March 2003, Turning the Tide

 Click here to order this back issue of Toward Freedom’s print magazine.   

Volume 51, Number 3

TURNING THE TIDE
In the latest print edition, Dave Dellinger and Vandana Shiva deconstruct globalization, Citizen Soldier’s Tod Ensign and Indian historian Lata Mani take on the next war, plus Einstein’s FBI file, Afghanistan’s delicate condition, resisting a superhighway in Mexico and a pipeline in the Amazon, life behind bars in Latin America, TF’s global news round up, Foundation updates, and more. Take a peek below.

Toward Freedom:
A Progressive Perspective on World Events
TF Winter 2003    (Vol. 51, No. 3)

  • ON THE BARRICADES

    Turning the Tide
    A new movement shows Bush what democracy looks like
    LATA MANI

    Another World News [Satire]
    US: You’re Busted!
    UN Sanctions Rogue Regime; War Crimes Charges to Follow

    Sidebar: Clip ‘n Save: UN Charter Points the Way

    A Separate Peace   
    GIs and their families take a stand against combat in Iraq
    TOD ENSIGN

    Afghanistan’s Delicate Condition
    Karzai’s regime is holding on, but implosion is only a warlord away
    ANWER SHER  

    Reclaiming Einstein’s Legacy
    Why the FBI went after the "Person of the Century,"
    and how the same mistakes are being repeated today
    ALBERT HUEBNER

     

  • DECONSTRUCTING GLOBALIZATION

    Open Markets, Closed Minds 
    How reckless globalization has created fertile ground for terrorism
    VANDANA SHIVA

    From Misery to Hope
    A new anthology diagnoses the disease and explores the possibilities
    DAVE DELLINGER

    TF Reports: Americas

    A Road to Nowhere
    Indigenous communities stand up to Plan Puebla Panama
    ZAIDEE ROSE STAVELY 

    Showdown in Ecuador
    A destructive pipeline project meets resistance in the Amazon
    JIM TARBELL

    TF Reports: Prisons
    Cruel — But the Usual
    A night behind bars reveals brutal realities and the need for reform
    TISHA NICKENIG

     

  • DEPARTMENTS

    Guest Editorial: Dear Mr. President…
    BRADFORD LYTTLE

    TF Foundation News
    *Next Projects Focus on Solutions
    *Uneasy Empire: Book Announcement
    *Coming Soon: Indy Media II
    *Other News: Project Censored, Prison Alliance, Holiday Party

    Notebook
    *Colombia: Bush Wargame Reaches the Americas
    *Fun with Scandals: Bush Family Skeletons
    *Brazil Goes Left in Landslide Vote
    *War on Terror: Canada Breaks Out of US Fortress
    *No Dole for Kosovo
    *Airline Blacklist: It Ain’t Easy Flying Green
    *San Francisco: FCC Seizes Pirate Radio Equipment
    *Puerto Rico: Navy Surrenders in Battle of Vieques

    Last Word
    One Small Voice 
    The inspiring tale of a shy Indian woman who launched a movement
    JOSHUA NEWTON