Project Censored covers the year's top news stories that were either ignored or downplayed by the mainstream media. The top 25 stories are summarized at WantToKnow.Info. And now--because you want to know--[cue the drumroll!]--here are the headlines of the top 25 CENSORED news stories of 2008:

1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation? (For full story, click here)

2. Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA (For full story, click here)

3. InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business (For full story, click here)

4. ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? (For full story, click here)

5. Seizing War Protesters' Assets (For full story, click here)

6. The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act (For full story, click here)

7. Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking (For full story, click here)

8. Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly (For full story, click here)

9. Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify (For full story, click here)

10. American Psychological Association Complicit in CIA Torture (Full story here)

11. El Salvador's Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)

12. Bush Profiteers Collect Billions from No Child Left Behind (For full story, click here)

13. Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq (For full story, click here)

14. Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste (For full story, click here)

15. Worldwide Slavery (For full story, click here)

16. Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights (For full story, click here)

17. UN's Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights (For full story, click here)

18. Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers (For full story, click here)

19. Indigenous Herders & Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extinction (For full story, click here)

20. Marijuana Arrests Set New Record (For full story, click here)

21. NATO Considers "First Strike" Nuclear Option (For full story, click here)

22. CARE Rejects US Food Aid (For full story, click here)

23. FDA Complicit in Pushing Pharmaceutical Drugs (For full story, click here)

24. Japan Questions 9/11 and the Global War on Terror (For full story, click here)

25. Bush's Real Problem with Eliot Spitzer (For full story, click here)

Project Censored is a research team composed of more than 200 university faculty, students, and community experts who annually review between 700 and 1,000 news story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources, and national significance. The top 25 stories selected are submitted to a distinguished panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance. Each year they publish a book compiling these stories. By revealing these examples of media censorship, they hope to stop the excessive secrecy and work together to build a brighter future.

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