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CLIMATE: How can we live out our longings and cultivate a culture of diversity consisting of peace, trust, democracy and human rights. About the annual conference of the Swedish Transition Network.

ESSAY: The cultural expression of current crisis capitalism is 'immediacy'. The keywords are speed and availability. But contemporary art of immediacy is the paradoxical reversal of the avant-garde's privileging of the artist as a creative individual and the liberation of the viewer. And is today's new 'insurgent anarchism' an expression of a rejection of this logistical late capitalism?

The Hardanger Academy for Peace, Development and the Environment is a non-profit organization that has held its annual summer symposia in Jondal since 2000. Under its former name,...

In 2019, RAND openly presented the report on destabilizing Russia whose title can be translated as "How to overthrow Putin". Everything is available...

Albanese recently spoke in Siracusa, Sicily to 300 people about his new book J'Accuse. It can be tough to be as outspoken as Francesca Albanese is, even on social media. She has been labeled an "anti-Semite" and a "terrorist advocate".

LABOR PARTY: The leading force in the labor movement manipulated Norway into a military, political and economic marriage with the Western capitalist bloc NATO. What methods did the leadership of the Labor Party use to gain a majority, and how was the first opposition organized? Sigurd Evensmo was culture editor at Arbeiderbladet when the first NATO advances were reported. When the party enrolled Norway in the alliance in 1949, he left the editor's chair and resigned from the Labor Party.

NATO/USA: Often the media is flooded with statements from 'experts' from think tanks – which are directly sponsored by the military industry – demanding more weapons for Ukraine, but without disclosing the conflict of interest they face due to the funding of the arms industry. And a whopping 85 percent of all interviews, statements and other references to think tanks are industry-sponsored. NATO is not just a military collaboration, but also with its network of sub-organizations spun into not least American business interests, on which both current and future members are sought to be made dependent.

Peace: MODERN TIMES prints here a speech from the Colombian president in the UN General Assembly – a true 'minister of peace'?

PORTRAIT in 100: Paul Feyerabend has often been portrayed as science's greatest critic, even its enemy, a cognitive anarchist who constantly attacked rationality. It is 100 years since the rabulist was born. Feyerabend gave us a new image of science as imperfect and impossible to perfect in a rigorous method. And in the extension of Feyerabend's arguments, Arne Næss thought there was every reason to be careful about intervening in foreign cultures – just as we should also be careful about intervening in soil or other ecosystems.

COMMENT: The class struggle is not alone in advocating the NATO message that "weapons are the way to peace".

CHRISTIANITY: Expressions of modern racism must not just be understood as a current phenomenon with roots in the totalitarian ideologies of the 20th century, but as something that can be traced all the way back to the earliest days of Christianity. This book also addresses crimes against humanity.

POETRY: The word Asbjørn Aarnes used to try to describe the essence of poetry was "invisibility.

Gunnar Garbo died in 2019. He would have turned 100 on April 19. He has left a solid mark on the Norwegian public with a...

VENICE: At its best, this year's Art Biennale in Venice shows us something about what the world is, where we stand, how we think and perhaps where we are going. This process of searching which is the dance of life. Curator Adriano Pedrosa found the occasion to speak for the indigenous peoples, the marginalized homosexuals, outsiders, the many displaced refugees and migrants worldwide. And furthermore: What does it mean to create and work in the void between the old religious narratives that no longer speak to us – and an uncertain future?

PSYCHOLOGY: Is it possible to value your own time when you are struggling to make ends meet? Can the fear of an energy crisis be lessened by a fairer distribution? And can knowledge of intelligence beyond that of humans alleviate our times' uncertainty and sense of isolation?

Breaking Together is a well-documented and thorough book about the collapse of industrial consumer society, about where we stand and where we can go, if we...

ESSAY: The Golden Age of French philosophy (1945–1989) created something great. An atmosphere, a new way of thinking, a new way of being. A freedom-hungry life experiment. So what then went wrong?

ESSAY: Simone Weil explores rootlessness and its impact on modern society, arguing for the importance of grounding and rootedness – cultivating some form of meaning and purpose in life. For Weil, it also becomes a matter of going into the heart of this world's nihilism (worthlessness, lust for money, way of life) to discover God, the light, to make herself infinitely small – hence her urge to destroy herself. You can also read Rooting as a contribution to a contemporary ecological way of life and climate thinking.

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WAR: Is man fundamentally violent? History does not show exactly that. We have several examples of large societies in prehistory showing few traces of war and authoritarian rule.

HEGEMONY: The West's position revolves exclusively around self-interest, even if the rhetoric always tries to point to a general morality. Today there is no trace of morality or principled thinking in Western politics. And although Rødt and SV here in Norway condemn Israel's Gaza war, they at the same time support this Western hegemony which enables the ongoing genocide in practice.

JULIAN ASSANGE: Aftenposten had learned from Julian Assange and sucked what they could from his WikiLeaks data universe, and millions of secrets, before quickly throwing him under the bus. Assange created the whistleblowers' perpetuum mobile, WikiLeaks, an unlimited infinity machine of truth where truth whistleblowers all over the world were given the opportunity to reach out – and lift the blankets that hide the lies of power, their war crimes, corruption, tax fraud, hidden bank accounts, fortunes and conspiracies. What now?

AVERAGE: What about Gaza and the media? WikiLeaks was early on an important source for revelations about Israel. The dream of driving all non-Jews out of ancient Palestine governed Israel's policy long before there was a Hamas.

FRED: Linn Stalsberg identifies in his new book that accepting war as a human normal state is one of the great danger signals today. We have become accustomed to the idea that war is a necessity, and that war can be morally required on top of that. At the same time, religion is often used cynically as a tool to promote a warlike development – ​​this extends from Pope Urban to Putin and Netanyahu to Hamas.

PHILOSOPHY: Wolfram Eilenberger describes here the struggle four philosophers – Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil fought to become independent people. The book succeeds well in putting them in context with the current events they got involved in and at the same time tried to get out of.