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March 2004,  Volume 52, Number 1

GLOBALIZATION AND BEYOND
The latest print edition offers two exclusive TF investigations: Human body parts as the hot new “cash crop,” and workers in Asia’s ready-made garment industry describe globalization’s race to the bottom. We also compare Presidents Bush (US) and Arroyo (Philippines), examine evasive language and the criminalizing of dissent, profile promising alternatives in Mexico and Argentina, and present George Monbiot’s proposal for a world parliament. Plus, regular TF features and a report on health care behind bars in Vermont. Take a peek below.

Print Edition: Table of Contents
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Toward Freedom:
A Progressive Perspective on World Events
TF Winter 2004 (Vol. 52, No. 1)

PERILS OF GLOBALIZATION

Organ Snatchers

Human body parts have become a new cash crop

ALBERT HUEBNER   Plus Links

Ready-Made Misery

A TF investigation of South Asia’s garment industry

chronicles globalization’s race to the bottom

RON CHEPESIUK    Plus Links

ELECTION PREVIEW

Partners in Power

US and Philippine Presidents share much more than a job description

AZIZ CHOUDRY

Sidebar: Election Glossary

EXPERIMENTS IN TERRORISM

Evasive Language

The Bush team’s increasingly mangled English points to deception 

STEVE YODER     Plus Link

Rights at Risk

Tracking the dangerous push to criminalize dissent

LYNNE A. WILLIAMS    Plus Links

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL: Beyond Assumptions (2004 Presidential Race)

GREG GUMA

TF FOUNDATION NEWS

Grading Care Behind Bars

A Vermont report examines prison health issues

PHIL SMITH AND NANAYMIE GODFREY

Other News, Gene Traders: Biotech Book Announcement

Publisher’s Note, by Robin Lloyd 

NOTEBOOK

Milosevic’s Trial, FTAA Stalls over Subsidies, Venezuela Targeted, Green Light for Caspian Oil, Syria May be Next, Russian Anxiety, Michael Moore’s New Film, Colombia and DynCorp, Empowering Africa Teens

TF REPORTS

AMERICAS

Voice of the Campesinos

Short wave radio is nurturing community in rural Mexico

ZAIDEE ROSE STAVELY   Plus Link

Nodes of Change

Barter clubs point the way toward an alternative economy

ELIZABETH L. SAD

LAST WORDS

Building a World Parliament

GEORGE MONBIOT