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Volume 50, Number 8
HOMELAND OFFENSES
Looking beyond official spin, Toward Freedom examines the domestic downside of the war on terrorism. TV Producer Chloe Kovner shows how propaganda is being turned into "reality" TV entertainment. Diane Lane takes on Joint Terrorism Task Forces, pointing to the potential revival of "red squad" activity directed against dissent. And Ron Chepesiuk looks at the "war on drugs," offering ten common sense alternatives that can limit harm and produce results.
Toward Freedom:
A Progressive Perspective on World Events
Golden Anniversary Issue 2002 (Vol. 50, No. 8)
HOMELAND OFFENSES
TV's Reality Gap
Not content with controlling wartime news,
the US turns propaganda into entertainment
CHLOE KOVNER
Repression Goes Local
Joint Terrorism Task Forces could become the new "Red Squads"
DIANE LANE
Fixing the Drug War
Ten common sense alternatives that can limit harm and produce results
RON CHEPESIUK
High Time for Equal Time
ELAYNE CLIFT
TOWARD FREEDOM
Making Sense of World Events
Half a century of vision and advocacy for human rights and global democracy
GREG GUMA
TF Reports
AMERICAS
De-mining the Border
Since the Contra War, Nicaragua has become a leader in land mine removal
CHRISTINA HOAG
AFRICA
Follow the Diamonds The money trail leads from Sierra Leone to Al Qaeda
ANGIE MANGINO
Angola After Savimbi Peace may be possible, but the lure of war persists
STEPHEN MBOGO
SCIENCE
Dental Dilemma
Replacing bacteria may stop tooth decay, do we know the downside?
JOHN HORVATH
MONEY
Small is Liberating
Microcredit opens new avenues for empowerment and self-reliance
SCOTT ESPOSITO
Departments
Editorials:
Our Next Incarnation
From Terror to Hope
TF Foundation News
Focusing on Vermont Prisons
ROBIN LLOYD, DAVE DELLINGER & ELIZABETH PETERSON
Peltier's Message: Enough Is Enough
TF in Transition
Thanks for the Support!
Letters
Defending Civil Liberties
Media for Change
Notebook
Top Story: One-Day Venezuela Coup Tracks to Oil
Also: Russia Outs CIA Spy Ring * Kenya: Blooming Medicine * DU Contamination Evidence Grows * The Top Ten of Corporate Crime * Trinidad and Tobago: Deporting Crime * Vieques: Another Volley * Madagascar: Coup in Progress * UK: Colonial Comeback?
Classified
Last Words
The Enemy Up North
Just when the US thinks it's safe, another dastardly plot is exposed
CARLOS CUNHA
