Vietnam

POWER: Millions of people's lives are affected by what is cooked up in such a nest of robbers as the Bilderberg League – but nothing comes out about the decisions. Just a summary: "The energy crisis and security issues were the most important topics of conversation" – people don't need to know more.

Speaking of heads of state: Here are some of the darkest chapters in Norwegian press history in the intimate flirtation with fascism in the thirties – where Adolf Hitler's rise to power was welcomed. Moreover, later, a Norwegian prime minister paid tribute to Nixon, while the United States was behind abuse after abuse.

Assange: "It is incomprehensible that an undermining of the rule of law to such an extent can take place in a democracy like Sweden," says Günter Wallraff in a conversation with MODERN TIMES about the Julian Assange case. And adds: "The death sentence is as good as handed down."

Report from Hanoi. Books about Vietnam.

ORIENTERING 11.10.1969 After Sweden has decided to provide extensive financial support for the construction of North Vietnam, the US criminal measures start a new round.

WOODSTOCK: The American television company PBS has produced a new documentary about one of the key events in modern American history.

ORIENTERING May 31, 1969: What about napalm to Vietnam?

muzzle: Power abuses, war of attacks and mass murder are carried out today without anyone lifting a finger, since all criticism is dismissed as "conspiracy theory".

ORIENTERING OCTOBER 1968: We must not forget Vietnam, and we have not forgotten Vietnam. That is why the Solidarity Committee is arranging a large Vietnam week with a meeting, demonstrations, distribution and sale of materials all over the country in the coming week. Vietnam is not so modern in some respects online now, which is why it is so important to remember the struggle of the Vietnamese people.

ORIENTERING OCTOBER 1968: Hans Skjervheim's new book The Liberal Dilemma and other essays deserves a certain prevalence for obvious political reasons. Some will receive it with insults, accompany it with choirs, and bury it with a parable or a political sketch. Others will declare it well-known, label it as past, passé and thus confirm its criticism. Some will think that it is precisely for this reason that it is a very useful book, writes Øyvind Østerud in his review, among other things.

Orientering 24.2.1968

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What are the dangers or sacrifices a single man or individual must face when all the fate of humanity is at stake?

At Riverside Church in New York, civil rights advocate Martin Luther King gave this speech 4. April, 50 years ago, where he clearly distanced himself from the Vietnam War. The speech was aimed at the Americans himself, causing him to lose the FBI guard he had received after many killings. On the day one year later he was shot and killed. The speech, translated by John Y. Jones, is greatly abbreviated here.