Project Censored compiles the top 25 news stories that weren't covered by the corporate news media in 2009.

• 1. US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street


• 2. US Schools are More Segregated Today than in the 1950s


• 3. Toxic Waste Behind Somali Pirates


• 4. Nuclear Waste Pools in North Carolina


• 5. Europe Blocks US Toxic Products


• 6. Lobbyists Buy Congress


• 7. Obama’s Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past


• 8. Bailed out Banks and America’s Wealthiest Cheat IRS Out of Billions


• 9. US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza


• 10. Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate


• 11. Private Corporations Profit from the Occupation of Palestine


• 12. Mysterious Death of Mike Connell—Karl Rove’s Election Thief


• 13. Katrina’s Hidden Race War


• 14. Congress Invested in Defense Contracts


• 15. World Bank’s Carbon Trade Fiasco


• 16. US Repression of Haiti Continues


• 17. The ICC Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan


• 18. Ecuador’s Constitutional Rights of Nature


• 19. Bank Bailout Recipients Spent to Defeat Labor


• 20. Secret Control of the Presidential Debates


• 21. Recession Causes States to Cut Welfare


• 22. Obama’s Trilateral Commission Team


• 23. Activists Slam World Water Forum as a Corporate-Driven Fraud


• 24. Dollar Glut Finances US Military Expansion


• 25. Fast Track Oil Exploitation in Western Amazon