Archive for the Category ‘Top 25 of 2008’

# 25 Who Will Profit from Native Energy?

# 25 Who Will Profit from Native Energy?

Source: LiP Magazine, June 5, 2006 Title: “Native Energy Futures” Author: Brian Awehali http://www.lipmagazine.org/articles/featawehali_nativefutures.htm Student Researchers: Ioana Lupu and Mayra Madrigal Faculty Evaluator: Dolly Freidel, Ph.D. Energy on Native American land is becoming big business. According to the Indigenous Environmental Network, 35 percent of the fossil fuel resources in the US are within Indian country. [...]

# 24 Media Misquotes Threat From Iran’s President

# 24 Media Misquotes Threat From Iran’s President

Sources: Global Research, January 20, 2007 Title: “Wiped Off The Map—The Rumor of the Century” Author: Arash Norouzi http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=NOR20070120&articleId=4527 Information Clearing House, May 9, 2006 Title: “Full Text: The President of Iran’s Letter To President Bush” Translated by Le Monde http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12984.htm Student Researchers: Becky Bazell Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Ph.D. Across the world a media [...]

# 23 Feinstein’s Conflict of Interest in Iraq

# 23 Feinstein’s Conflict of Interest in Iraq

Source: North Bay Bohemian, January 24, 2007 Title: “Senator Feinstein’s Iraq Conflict” Author: Peter Byrne http://www.bohemian.com/metro/01.24.07/dianne-feinstein-0704.html Student Researcher: David Abbott, Amanda Spigut, and Ann Marie O’Toole Faculty Evaluator: David McCuan, Ph.D. Dianne Feinstein—the ninth wealthiest member of congress—has been beset by monumental ethical conflicts of interest. As a member of the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee [...]

# 22 North Invades Mexico

# 22 North Invades Mexico

Source: TomDispatch.com, September 19, 2006 Author: Mike Davis Title: “Border Invaders: The Perfect Swarm Heads South” http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=122537 Student Researcher: Rachel Icaza and Erica Haikara Faculty Evaluator: Francisco Vazquez, Ph.D. The visitor crossing the Mexican border from Tijuana to San Diego these days is immediately confronted by a huge sign, “Stop the Border Invasion!” Sponsored by [...]

# 21 US Seeks WTO Immunity for Illegal Farm Payments

# 21 US Seeks WTO Immunity for Illegal Farm Payments

Sources: Oxfam International, June 29, 2006 Title: “US Seeks ‘Get-Out Clause’ for Illegal Farm Payments” http://www.oxfam.org/en/news/pressreleases2006/pr060629_wto_geneva Financial Times UK, January 9 2007 Title: “Canada Launches WTO Case on US Subsidies” Author: Eoin Callan http://www.ft.com/cms/s/5debac74-9f9b-11db-9e2e-0000779e2340.html Student Researcher: Cedric Therene International Business Evaluator: Tim Ogburn On July 24, 2006, after nearly five years of global trade negotiations, [...]

# 20 Terror Act Against Animal Activists

# 20 Terror Act Against Animal Activists

Sources: Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, March 9, 2007 Title: “The AETA is Invidiously Detrimental to the Animal Rights Movement (and Unconstitutional as Well)” Authors: David Hoch and Odette Wilkens http://www.vjel.org/editorials/2007S/Hoch.Wilkens.Editorial.htm Green is the New Red, November 14, 2006 Title: “US House Passes Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act With Little Discussion or Dissent” Author: Will Potter [...]

# 19 People’s Movement Challenges Neoliberal Agenda

# 19 People’s Movement Challenges Neoliberal Agenda

Sources: Trade Matters, American Friends Service Committee, May 3, 2006 Title: “Is the US Free Trade Model Losing Steam?” Author: Jessica Walker Beaumont http://www.afsc.org/trade-matters/trade-agreements/LosingSteam.htm International Herald Tribune, December 28, 2006 Title: “Economic Policy Changes With New Latin American Leaders” Author: Mark Weisbrot http://www.cepr.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=773&Itemid=45 International Affairs Forum, March 31, 2007 Title: “Is Hugo Chavez a Threat [...]

# 18 Mexico’s Stolen Election

# 18 Mexico’s Stolen Election

Sources: AlterNet, August 2, 2006 Title: “Evidence of Election Fraud Grows in México” Author: Chuck Collins and Joshua Holland http://www.alternet.org/story/39763 Revolution, September 10, 2006 Title: “Mexico: The Political Volcano Rumbles” Authors: Revolution Newspaper Collective http://revcom.us/a/060/mexico-volcano-en.html Researchers: Bill Gibbons and Erica Haikara Faculty Evaluator: Ron Lopez, Ph.D. Overwhelming evidence reveals massive fraud in the 2006 Mexican [...]

# 17 Drinking Water Contaminated by Military and Corporations

# 17 Drinking Water Contaminated by Military and Corporations

Sources: Environment News Service, March 24, 2006 Title: “Factories, Cities Across USA Exceed Water Pollution Limits” Author: Sunny Lewis http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/mar2006/2006-03-24-05.asp AlterNet, August 4, 2006 Title: “Military Waste in Our Drinking Water” Authors: Sunaura Taylor and Astor Taylor http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/39723/ Student Researchers: Jonathan Stoumen, Adrienne Magee, and Julie Bickel Faculty Evaluator: Sasha Von Meier, Ph.D. and Steve [...]

#16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11

#16 No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11

Source: The Muckraker Report, June 6, 2006, and Ithaca Journal, June 29, 2006 Title: “FBI says, ‘No Hard Evidence Connecting Bin Laden to 9/11’” Author: Ed Haas http://www.teamliberty.net/id267.html Student Researcher: Bianca May and Morgan Ulery Faculty Evaluator: Ben Frymer, Ph.D. Osama bin Laden’s role in the events of September 11, 2001 is not mentioned on [...]

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