Issue 427 of New Internationalist
Reader-owned global journalism
November 2009
November 2009
In the wake of 11 September 2001 and the ensuing Western ‘war on terror’, extraordinary measures have been brought into play in the four corners of the world, in the name of fighting terrorism.
These have resulted in widespread human rights violations and the curtailment of civil liberties. But have they made us any safer?
Once democracies begin to accept torture and the various perversions of the judicial process, do they have any moral authority left to confront the despots who are using counterterrorism as an excuse for cleaning up their enemies?
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Murder without Borders
Vancouver-based journalist Terry Gould tells the stories of six journalists who paid with their lives for refusing to surrender...
Balibo Five case reopened
Thirty-four years on, the notorious case of the ‘Balibo Five’ is to be reopened.
World of counterterror
A snapshot of the continuing spread of counterterrorist measures – real and unreal.
Bloody oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
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