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The war in Ukraine – what is the role of the United States?

USA / RUSSIA: It was a sad day for the world, but Russia's shocking military action should not stop us from looking at the United States' role in the situation that has arisen.
FREDRIK S. HEFFERMEHL -

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

ORIENTERING: June 10, 1972, (on Norwegian base policy).
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Deterrence and reassurance?

MILITARISM: The Norwegian base declaration of 5 March 1949 was a first condition for Norwegian accession to NATO. Norway must deny the United States the base of armed forces on Norwegian territory in peacetime – The Storting must now reject the "supplementary agreement".
Ola Tunander -

A militaristic elite

UKRAINE: What are the consequences of US and NATO expansion eastwards in Europe?
Ivar Jørdre -

Destructive criticism of Sweden

Assange: Bureaucratic co-criminals – this is how a new book by Nils Melzer describes Sweden's handling of Julian Assange. Swedish Stina Oscarson reviews – and is ashamed.
Stina Oscarson -

Sweden and England were democracies

Notification:The treatment of Julian Assange is a legal disaster that began in Sweden and continued in the United Kingdom. If the United States manages to get Assange extradited, it could prevent the publication of information about the great power in the future.
Eva Joly -

Lies, manipulation and filth

DEMOCRACY: Anne Applebaum shows how concrete historical events developed a political populism. How can we understand and counteract the forces that want the liberal, democratic, fact-based structure of society to come to life?
Paal Frisvold -

This is how five presidents of the United States deceived public opinion and Congress

PENTAGON REPORTS: So far, Norwegian newspapers have brought surprisingly little from the revelations that have been published in the New York Times.
MODERN TIMES -

People in the small towns

USA:  What were Trump's chances of re-election in November? Extensive fieldwork provides useful insights into the segment that is commonly perceived as his core voters.
Hans Henrik Fafner -

The cultural binder

NOVEL: DeLillo stages a kind of general, paranoid state, a suspicion that has global reach.
Kurt Sweeney -

To what extent do you have to know in advance what you are looking for?

MEDIA: Profiling, information control, behavior-regulating nudges and the sale of personal data should prove to be the reality, rather than the realization of the internet as a publicist network.
Signe Kårstad -

The dissatisfaction, the frustration, the inconsolability, the hopelessness and the mistrust

POLICY: In the USA, the annual value of lobbying activities is estimated at well over NOK 40 billion.
Christian Borch -

- We must be happy, even with the prospect of extinction

INTERVIEW: The Italian activist philosopher Franco "Bifo" Berardi talks to MODERN TIMES about America's arrogance, loneliness, rebellion, mortality, and Buddhism as role models.
Emma Bakkevik -

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 fascist paradox

USA: Did the poor, as a result of the American political system, have no choice but to ally with the oligarchs who created them in the first place?
Truls Øhra -

Changing your mind about identity politics can cost you everything

POLICY: American politics is not so much about changing existing policies, but more about appealing to the divisions between peoples.
Henning Næs -
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