Project Censored has released its list of the top 25 under reported stories of the year. The list below includes the emerging police state and trillions of dollars of loans made to major banks as revealed by the first ever audit of the Federal Reserve. Somehow these stories don’t get a lot of play in the mainstream corporate media and an interesting interview is available in the video.

While the list targets the national press, similar omissions occur at the local level and probably for the same reasons. Remember when The World dutifully reported a press release from the Port of Coos Bay claiming a local shipper had a major contract requiring emergency repair of the Coos Bay Rail Link? Later it was discovered that the entire story was a complete fabrication yet the paper opted not to inform the public of the lie or its own failure to properly vet the original press release.

There are other examples of locally censored stories and someday I may document them here but the premise behind Project Censored is that media by omission is undermining our democracy and unfortunately, we see it all too often in Coos County.

1. Signs of an Emerging Police State
2. Oceans in Peril
3. Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Worse than Anticipated
4. FBI Agents Responsible for Majority of Terrorist Plots in the United States
5. First Federal Reserve Audit Reveals Trillions Loaned to Major Banks
6. Small Network of Corporations Run the Global Economy
7. 2012: The International Year of Cooperatives
8. NATO War Crimes in Libya
9. Prison Slavery in Today’s USA
10. HR 347 Would Make Many Forms of Nonviolent Protest Illegal
11. Members of Congress Grow Wealthier Despite Recession
12. US Joins Forces with al-Qaeda in Syria
13. Education “Reform” a Trojan Horse for Privatization
14. Who Are the Top 1 Percent and How Do They Earn a Living?
15. Dangers of Everyday Technology
16. Sexual Violence against Women Soldiers on the Rise and under Wraps
17. Students Crushed By One Trillion Dollars in Student Loans
18. Palestinian Women Prisoners Shackled during Childbirth
19. New York Police Plant Drugs on Innocent People to Meet Arrest Quotas
20. Stealing from Public Education to Feed the Prison-Industrial Complex
21. Conservatives Attack US Post Office to Break the Union and Privatize Postal Services
22. Wachovia Bank Laundered Money for Latin American Drug Cartels
23. US Covers up Afghan Massacre
24. Alabama Farmers Look to Replace Migrants with Prisoners
25. Evidence Points to Guantánamo Dryboarding