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How the majority's opinions are created by the media

Richard David Precht, Harald Welzer: Die vierte Gewalt. Wie Mehrechtmeinung gemacht wird – auch wenn sie keine ist

PUBLICITY: Precht and Welzer want more "well-intentioned dispute" about views – not social media's definition, personorientering and arousal production. Their book has been met with everything from total rejection and hesitant acceptance to detailed criticism.
Eivind Tjønneland -

The iron grip of power on the population

Søren Mau: SILENT FORCE – a Marxist study of the economic power of capitalism

CAPITALISM: The economic sphere, just like the political sphere, is a set of social relations within the domination system – something the author Søren Mau addresses.
Niels Johan Juhl-Nielsen -

Crises are good store

Baz Lecocq, Amy Niang: Identity societies and temps of crisis

AFRICA: Very many consultants and contract researchers have made good money on the crises in the belt that stretches across Africa. The Sahel has become important not only for Norway, but also for the EU and the USA.
Ketil Fred Hansen -

Children on hunger

CRISIS: The situation in Gaza is desperate, especially for children, where basic services are disintegrating at the same rate as the economy.
kevin@nytid.no -

Saudi Arabia needs public relations, but not everything can withstand the light of day

Susanne Koelbl: Twelve weeks in Riyadh

OPENNESS: A country in crisis will become more open, but if the subjects resist, they will be thrown in jail and risk torture.
Ranveig Eckhoff -

Aung San Suu Kyi's growth and international fall

Karen Stokkendal Poulsen: On The Inside of a Military Dictatorship

MYANMAR: Mentioning Myanmar as a military dictatorship in 2019 is as provocative as claiming that the emperor goes without clothes.
Audun@burma.no -

Together we are less alone

George Monbiot: Out of the Wreckage

: The competitive principle of neoliberalism goes against our nature; it is cooperation that is unique to our species – and cooperation that can save us.
Henning Næs -

Fear has returned in Egypt

: "Do not write anything that can get me in trouble!" says one. "I do not quite know with that interview, I think I have changed my mind," says another.
Tori Aarseth -

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