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COMMENT

Norway is trapped by US propaganda

PUBLIC: What we could previously describe as realpolitik possible is today not even possible to write about. Propaganda dominates the Norwegian public perhaps more than in any other country. The Norwegian authorities have been fooled around. The speech space has frozen.

Totalitarianism then and now

iDEOLOGY: By agreeing on a suitable 'enemy', a disintegrated society finds coherence, energy and meaning. A totalitarian propaganda has led to the conclusion that Ukraine will now be allowed to use F-16 jets against the nuclear power Russia – with the major consequences this may entail.

The fear of the end of the world

FUTURE: For the first time in its long history, humanity is – possibly inevitably – facing an increasing and real risk of extinction due to the reckless activities of Homo sapiens. The effects of greed, violence, ignorance, fanaticism, political short-sightedness, overpopulation and over-exploitation of all available resources are the prerequisites for an expected disaster.

The cultural prejudices of children's welfare 

CHILD WELFARE: In this chronicle, the question is raised as to whether the child protection agency was right about the Bhattacharya family.

To protect civilians

Comment: Should Amnesty International have been asked not to reveal the truth for purely strategic reasons?

ChatGPT – an impersonal paradigm shift?

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Is it only now that individualism, the cultivation of individuals, with new technology such as ChatGPT, is about to change?

Dag Solstad – written by ChatGPT

OPEN WHO: MODERN TIMES prints here this time a machine-generated text, based on three questions asked by our critic Sigurd Ohrem about the author Dag Solstad to ChatGPT – today's most used 'questioning machine' (based on artificial intelligence, AI). How correct and 'intelligent' can artificial intelligence create an article? See for yourself and judge. (See also leader about ChatGPT on page 2).

New decades of cold war

UKRAINE: Putin totally miscalculated. And what will be the verdict of history on President Zelenskyj?

A mirror image of the Cuba crisis 

WEAPON SUPPORT: If the West gives more weapons to Ukraine, it only means that Russia's will continue to escalate the war. The consequence of the arms support is clear: It will not lead to Ukrainian victory, but to the destruction of Ukraine with hundreds of thousands of young Russians and Ukrainians killed.