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Leader: Important, important value choice

The important thing in choosing 9. September is not the Labor Party vs. the Right – but rather whether one prefers the SV or the Progress Party in government.

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Leader: Support the alerts

It is not just notifiers of over-billing in a directorate that need protection. Now it's all about America's new digital pursuer.

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Leader: Tight balance

Six years have passed since Anna Politkovskaya was killed. Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide should take the opportunity to speak Putin opposite.

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Leader: The Mediterranean dangers of the economy

As extremists win in Serbia and Greece – Egypt took a historic step closer to democratic normality on Wednesday. The economic crisis also presents new political opportunities.

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Leader: The lessons of choice

Tuesday's leadership statement in the SV warns that a quarter-century era in the party is ebbing. And that a new spring may come for Norwegian party democracy.

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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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Hunting for solidarity

For eight years, Nimsanik Aq'ab'al (28) was a guerrilla soldier in Guatemala and fought for the rights of the Indians. The goal is still there together, but the fight is far more peaceful. So far.
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- Let the biggest rule!

- Let the six largest EU states govern the EU! Only in this way can the EU emerge from the paralysis that occurred when the French and Dutch voters voted no to the EU Constitution.
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The important thing in choosing 9. September is not the Labor Party vs. the Right – but rather whether one prefers the SV or the Progress Party in government.





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