Suppress article about rubbish tribunal lacking guts (8)
I believe the answer is:
throttle
'suppress' is the definition.
(thesaurus)
I can't explain the remainder of the clue.
(Other definitions for throttle that I've seen before include "Choke, strangle" , "Accelerator - choke" , "Strangle; control (an engine)" , "Strangle; regulator valve" , "Suppress - kill" .)