Validated Independent News

“We Believe in Israel,” an offshoot of the Britain Israel Communications and Research Center (BICOM) in the UK, is trying to censor Palestinian and pro-Palestinian artists on the popular music-streaming service, Spotify. In an article published by MintPress News, senior staff writer Alan MacLeod revealed that the group is lobbying…
The post Israel-Linked Group Attempts to Censor Pro-Palestinian Artists on Spotify appeared first on Project Censored.

Cancer is rampant among members of the Odawa Nation, with strong evidence that PFAS, or “forever chemicals,” which have polluted groundwater throughout the state of Michigan, are a major contributing factor, Frances Madeson reported for The Real News Network in May 2023. The effects of PFAS contamination on local water…
The post Unregulated PFAS Harming Native American Community in Michigan appeared first on Project Censored.

Attorneys general (AGs) for five US states are protecting fossil fuel companies rather than the public interest, according to a March 2023 report by Elliott Negin for the Equation, a publication of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “Each of the states—Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas—have sustained billions of…

About ninety percent of rainforest carbon offsets certified by Verra, the world’s largest offset certifier, do not reflect real reductions in emissions, according to a report produced jointly by the Guardian, Source Material, and Die Zeit in January 2023, with subsequent coverage from Truthout. Verra, which runs the Verified Carbon…

The world’s poorest countries will pay 35 percent more in debt interest bills this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a dramatic increase in food import prices, as reported by the World Bank. Between 75 countries, most of which as sub-Saharan African nations, will spend roughly $78 billion to…
The post Debt Crisis Looms for World’s Poorest Nations appeared first on Project Censored.

The Bureau of Investigative Journalism and the Guardian published a collaborative investigation on November 21, 2022, exposing major fast food companies for their use of beef suppliers that employ antibiotics linked to the spread of dangerous superbugs. Superbugs are strains of bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics. These beef suppliers…

In the half-century since it became federal law, Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 has generated countless headlines revolving around campus gender equity, mostly in sports. However, very few establishment news media have reported on one misuse of the law: Colleges and universities are now invoking Title IX…
The post Universities Invoking Title IX to Stifle Journalists appeared first on Project Censored.

A Yale University study published in August 2022 on DeSmog indicates that there is a two to three times increased likelihood for children ages 2-7 to develop acute lymphoblastic leukemia when residing in areas bordering fracking sites in Pennsylvania. The research discovered that those children who lived near fracking locations…
The post Correlation Found Between Childhood Leukemia and Proximity to Fracking Sites appeared first on Project Censored.

During the past two years, the American government and other popular news outlets have come under increased scrutiny for a potential act of censorship following the publication of a leak that claims the COVID-19 virus originated not in nature but instead in a lab in Wuhan, China. Ted Galen Carpenter,…
The post Corporate Media’s Evasion of Wuhan Lab Allegations appeared first on Project Censored.

In June 2022, domestic violence was officially considered a crime in Ukraine, but the war in Ukraine has stunted access to support and resources for abuse victims. According to WhoWhatWhy, there is a stigma surrounding the topic of abuse that has only gotten worse through the war, preventing victims from…
The post War in Ukraine Contributing to Spike in Domestic Violence appeared first on Project Censored.