Farm animals of today are so pumped full of steroids and growth hormones that is it decreasing their quality of life significantly. The American meat producers’ goal is to produce the meatiest animals regardless of the effects on the quality of their lives. An article in the Journal of Animal Science shed some light on [...]

In 2007, journalists Pacale Bourgaux and Mercedes Gallego investigated stories on rape in the US military.  They made a documentary called “Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within” which focuses on four military women who had been raped.  On October 26, they showed the film at the New York Independence Film Festival.  One military woman [...]

Stacie Ritter’s twin daughters were diagnosed with cancer at the age of four. They both needed stem cell transplants and other cancer treatments. The twins survived, but the glands controlling their growth were damaged beyond repair from the treatment. To continue growing, they needed doctor-recommended growth-hormone injections regularly. Stacie’s husband’s company switched to CIGNA health [...]

On October 6, 2009, Aljazeera news reported that three Iranian reformist newspapers, Day’s Analysis, Culture of Reconciliation, and Ideals were closed during a night raid by the government, stopping the production of the news. Since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s rise to power the government has shut down multiple news sources around the country. The government has revealed [...]

The investment arm of the CIA is investing in a firm that monitors social media as part of the CIA’s effort to access more “open source intelligence.” The firm is known as Visible Technologies and has offices in New York, Seattle, and Boston. The firm was created in 2005 and in 2006 developed a partnership [...]

On October 26, 2008, U.S. helicopters stormed a farm near the Iraq-Syria border and brutally killed 7 people within the farm walls.  Anonymous Pentagon sources claimed that there was an Al-Qaeda terrorist, Abu Ghadiya, with in the walls of the farm. This terrorist is held responsible for smuggling men and arms across the Iraqi-Syrian border. [...]

Student Researcher: Katie McCartin, Melissa Bock, Anne Geiler, Ava Roebuck, Morgan Burke, Scott O’Neil Faculty Instructor: Kevin Howley Potential Evaluator: Nafhat Nasr Ten veterans and four civilians were arrested outside the final presidential debate on October 15 at Hofstra University. They were entering the debate in attempts to deliver questions about candidates’ plans of withdrawal [...]