- Reactionary from LO
Despite the Telenor scandal in Bangladesh, LO does not want to make corporate words of corporate responsibility more binding.
This is how Obama wants to change the world
Dialogue with Iran and Cuba. Extract from Iraq. This is how Barack Obama wants to change world politics. But will there be real change?
multi Queen
The music critics predict that Haddy N'jie will be great. She is happy to do that – if at the same time she is small.
Afghan cultural treasures are on the way in Norway
2000 year old coins from Afghanistan have probably escaped Norwegian bureaucracy. – This is not a unique case, according to the Cultural History Museum in Oslo.
The red danger
"The generals are scarier to us than we are to them," says Buddhist monks in Burma. The country's red-clad monks are still fighting for political change.
Ethics-chaos
Neither the government nor the Consumer Ombudsman will decide whether the company's promises of ethics are misleading marketing. – Sustainable chaos, says Trond Blindheim.
Indiana Jones in the Nuclear Family Realm
Family values are becoming increasingly important in Hollywood's action-packed hero movies. This is seen in the new, Norwegian Indiana Jones movie.
An angry nation
Social dumping and political power struggles are two of the causes of recent days' violence against foreigners in South Africa.
Get stolen property
Last year, Norway passed a new law that would make it more difficult to introduce archaeological loot to the country. Since that time, not a single fitting has been made.
Wergeland's many sides
Henrik Wergeland started his writing career with anti-Semitic Jewish pieces. But he died as "Allah's sincere worshiper". Here are the jubilant's little-known pages.
Feminism's new spring
The Norwegian feminist movement is criticized for being distant, narrow-minded and inclusive. Are the Sex and Single Life Girls the Feminists of Our Time?
- Yes to district support, no to industrial agriculture
The Common Council for Africa's proposal on how Norway can help solve the global food crisis splits the Small Farmers' Union and the Bondelaget.
In place in Kabul
Last week, the UN's new Afghanistan envoy, Kai Eide, met George W. Bush in the United States. Eide answers the Taliban and calls those in Norway who do not see progress as "blind".
Controversial sterilization
Norway has supported active sterilization of hundreds of thousands of Indians. Norad will
do nothing, but KrF and SV demand answers.
do nothing, but KrF and SV demand answers.
The dark history of Norway
Several million Indian women may have been pressured to sterilize themselves with Norwegian money. It reveals New Time in this week's issue.
Assistance goes to war
Western countries are increasingly spending their money on countries where they also fight. In a world where military invasion is renamed humanitarian intervention, where has the humanitarian space become?
Current: Audun Lysbakken
Audun Lysbakken will give SV a much needed vitamin injection during this weekend's World on the Left conference.
Intellectual revolution. Now!
We need to wreck the totalitarian thoughts of the 68 rebellion. But the need for a settlement with, and a rebellion against, today's adopted truths is at least as great as 40 years ago.
To flag with the Constitution
The Oslo mayor has opened a multitude of flags 17. May. But on Constitution Day, it's time for a home match.
With happiness in your eyes
Before, illegal immigrants went back and forth across the border. Today they are getting stuck in the US.
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.