Sources: RACHEL’S ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH WEEKLY, Date: November 23, 1995, Title: “Many Pesticides, Little Knowledge,” Author: Peter Montague; EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL, Date: Fall 1996, Title: “The Truth About Inerts,” Author: Charmaine Oakley SSU Censored Researcher: Jeffrey Fillmore The American Heritage Dictionary defines “inert” as “Not readily reactive with other elements.” This does not necessarily describe [...]

Source: EARTH ISLAND JOURNAL*, Date: Summer 1996, Title: “Tuna, Free Trade, and Cocaine,” Authors: Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn (*Reprint from a longer version of the same article in CounterPunch). SSU Censored Researchers: Diane Ferre, Doug Hecker, Kevin Stickler, Lisa Zwirner If recent history is any guide at all, one can only conclude that President [...]

Source: RACHEL’S ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH WEEKLY, Date: June 20, 1996; July 4, 1996, Title: “Chemicals and the Brain, Parts I and II,” Author: Peter Montague SSU Censored Researchers: Jeffrey Fillmore, Anne Shea Scientists are discovering that chemicals in our environment are impacting our hormones and permanently changing how we live and who we are. Everyone [...]

Source: WORLD WATCH, Date: September/October 1996 Title: “The Refrigerator Revolution,” Authors: Ed Ayres and Hilary French; WORLD WATCH, Date: January/February 1996, Title: “Ozone Repair,” Author: Chris Bright SSU Censored Researchers: Aaron Butler, Meiko Takechi Deborah Udall While other countries have been using other environmentally safe chemicals as alternatives to ozone-depleting chloro-fluorocarbons (CFCs), the United States [...]

Source: COVERTACTION QUARTERLY, Date: Summer 1996, Title: “Behind the Razor Wire: Inside INS Detention Centers,” Author: Mark Dow SSU Censored Researchers: Tina Barni, Meiko Takechi With the overpopulation of undocumented immigrants, those in the custody of the Department of Justice’s Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) are now being widely transferred to local jails across the [...]

Source: COUNTERPUNCH Date: March 15, 1996 Title: “The Poison Trade” Authors: Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn SSU Censored Researchers: Anne Stalder, Lisa Zwirner Last September, representatives from 84 countries gathered in Geneva for the Basel Convention. Their purpose was to pass an international ban which would put an end to the exporting of toxic wastes [...]

Sources: COUNTERPUNCH, Date: April 1-14, 1996, Title: “The New China Lobby,” Authors: Ken Silverstein and Alexander Cockburn; MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, Date: April 1996, Title: “China’s Hired Guns,” Author: Ken Silverstein; SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, Date: May 29, 1996, Title: “China Huggers,” Author: Jim Hightower SSU Censored Researchers: Tina Barni, Doug Hecker In its annual battle to [...]

Sources: THE TEXAS OBSERVER Dates: March 8, 1996; April 19, 1996, Titles: “Choose Your Poison”; and “Poisoned Welcome,” Author: Michael King; SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, Date: April 24, 1996, Title: “Importing Toxic Waste,” Author: Jim Hightower SSU Censored Researchers: Bob Browne, Jeffrey Fillmore In March 1996, the United States Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) repealed a [...]

Source: THE NATION, Date: April 8, 1996, Title “Union Do’s: Smart Solidarity,” Author: Eyal Press SSU Censored Researchers: Aldo Della-Maggiora Stacey Merrick Fifteen years after Ronald Reagan fired the air traffic controllers, strikes in America have dipped to a fifty-year low, a mere one-eighth the level of two decades ago. In response to this decline, [...]

Source: THE NATION, Date: December 25, 1995 Title: “Golden Fleece” Author: Arthur E. Rowse SSU Censored Researchers: Brant Herman, Mark Lowenthal According to a General Accounting Office (GAO) report last year, the face value of worldwide trades involving derivatives—a high-risk type of financial contract whose value is derived from the performance of an underlying asset [...]