Source: CorpWatch, October 17, 2007 Title: “A US Fortress Rises in Baghdad: Asian Workers Trafficked to Build World’s Largest Embassy” Author: David Phinney http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14173 Student Researcher: Kristen Kebler and Angela Purcaro Faculty Evaluator: Andrew Roth, Ph.D. The enduring monument to US liberation and democracy in Iraq will be the most expensive and heavily fortified embassy [...]

Sources: Oxfam International, March 2007 Title: “Singing Away The Future” http://www.oxfam.org/en/policy/briefingpapers/bp101_regional_trade_agreements_0703 IPS coverage of Oxfam Report March 20, 2007 Title: “Free Trade Enslaving Poor Countries” Author: Sanjay Suri http://ipsnews.org/news.asp?idnews=37008 Student Researcher: Ann Marie O’Toole Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Ph.D. The Oxfam report, “Signing Away the Future,” reveals that the US and European Union (EU) are [...]

Source: MoonofAlabama.org 2/21/2007 Title: “Understanding AFRICOM” Author: Bryan Hunt http://www.moonofalabama.org/2007/02/understanding_a_1.html Student Researcher: Ioana Lupu Faculty Evaluator: Marco Calavita, Ph.D In February 2007 the White House announced the formation of the US African Command (AFRICOM), a new unified Pentagon command center in Africa, to be established by September 2008. This military penetration of Africa is being [...]

Sources: Toward Freedom , October 25, 2006 Title: “Bush Moves Toward Martial Law” Author: Frank Morales http://www.towardfreedom.com/home/content/view/911 Student Researchers: Phillip Parfitt and Julie Bickel Faculty Evaluator: Andy Merrifield, Ph.D. The John Warner Defense Authorization Act of 2007, which was quietly signed by Bush on October 17, 2006, the very same day that he signed the [...]

Sources: Consortium, October 19, 2006 Title: “Who Is ‘Any Person’ in Tribunal Law?” Author: Robert Parry http://consortiumnews.com/2006/101906.html Consortium, February 3, 2007 Title: “Still No Habeas Rights for You” Author: Robert Parry http://consortiumnews.com/2007/020307.html Common Dreams, February 2, 2007 Title: “Repeal the Military Commissions Act and Restore the Most American Human Right” Author: Thom Hartmann http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0212-24.htm Student [...]