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Reflections on politics and docs by the editor of MODERN TIMES REVIEW (documentaries & books, www.moderntimes.review) and the Norwegian quarterly book magazine, NY TID (English at en.nytid.no )
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Can it be peace? Stop the killings, please.
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Not only Francesca Albanese. Who will be the next, economically assasinated by US, when they use law against the wars?

The imposed sanctions are a masterclass in the evisceration of European sovereignty. They render Guillou a non-person, not only in the United States, but also in his own country – the beating heart of Europe. He has been locked out of the global digital realm (WhatsApp, all Google apps, and social media like Facebook and Instagram). Even his French bank account is virtually useless, given the ban on all payments that require the cooperation of Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and the supposedly European SWIFT interbank messaging system. As if that were not enough, when he recently tried to book a hotel room in France, Expedia canceled his reservation a few hours later.

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Hear Blumenthal’s criticism of Machado and what US do against Venezuela. (Again: Norway’s Nobel price is not legitimate.)

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«As I think about the year ahead, I find myself returning once more to Kant and his reminder that, in human affairs, no one can truly predict the future. A “conjectural history,” he wrote, differs from natural history because the course of human events depends on freedom, not necessity. The only prophecy that can come true is the one that the prophet helps to bring about.
So, rather than speculate about what is likely to happen, I would rather speak of hope – the kind Václav Havel described as hope without optimism: a moral duty, sustained even when outcomes seem bleak. It is the hope of seeing the ideas that once animated Europe’s institutions return to its streets in defense of migrant rights and against the machinery of war. Progress is never guaranteed, but it is always possible, provided we act as if it were. Thinking in this peculiar mode of conjectural history, we could do worse than to revive the spirit of resistance that gave us the cosmopolitan socialism of the Ventotene Manifesto.»

Lea Ypi considers what the near future could hold for a world that seems to have lost its way. https://www.project-syndicate.org/magazine/year-ahead-2026-by-lea-ypi-2025-12
Tehran now:
In a 39-second voice message sent to Le Monde, the friend recounts to his sister, who lives abroad and was able to receive the message thanks to a Starlink satellite connection, what he saw on Friday: "To my eyes, there were between 4,000 and 5,000 lifeless bodies, piled on top of each other like sacks of chickens. It was unreal. From every hospital, they're collecting 30 or 40 dead and transferring them here. Unidentified bodies are put in black body bags and thrown into the Kahrizak courtyard. The gate is open. You can walk in and take photos and videos. No one was stopping you."

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2026/01/12/morgue-near-tehran-overwhelmed-by-bodies-amid-protest-crackdown_6749321_4.html
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Hard to say what Hamas achieved by October 7th, but here an article discussing this.
«Hamas instead lists a series of supposed strategic gains: returning Palestine to the center of global attention; halting Arab normalization with Israel; isolating Israel internationally and deepening its internal divisions; undermining Israel’s image as a safe haven for Jews and accelerating Jewish Israeli emigration; and securing recognition of the State of Palestine by European countries.»

https://www.972mag.com/hamas-narrates-gaza-war-steadfastness