Project Censored recently released their annual list of the most censored stories, but did they miss something?

The #1 most censored story is: "Global Plans to Replace the Dollar".  Robert Fisk reported on this story in October 2009, titled "The demise of the dollar". He writes, "In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading." You can read his full story here.

You can view the full list of the 25 most censored stories here or buy it here.

As always, it's an extraordinary list of news stories most Americans never heard, but I have to wonder whether Project Censored keeps missing the greatest unwritten story of all: 

That We, the concerned citizens of the United States of America, continue to do a kind of activism that by its very nature assumes that we live in a democratic society. And thus we simply need to keep working harder doing the same things we're already doing, trying our darnedest to get the attention of "our" government and corporate leaders - by boycotting, suing, demanding, negotiating with, pleading with, lobbying - and as a result all will be well in the world. 

I think that most of us know in our hearts that this isn't true. And there's only one explanation for that: that this in fact is NOT a democratic society. And it never was. And therefore we need to come up with a fundamentally different set of tactics and strategies which finally acknowledge - to ourselves and to the world - that our activism has not matched the reality on the ground. That we live in a society that has been INSTITUTIONALLY designed to DENY We the People our basic right to govern ourselves, regardless of what we THINK or BELIEVE the Constitution says. And that therefore our work needs to be about dismantling these illegitimate legal structures, and replacing them with legal structures which protect and defend our inherent RIGHT of self-governance.

THAT story really should be the Number One Most Censored Story in the U.S., in my opinion. And this story hasn't just been censored by the corporate media. It's also totally missing from the independent media which we think of as "our's". 

We need to be willing to ask ourselves "WHY is this story missing from our own media?" And then to figure out how to correct this tragic fact.