The Russel Tribunal for Palestine is supported by among other Ilan Pappe, Ken Loach and John Pilger. There is also a Norwegian onboard, Mr. Johan Galtung – above behind the rostrum at what appears to be a Turkish university. Below you see a section from a transcript from his lecture, where Mr.Galtung identifies Israel’s policies [...]
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During Cast Lead, Hamas successfully hid behind their own civilian population. Their diabolical strategy left approximately 1400 Palestinian civilians dead. Now Norwegian politician Bjørnar Moxnes from Red (Rødt) claims in an op-ed in Dagsavisen that 2500 Afghan civilians have been killed during combat operations. While it is uncertain where Mr.Moxnes has this figure from, it [...] Aftenposten: Politiken apologizes for Muhammed cartoon Aftenposten today reports on how Danish newspaper Politiken has settled with muslim groups who were upset by Politiken’s re-publishing of the Muhammed cartoon in 2008. While Politiken does not apologize for having published the cartoon, nor promises to refrain from doing so again, the newspaper does apologize to “everyone [...] The head of PST – the Police Security Services in Norway is interviewed in this weekend edition (January 23/24th) of Dagens Næringsliv, a prominent and well respected business daily. She brings disturbing news. Unauthorized translation below: Age of extremists. “Extreme Islamicism” appears in the first sentence in PST’s last threat-evaluation. And the security service believes that [...]
Sometimes it looks like if you are looking for courage among media-types in Norway, you will be a long time [...] Editor Vebjørn Selbekk was left twisting in the wind after he published the Mohammed-cartoon in his newspaper Magazinet. Here he comments on his experiences in Dagsavisen (unauthorized translation): – Støre himself probably sees that the cartoon-wars were not exactly his “finest hour”. Next time a Norwegian citizen is threatened upon his life for a perfectly legitimate [...] Editorial in Aftenposten-Aften, paper edition, by Harald Stanghelle Is it possible for the editor of one of Norway’s largest newspapers to angrily reject foreign criticism one week, only to endorse the very same facts some weeks later, without anybody noticing his inconsistency? The above is an editorial by Harald Stanghelle, from the evening edition of [...] A report on Norway The Curtis report Mark Curtis has written a report on Norway for the Forum for Environment and Development in Oslo (ForUM), which defines itself as “a network of more than 50 non-government organizations that focus on environment, development and peace”. The organization counts among its members a wide array of parties and groups [...] Cover: The Dead Man in the Bunker, by Martin Pollack You need to watch out whenover someone tries to replace symbols of your culture and faith with symbols in alignment with his own personal political conviction. It is usually not a good sign. As author Martin Pollack notes in his book The Dead Man in [...]
Moribund Dagsavisen leaps, with Pravda-like elãn to the defence of Foreign Minister Støre – unauthorized translation below: Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre rejects the massive criticism from Israel on how he is to have endorsed the allegations of doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse concerning the Gaza-war. Dagsavisen asked yesterday evening for a [...] Norway is at war in Afghanistan, although there is a gentleman’s agreement that we should not talk about the nastier aspects of it too much. Here is a report from a firefight on new year’s eve – unauthorized translation from Dagbladet: - Our purpose was to [...] The photo above, from Frontlinjer (Front-lines) show us a young Mads Gilbert with Pål Steigan. At the time Mr.Steigan was a leading figure in the communist party AKP-ml, an organization which had a tremendous impact on Norwegian society until it crumbled in the 1980-ies. Mads Gilbert was a young acolyte in those days, but has [...] A highly distorted tale “Eyes in Gaza” by NORWAC doctors Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse has as its purpose to make the reader disgusted with Israel and supportive of the “Palestinian cause” – and by extension Hamas. You will soon find the book, highly illustrated with colorful photographs of maimed and dying children, in a [...]
The article above, by Jørgen Eliassen on October 19th in 1985, summarizes a debate in communist daily Klasskampen. The title runs “KK-debate on Iran: From Marxism to Islam“. The white text in the black block says: “The main debaters have unquestionably been Trond Lindstad and Erik Fosse – they are the ones [...] When prominent Norwegians such as Mads Gilbert compare Cast Lead to the Warsaw ghetto of WWII this contaminates the entire debate. Consequentially other people jump on the bandwagon, assuming that if popular heroes like Mr.Gilbert does it, “so can I”. Desperate Measures has picked up on one example of how this attitude comes into expression: Норвежские [...] |
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