The war – and most people
In this issue, as MODERN TIMES's editor, I publish a selection of articles that may reflect different opinions most people have about the war in Ukraine.
UKRAINE:
War resistance with a feminist look
In this romantic fairy tale with a pure Hollywood dream of a man stands Volodymyr Zelenskyj. But we know that this could develop into a new world war.
RUSSIA / UKRAINE:
The war on our understanding of reality
Journalist Anna Politkovskaya warned us against playing with fire. Now we can ask ourselves the question: Are we in the Third World War – or in the Second Cold War? In his study of "not an inch to the east" statements after the fall of the wall, history professor Mary E. Sarotte shows how Ukraine and Europe ended up in war again.
Israel / Palestine
Israel's oppression of the Palestinians has engaged me for a long time, both as a newspaper editor and filmmaker. When John Y. Jones in our editorial board therefore suggested that a ...
FUTURE:
The Norwegian ideal state
From 2017 to 2019, we traveled around the country in the artist group Alt Går Bra to learn about the Norwegian population's visions for the society of the future. The second most popular theme was climate and sustainability (ten percent). Three percent answered freedom, according to technology optimism, education and the importance of roots. For the vast majority, a completely different factor was most important.
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
LUBYA:
To wipe out a people
ECO-COMMUNITY:
Organic villages
Updated by the "war in Europe" (Ukraine), European countries today are forced to accelerate the development of renewable energy – as with solar heating and wind turbines.
AFGHANISTAN:
Two girls with clasped hands stare expressionlessly at the ground
Sangin – during twenty years of war, this area has been the bloodiest battlefield. It is reminiscent of Roman ruins. In 2001, one in three Afghans was starving – now one in two is starving.
PROFESSIONAL LITERATURE:
To modernize an entire continent
FALSE OF HISTORY?:
Hitler's favorite director Leni Riefenstahl
DEMOCRACY:
A pan-European political movement
EUROPE:
The Future of Europe
