We need a propaganda filter
RUSSOPHOBIA: The reason for ORIENTERING this time is propaganda and Russophobia
The black dove of peace
ORIENTERING: Here we present a unique role model in Norwegian press history.
"Obviously 9 / 11 was a blast," Ketcham says
September 11st: What was it that destroyed the World Trade Center 11. September 2001? Much indicates that it was a controlled demolition, experts say.
Was the murder of Palme a coup?
Suspiciously many people walked around with walkie-talkies in the area just before the murder of Palme. Ny Tid's journalist was close by on the fateful night when Sweden's prime minister was shot. We ask why the police ignored a number of matching testimonies.
Deprived of the children – siblings split
(Below: Link in English). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in India and Norway is taking up the case with the Bhattacharya couple in Stavanger. They appeared in Ny Tid after the Norwegian state deprived them of a 2-year-old son and 5-month-old daughter while she was breastfeeding.
* The state has decided that parents should see their children 3 hours annually until they are 18 years: This year 2026 and 2028. The county board has placed the siblings in two different foster homes. The children should not be allowed to learn the mother tongue from India or meet pending grandparents. (Updated 25.01.).
The murder of Palme
Olof Palme was shot down and killed on an open street in Stockholm late on the evening of February 28, 1986. The news of the murder came as a shock to many. It was to develop into a trauma and nightmare for Sweden. The incident hangs like a stain on the police and judiciary to this day. In 2016, it is 30 years since the crime was committed.
Mimetic desire and violence
PSYCHOLOGY: How has a thoroughly pessimistic view of humanity arisen? That man must be fundamentally sinful is a cornerstone of Western thinking. Or?
When the truth becomes threatening
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?
The failure of the Bay of Pigs
When John F. Kennedy incited Cuban refugees to the invasion of Pig Bay just over 40 years ago, the CIA believed the "liberators" would be greeted by cheering Cubans. That's not how it went, says Arnljot Løseth, associate professor of history at Volda University College.
less is more
PHOTO ART: Over the course of thirty years, large museums have gone from being underfunded, sleepy places to audience magnets and economically important tourist attractions. We find a counterweight in small museums – such as those mentioned in this essay from Greece. What you choose to present to others matters less than where you choose to do it.
Rich, multifaceted and playful
PHOTO ART: Currently showing New Visions – The Henie Onstad Triennial for Photography and New Media. 22 artists, for example, bring to the fore issues of energy and natural resource extraction – and their consequences.
Deprived of the children – siblings split
(Below: Link in English). The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in India and Norway is taking up the case with the Bhattacharya couple in Stavanger. They appeared in Ny Tid after the Norwegian state deprived them of a 2-year-old son and 5-month-old daughter while she was breastfeeding.
* The state has decided that parents should see their children 3 hours annually until they are 18 years: This year 2026 and 2028. The county board has placed the siblings in two different foster homes. The children should not be allowed to learn the mother tongue from India or meet pending grandparents. (Updated 25.01.).
The Other – as a suffering being?
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.
"Patriotism can be morally corrupting."
PHILOSOPHY: Would one today sacrifice one's life in war as a patriot? Can patriotism be a virtue? Although in recent decades philosophy has struggled to justify it on moral grounds, patriotism remains an important source of self-identification and political participation. We talk to Professor Simon Keller: "I don't think a country like that is worth killing or dying for."
Germany 50 years after the student riots
Much is unclear about the role of key players in the German 68 rebellion. Therefore, a black-and-white interpretation of the era will never be correct.
Gaza: Right to defend itself?
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.
Spanish sensation in Norwegian
Lotta Elstad's new book contributes with a "non-final real-time contribution" in the political debate on the Spanish phenomenon Podemos.
The war
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.
The positive Jewish experience
The State of Israel turns 70 in May, and in that connection, Ny Tid has put the spotlight on the values and thinking of the Norwegian Jewish minority. We have met five Norwegians with a Jewish background. What do they perceive as positive about having a Jewish identity?
Ecological and political breakdown
ENVIRONMENT: The Baltic Sea has become an unlimited landfill of deadly substances. This stems from the development and pollution of the river Oder. But what about the environmental side? The Oder Delta is a vast, cross-border network of rivers, lakes and life-giving wetlands.
Our journalist was assaulted at the border with Chechnya
Our journalist Øystein Windstad is attacked on the border between Ingushetia and Chechnya.
A still very secret world
During the Cold War, Stay Behind armies were to be mobilized in Western Europe by a possible Soviet occupation. British and Americans used some of these for other purposes.
The disappearance of the species
RadiationScientists have made mobile radiation discoveries that should give us all poor night's sleep.
Indians dress for NRK series
NRK admits to having asked Waorani Indians to remove Western clothing during the recording of the reality show The Great Journey. – This is staged, says anthropologist Laura Rival.
Search: dialogue with the living
AVANTGARDE: MODERN TIMES has chosen two 'readings' of Mikkel Bolt's new book. Should we draw experience from the avant-garde, or will it be enough with a representative democracy? Bolt provides material on the background of the changing avant-gardes' unsuccessful attempts to influence society from 1917 onwards.