A-Infos New Service 6/16/00 McLibel Support Campaign Title: Residents defeat McDonald’s after mammoth 552-day occupation http://www.mcspotlight.org Faculty Evaluator: Phil McGough, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Stephen Hayth, Brian Baptista, Deanna Battaglia On Sunday, December 13, 1998, local residents of Hinchley Wood, England, occupied the parking lot of their local pub to prevent McDonald’s from building on the [...]

Arms Sales Monitor, January 2000 Title: Arms Company of the Future: BoeingBAELockheedEADS, Inc? Author: Federation of American Scientists http://www.fas.org/asmp/library/asm/asm42.htm Evaluator: Andrew Botterell, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Steve Quartz, Nathalie Manneville A United States government task force has released its final report to the public recommending globalization of the U.S. defense industry, even if it results in [...]

Everyone’s Backyard, Summer 2000 Title: Understanding “Low Level” Chemical Exposures Author: Stephen Lester In These Times, August 21, 2000 Title: What’s In Your Green Tea? Author: Frances Cerra Whittelsey http://www.inthesetimes.com/whittelsey2419.html Faculty evaluator: Suzanne Toczyski, Ph.D., Lynn Cominsky, Ph.D. Student researchers: Stephen Hayth, Stephanie Garber, Adam Sullens, Nathalie Manneville Corporate media coverage: Chicago Tribune, 12/26/00 Section [...]

Alternet, May 31, 2000 Title: Pot Shrinks Tumors; Government Knew in ‘74 Author: Raymond Cushing http://www.alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=9257 Faculty Evaluator: Mary King M.D. Student researchers: Jennifer Swift, Licia Marshall, Corporate media coverage: AP and UPI news wires 2/29/00 A Spanish medical team’s study released in Madrid in February 2000 has shown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical [...]

Freespeech.org, 9/1/00 Title: U.S. Bombing Range in South Korea: “Hell On Earth!” Author: Karen Talbot http://www.freespeech.org Corporate media coverage: The Christian Science Monitor, 6/2/00 p.8, New York Times, 6/18/00 p.6, AP, 6/19/00 Faculty Evaluators: Robert Tellander, Peter Phillips, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Melanie Burton, Michael Runas Every weekday for the past 50 years, from eight o’clock [...]

Tash Newsletter March 2000 Title: The Invisible Victims Author: Dan Sorensen 158.96.231.221/dmhsearch/dmhquery.asp Faculty evaluator: Julie Allen, Ph.D. Student researchers: Jennifer Swift, Natalie Guilbault Research consistently finds that people with substantial disabilities suffer from violent and other major crime at rates four to ten times higher than that of the general population. Estimates are that around [...]

MoJo Wire (Mother Jones magizine Web site), May 3, 2000 Title: Drug Control or Biowarfare? Authors: Sharon Stevenson and Jeremy Bigwood CounterPunch, London Observer, June 1-15, 2000 and July 2, 2000 Title: McCaffery’s Plagues: New Biowar on Drugs Authors: Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair London Observer, July 2, 2000 Title: U.S. Prepares to Spray [...]

GeneWatch, October 1999 Title: Indigenous Peoples’ Statement on the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the WTO Agreement Author: Kimberly Wilson Third World Resurgence #110-111, Fall 1999 Title: A Call for Support for African Group Proposal on TRIPS Article 27.3(b) on Patenting of Life Earth First!, March/April 2000 Looting Indigenous Medicine in [...]

Emperor’s New Clothes, September 28, 2000 Title: The International Monetary Fund and the Yugoslav Election Author: Michel Chossudovsky and Jared Israel emperors-clothes.com/indexe.htm SF Bay Guardian, 8/23/2000 Title: Colony Kosovo Author: Christian Parenti http://www.sfbg.com/News/34/47/47wvkoso.html Faculty evaluator: Peter Phillips Ph.D. Student researchers: Jaleah Winn, Katie Sims, Dana Balicki, Steve Quartz The G-17 is a Yugoslav economist group [...]

Washington Free Press, Jan./ Feb. 2000 Titles: Genetic Bullets, Ethnically Specific Bioweapons Author: Roy Blake Konformist, March 2000 Title: Ethnic Weapons for Ethnic Cleansing Author Greg Bishop http://www.konformist.com North Coast Xpress, Fall 2000 The Human Genome Project and Eugenics Author Robert Lederman Corporate news coverage: Daily Telegraph (London) 7/7/00, Agence France Presse 1/21/99, The Gazette [...]