Mafia power
Ny Tid met the Italian photographer Letizia Battaglia during the Berlinale for a conversation about her photographic work and the Italian mafia today.
Sweden one step closer to NATO membership
NATO CRUSH:The dust from NATO's Trident Juncture drill has barely stopped before the Northern Wind military exercise is held in Sweden. Frustrated Swedish peace workers see the exercise as another step towards enrolling in NATO.
Get the Defense home!
Party leader Bjørnar Moxnes emphasizes to Ny Tid why Rødt has four new proposals to the Storting this month. Red wants to reverse the authorities' eagerness to take part in wars of aggression.
Trouble in the top too
The corruption index shows that robust democratic institutions limit the level of corruption in the public sector.
Is peace in the Central African Republic?
The parties to the conflict in the Central African Republic have signed a peace agreement. It is not the first time warring parties in the country have done just that, and it is hardly the last.
Is a new Cold War coming?
Should we dig down, or should we find maps and compasses? asks the leader of Norway's Peace Team, Kari Anne Ness.
"Northern Wind" – an exercise on NATO's terms?
"As long as we are part of NATO, we must use our position to take a clear stance against armaments and war hoaxes," said Marianne Gulli of Red, who believes Norway should stay home under the Northern Wind.
The Moon – The New Suburb of Earth
Future optimism goes hand in hand with a critical look at humanity – at the Henie Onstad Art Center.
Will Spain be the first NATO country to support the nuclear ban?
Most of the countries in Europe do not support the UN nuclear ban. Will this change when Trump and Putin wreck the INF deal?
The abused resolution and Norwegian embarrassment
The British Foreign Affairs Committee's report on the Libya war is overlooked in Norway: It explains that our allies on the ground were Libyan Islamists with ties to Al Qaeda.
Norway is a slow mover in the effort to regulate autonomous weapons
What is the Government doing to help develop new political and legal regulations to ensure human control over killer robots (autonomous weapons)?
The refugee camp that became a city
The Jordanian refugee camp Zaatari huser 87 Syrians. None of them want to go home. Syria lacks even the most basic infrastructure, and most Syrians are terrified of retaliation.
Syrian echoes at the arrival of the Yellow West
Popular revolt is at its core the same, be it in Syria or France, writes a group of revolutionary exiles.
Those responsible go free
What good is it that the War Criminal Tribunal in The Hague possesses extensive material when it lacks international political will to bring Syrian executioners to justice?
Portal to another time
Once, the dilapidated hotel on Lake Sevan in Armenia was a fashionable place for Soviet Union writers. On the way into the driveway it has become 1962.
13 years in Guantánamo without any evidence
Ahmed Ahjam was captured in Pakistan in 2001, accused of belonging to Al Qaeda. Although the United States never found any evidence, he was imprisoned at Guantánamo for 13 years.
The scary sound of religion
Fanaticism and extremism arise the moment religion is detached from its cultural and historical background.
Journalism in the danger zone
Like many other journalists, war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed in Syria as she tried to report back home on the atrocities. Ny Tid has spoken to the photographer who was involved in what was to be her last assignment.
The discomfort of breathing
Our disappointment on social media only stimulates the pursuit of ever more refined manipulation techniques. Detoxification is not the answer, writes Geert Lovink.
Beyoncé and Jay-Z in the Louvre
In the music video for the single "Apes ** t", the iconic pop idols challenge the expected way Africans have been viewed throughout history. But the couple are not the first to choose the Louvre as their location to mark their own success.
How will humans learn to live together in the world?
What can the West learn from the East and vice versa when it comes to being human? Learning to be Human was the theme of this year's World Conference in Philosophy in China.
- We cannot just call Russia an enemy
Women have taken a bigger place in the Armed Forces in recent years. What does a young female soldier think about Norway's role in the much-talked about NATO exercise?
- There is no contradiction between the peace movement, the Home Defense or the Defense
MODERN TIMES is on the scene, asking Home Guard soldiers who participated in the Trident Juncture exercise in Central Norway recently, why they joined the military and their relationship with war.
Is the rhino's destiny inevitable?
In southern Africa, a particularly humble and absurd war takes place – low in its bestiality, absurd because it is based on old superstition.
National Library: It's as if the building has been waiting for this
The National Library recently opened an exhibition on Norwegian sci-fi. "Maybe more than ever we need a genre that can contain philosophical and difficult questions about our existence," writes author Hanne Ramsdal.