Ebook: Censored 2016: media freedom on the line: the top censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15

Chapter 2: Deja vu: what happened to previous Censored stories? / by Susan Rahman ; with research and writing from College of Marin students Nathan Bowman [and 17 others] ; with further research assistance by Diablo Valley College students Darian Edelman and Ellie Kim -- Chapter 3: A vast wasteland: the ongoing reign of junk food news and news abuse / by Nolan Higdon [and 16 others] -- Chapter 4: Media democracy in action / compiled by Andy Lee Roth and Mickey Huff, with contributions by [15 others] -- Chapter 5: A vision for transformative civic engagement: the Global Critical Media Literacy Project / by Julie Frechette, Nolan Higdon, and Rob Williams -- Chapter 6: Modern Herlands: the significance of Gilman's Herland for the next 100 years / by Sheila Katz -- Chapter 7: "Dark alliance": the controversy and the legacy, twenty years on / by Brian Covert -- Chapter 8: Twenty-first-century fascism: private military companies in service to the transnational capitalist class / by Peter Phillips, Ray McClintock, Melissa Carneiro, and Jacob Crabtree -- Chapter 9: Existence is resistance: women in occupied Palestine and Kashmir / by Tara Dorabji and Susan Rahman -- Chapter 10: The contours of long-term systemic crisis and the need for systemic solutions / by Gar Alperovitz, James Gustave Speth, and Joe Guinan -- Report from the Media Freedom Foundation President / by Peter Phillips.;Foreword: Censorship, its causes and cures / by Nicholas Johnson -- Introduction / by Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth.;Presents major news stories ignored or underreported by the mainstream media in 2014-2015, covering such topics as illegal dumping of fracking wastewater, sexual assault of Colombian children by US military, unprocessed rape kits, and the Fukushima nuclear disaster.;Chapter 1: The top Censored stories and media analysis of 2014-15 / compiled and edited by Andy Lee Roth. Half of global wealth owned by the 1 percent -- Oil industry illegally dumps fracking wastewater -- 89 percent of Pakistani drone victims not identifiable as militants -- Popular resistance to corporate water grabbing -- Fukushima nuclear disaster deepens -- Methane and Arctic warming's global impacts -- Fear of government spying is "chilling" writers' freedom of expression -- Who dies at the hands of US police -- and how often -- Millions in poverty get less media coverage than billionaires do -- Costa Rica setting the standard on renewable energy -- Pesticide manufacturers spend millions on PR response to declining bee populations -- Seeds of doubt: USDA ignores popular critiques of new pesticide-resistant genetically modified crops -- Pentagon and NATO encircle Russia and China -- Global forced displacement tops fifty million -- Big sugar borrowing tactics from big tobacco -- US military sexual assault of Colombian children -- Media "whitewash" Senate's CIA torture report -- ICREACH: the NSA's secret search engine -- "Most comprehensive" assessment yet warns against geoengineering risks -- FBI seeks backdoors in new communications technology -- The new Amazon of the north: Canadian deforestation -- Global killing of environmentalists rises drastically -- Unprocessed rape kits -- NSA's AUROAGOLD Program hacks cell phones around the world -- Greenland's meltwater contributes to rising sea levels.