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Climate change: More severe than coronavirus

Phie Amb: 70/30

CLIMATE: The opening film at Copenhagen DOX: the young people influenced the climate choices of politics, but Ida Auken is the film's most important focal point.
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -
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

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 -
fiction (film)

Strong hostage drama from reality

Niels Arden Oplev and Anders W. Berthelsen: 13 months

DANISH IS PRISONER: The feature film about Danish Daniel Rye that was captured by IS in Syria shows that Scandinavian film does not have to be toothless entertainment to hit wide.
Aleksander Huser -
literature

A sustainable labor movement

Margit Bech Vilstrup: The Fight for the Workers – The Political History of the Workers' Concept 1750-2019

OTHER WORLDS?: Burdened by the marketing of society and the alienation of man, the question now is: Who is the subject one in the struggle for another world?
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -
Published only on the internet

Black Ax is spreading fear all over the world

BLACK AX: The Nigerian mafia is spreading all over the world, also to Scandinavia.
Iril Kolle -
documentary

Hope, fill and frustration on Greenland

Sturla Pilskog, Sidse Torstholm Larsen: Winter's longing

INDEPENDENCE: The people of Greenland are dependent on the outside world, but see a hope for secession based on their own natural resources and powerful investors.
Margareta Hruza -
Orientering 50 years ago (MODERN TIMES 'forerunner)

About shitting culturally in your own nest

NOVEMBER 1, 1969: Observations by Sigurd Evensm:
singur@nytid.com -
ESSAY

The good old days ”- a time without feminism, migration and globalization

LATE FASCISM: The notion of constituting an endangered culture is echoed in all the various late fascist communities
Mikkel Bolt -
ESSAY

A global labor market in motion

WORK: Half a century ago, the first Filipino workers traveled across the globe to work in factories and hotels in Denmark and Norway, among other places. Their journey provides insight into a global labor market in motion.
Nina Trige Andersen -
documentary

Thai women marrying western men

Janus Metz, Sine Plambech: Heartbound Directors

THAI WOMEN: Finding a spouse from the West does not necessarily mean the end of all life's problems.
Bianca-Olivia Nita -
internationally

Trouble in the top too

: The corruption index shows that robust democratic institutions limit the level of corruption in the public sector.
Guro Sletemark -
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