Project Censored has cited an article by Haiti Liberté journalist Kim Ives as one of the "Top 25 Censored Stories for 2010." The 25 selected stories, announced in September, are compiled in "Censored 2010," a book which was published in October and can be obtained at the program's website (www.projectcensored.org).

Project Censored, a Sonoma State University (SSU) media research program that ferrets out the "News That Didn't Make the News and Why," was founded in 1976 with the mission of promoting a free press by highlighting "important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media," explains its website. The project has trained over 1,500 SSU students in investigative research over the past 33 years.

The Haiti Liberté article recognized by Project Censored was Ives' "UN Military Base Expanding: What is Washington up to in Cité Soleil?," which is about the demolition of over 80 houses of Port-au-Prince's poorest residents to make way for an expanded UN military base and police station in Haiti's largest shanty town (see Haiti Liberté, Vol. 2, No. 7, 09/03/2008). That story was followed by another by Ives seven months later entitled "Washington Bulldozes Slumdwellers to Expand Military and Police Base in Haiti's Most Restless Slum" (see Haiti Liberté, Vol. 2, No. 37, 04/01/2009).

The UN/Police base was built by U.S. Pentagon contractor DynCorp and inaugurated by then U.S. Ambassador to Haiti Janet Sanderson on Mar. 25, 2009.

"Between 700 and 1,000 stories are submitted to Project Censored each year from journalists, scholars, librarians, and concerned citizens around the world," according to the program's website. "With the help of more than 200 Sonoma State University faculty, students, and community members, Project Censored reviews the story submissions for coverage, content, reliability of sources and national significance. The university community selects 25 stories to submit to the Project Censored panel of judges who then rank them in order of importance."

The Haiti story entitled "US Repression of Haiti Continues" was ranked #16 and cited Ives' piece along with two others: "Bush Administration Accused of Withholding 'Lifesaving' Aid to Haiti" by Cyril Mychalejko on the Upside Down World site (Jun. 25, 2008) and a related piece, "RFK Center Releases Documents Outlining US Actions to Block Life-saving Funds to Haiti," issued by the RFK Memorial Center for Human Rights on the same site (Aug. 4, 2008).

Current or previous national judges include: Noam Chomsky, Susan Faludi, George Gerbner, Sut Jhally, Frances Moore Lappé, Michael Parenti, Herbert I. Schiller, Barbara Seaman, Erna Smith, Mike Wallace and Howard Zinn.

Other stories among the top 25 for 2010 are "Obama's Military Appointments Have Corrupt Past" (#7), "US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza" (#9), "The ICC [International Criminal Court] Facilitates US Covert War in Sudan" (#17), and "US Congress Sells Out to Wall Street" (#1).

Project Censored publishes its top 25 censored stories in a book every year. It also issues a quarterly newsletter with a circulation of 9,000. Its website receives over a million views monthly from around the world.

"Project Censored is one of the organizations that we should listen to, to be assured that our newspapers and our broadcast outlets are practicing thorough and ethical journalism," said the late legendary Walter Cronkite, who anchored the CBS Evening News for two decades.