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NORWAY: In this essay, we take a closer look at the oil fund's financial capitalism. But capitalism is dirty – characterized by environmental destruction, exploitation, child labour, tax havens and, not least: cynical people who do everything to keep the wars going so that the weapons forges continue to produce their cunning deadly products. Oljefondet is today the largest European investor in companies operating on the occupied West Bank. The oil fund is also among the largest European financial institutions that invest in international arms manufacturers that sell arms to Israel.

REPORT: You don't understand where you are – indoors, outdoors, on the first floor, on the second, if a roof has collapsed, or if you're in a courtyard, or if maybe it wasn't a roof, but a floor. Every town here, even the smallest, is a fuse ready to be lit.

ESSAY: On the occasion of the new book Den fine taushets røst, 100 years after Asbjørn Aarne's birth, we bring here several extracts. But also with regard to the growing militarism and all those killed in Ukraine and Gaza...

FRED: Three hundred years after Immanuel Kant was born, the Prussian philosopher's arguments for a rational, clear-sighted pacifism are more relevant than ever. Europe has recently become a place where the opposition between good and evil is routinely invoked to justify irresponsible brutality, and where the drums of war sound ever louder. Kant is known as the author of one of the most famous anti-war essays in the history of philosophy: The Eternal Peace. Kant's cosmopolitanism is based on man's original, common possession of the earth and implies a recognition of a 'right' to visit all places without being treated with hostility.

POETRY: MODERN TIMES presents here Filipino Cirilo F. Bautista. He is an internationalist, influenced by European and American high modernism. For Bautista, there is no other way to understand contemporary Philippine politics than by retelling its history.

HOLBERG PRIZE WINNER: Achille Mbembe's books all revolve around how the people in post-colonial states are kept down and marginalized. But also about how democracy today does not work because threats, violence and murder keep people away from the public sphere, from debates, from being able to say what you think for fear of losing your job, being put in prison or killed.