THE APPENDIX:
The periphery is being urbanised
The articles in this appendix of ORIENTERING shows which problems are linked to cities and poverty, pandemic, war, conflict, energy, food, flight, floods and fear.
WAR:
Presented as solidarity actions
In the ongoing conflict between Russia and the West in Ukraine, social democrats, social liberals and green politicians have been among the most ardent supporters of war and confrontational politics. And when "solidarity" becomes a tool for warmongers, the political right can become a strategic ally.
LOAN:
Your mortgage
Do you know how much more expensive your mortgage has become since the first rate hike?
The war – and most people
In this summer issue, as MODERN TIMES's editor, I publish a selection of articles that probably reflect different opinions than most people have about the war in Ukraine.
URBANIZATION:
Is there a future for poor people in the city?
Moving from the countryside to the city has lifted many people out of poverty, particularly in developing countries. The city provides better access to work, services and freedom from inhibiting social norms. At the same time, life for the city's poor can be difficult.
POVERTY:
The consequences of urbanization for aid practice
Over a billion people, 24 percent of the world's urban population, are today considered slum dwellers. And most refugees do not end up in overcrowded camps in Europe, but as displaced migrants in medium-sized and small cities in Asia and Africa. Aid today has a reluctance to get involved in urban areas and urbanization issues.
NO PLATFORMING:
Alice Walker, Anti-Semitism and the Price of Conscience
Under the heat of the Israel lobby, The Bay Area Book Festival humiliated one of the most gifted and courageous writers in the United States, Alice Walker. Do you remember her writing The Color Purple, for which she received the prestigious Pulitzer Prize?
IKEA, Bratteli, Jewish property…
In the archives of the Swedish security police there is a secret folder from 1943 marked «Memorandum regarding: Nazi». In 1994, this file was opened by journalists in the newspaper ...
Shireen Abu Akleh: "Now is the time for your tears"
You might know Bob Dylan's The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll? About the black maid who was killed by the rich man's son Zanzinger? For every injustice, ...
FALSE:
The gold from the victims of the Holocaust
"Neutral" countries such as Sweden and Switzerland boasted of huge stolen gold revenues used by Hitler's Germany during World War II. The gold financed, among other things, the concentration camps' factories.
FASCISM /
What happened to anti-Semitism?
TRANSLATED /
The Jerusalem Declaration on Anti-Semitism
INTERVIEW /
Accused of being a "Jew hater"
JOURNALISM /
Hedges in MODERN TIMES
JERUSALEM /
A typical day in Sheikh Jarrah
NEW DECLARATION /
We look at two definitions of anti-Semitism
ANTISEMITTISM /
To criticize Israel
INTERVIEW /
Israel's contempt for the UN
VENICE:
Why there is something and not just nothing
This year's Art Biennale in Venice feels like the end of a human-centered era, a time where man with his invulnerability, self-sufficiency, the white man as the center of the world is under attack. Now it is the woman's turn to ask the big questions, about the sanctity of life, about connectedness, about man and technology, about what comes after "man".
OSLO:
Sustainability is no longer sustainable
A study of the conservation potential of Oslo's non-protected buildings shows that 13 million tonnes of CO2 is tied up in Oslo's non-protected buildings. What about pragmatic protection, where, for example, a farm owner must be able to prove that the demolition of such existing buildings is the right decision – also from a climate perspective?
URBAN PLANNING /
Five urbanists – urban developers
RUSSIA / UKRAINE /
The war on our understanding of reality
ECO-COMMUNITY /
Organic villages
PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE /
To modernize an entire continent
FALSE OF HISTORY? /
Hitler's favorite director Leni Riefenstahl