The Advocate used to run the Project Censored top 10 stories the media missed. I wish we still did. But it’s out there. I can hardly take reading this year’s version, a rundown of how close we truly are to real, live, actual totalitarianism, but if you need a handy reference to prove to your friends and acquaintances that things are far worse than they may have dreamed, read on. It’s ugly, but I think it’s our duty as citizens to know what’s being done to a government that is supposed to belong to we the people.

If we’re deterred now by how depressing it is, just wait till we’re the envy of all those former East German Stasi agents sitting around longing for the good old days. Please, read it.