Archive for the Category ‘Top 25 of 2001’

15. Gerber Uses the WTO to Suppress Laws that Promote Breastfeeding

15. Gerber Uses the WTO to Suppress Laws that Promote Breastfeeding

Environment and Health Weekly, November 18, 1999 Title: Corporate Rights vs. Human Need Author: Peter Montague http://www.rachel.org/bulletin/index.cfm?St=4 Multinational Monitor, September, 2,000 Title: Milking Profits in Pakistan Author: Muddassir Rizvi Faculty Evaluators: Suzanne Toczyski, Ph.D., Linda Novack, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Deanna Battaglia, Nathalie Manneville Gerber Baby Foods Corporation has used the World Trade Organization (WTO) to [...]

14. Europe Holds Companies Environmentally Responsible, Despite U.S. Opposition

14. Europe Holds Companies Environmentally Responsible, Despite U.S. Opposition

In These Times, April 17, 2000 Title: The Big Stick Approach Author: Joel Bleifuss http://www.inthesetimes.com Faculty evaluator: David Van Nuys, Ph.D., Peter Phillips, Ph.D. Student researchers: Michael Runas, Molly Garrison, Deanna Battaglia In the near future, the European Union will hold any company that enters the European market responsible for the environmental impacts of its [...]

13. The World Trade Organization is an Illegal Institution

13. The World Trade Organization is an Illegal Institution

Covert Action Quarterly, Spring-Summer 2000 Title: Seattle and Beyond: The Illegality of the WTO Author: Michel Chossudovsky http://www.caq.com Faculty evaluator: Richard Senghas, Ph.D., Andy Merrifield, Ph.D. Student researchers: Kate Sims, Dana Balicki, Brian Baptista Something not mentioned by the corporate press or most of the 1,200 groups from 85 countries that opposed the World Trade [...]

12. Cuba Leads the World in Organic Farming

12. Cuba Leads the World in Organic Farming

Third World Resurgence, Spring 2000 Issue #118/119 Title: Cuba’s Organic Revolution Author: Hugh Warwick Sustainable Times, Fall 1999 Title: Farming With Fidel Author: Alison Auld Designer/Builder, August 2000 Title: Cuba’s New Revolution Authors: Stephen Zunes Corporate media coverage: Gannett, 9/15/99, Dallas Morning News, 1/25/98 p. 35A, The Economist, 4/24/99, Lewiston Morning Tribune, p. 1A. Associated [...]

11. United Nations Corporate Partnerships – A Human Rights Peril

11. United Nations Corporate Partnerships – A Human Rights Peril

Dollars and Sense, July/August 2000 Title: United McNations Author: Danielle Knight Multinational Monitor, March 2000 Title: Perilous Partnerships Author: Kenny Bruno http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/00march/economics1.html Corporate news coverage: Toronto Star 3/19/99, Washington Post 7/27/00 p. A-6 Faculty evaluators; Tim Wandling, Ph.D., Robert Tellander, Student Researchers: Cassandra Pojda, Bonnie Faulkner, Terrie Girdner In a move to make the United [...]

10. Silicon Valley Uses Immigrant Engineers to Keep Salaries

10. Silicon Valley Uses Immigrant Engineers to Keep Salaries

Sources: LABOR NOTES, September 2000, Title: “Immigrants Find High-Tech Servitude in Silicon Valley,” Author: David Bacon; WASHINGTON FREE PRESS, July/August 2000, Title: “Silicon Valley Sweatshops,” Author: David Bacon; Corporate Media Coverage: San Francisco Chronicle, September 29, 2000, p. A29 Community Evaluators: Fred Fletcher, Ervand Peterson Student Researchers: Ambrosia Crumley, Jennifer Swift, Terrie Girdner, Naomi Igra [...]

9. EPA Plans to Disburse Toxic/Radioactive Wastes into Denver’s Sewage System

9. EPA Plans to Disburse Toxic/Radioactive Wastes into Denver’s Sewage System

The Progressive, May 2000 Title: Plutonium Pancakes Author: Will Fantle http://www.progressive.org Faculty evaluator: Randy Dodgen, Ph.D. Student researchers: Kim Roberts and Mike Graves The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to pump toxic waste water into Denver’s sewer system in order to clean up a Superfund site at the Lowry landfill. Between 1950 and 1980, at [...]

8. Drug Companies Influence Doctors and Health Organizations to Push Meds

8. Drug Companies Influence Doctors and Health Organizations to Push Meds

Washington Monthly, May 12, 2000 Title: Drug Rush Author: Stephen Pomper MOJO Wire Magazine, November/December 1999 Title: Prozac.org Authors: Ken Silverstein http://www.motherjones.com/mother_jones/ND99/nami.html Dendron #43, Spring, 2000 Title: NAMI: The Story Behind the Story Author: David Oaks http://www.MindFreedom.org/DENDRON/dendron43/namislush/namislush.html Networker, March/April 2000 Title: Exposing the Mythmakers Authors: Barry Duncan, Scott Miller Jacqueline Sparks http://www.familytherapynetworker.com/ Faculty evaluators: Victor [...]

7. Independent Study Points to Dangers of Genetically Altered Foods

7. Independent Study Points to Dangers of Genetically Altered Foods

In These Times, January 10, 2000 Title: No Small (Genetic) Potatoes Author: Joel Bleifuss http://www.inthesetimes.com Extra!, May/June 2000 Title: Genetic Gambling Author: Karen Charman Multinational Monitor, January-February, 2000 Title: Don’t Ask, Don’t know Author: Ben Lilliston http://www.essential.org/monitor/mm2000/mm0001.05.html Corporate news coverage: Wide coverage in England including The Independent, The Herald, Irish Times, The Guardian, The Times [...]

6. International Report Blames U.S. and Others for Genocide in Rwanda

6. International Report Blames U.S. and Others for Genocide in Rwanda

Alternet, July 25, 2000 Title: Loyal Opposition: Clinton Allowed Genocide Author: David Corn http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=9494 CovertAction Quarterly, Spring/Summer 2000 Title: The Role of the U.S. Military Author: Ellen Ray Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Adam Sullens, Michael Runas Bill Clinton and his administration allowed the genocide of 500,000 to 800,000 people in Rwanda in [...]

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