Student Researcher: Valerie Janssen Faculty Evaluator: BC Franson, J.D. Southwest Minnesota State University Swiss banking giant, Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) enabled wealthy Americans to use tax schemes to cheat the IRS out of $20 billion over recent years according to the Department of Justice. UBS, a sponsor of the Miami Art Basel took [...]
Student Researcher: Demarco Butts Faculty Evaluator: William Du Bois, Ph.D. Southwest Minnesota State University Breathtaking corruption overran the U.S lending industry and led to the economic crisis. Credit agencies committed out and out fraud. Lenders negligently made risky loans that couldn’t possibly be good business. But everybody was doing it so nobody thought they’d [...]
Student Researcher– Trudy Kaiser Faculty Evaluator– Vicky Brockman, Ph.D. Southwest Minnesota State University In September 2008, the site of the 2008 Republican National Convention was transformed into a forbidding police state. St. Paul, Minnesota officers in full riot gear arrested hundreds of marchers, beating some and using tear gas and pepper spray on [...]
Student Researcher: Drew Kurtz Faculty Instructor and Evaluator: Bryan Sacks Nine years have passed since extremist Albanians destroyed homes in Mitrovica, Kosovo. Three refugee camps were created by the UN to house about 500 people whose homes were destroyed during the uprising. During the construction of these camps, it was stated that the camps [...]
The surplus dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial speculation and corporate takeovers is forcing foreign central banks to bear the costs of America’s expanding military empire. Keeping international reserves in “dollars” means that when U.S. deficit payment pumps “paper” into foreign economies, these banks have little option but [...]
Student Researcher: April Pearce Service Employees International Union (SEIU) President Andy Stern is facing growing internal criticism that he is seeking to consolidate unions to increase size and leadership power at the expense of rank-and-file members. Most recently, the SEIU’s executive board has taken over one of its largest locals, California’s 150,000-member United Healthcare [...]
Student Researcher: Curtis Harrison Faculty Evaluator: Keith Gouveia The International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor announced that they were at last issuing the long-threatened but first ever indictments against a sitting head of state, Omar al-Bashir, the Arab President of Sudan. Following the announcement the story was broadcasted all over the Western media system and [...]
Student Researcher: Christine Wilson Faculty Evaluator: Samantha Brim Carbon “cap and trade, ” or Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) investment, has become a means by which industrialized countries avoid reducing their own emissions by implementing “emissions-reduction” projects in developing nations, thereby earning “carbon credits.” In fact many trans-national corporations are using cap and trade programs [...]
Researcher: Ashleigh Hvinden Faculty Evaluator: Diana Grant Army Emergency Relief hoarded an excess of $345 Million in the fiscal years 2003-2007 according to an Associated Press investigation of tax records. The AER was created in 1942 for the sole purpose for providing financial support to those whose family members were financially dependent on the [...]
Student Researchers: Annie Sexton, Gwendolyn Brack, Hallie Fischer, Bernadette Gorman, Paige Henderson, Daryl Mowrey, Taylor Prodromos Faculty Instructor: Kevin Howley, Ph.D.; Associate Professor of Communication and Theatre Evaluator: Jeanette Pope, Professor of Geology, DePauw University Many chemicals that have already been claimed as “substances of high concern,” are being mass produced in [...]
