FREE IN AMERICA — Fact or Fiction?
	Recent Article  |  Dr. Amaal V.E. Tokars
	The recent debate over illegal immigration in America has generated a lot of talk about freedom.  Political pundits have taken center stage on nightly news programs to champion reasons for and against why illegal immigrants should enjoy the same freedoms that generations of Americans have fought to ensure.  But all this talk about freedom has failed to raise one crucial question: are we, as citizens of what many consider the freest nation on earth, really as free as we think we are?  The short answer, of course, is yes.  read more

MIS-REPORTING THE NEWS — How the News Is Spun
	Washington, Nov. 30, 2005  |  Los Angeles Times
	As part of an information offensive in Iraq the United States military is secretly paying the Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by American troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.  The articles written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.  read more

MIS-REPORTING THE STORY — How the Media Misses the Story
	New York, April 7, 2004  |  MediaChannel.org
	It's the oldest story in the world: what goes up, comes down. All the bluster, PR, "positive press", bullying, distortion, deception, and military tough-guyism can not keep a flawed policy afloat.  The invasion of Iraq, sold as "the liberation of the Iraqi people", was always a movie with a bad script, flawed characters and no third act.  Despite all the Bremer ballast served up about how only a handful of Saddam-worshipping, al-Sadr-loving, Al-Qaeda-following fanatics stand in the way of a US-imposed democratic paradise, the reality on the ground suggests otherwise.   read more