MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, October 2003 Title: “Welcome to Wal-World” Author: Andy Rowell Faculty Evaluators: Phil McGough, Laurie Dawson Student Researcher: Mariah Wegener-Vernagallo, Doug Reynolds “Country by country, the world is discovering the great value of shopping at Wal-Mart,” says John Menzer, president of the international division of Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer. Menzer’s vision is one [...]

SALON, November 3, 2003 Title: “Oiling up the Draft Machine?” Author: Dave Lindorff BUZZFLASH.COM, November 11, 2003 Title: “Would a Second Bush Term Mean a Return to Conscription?’ Author: Maureen Farrell WAR TIMES, October-November, 2003 Title: “Military Targets Latino Youth” Author: Jorge Mariscal Evaluator: Robert Manning Student Researchers: Jenifer Green, Adam Stutz The Selective Service [...]

Inter Press Service (http://www.ipsnews.net), November 15, 2003 Title: “Trade: US Moves to Squeeze FTAA Opponents” Author: Emad Mekay Left Turn, Mar/Apr, 2004 Title: “Lula’s First Year” Author: Brian Campbell Faculty Evaluators: Robert Girling Ph.D. LeiLani Nishime Ph.D. Student Researchers: Hilton Jones, Chris Cox The Free Trade Agreement of the America’s (FTAA) could become the biggest [...]

The American Prospect, Volume 14, Issue 9, October 1, 2003 Title: Exporting Censorship to Iraq Author: Alex Gourevitch Asheville Global Report, May 12, 2003 Title: U.S Army Major Refuses Order to Seize Iraq TV Station Author: Charlie Thomas Faculty Evaluator: Jeffrey Holtzman Ph.D. Student Researchers: Sara Brunner, Doug Reynolds Soon after Coalition forces toppled the [...]

Inter Press Service (http://www.ipsnews.net), 12/3/03 Title: “Agriculture: Biotech Boom Linked to Development Dollars – Critics” Author: Katherine Stapp Inter Press Service (IPS) News Agency, May 14, 2003 Title: “U.S. WTO Dispute Could Bend Poor Nations to GMOs-Groups” Author: Emad Mekay CMW Report, Summer 2003 Title: “A Rebuttal to the Tribune” Author: Liane Casten SF Weekly, [...]

UK INDEPENDENT, July 2003 Title: “Extreme Weather Prompts Unprecedented Global Warming Alert” Mainstream media coverage: CNN July 3, 2003; USA Today October 29, 2003; The New York Times December 17, 2003 Faculty Evaluator: Ervand Peterson Ph.D. Student Researchers: Shannon Arthur, Cassie Cyphers, Melissa Jones The UN’s World Meteorological Organization (WMO) views the events of 2003 [...]

LEFT TURN, August/September 2003 Title: “Concentration in the Agri-Food System” Author: Hilary Mertaugh Evaluator: John Lund Student Researcher: Anna Miranda Over the last two decades, agribusiness and food retail mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, and informal contract agreements have transformed the agri-food system into a powerful network of transnational corporations that have the power to control [...]

NEW INTERNATIONALIST, October 31, 2003 Title: “Running on empty; Oil is disappearing fast” Author: Adam Porter GUARDIAN UNLIMITED, December 2, 2003 Title: “Bottom of the Barrel” Author: George Monbiot Faculty Evaluator: Rick Luttmann Ph.D. Student Researchers: Philip Rynning, Julie Mayeda, Anna Miranda If the former industry executives, geologists, and statisticians in the Association for the [...]

The Progressive, December 2003 Title: Saddam’s labor laws live on Author: David Bacon Left Turn, March/April 2004, v. 12 Title: “Ambitions of Empire: The Radical Reconstruction of Iraq’s Economy” Author: Antonia Juhasz Faculty Evaluators: Haidi LaMoreaux Ph.D., Susan Garfin Ph.D. Student Researchers: Katie Drewieske, Adam Stutz In the Wall Street Journal on May 1, 2003 [...]

Agenda, July–August 2003 Title: “Big Brother Gets Bigger–Domestic Spying & the Global Intelligence Working Group” Author: Michelle J. Kinnucan Community Alliance, April 2003 Title: “Police Infiltrate Local Groups” Author: Mark Schlosberg CovertAction Quarterly, Fall 2003 Title: “Denver Police Keeping Files On Peace Groups” Author: Loring Wirbel SF Indymedia, October 4, 2003 URL: http://sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2003/10/1650550.php (first publish of [...]