Source: COVERTACTION QUARTERLY (CAQ), Title: “Operation Ghetto Storm: The Rise In Paramilitary Policing,” Date: Fall 1997, Author: Peter Cassidy SSU Censored Researchers: Michael McMurtrey and Jason L. Sanders SSU Faculty Evaluator: Robert Lee Nichols In the 25 years since the creation of the first Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) teams in Los Angeles, police forces [...]

Source: THE NATION, Title: “The Buying of the Bench,” Date: January 26, 1998, Author: Sheila Kaplan SSU Censored Researchers: Corrie Robb and Tom Ladegaard SSU Faculty Evaluator: Ken Marcus America’s justice system is being compromised by campaign contributions to judges from special interest groups and Corporate Political Action Committees (PACs). The campaign fundraising scandals have [...]

Source: TOWARD FREEDOM, Title: “China’s War on Women,” Date: March/April 1998, Author: Natasha Ma SSU Censored Researchers: Dan Bluthardt and Corrie Robb SSU Faculty Evaluator: Laxmi Tewari Since China’s invasion of Tibet in 1959, women have been at the forefront of the nonviolent struggle for independence nearly half of the protests staged over the last [...]

Sources: CHICAGO LIFE Title: “Ticking Time Bomb,” Date: October 1997, Author: Vicky Angelos;http://www.sightings.com/ health/salk.htm, Title: “The Forty Year Legacy of Tainted Polio Vaccine,” Date: May 14, 1998, Author: Harold Stearley SSU Censored Researcher: Jennifer Mintz SSU Faculty Evaluator: Mary King, M.D. The polio vaccine that was given to millions of children during the late 1950s [...]

Source: TURNING THE TIDE, Title: “The Prison Industry and The Global Complex,” Date: Summer 1998, Authors: Eve Goldberg and Linda Evans SSU Censored Researcher: Travis Duncan SSU Faculty Evaluator: Linda Lopez Private prisons are one of the fastest growing sectors of the prison industrial complex. Under contract by the government to run jails and prisons, [...]

Sources: AINFO NEWS SERVICE, Title: “Chevron in Nigeria—ERA Environmental Testimonies,” Date: July 10, 1998, Authors: Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria; PACIFICA RADIO—DEMOCRACY NOW, Title: “Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship,” Date: Summer 1998, Authors: Amy Goodman and Jeremy Scahill SSU Censored Researchers: Michael McMurtrey and Craig Chapman SSU Faculty Evaluator: Les [...]

Sources: SLINGSHOT, Title: “Mexico’s Military: Made in the USA,” Date: Summer 1998, Authors: Slingshot collective; DARK NIGHT FIELD NOTES, Title: “Bury My Heart At Acteal,” Author: Darrin Wood SSU Censored Researchers: Travis Duncan and Jason Gunnarson SSU Faculty Evaluators: Carol Tremmel and Francisco Vasquez On December 22, 1997, in the village of Acteal, in the [...]

Source: Ms., Title: “Women’s Health: A Casualty of Hospital Merger Mania,” Date: July/August 1998, Author: Christine Dinsmore SSU Censored Researchers: Jennifer Mintz and Yuki Ishizaki SSU Faculty Evaluators: Cindy Steams and Jeanette Koshar Nationwide hospital mergers with Roman Catholic Church medical facilities are threatening women’s access to abortions, sterilization, birth control, in vitro fertilization, fetal [...]

Sources: THIRD WORLD RESURGENCE, #92, Title: “Sowing Diseases, New and Old,” Authors: Mae-Wan Ho and Terje Traavik; THE ECOLOGIST, Title: “The Biotechnology Bubble,” Date: May/June 1998, Vol. 28, No. 3, Authors: Mae-Wan Ho, Hartmut Meyer, and Joe Cummins SSU Censored Researchers: Jennifer Mintz and Amber Manfree SSU Faculty Evaluator: Tom Lough The world is heading [...]

Source: THE NATION, Title: “Virtual Nukes—When is a Test Not a Test?,” Date: June 15, 1998, Author: Bill Mesler SSU Censored Researchers: Kelly Dahlstrom and Tom Ladegaard SSU Faculty Evaluator: Sue Garfin When scientists in India conducted a deep underground test on May 11, it was seen as a violation of the United Nation’s Comprehensive [...]