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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