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A thorough breach of the norms

Karen J. Greenberg: Subtle Tools. The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump

USA: Donald Trump broke down established norms and led democracy astray, but he would never have reached this far, if the groundwork had not been laid by others – this new tradition of imprecise wording, secrecy and dodgy methods.
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Anarchist, filmmaker, author and poet

Chronicle: Lithuania is in many ways the documentary nation among the Baltic countries. A focus at the Cinematheque in Oslo is this weekend Jonas Mekas, with exhibition and films.
Jan Erik Holst -

Do the right thing

Spike Lee: NYC EPICENTERS 911-> 2021½

911: Spike Lee's documentary series, which is now running on HBONordic, is a comprehensive depiction of New York – interspersed with memories, stories and insights from eyewitnesses to the city's largest terrorist attack.
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20 years after September 11

Dylan Avery: SEVEN

DOCUMENTARY: A research team in Alaska has via research and new computer-simulated models concluded that the NIST report on 11 September has been incorrect. Something for NRK?
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Bittersweet comedy in New York

Sofia Coppola: On The Rocks

DRAMA COMEDY: Director Sofia Coppola and actress Bill Murray were successful Lost in Translation and are now reunited in On The Rocks, in which Murray portrays a skirt hunter who is never far from a dry martini.
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Innocent "criminals" as a source of income in New York

Stephen Maing: Crime and Punishment

CORRUPTION: New York police officers are encouraged to treat residents as criminals rather than as people to help and protect.
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Climate rebel with unity and lightning glue

Extinction Rebellion Handbook: This is Not a Drill – An Extinction Rebellion and more

CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: Is it possible to get something positive out of a realization that civilization and the planet are about to perish?
Iril Kolle -

The earth accounts for the politics of capitalism

Brett Story: The Hottest August

URBANIZATION: The Hottest August holds up a mirror that reveals the underlying anxiety of modern survival strategy.
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From elite living in Sierra Leone to everyday wear in the American supermarket

Andreas Hadjipateras: A Forgotten Past

SIERRA LEONE: Solomon Juxon-Smith works in a supermarket in New York and may look like any middle-class American. But before this life he had another. He lived in Sierra Leone, and his father ruled the country.
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Faith, hope and extremism

Paul Schrader: First Reformed

CLIMATE / EXTREMISM: Paul Schrader has made a powerful, disturbing and socially relevant portrait of one of God's lonely men, with clear parallels to Taxi Driver.
Aleksander Huser -

The knot in the heart

: Photographer Eugene Richards has documented fates in crack environments, in emergency rooms and mental hospitals for over 50 years. What has driven him?
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The scary sound of religion

: Fanaticism and extremism arise the moment religion is detached from its cultural and historical background.
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Subtle Tools. The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump
Forfatter: Karen J. Greenberg
Forlag: Princeton University Press, (USA)
USA / Donald Trump broke down established norms and led democracy astray, but he would never have reached this far, if the groundwork had not been laid by others – this new tradition of imprecise wording, secrecy and dodgy methods.

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