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Truls Lie

Editor-in-chief in MODERN TIMES. See previous articles by Lie i Le Monde diplomatique (2003–2013) and Morgenbladet (1993-2003) See also part video work by Lie here.
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About Norwegian essayists

What makes a written essay an essay is how it is subjective, reflective, debating, trying associatively or dissociatively – but first and foremost how the essay is rebellious heretical. Is most of ...
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A surveillance dystopia

The ubiquitous surveillance has come to stay. Reversing the new technological situation we are in is impossible. A life without a cellphone, web, Facebook or Google?
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Debt that runs wild

It is interesting what psychology currently prevails in the world economy. In the West, we have now financially mortgaged real values ​​25 times. This is a pyramid scheme that will eventually have to break. The naivety that now shows ...
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Truls Lie about New Time

Why New Time? Read the cultural radical monthly newspaper which is now being rebuilt in 2015. A full-format newspaper with over 100 readers (also attached to Klassekampen). Beyond the classic freedom (control regimes, conflict / peace, equality) and brotherhood (environment, refugees, emergency aid), our cultural commitment to non-fiction ...
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Norway's militarization of civil society

Ny Tid prints on the previous page an unknown letter from former Crown Prince Olav, written barely three months before the war came to Norway. He writes to his friend in New York, the editor Hans Olav: "It looks ...
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Cohn-Bendit's Political Wills

Cohn-Bendit's book joins the ranks of mobilizing pamphlets.
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Francesca Borri: wounds that do not heal

The Italian war reporter Francesca Borri told me the last time I filmed her in Oslo that she would travel behind the lines of IS. This week she writes from Northern Iraq in Ny Tid – the area of ​​Norway soon ...
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Our Navy Fortress Norway

Nearly 1000 refugees on their way across the Mediterranean drowned – at the same time as Jonas Gahr Støre declared that the Labor Party would let 10 Syrian refugees into Norway. The boat refugees on their way from Libya had a dream of ...
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Snowden's fight against Goliath

With Snowden and the premiere film CITIZENFOUR this week, we have all become aware of the extensive surveillance we are exposed to. From a Freudian point of view, this is that Big Brother sees you, that the superego himself sits there and registers everything you do, a ...
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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