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ORIENTERING 22. FEBRUARY 1969 Iron Mountain's report is a frightening satire that strikes American social science and the armor industry. The research report is a fictitious document showing what would happen if peace broke, and concludes in a sober scientific language that war is a necessity for our social system. In this way, the book – which has now come in Norwegian as the Fakkel book from Gyldendal – can also be read as a shocking revelation of habit thinking and war preparations. The Danish author Carl Scharnberg chooses to read the book as an authentic and serious document and gives in this chronicle a summary of the "research results".

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When NATO history is written in Norway, it is always the "coup in Czechoslovakia" that is the starting point. (ORIENTERING APRIL 22, 1969)

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Should we dig down, or should we find maps and compasses? asks the leader of Norway's Peace Team, Kari Anne Ness.

Our co-worker John E. Andersson provides in this article an overview of the situation in the Middle East and the forces implicated in the conflict. While the relationship between Israel and the Arab states is still strongly tightened, not least after the mass executions in Iraq, the two superpowers are proposing a new policy in the area – but have different motives.

Andrew Thomson has written a captivating book about how Western imperialism has changed in the post-World War II era.

China and India are emerging as the new superpowers, and the West must find a new foothold in a moving world

Today, the Cuban revolution celebrates its 10 anniversary. That was the 2. January 1959 that Fidel Castro and his men moved into Havana and swept away Batista and his criminal regime.

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