CFP: [Collections] Special Issue: Globalization: Enlightening or Degenerating? (Vol. 38, April 2009)
When the second plane strikes the Second International Tower of New York,
we are there. When the American troops march into Iraq, we see
personally a land in real war. When the glazier falls in the far South
Pole, we all feel the trebling under our feet. When the long line of
refugees wanders through the border of Somalia, when a civilian is beaten
to death by the opposing mob, we all witness them personally. They are
happening to our neighbor at our door steps. When the housing market
collapses; when the stock dips deep; when the Earth grows warm; when the
ozone hole grows larger and larger, when…; we experience them instantly