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Project Censored whose mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society” comes up with its Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010. For reasons exclusively known to them, mainstream media censored or downplayed these significant pieces of news. Here are some of them. You are free to form your own opinion [...]

Angola is poised to become the darling of the global oil industry. Although the country is a ‘corrupt, underdeveloped and war-scarred country’ and ‘one of the poorest lands on earth,’ it is a place of vast natural resources and immense potential wealth. Oil and diamonds comprise 99 percent of Angola’s exports. It has also been inviting foreign [...]