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Information totalitarianism

Self Straight? The companies behind platforms, smartphones and the Internet of Things continuously track all our movements. With a digital footprint, one can determine a person's access to credit, transportation, social services or health care. We lose our individual freedom and autonomy.
Katharina Baker -

Where are we going now?

Is globalization an evil that should now be fought? No, it's more nuanced. We who have an international orientation look with fear at how international cooperation is now being weakened by the pandemic.
Truls Lie -

Chinese loyalty clashes with American tradition on the factory floor

GLOBALIZATION: American Factory offers a cultural collision and fraternity between high-tech China and American working class workers.
Carmen Gray -

The pandemic will create a new world order

Mike Davis: According to activist and historian Mike Davis, wild reservoirs, like bats, contain up to 400 types of coronavirus that are just waiting to spread to other animals and humans.
Anders Dunk -

2050: Earth is our wisest teacher

SCENARIO: Imagine, this is the year 2050, and we look back at the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the past three decades: both the plagues of pandemics, flooded cities, burned forests, drought and other rising violent climate disasters. We offer the following scenario for such a prospect from the future.
Fritjof capra -

Berlin stinks

Berlinale: There really was something behind the films at the Berlinale this year.
Truls Lie -

The big backdrop world

CHINA: Yu Hua shows how today's economically controlled China of 40 years has moved from peasant society to the most economically powerful country
Alexander Carnera -

From individual participation to authoritarian politics

POLICY: Does technology development destabilize modern democracies? China can be seen as a positive counterpart to the West.
Anders Dunk -

Ho Chi Minh's wills

ORIENTATION 25.10.1969/XNUMX/XNUMX At the solemn ceremony in memory of Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi 10. in September, Lo Duan, first secretary of the Vietnamese Labor Party, read this political will from Ho Chi Minh:
MODERN TIMES -

What's new in the uprising

NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL: The new form of protest mentioned by the anarchists does not want an overall "narrative" about the events in Hong Kong.
Truls Lie -

Little money, plenty of bills

SLIT: The story of two men striving to pay unexpected hospital bills shows the breaking time in modern China.
Carmen Gray -

Can the desire for peace win over American warlifers?

USA VS CHINA: The US foreign policy elite practices anti-Chinese rhetoric and has cut diplomacy in favor of demands.
Ann Lee -

China's selective memory

CELEBRATE WITH BISMAK: Doesn't the Chinese regime see the irony in paying tribute to the students who demonstrated in 1919 while continuing to crush any protest from today's students?
denis@nytid.no -

China's "forgotten" past

Looking back on the protagonist Ma Doade's past as a Red Guardian during the Cultural Revolution, China Dream challenges the extensive forgery of history in China.
Kurt Sweeney -

Inept leaders

ESSAY: Why are these overlooked leaders so hairy – like China, Russia, and America under Trump?
Ole Robert Sunde -

Can the INF agreement be saved by extension?

DISARMAMENT: With the Trump administration's cancellation of the INF deal, the world seems to be losing an important framework for arms control and nuclear disarmament. The danger of new armament is immediate. But what if the agreement is continued in a new and more ambitious edition?
Alexander Harang -
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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