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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 [...]

The Oure Cassoni refugee camp in northeast Chad ‘is something of a nexus in the geopolitics of Darfur.’ It is ‘home to 27,000 refugees, most of whom have been here for more than five years.’ The U.N. special representative to Chad describes it as a ‘rest and recuperation facility for rebels from the Justice and Equality Movement, who say [...]

Sudan is the largest country in Africa. Some say it is the most beleaguered country in the continent. It is also on the verge of yet another north/south civil war. Peace negotiators have failed. With the incoming and impending referendum that can give opportunity for south Sudan to claim self-determination and separate itself from the rest of the country, [...]

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 [...]

New colonialism in a globalized world is a curious thing. Countries buying vast parcels of farmlands in poor countries poses new emerging problems. In such cases, only the countries’ respective heads of state know the full details. It gets complicated when provincial governors have auctioned off their land to the highest international bidders such [...]

In Sudan, warlordism makes for uniquely legitimate military infrastructure. The Islamist government in Khartoum is headed by one General Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s chief warlord, who, in spite of an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, continues to ignore [...]

The alarming pollution levels in China have now become a global concern. Fueled by the spoils of its fast emerging economy, the people of China have become voracious consumers, an effect of what some call as the country’s ‘money-induced euphoria.’ This consumerism has brought about a need for raw materials. Upwards of 75 percent of all its forests [...]

On March 4, Sudanese President, General Omar al-Bashir, was issued a warrant of arrest for war crimes and crimes against humanity, and missed on the ultimate prosecution for genocide. He simply snubbed such warrant and flaunted his impunity through his trips outside Sudan. This time, the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague will finally [...]

According to the Minority Rights Group International (MRG) that trends annual indexes, Somalia, Iraq, Sudan, and Afghanistan have been topping annual lists for four straight years of countries where genocide, mass killings, or violent repression victimizes the minority population. The human rights group gives a more chilling conclusion: countries [...]

There have been other genocides apart from the one in Sudan. There had been systematic killing of populations in Germany, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The difference with the genocide in Darfur is that Omar al-Bashir, the perpetrator of the genocide, carries on his mockery of the justice system, ignores his arrest warrant for crimes against humanity and war [...]