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Orientering 20/50 – anniversary 32 pages appendix.

The black dove of peace

ORIENTERING: Here we present a unique role model in Norwegian press history.
Truls Lie -

A European truth

EUROPE: The Lord's people not only had the world's best weapons, they also had the world's best religion. It was the whites and their self-imposed right to do whatever they wanted at the expense of others.
Jens Bjørneboe -

I McCarthyismens propagandakjeller

FREEDOM: Anyone who has been exposed to McCarthyism's well pissing in childhood and youth does not forget how it works.
John O. Egeland -

The surveillance police

SURVEILLANCE: Within the surveillance police, there are approx. 300 people.
MODERN TIMES -

Social Democrats and Leninists

REFORM AND REVOLUTION: Now, in the era of electoral federation efforts, it is perhaps a worthwhile endeavor to try to think through the concepts of reform and revolution.
Dag Østerberg -

Socialist Electoral Association's 33 points

Defend the victory from the referendum Through the trade agreement, Norway's relationship with the EC has been clarified for the time being. But strong forces in our society will not join forces...
MODERN TIMES -

Socialist Election Association

POWER: It involves a long-term process with the formation of one party – in permanent contact with the grassroots.
Sigurd Evensmo -

The "minority problems" in Africa and Europe

colonialism: What is the bill from the colonies after four centuries of colonial rule? Almost not a thing of what Hitler did within Europe was different from what the colonial powers over the centuries had done outside Europe.
Jens Bjørneboe -

Prime Minister Absent registered by the Surveillance Police!

SURVEILLANCE: The Prime Minister shares the fate of surveillance in Norway with 200–400 compatriots. It gets worse, according to the book, "when the surveillance police's archives are apparently made available to NATO".
MODERN TIMES -

Another story about the weekly newspaper Orientering

THE STORY: weekly newspaper Orientering is often portrayed as the work of three men. It is overlooking a large number of contributors – many of them women. Torild Skar himself wrote around 400 articles over the course of seventeen years. Read here her story about Orientering.
Torild Skard -

20 years that we didn't dare to dream about

THE STORY: Orientering was created as a fighting body after the Norwegian Labor Party had brought Norway into NATO. But the newspaper fronted both the East and West blocks. The newspaper's focus was particularly on working, wage and living conditions for small people, as well as surveying economic power in Norwegian society and the real power holders behind the Storting.
Sigurd Evensmo -

Charged with espionage

SWEDEN: The culprits in the spy case were not caught. The journalists risked up to six years in prison.
Erling Borgen -

Swedish version of CIA exposed

SURVEILLANCE: The information agency spies in Egypt for the benefit of Israel, infiltrates Swedish trade unions, FNL groups and political parties, breaks into embassies and other offices. This whole operation – in collaboration with the CIA (USA), MI6 (UK), Shin Beth (Israel) and SDECE (France) – is a clear violation of Sweden's constitution and neutrality. The people at Bild worked on the case for several years.
Jea. -

The Soviet Union and Solzhenitsyn

DISSIDENT: More and more scientists and artists are arrested, sent to prison or placed in psychiatric clinics as insane, if they have deviated from the "party line". Evensmo takes up Solzhenitsyn here after spending a couple of years reading everything he has written – well over 2000 pages.
Sigurd Evensmo -

Erich Fromm as a theorist

FREUD/MARX: Does historical materialism ("Marxism") have a flawed conceptual framework when it has to decipher the capitalist social formations of our time?
Dag Østerberg -

The zero-tax payer's summer paradise

SHIP OWNER: He arrives at the holiday paradise on private plane. But on the contrary, he could tell that he lived very simply, almost spartanly.
Arne Skouen -
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

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