageous independent journalists who continue to file real news, without which the Project would be impossible. Your work inspires us.

To the faculty evaluators and student researchers at our college and university affiliates around the world, as the eyes and ears of Project Censored, you help us keep up with the cutting edge of independent journalism.

To the authors in
Censored 2014,
your research and writing connects the dots among the Top 25 stories, and your contributions exemplify fearless speech in fateful times.

To our national and international judges, your dedication and expertise assures that our Top 25 list includes only the best, most significant independent news stories each year.

To our stalwart publishers at Seven Stories Press in New York, including the intrepid Dan Simon at the helm; Veronica Liu, our sharp-eyed, tireless editor; Jon Gilbert for his impeccable design layout; Crystal Yakacki for publicity; and Stewart Cauley for cover design. You, and the entire Seven Stories crew—including Liz DeLong, Ruth Weiner, Anne Rumberger, Silvia Stramenga, Amber Qureshi, Sadie Trombetta, and Jesse Lichtenstein, as well as interns Arielle Holstein, Tiffany Xu, Erin Carden, and Ellen Waddell—have our deepest respect and appreciation for making the commitment to publish the Project's research, and for doing so in record time each year.

To Marcia Annenberg, artist, who graciously gave us permission to use detail from her piece, “No News Is Good News,” as the striking image on the cover of
Censored 2014.

To Dr. Carl Jensen, founder of Project Censored in 1976, whose original vision and defiance of the status quo continue to inspire this Project.

To Dr. Peter Phillips, who has dedicated so much of his life to extending Project Censored's influence through his teaching, writing, and speaking. Peter is an exemplar of the educator as public intellectual, engaging people in discussions about media, democracy, and human liberation wherever he goes.

To Christopher Oscar and Doug Hecker, with Hole in the Media Productions, for
Project Censored: The Movie—Ending the Reign of Junk Food News,
a six-year labor of love that brings the Project to the attention of an even broader audience.

To the board of directors at the Media Freedom Foundation, the nonprofit parent of Project Censored, who provide organizational structure, and invaluable counsel. You keep us on course in pursuing Project Censored's mission.

To our friends and supporters at Pacifica and KPFA 94.1 FM, Free Speech Radio in Berkeley CA, which broadcasts The Project Censored Show on The Morning Mix each Friday morning. Summer Reese, Tracy Rosenberg, Andrew Phillips, Veronica Faisant, Anthony Fest, Dennis Bernstein, Miguel Molina, Kirsten Thomas, and Rod Akil all contribute to making The Project Censored Show a strong presence on the air.

To Adam Armstrong, who helps Project Censored reach its global Internet audience.

To the inimitable Khalil Bendib, whose cartoons again add luster and edge to our annual volume.

To Abby Martin, host of
Breaking the Set
on RT, founder of Media-Roots, colleague and ally in media freedom.

To Dr. Michel Chossudovsky and the Centre for Research on Globalization, which maintains the website GlobalResearch.ca.

To Allan Rees of No Lies Radio and Ken Jenkins, who record and broadcast our events online.

To the team at the Progressive Radio Network, for rebroadcasting
The Project Censored Show
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To colleagues and staff at Diablo Valley College for their support and informed conversation, including Hedy Wong, Greg Tilles, Dr. Matthew Powell, Melissa Jacobson, Dr. Manual Gonzales, Nolan Hig-don, Dr. Jacob Van Vleet, Adam Bessie, David Vela, Obed Vazquez, Dr. Lyn Krause, Dr. Steve Johnson, Dr. Jeremy Cloward, Dr. Amer Araim, and Dr. Mark Akiyama.

To T. M. Skruggs, Richard and Janet Oscar, Brian Martin Murphy, Steve Outtrim at Majitek, and the late Elizabeth Shariff for their generous financial support.

To Dorothy Andersen, and the late Alfred F. Andersen, of the Fair Share of the Common Heritage, for helping us to reestablish the Commons as a crucial element of public life.

On a personal note, to Meg, Liz, and our families and close friends, who have supported and encouraged us.

And to you, our readers, supporters, and global citizen-agitators, you share our goal of creating a truly free press, one that champions the voice of the People, in service of democratic self-government.

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

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Project Censored 2012–13 National And International Judges

JULIE ANDRZEJEWSKI, professor of human relations, cofounder of the Social Responsibility Program, St. Cloud State University. Publications include
Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education.

ROBIN ANDERSEN, associate professor and chair, Department of Communication and Media Studies, and director of Peace and Justice Studies, Fordham University. Publications:
Critical Studies in Media Commercialism.

OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT, professor in the Department of Journalism and Public Relations, Bowling Green State University. Publications:
The International New Agencies
(1980),
The Globalization of News
(1998),
Media in Global Context
(2009), and
Hollywood and the CIA: Cineman, Defense and Subversion
(2011).

KENN BURROWS, faculty member for the Institute for Holistic Health Studies, San Francisco State University. Director of the Holis
tic Health Learning Center and producer of the biennial conference, Future of Health Care.

ERNESTO CARMONA, journalist and writer. Director of the Chilean Council of Journalists. Executive secretary of the Investigation Commission on Attacks Against Journalists, Latin American Federation of Journalists (CIAP-FELAP).

ELLIOT D. COHEN, freelance journalist. Director, Institute of Critical Thinking: National Center for Logic-Based Therapy. Executive director, National Philosophical Counseling Association (NPCA). Editor and founder,
International Journal of Applied Philosophy.
Recent books:
Mass Surveillance and State Control
(2010),
Critical Thinking Unleashed
(2009), and
The Dutiful Worrier. How to Stop Compulsive Worry without Feeling Guilty
(2011).

JOSE MANUEL DE-PABLOS, professor at University of La Laguna (Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain). Founder of scientific journal
Revis-ta Latina de Comunicacion Social
(RLCS), Laboratory of Information Technologies and New Analysis of Communication.

GEOFF DAVIDIAN, investigative journalist and editor,
The Putnam Pit
(Milwaukee). Publications include Reuters, the
Chicago Sun-Times,
the
Globe and Mail
(Toronto), the
New York Daily News, Albuquerque Journal, Seattle Post-Intelligencer,
and the
Vancouver Sun.

LENORE FOERSTEL, Women for Mutual Security. Facilitator of the Progressive International Media Exchange (PRIME).

ROBERT HACKETT, professor at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. Co-director of News Watch Canada since 1993. Cofounder of Media Democracy Day (2001) and openmedia. ca (2007). Publications include
Expanding Peace Journalism
(coedited with I. S. Shaw and J. Lynch, 2011) and
Remaking Media: The Struggle to Democratize Public Communication
(with William K. Carroll, 2006).

KEVIN HOWLEY, professor of media studies, DePauw University. Author of
Community Media: People, Places, and Communication Technologies
(2005). Editor of
Understanding Community Media
(2010) and
Media Interventions
(2013).

CARL JENSEN, professor emeritus of communication studies, Sonoma State University. Founder and former director of Project Censored. Author of
Censored: The News That Didn't Make the News and Why
(1990–96),
20 Years of Censored News
(1997), and
Stories that Changed America: Muckrakers of the 20th Century
(2002).

NICHOLAS JOHNSON,
*
professor at College of Law, University of Iowa. Former FCC Commissioner (1966–73). Author of
How to Talk Back to Your Television Set.

CHARLES L. KLOTZER, founder, editor, and publisher emeritus of
St. Louis Journalism Review.

NANCY KRANICH, lecturer, School of Communication and Information, and special projects librarian, Rutgers University. Past president of the American Library Association (ALA).

DEEPA KUMAR, associate professor of media studies and Middle East studies at Rutgers University. Author of
Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike
(2007) and
Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire
(2012).

MARTIN LEE, investigative journalist and author. Cofounder of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, and former editor of FAIR's magazine,
Extra!
Director of Project CBD, a medical science information service. Author of
Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana, The Beast Reawakens
and
Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties and Beyond.

DENNIS LOO, associate professor of sociology at California State University Polytechnic University-Pomona. Coeditor of
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney.

PETER LUDES, professor of mass communication, Jacobs University Bremen. Founder in 1997 of German initiative on news enlightenment, publishing the most neglected German news (Project Censored Germany). Editor,
Algorithms of Power: Key Invisibles
(2011).

WILLIAM LUTZ, professor emeritus of English, Rutgers University. Former editor of
The Quarterly Review of Doublespeak.
Author of
Doublespeak Defined
(1999);
The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows
What Anyone's Saying Anymore
(1996);
Doublespeak: From Revenue Enhancement to Terminal Living
(1989); and
The Cambridge Thesaurus of American English
(1994).

SILVIA LAGO MARTINEZ, professor of sociology, Universidad de Buenos Aires. Codirector, Gino Germani Research Institute Program for Research on Information Society.

CONCHA MATEOS, faculty in the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos (Madrid). Journalist for radio, television, and political organizations in Spain and Latin America. Coordinator for Project Censored in Europe and Latin America.

BRIAN MARTIN MURPHY, associate professor and chair of communications studies, Niagara University.

JACK L. NELSON,
*
Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University. Former member, AAUP Academic Freedom Committee. Author of seventeen books, including
Critical Issues in Education,
8th ed. (2013), and approximately 200 articles.

PETER PHILLIPS, professor of sociology, Sonoma State University. Director, Project Censored, 1996–2009. President, Media Freedom Foundation. Editor/coeditor of fourteen editions of
Censored,
and co-editor, with Dennis Loo, of
Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and Cheney
(2006).

NANCY SNOW, professor of communications, California State Uni-versity-Fullerton, and adjunct professor of communications and public diplomacy, Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. Author/editor of seven books, including
Information War
and
Propaganda, Inc.

SHEILA RABB WEIDENFELD,
*
president, DC Productions, Ltd. Emmy Award-winning television producer. Former press secretary to Betty Ford.

ROB WILLIAMS, media educator, musician, historian, journalist, and professor, University of Vermont and Champlain College. Publisher of the newspaper
Vermont Commons: Voices of Independence.

*
Indicates having been a Project Censored judge since our founding in 1976.