Archive for the Category ‘Top 25 of 1997’
Top 25 of 1997
Sources: EXTRA! Date: September/October 1996 Title: “High On Lies,” Author: Mike Males; THE, PROGRESSIVE, Date: May 1996, Title: “The Return of Reefer Madness, “ Authors: Mike Males and Faye Docuyanan SSU Censored Researchers: Kevin Coyne, Jody Howard In what is slowly becoming a campaign tradition, Bob Dole spent a formidable amount of the 1996 election [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Sources: ON THE ISSUES Date: Fall 1996 Title: “The Anti-Abortion Stealth Campaign”; Author: Jennifer Gonnerman; FRONT LINES RESEARCH Date: October 1996, Title: “Storming Wombs and Waco: How the Anti-abortion and Militia Movements Converge,” Author: Sandi DuBowski SSU Censored Researchers: Latrice Babers, Linda McCabe At this point in the turbulent history of the debate over abortion, [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Sources: UTNE READER Date: January 2, 1996 Title: “Watch Your Mouth” Author: Helen Cordes; WASHINGTON FREE PRESS Date: April 5, 1996, Title: “Lettuce Libel,” Author: Eric Nelson; COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW, Date: September/October 1996, Title: “The Alar `Scare’ Was For Real,” Author: Elliott Negin; USA TODAY, Date: March 27, 1996, Title: “Warning: You can be sued [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Source: CHICAGO LIFE MAGAZINE Date: October 1995, Title: “Milking the Public” Author: Hilary Varner SSU Censored Researchers: Richard Henderson, Lisa Zwirner New research suggests that our milk supply may be increasingly more dangerous. With the increased use of hormones and antibiotics in milk-producing cows comes an increase in the levels of the naturally occurring growth [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Source: THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY Date: October 1995, Title: “If the GDP Is Up, Why Is America Down?,” Authors: Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, and Jonathan Rowe SSU Censored Researchers: Jeffrey Fillmore, Amber Knight If measured by growth in the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the economy is booming. Productivity and employment are up, and inflation is under [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Sources: WORLD WATCH, Dates: May/June 1996, Titles: “Facing Food Scarcity,” and “Japanese Government Breaks With World Bank Food Forecast,” Author: Lester R. Brown The Japanese Ministry of Agriculture released projections in late December 1995 which show a doubling of world grain prices by 2010. The world prices for wheat and rice will exceed 2 times [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Sources: MILITARY TOXICS PROJECT’S DEPLETED URANIUM CITIZENS’ NETWORK, Date: January 16, 1996 (release of report), Title: “Radioactive Battlefields of the 1990s: The United States Army’s Use of Depleted Uranium and its Consequences for Human Health and the Environment,” Authors: Pat Broudy, Grace Bukowski, Leonard Dietz, Dan Fahey, John Paul Hasko, Cathy Hinds, Damaica Lopez, Dolly [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Sources: COVERTACTION QUARTERLY, Date: Spring 1996, Title: “Big Brother Goes High-Tech,” Author: David Banisar; INSIGHT, Date: August 19, 1996, Title: “Access, Privacy and Power,” Authors: Michael Rust and Susan Crabtree; INSIGHT, Date: September 9, 1996, Title: “New Surveillance Camera Cheers Police, Worries ACLU*,” Author: Joyce Price [*Reprint from Washington Times] George Orwell’s prediction concerning government [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Sources: THE NATION*, Date: May 20, 1996, Title: “Cashing in on Poverty,” Author: Michael Hudson; THE HOUSTON CHRONICLE*, Date: July 15, 1996, Title: “Bordering on Scandal What Some Pay for Credit,” Author: Michael Hudson [*Excerpted from the book, Merchants of Misery. How Corporate America Profits from Poverty, Edited by Michael Hudson (Common Courage Press, 1996)]. [...]
Top 25 of 1997
Source: MULTINATIONAL MONITOR, Date: June 1996, Title: “The Making of the Banking Behemoths,” Author: Jake Lewis Nineteen ninety-five was a record year of bank mergers. Chase Manhattan and Chemical bank combined to create the nation’s largest bank, with $300 billion in assets—while on the West coast, the merger of First Interstate and Wells Fargo created [...]