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Twin terrors
THIS
MONTH'S
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FROM THE NI EDITORIAL TEAM

The world holds its breath
The suicidal attacks on America were not acts of war but crimes against humanity. The New Internationalist argues that there can be no security without justice and equity.

Exiled Sudanese artist Mohammed Bushara responds to the terror.

VIEW FROM THE SOUTH:
The theatre of good and evil
Heroes exchange masks with villains – and each violent act sends us stumbling deeper into a tragedy of errors, writes Eduardo Galeano.

The price of life
Urvashi Butalia wonders why Indians were never asked by their government to stand in silence for other victims, like the gassed people in Bhopal.

FRONTLINE PAKISTAN:
My father, the fundamentalist
Farooq Tariq revisits a familiar world that has changed beyond recognition.

The street-smart poor
The people have been left out of the political equation by the
military dictatorship – a bad
mistake, according to Aasim Sajjad and Ali Qadir.

Osama is in charge
So says Adil, an opponent of the Taliban.

FRONTLINE AFGHANISTAN:
The real Afghanis
In one of the last reports to reach the outside world from inside Afghanistan, Dominic Nutt listens to the people who hunger and thirst beneath threatening skies.

No refuge
If Australia is anything to go by, says Chris Richards, desperate Afghanis who manage to escape will find no welcome elsewhere.

TWO TERRORS
Mark Twain could tell the difference between sudden and constant terrors; today, spelt out in figures, it looks very much the same.

A culture of life,
a culture of death
Where does the resistance movement go from here? Katharine Ainger reports from a lively gathering in Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Wage war on poverty
There’s another war altogether
that’s actually worth fighting, says David Ransom.

Bitter, bitter tears
Not without reason, many people in the Arab world have come to hate US policies. Lebanese journalist Reem Haddad explains their grief.

TOUCHED BY TERROR:
Breath of reason,
clouds of rage
Palestinian-American Susan Abulhawa cherishes her humanity above all else.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness
Diary entries from Ground Zero by Mark Engler.

America through
humanity’s mirror
This particular day, 11 September, resonates strangely for Ariel Dorfman, the Chilean author and playwright.

Protecting the Paper Tiger
People in China have
contradictory feelings about America, says Trini Leung.

The new twin towers
Israeli Uri Avnery wants to rebuild them both – as Peace and Justice.

Justice not terror
Action: who’s doing what – and how to find them.

These are extraordinary times. The events of 11 September were so terrible - and the weeks since so fraught with danger - that we at the New Internationalist have had little hesitation in postponing our promised November issue on Trade Unions and instead putting together this special magazine. This is something the NI has actually never done before, conscious that our long lead-in to printing on three continents makes it impossible for us to match daily papers and electronic media in commenting on the news of the moment. Normally we concentrate on understanding the processes behind the news, on addressing the issues that are unfashionable or inconvenient, and on telling the untold stories, often from the perspective of the poor.

So why have we altered our time-honoured practice? Does even the New Internationalist fall into the common trap of somehow considering these events to be more important because they took place in America?

We needed to do this. Emphatically not because the lives of those who died in the US were of more value than the children who are dying of hunger in Sudan, Haiti or Afghanistan even as you read this. But rather because the massacres in America opened up a gaping fissure in the unjust world order that has prevailed throughout the three-decade life of this magazine - and which it has been our insistent preoccupation to oppose. Beneath this earthquake are faultlines of structural inequality, poverty and injustice that have long been evident to those who were willing to see them.

As we write, military action remains an imminent threat rather than a reality - and we know that the news from Afghanistan or elsewhere may well overtake this issue by the time it reaches your hands. But we believe the principles on which it is based - legal justice rather than military retribution and economic justice rather than ever-increasing inequality - will be as relevant in a week, a decade, even a century, as they are now.

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Letters
 Readers respond to the events of 11 September.

Big Bad World
George W shoots from the lip: Polyp cartoon.
PLUS NI Crossword

Mixed media
BOOKS: The Undiscovered Paul Robeson by Paul Robeson Jr; Legacy of the Prophet by Anthony Shahid; Dogside Story by Patricia Grace.
MUSIC: Salt Rain by Susheela Raman; Prophesy by Nitin Sawhney. FILM/VIDEO: The Wire Mountain by Claire Creswell; The Speculation Game by Olivier Zuchuat.
PLUS SHARP FOCUS: on Utopia.
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