Source: Upside Down World, February 11, 2009 Title: “The World Bank and Climate Change: Sustainability or Exploitation?” Author: Mary Tharin Student Researchers: Victoria Masucci and Christine Wilson Faculty Evaluator: Elaine Wellin, PhD Sonoma State University In the name of environmental protection, the World Bank is brokering carbon emission trading arrangements that destroy indigenous farmlands around [...]

Source: Opensecrets, April 3, 2008 Title: “Strategic Assets” Author: Lindsay Renick Mayer Student Researchers: Leora Johnson and Michael Seramin Faculty Evaluator:  Peter Phillips PhD Sonoma State University The nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has calculated that more than 151 members of Congress have up to $195 million invested in major defense contractors that are earning [...]

Sources: The Nation, December 17, 2008 Title: “Katrina’s Hidden Race War” Author: A.C. Thompson The Nation, December 18, 2008 Title: “Body of Evidence” Author: A.C. Thompson Democracy Now! December 19, 2008 Title: “Katrina’s Hidden Race War: In Aftermath of Storm, White Vigilante Groups Shot 11 African Americans in New Orleans” Student Researcher: Aimee Drew Evaluator: [...]

Sources: The Raw Story, September 29, 2008 Title: “Republican IT consultant subpoenaed in case alleging tampering with 2004 election” Authors: Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane The Brad Blog, December 22, 2008 Title:  “OH Election Fraud Attorney Reacts to the Death of Mike Connell“ Author: Brad Friedman Democracy Now! December 22, 2008 Title: “Republican IT Specialist [...]

Sources: WhoProfits.org Title: “Who Profits? Exposing the Israeli Occupation Industry” Authors: The Coalition of Women for Peace Palestine News Network, August 26, 2008 Title: “US Tax Breaks Support Israeli Settlers” Workers World Newspaper, February 9, 2009, and Global Research, February 11, 2009 Title: “The Tunnels of Gaza, An underground economy and resistance symbol” Author: Sara [...]

Sources: Alternet, November 26, 2008 Title: “As Crisis Mounts, Ecuador Declares Foreign Debt Illegitimate and Illegal” Author: Daniel Denvir Utube, Fall 2008 Title: “Invalid Loans to Ecuador: Who Owes Who” Producer: Committee for the Integral Audit of Public Credit Foreign Policy in Focus, December 15, 2008 Title: “Ecuador’s Debt Default” Authors: Neil Watkins and Sarah [...]

Sources: Human Rights Watch, March 25, 2009 Title: “White Phosphorus Use Evidence of War Crimes Report: Rain of Fire: Israel’s Unlawful Use of White Phosphorus in Gaza” Author: Fred Abrahams Consortium News, January 18, 2009 Title: “Is Israel’s Gaza War a New War Crime?” Author: Dennis Bernstein Flashpoint Radio ( KPFA) Gaza Special ( January [...]

Sources: Bloomberg, December 16, 2008 Title: “Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1% or $14 Million” Author: Christine Harper The Huffington Post, February 23, 2009 Title “Gimme Shelter:  Tax Evasion and the Obama Administration” Author: Thomas B. Edsall Student Researcher: Valerie Janssen and Aimee Drew Faculty Evaluators: BC Franson, JD, SMSU and Robert Girling, PhD, [...]

Sources: ConsortiumNews.com, November 13, 2008 Title: “The Danger of Keeping Robert Gates” Author: Robert Parry Global Research, February 13, 2009 Title: “Obama’s Defense Department Appointees- The 3.4 Trillion Dollar Question” Author: Andrew Hughes Democracy Now! January 7, 2009 Title: “Obama Nominee Admiral Dennis Blair Aided perpetrators of 1999 church Killings in East Timor” Interviewee: Allan [...]

Source: Open Secrets.org Title: “Washington Lobbying Grew to $3.2 Billion Last Year, Despite Economy” Authors: Center for Responsive Politics Student Researchers: Alan Grady and Leora Johnson Faculty Evaluator: John Kramer, PhD Sonoma State University According to a study by The Center for Responsive Politics, special interests paid Washington lobbyists $3.2 billion in 2008—more than any [...]