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Project Censored: Racial Disparities and Environmental Emergencies Dominate Project Censored’s Top 10 Stories from 2024

The Story Being Censored Could Be Yours (Whether You Know It Or Not!)
by Paul Rosenberg

With any top 10 list, there’s a natural tendency to look first at number one, and neither I nor Project Censored would discourage you from doing that when it comes to the annual list of the top censored stories of the year. This year, the top story is about workplace deaths and injuries — with […]

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Night 57: Federal Troops, Tear Gas, and the Clash for Power

Scenes from the front lines of the 57th night of the Portland protests
Avatar photo Kyle Switzer

When walking even a half mile from the protests your eyes begin to water, the smell of RoundUp creeps up your nose, your throat inches, then burns. Chants billow towards you: “Whose streets…. our streets.“ Goggles soon become a necessity. Two masks help shield your throat from the invisible, sharp air, and as the first […]

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A Night in Portland, as Federal Troops Remained ▶ [with video]

A Bend journalist spends a night in Portland during Black Lives Matter demonstrations, and tear gassings
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

You can smell what’s ahead before anything else. A slight whiff of pepper—or perhaps more like the scent of RoundUp, left in an enclosed shed over the summer. Next is the boom of a crowd chanting: “Enough is enough. Enough is enough….” And then the loudspeakers, on this night, announcing that Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler […]

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Coastal States Create Path Forward Together

Governors of OR, WA, CA announce plan to reopen their economies together. When that is? Still up in the air.
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

When the states of Oregon, Washington and California finally re-open businesses and other facilities currently shut due to COVID-19, they’ll do it together. Or, at least, they’ll be taking a “shared approach” to the issue.  On Monday, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown and the governors of Washington and California announced the Western States Pact—a pact that […]

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National Coronavirus Confusion

Trump declares a national emergency: Is the U.S. learning from the success and failure of other countries?
Laurel Brauns

Is the U.S. government doing enough to slow the spread of this potentially lethal pandemic? President Donald Trump and national agencies ranging from the Center for Disease Control to the Federal Drug Administration have been the target of a never-ending stream of criticism: They’ve had disorganized response a highly contagious virus that poses a new […]

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Family Separation Policy: Oregon Leaders React to Changes

The Source speaks with Sen. Merkley following his visit to a children’s detention center
Avatar photo Nicole Vulcan

The White House has walked back on its policy that saw thousands of children separated from their parents at the U.S. border—a policy enacted by the same presidential administration this April. With that policy, Homeland Security Secretary Nielsen and Attorney General Jeff Sessions have said children would be separated from their parents when they cross […]

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