Source: THE ANIMALS AGENDA, July/August 1999, Title: “Irrational Rations: Animals Used in Military Training” Author: D’Arcy Kemnitz Faculty Evaluator: Laurel Holmstrom Student Researchers: Rebecca Aust & Aimee Regan Mainstream coverage: Seattle Times, July 2, 1999, page B1; Willington-Star News, July 12, 1999, page 3B; News & Observer, Raleigh NC, July 6, 1999, page Al; Spokane [...]

Source: MOTHER JONES, November 1998, Title: “Positive Attitude Toward Nuclear Weapons Duty,” Author: Ken Silverstein Faculty Evaluator: Lynn Cominsky, Ph.D. Student Evaluator: Jake Medway Mentally unstable individuals may be in control of U.S. nuclear devices. A screening process called the Personnel Reliability Program (PRP), set in place after a near-disaster in 1959, is supposed to [...]

Source: TOWARD FREEDOM, July 1999 Title: “United for Peace” Author: Robin Lloyd Faculty Evaluator: Phil Beard, Ph.D. Student Researcher: Jeremiah Price The Hague Appeal for Peace (HAP) Conference, which took place in the Hague, Netherlands, in May 1999, has set a “Global Agenda” for world peace in the next century. Over 1,000 groups, from 100 [...]

Sources: THE PROGRESSIVE, August 1999, Title: “Mercenaries in Kosovo: The U.S. Connection to the KLA” Author: Wayne Madsen; COVERTACTION QUARTERLY, Spring-Summer 1999, Title: “Kosovo `Freedom Fighters’ Financed by Organized Crime,” Author: Michel Chossudovsky Faculty Evaluators: Rick Luttman, Ph.D. & Phil Beard, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Michael Spigel & Jeremiah Price Germany and the U.S. collaborated in [...]

Source: MS., October/November 1999, Title: “Giving the Vatican the Boot,” Author: Laura Flanders Faculty Evaluator: Laurel Holmstrom Student Researchers: Corey Hale & Katie Anderson Mainstream coverage: Although some aspects of this story did receive coverage in the New York Times and other papers, the extent and reasons behind the Vatican’s power in the U.N. were [...]

Source: THIS, July/August 1999, Title: “Banking On the Balkans,” Author: Michael Chossudovsky Faculty Evaluator: Peter Phillips, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Jeremiah Price & Lisa Desmond The World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) were leading contributors to economic tensions in the Balkans that stimulated the breakup of Yugoslavia. The divisiveness in Bosnia/Herzegovina and Kosovo was reported [...]

Source: CLEVELAND FREE TIMES, June 16-22, 1999, Title: “The Crohn’s Connection?,” Author: Lisa Chamberlain Faculty Evaluator: Derek Girman, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Lisa Desmond & Julia O’Connor Mounting research shows that a bacterium in cow’s milk may cause Crohn’s disease, a debilitating chronic inflam-matory disease of the gastrointestinal tract. Although four studies indicate that the bacterium, [...]

Source: THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, January 27, 1999, Title: “The Lost Boys: California is Trying Kids as Adults-and Locking Them Up for Life. No One Knows How Many, “ Author: A. Clay Thompson Faculty Evaluator: Peter Duffy Student Researchers: Jeremiah Price & Michael Spigel In California, minors as young as 14 are being pushed [...]

Source: WORLD RIVERS REVIEW, December 1998, Title: “World Bank’s Record on Resettlement Remains Troublesome,” Author: Lori Pottinger Faculty Evaluator: Bryan Baker, Ph.D. Student Researchers: Jennifer Mathis, Melissa Bonham, & Lisa Desmond The World Bank funds large dam projects, but does little to help the displaced millions who are forced to relocate. A recent report by [...]

Sources: NEWS WATCH, Summer 1999 Title: “The Color Game: How Media Plays the Race Card,” Author: Robert Entman; NEWS WATCH, Summer 1999 Title: “It is the Nuances, Stupid,” Author: Linda Jue Faculty Evaluator: Elizabeth Martinez, Ph.D. Student Evaluator: Marni Goodman The U.S. media oversimplified the debate on affirmative action and deliberately misled the American public. [...]