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Sissel Overvoll works for MSF in war-torn Yemen: "We are constantly hearing air strikes and getting patients injured by bombing every single day," the Norwegian nurse says. 

Does the series of manifestations throughout history have validity today? After hearing the "chameleon" Cate Blanchett quote historical manifestations through various 13 characters, the answer is yes. 

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...

July 14, 2016 | The article is outdated. Read about MODERN TIMES as a quarterly magazine. Dear reader. We have now been a monthly newspaper for one year. So who is ...

We live in a time where we cannot regard a single piece of nature as independent of human activity. 

My needs are synthetic. They contain all my so-called desires, yes, the very momentum in my presence, as an I, an algorithm.

Thor Halvorssen has long had a stamp on himself as a suspicious liberal. We interviewed him about dictatorships, his homeland Venezuela, anarchism and meritocracy – consider yourself. 

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.

September 11st: Torild Street's charcoal drawing of the view from Twin Towers will be part of the permanent collection at the 9 / 11 Memorial Museum at Ground Zero in New York next month.

A broad solidarity campaign with the Greek people has got an uplifting start, according to the LO leader.

SWEDEN: The culprits in the spy case were not caught. The journalists risked up to six years in prison.

DISSIDENT: More and more scientists and artists are arrested, sent to prison or placed in psychiatric clinics as insane, if they have deviated from the "party line". Evensmo takes up Solzhenitsyn here after spending a couple of years reading everything he has written – well over 2000 pages.

"We completely agree with the American president when he has now gone to an effective and efficient bombing of Hanoi and other...

The old world can neither be reformed nor revolutionized; a total settlement must take place before the new can break out.

SHIP OWNER: He arrives at the holiday paradise on private plane. But on the contrary, he could tell that he lived very simply, almost spartanly.

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.

BEIRUT: In its extreme consequence, corruption contributes to the loss of human life. We saw it in Bangladesh when the Rana Plaza factory building collapsed in 2013.

Have the authorities ever managed to limit the desire for more control and surveillance? Last feature of such a management mentality, or governmentality, appeared when ...