Source: Rachel’s Democracy & Health News, October 12, 2006 Title: “Some Chemicals are More Harmful Than Anyone Ever Suspected” Author: Peter Montague http://www.precaution.org/lib/06/ht061012.htm Student Researchers: Kristen Kebler and Michael Januleski Faculty Evaluator: Gary Evans, M.D. Research suggests that, contrary to previous belief, our behavior and our environmental conditions may program sections of our children’s DNA. [...]

Source: Congressional Quarterly, November 22, 2006 Title: “A Senate Mystery Keeps Torture Alive—and Its Practitioners Free” Author: Jeff Stein http://public.cq.com/public/20061122_homeland.html Student Researcher: Marley Miller Faculty Evaluator: James Dean, Ph.D. A provision mysteriously tucked into the Military Commission Act (MCA) just before it passed through Congress and was signed by President Bush on October 17, 2006 [...]

Sources: Truthout, January 27, 2007 Title: “Which Side Are You On?” Author: David Bacon http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012907L.shtml The Nation, February 6, 2007 Title: “Workers, Not Guests” Author: David Bacon http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/020607LB.shtml Foreign Policy in Focus, February 26, 2007 Title: “Migrants: Globalization’s Junk Mail?” Author: Laura Carlsen http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/4022 Student Researcher: Fernanda Borras Faculty Evaluator: Diana Grant, Ph.D. The North [...]

Sources: HaitiAction.net, January 21, 2007 Title: “UN in Haiti: Accused of Second Massacre” Authors: Haiti Information Project http://www.haitiaction.net/News/HIP/1_21_7/1_21_7.html Inter Press Service Title: “Haiti: Poor Residents of Capital Describe a State of Siege” Authors: Wadner Pierre and Jeb Sprague http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=36772 Student Researcher: William Leeming Faculty Evaluator: Dianne Parness Eyewitness testimony confirms indiscriminate killings by UN forces [...]

Sources: Tomdispatch.com, August 27, 2006 Title: “Why It’s Not Working in Afghanistan” Author: Ann Jones http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=116512 CorpWatch, October 6, 2006 Title: “Afghanistan Inc: a CorpWatch Investigative Report” Author: Fariba Nawa http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13518 Student Researchers: Madeline Hall and Julie Bickel Faculty Evaluator: James Dean, Ph.D. A report issued in June 2005 by the non-profit organization Action Aid [...]

Source: BBC Newsnight, February 14, 2007 Title: “Vulture Fund Threat to Third World” Author: Greg Palast with Meirion Jones http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17070.htm Student Researcher: Jenifer German Faculty Evaluator: Robert Girling, Ph.D. Vulture funds, otherwise known as “distressed-debt investors,” are undermining UN and other global efforts to relieve impoverished Third World nations of the debt that has burdened [...]

Sources: Mother Jones, February 2007 Title; “The Highwaymen” Author: Daniel Schulman with James Ridgeway http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/highwaymen.html Human Events, June 12,2006 Title: “Bush Administration Quietly Plans NAFTA Super Highway” Author: Jerome R. Corsi http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=15497 Student Researcher: Rachel Icaza and Ioana Lupu Faculty Evaluator: Marco Calavita, Ph.D. We will soon be paying Wall Street investors, Australian bankers, and [...]

Sources: Democracy Now! December 13, 2006 Title: “Vandana Shiva on Farmer Suicides, the US-India Nuclear Deal, Wal-Mart in India” Author: Vandana Shiva with Amy Goodman http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/13/1451229 Global Research, October 9, 2006 Title: “Genetically Modified Seeds: Women in India Take on Monsanto” Author: Arun Shrivastava http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=ARU20061009&articleId=3427 SciDev.Net Title: “Sowing Trouble: India’s ‘Second Green Revolution’” Author: Suman [...]

Source: Democracy Now! January 26, 2007 Title: “Our Mercenaries in Iraq: Blackwater Inc and Bush’s Undeclared Surge” Author: Jeremy Scahill http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/26/1559232 Student Researcher: Sverre Tysl Faculty Evaluator: Noel Byrne, Ph.D. The company that most embodies the privatization of the military industrial complex—a primary part of the Project for a New American Century and the neoconservative [...]

Sources: SourceWatch, November 18, 2006 Title: “Operation Falcon” Author: Brenda J. Elliot http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Operation_FALCON Ukernet, February 26, 2007 Title: “Operation Falcon and the Looming Police State” Author: Mike Whitney http://uruknet.info/?p=m30971&s1=h1 Student Researcher: Erica Haikara and Celeste Winders Faculty Evaluator: Ron Lopez, Ph.D. Under the code name Operation FALCON (Federal and Local Cops Organized Nationally) three federally [...]