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.
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
NAZISTER:
Ukraine, Nazism and anti-Semitism
NEW DECLARATION:
We look at two definitions of anti-Semitism
ANTISEMITTISM:
To criticize Israel
INTERVIEW:
Israel's contempt for the UN
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 ...
Jens Stoltenberg's day
It crackles and crackles in the ear of the general secretary, he wakes up dazed and lost after a disturbing dream and shaves carefully and tightens his grip on himself ...
RUSSIA:
Competence or arrogance?
The Russian thinkers Aleksandr Dugin, Ivan Iljin and Lev Gumilyov shape the spiritual-political climate in Russia in different ways. Dugin is often claimed to be one of the ideologues behind Russia's attack on Ukraine. Is that an exaggeration?
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
THE GLOCAL:
The moral notion of common goods
NEXT GENERATION EU:
EU economic recovery plan
TECHNOLOGY:
ASIA: "We are the ones who are far away, while they are in the center"
According to Kevin Kelly, technology writer, photographer and publicist, the best thing you can do sometimes is slow down technology.
DEMOCRACY:
A pan-European political movement
According to Yanis Varoufakis, his DiEM25 was the first to present a green new agreement – one that was comprehensive, radical and realistic at the same time.
EUROPE:
The Future of Europe
MODERN TIMES recently visited the European Parliament in Strasbourg, and met one of the founders of the Conference on the Future of Europe – where the following topics have been discussed: democratic values, climate change, social justice and job security, human rights, European defense and digital transformation. This is the basis for ORIENTERING this time, as we on the following pages have asked a number of Norwegian opinion leaders about much of the same. And here with Daniel Freund, who is a member of the party Die Grünen in Germany, we could not help but talk about climate.
EUROPE:
What should Europe do?
EUROPE:
Attempts at EU reforms
EUROPE:
Basic values
MODERN TIMES CONVERSATIONS:
The military-industrial complex
