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INTERVIEW

- 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 -
ESSAY

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 -
internationally

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 first created them?
Truls Øhra -
literature

Changing your mind about identity politics can cost you everything

Ezra Klein Avid: WHY WE'RE POLARIZED

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

China as the leader of an ecological civilization

Yifei Li, Judith Shapiro Polity: China Goes Green – Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY: The future of the world depends on China taking its environmental commitments seriously
Anders Dunk -
COMMENT

Before World War III

: Report from Hanoi. Books about Vietnam.
Jens Bjørneboe -
COMMENT

Is it a pity for America?

Great power madness?: America's shadow pages have for many made fatal love and the relationship destructive. Bjørneboe's indignation towards America was of the solidarity type.
Anders Dunk -
Published only on the internet

The document that started the war in 2001

United States / Militarization:: In this article, Niels Harrit points out that the participation of European countries in the attack on Afghanistan in 2001 was illegal – according to the UN Treaty. Were a number of countries tricked into the "war on terror"?
Niels Harrit -
literature

Violence is politicized, and politics becomes violence

Elizabeth Frazer and Kimberly Hutchings: Violence and Political Theory

VIOLENCE IN THEORY AND PRACTICE: The world is violent. Do we allow ourselves to be duped by the rhetoric of violence?
Andrew Kroglund -
literature

Low crisis awareness and unresolved climate challenges

Ann Karin Larssen, Gjert Lage Dyndal: Strategic management in crisis and crisis. The Norwegian system

CRISIS: The state's crisis management is not enough, as Norway as an oil-producing nation ignores the recommendations that the oil should remain in the ground.
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -
COMMENT

Mercedes without engine

Donald Trumps: "Deal of the Century" could, in the worst case, end up being a trigger for the original potential for conflict between Palestinians and Israelis.
Lars Thor Smith -
fiction (film)

HUXLEY'S DYSTOPIA: What would you rather be – happy or free?

Series creators: Grant Morrison, Brian Taylor, David Wiener: Brave New World

science fiction: The TV series based on Aldous Huxley's Brave New World contains – by including digital surveillance – also an essential element from George Orwell's dystopian vision of the future.
Aleksander Huser -
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