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"Did there really stand between the more salable environmental issue and the help of those out there in our own rich country?"
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Fanatics and terrorists

"Fanaticism denotes a behavior that is radically uncompromising, radically irreconcilable and unjust."
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Cultural Radical Center of the Week

Weekly international orientering since 1953. – a cultural radical anarchist valueorientering.
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LEADER: Do Like Obama!

Paperless. Everyone is complaining to Barack Obama for the time being. But here's a challenge for Norwegian politicians: Become as tough as Obama. Stand up and say that at least 10.000 paperless in Norway should be allowed to stay!

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LEADER: Paternalism prevails

World. "The suspicions that are being investigated are very serious," said First State Attorney Marianne Djupesland of the Økokrim Corruption Hunter Team to the Class Fight this week.

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LEADER: Monarchy for Fall

Departure. In the long term, this may be a historical event we experienced this week:

The 2. June Juan Juan Alfonso Víctor María de Borbón and Borbón-Dos Sicilias (76) resigned in Spain. The said gentleman is better known as Juan Carlos I, who on Monday made it known that he wanted to abdicate. It was about time.

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LEADER: Disgraceful in the east and west

"Hidden Cold War." We called it that place 21. February what had been going on for a while in Ukraine.

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Leader: Syrian acid attack

The Great Power game with announcer Edward Snowden can have tragic consequences for Syrian children.

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Book reviews

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Why do we always ask why men commit acts of violence, instead of asking why they don't allow it?

FEMICID: Murders of women do not only occur structurally and not only based on misogynistic motives – they are also largely trivialized or go unpunished.
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Old new in new packaging

MEMORIES: Nostalgia has been made into a commercial product that makes the past a constant and pressing presence. Do we really belong in a past tense? Memories are today produced, preserved and managed by commercial actors, by cultural products – which, to say it with Marx, are fetishized. Pop cultural products of the past are recycled, made into collectibles and picture books for the coffee table, sold as retro designs.
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The iguaca parrots no longer sing

THE CLIMATE CRISIS: This book makes all other climate literature seem dangerously anthropocentric. We obviously haven't been very good at monitoring the earthly paradise.
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A mentality from the Cold War era

INTELLIGENCE: In the United States, 18 different U.S. agencies at the government level are engaged in intelligence activities. In 1996 there were 6 million decisions to declassify material – by 2016 this had grown to 55 million!
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A mental and military turning point

GERMANY: How 'war-ready' should a country be? With a number of top positions in international politics, crisis management and security, security expert Carlo Masala is regarded as an undeniable authority in the field.
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