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The military-industrial complex's eternal war

THE ARMS INDUSTRY: The largest US arms manufacturers, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and RTX (Raytheon), have committed war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide under the Rome Statute. After three years of investigation and documentation of the major arms manufacturers, the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal issued its final report in January.
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A well-directed play

POLITICAL ANALYSIS: Most have assumed that it was Russians who had shot the civilians found in the street in Butsja. But here in MODERN TIMES, peace researcher Ola Tunander criticizes this perception by documenting several facts that point in a different direction. For example: If Russian forces were responsible for the killings in Butsha, why didn't they try to cover them up? They have buried others.
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When states crush the truth

ADVERTISING: Leaked classified intelligence documents from the White House revealed in April that Ukraine was soon facing a dramatic defeat – quite different from the propaganda we had all long heard. In this essay, our regular writer, John Y. Jones, looks at the many sides of propaganda – as we are today increasingly surrounded by fake news, unsubstantiated claims and politically biased information.
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For those who want to understand this crisis

UKRAINE: MODERN TIMES' regular commentator, John Y. Jones, gives us here in this essay (via Jacques Baud) an overview of the balance of power, the progression of the Ukraine war, the propaganda threat, the Russians' intentions and Western reactions, the Nazi accusations and lies campaigns.
John Y. Jones -

The permanence and possibility of the crisis

PHILOSOPHY: Agamben's sketches for a theory of civil war are thus perhaps also a contribution to a new theory of revolution. Revolution beyond politics. Where the revolution is finally thought beyond any notion of a state and standing upright like a soldier who salutes. MODERN TIMES has chosen to print the afterword to Agamben's book about the civil war.
Mikkel Bolt -

PAID BY THE US MARINE: New base in northern Norway directs US warplanes and nuclear submarines

BRIEFING: June 10, 1972, (on Norwegian base policy).
MODERN TIMES -

The military commanders wanted to annihilate the Soviet Union and China, but Kennedy stood in the way

Military: We focus on American Strategic Military Thinking (SAC) from 1950 to the present. Will the economic war be supplemented by a biological war?
Ola Tunander -

The war industry is becoming an increasingly dominant force in society

ORIENTATION JULY 12, 1969 The close relationship between the US Department of Defense and industry is not new. The military-industrial complex has been an integral part of the US economy since the end of World War II.
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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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