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The power of 20 years of propaganda

911: How can it be that a man like Spike Lee believed so strongly that New York's Twin Towers and Building 7 were taken down with explosives that he wanted to spend the last 30 minutes of his documentary series exploring, if not defending, such a view? ?
Ted Walter -

2050: Earth is our wisest teacher

SCENARIO: Imagine, it's the year 2050, and we look back at the origins and development of the coronavirus pandemic in the last three decades: both the plagues of pandemics, flooded cities, burned forest areas, droughts and other increasingly violent climate disasters. We offer the following scenario for such a prospect from the future.
Fritjof capra -

The unifying force of a common struggle

Nadir Bouhmouch: Movement

ACTIVISM: Movement is a lyrical and beautifully filmed piece of political propaganda – with a Moroccan twist.
Nick Holdsworth -

Russian television

: Russian citizens today have access to hundreds of television channels, but still largely choose to follow only the largest state channel. Editor of Vedomosti, Maxim Trudolyubov, wonders why.
maxim@nytid.no -

The Holberg debate: Essential falsehoods and immaterial truths

: Why do ordinary journalists react so strongly to media criticism of the kind Assange and Pilger bring to the square? Dagbladet and Bergens Tidende were quick to call the two "conspiratorial".
Øivind Nygård -

Bought and paid war journalism

: Large parts of the world's journalists get economic benefits from adapting their reporting to US policy.
Ola Tunander -

Propaganda and tears 

: Vitaly Mansky gives us unique glimpses behind the facade of North Korea – and what we see is truly a strange and terrible society.
Kjetil Røed -

30 years in the service of peace

: Propaganda, manipulation and other psychological means are invaluable in both war and foreign policy strategies.
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