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Marielle Leranand -

The Western hegemony plans

ISRAEL/UKRAINA: Support for arms to Ukraine and support for Israel are connected. Everyone who in various ways supports the Western expansion plan with support for Ukraine in the ongoing war, in practice supports the Western hegemony plans, which enable Israel's genocide.
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Truls Lie -

When violence becomes the only thing

POWER: According to Hannah Arendt, the use of violence, weapons and bombs renders us politically speechless. Can her particular analyzes of power teach us anything about the violence that is being carried out from and in Gaza today?
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Andrew Seifert -

Robot dogs, fake information, AI and drones

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Do we have control over the technology we use? We need regulations when it comes to technology, robots and AI – and it's urgent.
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avatar photosEivind Tjønneland -

"Resilience and resilience become ideals in times of crisis."

MODERNITY: Sociologist Andreas Reckwitz (b. 1970) has increasingly become a provider of premises in the German social debate. MODERN TIMES meets him at home in Berlin, close to the Humboldt University, where he is a professor. Among other things, he talks about three cultural crises: a political crisis, a crisis in terms of recognition, and a crisis of self-realization.
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avatar photosIngeborg Breines -

A converted military industry

CULTURE OF PEACE: MODERN TIMES prints here an extract from the book Fredskultur. Utopia or security policy alternative? Is it possible to envisage a change of the military industry to more safeguarding of civilian purposes and preparedness?
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Kirstine Reffstrup -

Time is a pond that fills up again and again

TRAVEL ESSAY: To southern Lithuania, to Poland and back. What does it mean for Reffstrup's 80-year-old mother-in-law at such a late age that time has turned a knot – that the threat from Russia has returned? What does it mean to live in a time without living in its progress?
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avatar photosRanveig Eckhoff -

Wang Huning – influential intellectual

CHINA: Who is Wang Huning, who for over 20 years has contributed to the policies of three general secretaries?
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avatar photosMikkel Bolt -

Whiteness as a political category

POWER: The storming of Congress in 2021 was an attempt to reaffirm the white world that emerged with the colonization and renaissance during the 14th century. A prerequisite for colonization was the devaluation of socially constructed others who were racialized as black or dark – as backward or as non-human.
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avatar photosJohn Y. Jones -

A well-directed oblivion, a genocide in slow motion

JOURNALIST: He lives this fight, Gideon Levy. About Israel's democracy and the genocide of the Palestinians. Here in a summer letter from Iceland.
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ISRAEL/UKRAINA / Support for arms to Ukraine and support for Israel are connected. Everyone who in various ways supports the Western expansion plan with support for Ukraine in the ongoing war, in practice supports the Western hegemony plans, which enable Israel's genocide.




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