Sources: Truthout, February 2008 Title: “Predatory Lenders’ Partner in Crime” Global Research, March 17, 2008 Title: “Why the Bush Administration ‘Watergated’ Eliot Spitzer” Author: F. William Engdahl Student Researchers: Rob Hunter, Elizabeth Rathbun, and Rebecca Newsome Faculty Evaluator: Mickey S. Huff, MA The exposure of New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer’s tryst with a luxury [...]

Source: Rense.com and Rock Creek Free Press, January 14, 2008 Title: “Transcript Of Japanese Parliament’s 911 Testimony” Author: Benjamin Fulford Student Researchers: Kyle Corcoran, Alan Scher, Bill Gibbons, and Elizabeth Rathbun Faculty Evaluator: Mickey S. Huff, MA Testimony in the Japanese parliament, broadcast live on Japanese television in January 2008, challenged the premise and validity [...]

Source: NewStandard, April 20, 2007 Title: “FDA Complicit in Pushing Prescription Drugs, Ad Critics Say” Author: Shreema Mehta Student Researchers: Lauren Anderson, Corey Sharp-Sabatino, and Marie Daghlian Faculty Evaluator: Noel Byrne, PhD While the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) turns a blind eye, drug companies are making false, unsubstantiated, and misleading claims in their [...]

Sources: Inter Press Service, July 23, 2007 Title: “Mutiny Shakes US Food Aid Industry” Author: Ellen Massey Revolution Magazine, October 1, 2007 Title: “Starvation, Aid Agencies and the Benevolence of the Imperialists” Author: Revolution Cooperative Student Researchers: Susanna Gibson, Cedric Therene, and Chris Armanino Faculty Evaluator: Keith Gouveia, JD In August 2007, one of the [...]

Source: The Guardian, January 22, 2008 Title: “Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, NATO told” Author: Ian Traynor Student Researchers: Stephanie Smith and Sarah Maddox Faculty Evaluator: Robert McNamara, PhD North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) officials are considering a first strike nuclear option to be used anywhere in the world a threat may arise. Former [...]

Sources: Marijuana Policy Project, September 27, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests Set New Record for Fourth Year in a Row” Author: Bruce Mirken National Organization for Reform of Marijuana Laws, September 24, 2007 Title: “Marijuana Arrests for Year 2006—829,625 Tops Record High” Author: Paul Armentano Student Researchers: Ben Herzfeldt and Caitlyn Ioli Faculty Advisor: Pat Jackson, [...]

Sources: Trade BioRes, September 21, 2007 Title: “Conference Agrees Steps to Safeguard Farm Animal Diversity” Author: The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development La Via Campesina, September 11, 2007 Title: “Wilderswil Declaration on Livestock Diversity” Authors: Representatives of pastoralists, indigenous peoples, and smallholder farmers Student Researchers: Maureen Santos, Andrew Kochevar, and Stephanie Smith Faculty [...]

Source: Associated Press, March 2, 2008 Title: “13,000 Abuse Claims in Juvie Centers” Author: Holbrook Mohr Student Researcher: Sarah Maddox Faculty Evaluator: Barbara Bloom, PhD In states across the country, child advocates have harshly condemned the conditions under which young offenders are housed—conditions that involve sexual abuse, physical abuse, and even death. The US Justice [...]

Sources: One World, September 14, 2007 Title: “UN Adopts Historic Statement on Native Rights” Author: Haider Rizvi BSNorrell.blogspot.com, December 11, 2007 Title: “Indigenous Peoples Protest World Bank Carbon Scam in Bali” Author: Brenda Norrell Common Dreams, December 12, 2007 Title: “Indigenous Peoples Shut Out of Climate Talks, Plans” Author: Haider Rizvi Forest Peoples Programme, November [...]

International Trade Union Confederation website, September 2007 Title: “2007 Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights” Student Researchers: Carmela Rocha and Elizabeth Allen Faculty Evaluator: Robert Girling, PhD The first Annual Survey of Violations of Trade Union Rights to be published by the year-old International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) documents enormous challenges to workers [...]