Sources: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, October 5, 2005 Title: “Chemical Industry Is Now EPA’s Main Research Partner” Author: Jeff Ruch Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, October 6, 2005 Title: “EPA Becoming Arm of Corporate R&D” Author: Jeff Ruch Community Evaluator: Tim Ogburn Student Researcher: Lani Ready and Peter McArthur The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency [...]

Sources: New America Media, January 31, 2006 Title: “Homeland Security Contracts for Vast New Detention Camps” Author: Peter Dale Scott New America Media, February 21, 2006 Title: “10-Year US Strategic Plan for Detention Camps Revives Proposals from Oliver North” Author: Peter Dale Scott Consortiium, February 21, 2006 Title: “Bush’s Mysterious ‘New Programs’” Author: Nat Parry [...]

Sources: Third World Resurgence, No. 176, April 2005 Title: “New Evidence of Dangers of Roundup Weedkiller” Author: Chee Yoke Heong Faculty Evaluator: Jennifer While Student Researchers: Peter McArthur and Lani Ready New studies from both sides of the Atlantic reveal that Roundup, the most widely used weedkiller in the world, poses serious human health threats. [...]

Source: Inter Press Service, August 3, 2005 Title: “After 10-Year Hiatus, Pentagon Eyes New Landmine” Author: Isaac Baker Human Rights Watch website, August 2005 Title: “Development and Production of Landmines” Faculty Evaluator: Scott Suneson Student Researchers: Rachel Barry and Matt Frick The Bush administration plans to resume production of antipersonnel landmine systems in a move [...]

Sources: Independent/UK, May 22, 2005 Title: Revealed: “Health Fears Over Secret Study in GM Food” Author: Geoffrey Lean Organic Consumers Association website, June 2,2005 Title: “Monsanto’s GE Corn Experiments on Rats Continue to Generate Global Controversy” Authors: GM Free Cymru Independent/UK, January 8, 2006 Title: GM: New Study Shows Unborn Babies Could Be Harmed” Author: [...]

Sources: The New Yorker, December 2005 Title: “Up in the Air” Author: Seymour M. Hersh Tomdispatch, December 2005 Title: “An Increasingly Aerial Occupation” Author: Dahr Jamail Community Evaluator: Robert Manning Student Researcher: Brian Fuchs There is widespread speculation that President Bush, confronted by diminishing approval ratings and dissent within his own party as well as [...]

Sources: Left Turn Issue #18 Title: “Cementing Israeli Apartheid: The Role of World Bank” Author: Jamal Juma’ Al-Jazeerah, March 9, 2005 Title: “US Free Trade Agreements Split Arab Opinion” Author: Linda Heard Community Evaluator: April Hurley, MD Student Researchers: Bailey Malone and Lisa Dobias Despite the 2004 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that called [...]

Sources: New Standard, May 6, 2005 Title: “Pentagon Seeks Greater Immunity from Freedom of Information” Author: Michelle Chen Newspaper Association of America website, posted December 2005 Title: “FOIA Exemption Granted to Federal Agency” Community Evaluator: Tim Ogburn Student Researcher: Rachelle Cooper and Brian Murphy The Department of Defense has been granted exemption from the Freedom [...]

Sources: American Civil Liberties Website, October 24, 2005 Title: “US Operatives Killed Detainees During Interrogations in Afghanistan and Iraq” Tom Dispatch.com, March 5, 2006 Title: “Tracing the Trail of Torture: Embedding Torture as Policy from Guantanamo to Iraq” Author: Dahr Jamail Faculty Evaluator: Rabi Michael Robinson Student Researchers: Michael B Januleski Jr. and Jessica Rodas [...]

Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility website Titles: “Whistleblowers Get Help from Bush Administration,” December 5, 2005 “Long-Delayed Investigation of Special Counsel Finally Begins,” October 18,2005 “Back Door Rollback of Federal Whistleblower Protections,” September 22, 2005 Author: Jeff Ruch Faculty Evaluator: Barbara Bloom Student Researchers: Caitlyn Peele and Sara-Joy Christienson Special Counsel Scott Bloch, appointed [...]