| Preface | 11 |
| Acknowledgments | 15 |
| Introduction | 25 |
Chapter 1 | The Top 25 Censored News Stories of 1999 | 27 |
1 | Multinational Corporations Profit from International Brutality | 28 |
2 | Pharmaceutical Companies Put Profits before Need | 31 |
3 | Financially Bloated American Cancer Society Fails to Prevent Cancer | 32 |
4 | American Sweatshops Sew U.S. Military Uniforms | 35 |
5 | Turkey Destroys Kurdish Villages with U.S. Weapons | 37 |
6 | NATO Defends Private Economic Interests in the Balkans | 40 |
7 | U.S. Media Reduces Foreign Coverage | 44 |
8 | Planned Weapons in Space Violate International Treaty | 46 |
9 | Louisiana Promotes Toxic Racism | 51 |
10 | The U.S. and NATO Deliberately Started the War with Yugoslavia | 52 |
11 | America's Largest Nuclear Test Exposed Thousands | 57 |
12 | Evidence Indicates No Pre-war Genocide in Kosovo and Possible U.S./KLA Plot to Create Disinformation | 58 |
13 | U.S. Agency Seeks to Export Weapons Grade Plutonium to Russian Organization Linked to Organized Crime | 63 |
14 | U.S. Media Ignores Humanitarian Aspects of Famine in Korea | 64 |
15 | Early Puberty Onset for Girls May be Linked to Chemicals in the Environment and Increases in Breast Cancer | 67 |
16 | Media Distorts Debate on Affirmative Action | 70 |
17 | World Bank's Resettlement Program Displaces Millions | 73 |
18 | California Convicts and Punishes Teenagers as Adults | 75 |
19 | Bacterium in Cow's Milk May Cause Crohn's Disease | 77 |
20 | IMF and World Bank Contributed to Economic Tensions in the Balkans | 80 |
21 | The Vatican's U.N. Status Challenged | 84 |
22 | U.S. and Germany Trained and Developed the KLA | 86 |
23 | International Conference Sets World Agenda for Peace | 92 |
24 | U.S. Nuclear Weapons Controlled by Unstable Personnel | 95 |
25 | U.S. Military Trains Solders to Kill and Eat Tame Animals | 97 |
| Project Censored Honorable Mentions for 1999 | 103 |
Chapter 2 | Censored Deja Vu: What Happened to Last Year's Most Censored Stories | 119 |
Chapter 3 | News Abuse of 1999 | 157 |
Chapter 4 | Is the Press Really Free? | 165 |
| Who is Killing the Press? | 165 |
| Objectivity and the Limits of Press Freedom | 171 |
| Is the Press Really Free in the 21st Century? | 176 |
| What Free Press? | 183 |
Chapter 5 | Oligopoly: The Big Media Game has Fewer and Fewer Players | 187 |
Chapter 6 | The Media and their Atrocities | 199 |
Chapter 7 | The Media Battle of Seattle | 211 |
Chapter 8 | Information Equity for the 21st Century | 221 |
Chapter 9 | Media Accountability: News Councils and Ombudsmen | 229 |
Chapter 10 | The Battle for Free Speech Radio | 235 |
Chapter 11 | Falun Gong: Demonized in China, Downplayed in America | 253 |
Appendix A | Most Censored News Stories for 1999 Publication Source List | 265 |
Appendix B | Media Activist Resource Guide | 271 |
Appendix C | Top 5 Censored Reprints | 295 |
| About the Editor | 340 |
| Project Censored Mission Statement | 340 |
| Index | 341 |
| Postscript: How to Nominate a Censored Story | 352 |