Archive for the 'Norway' Category
The hypocricy over the Georgia debacle
Thursday, August 28th, 2008Although Russia is showing scary tendencies in its new and aggressive foreign policy, the American and European outcry that followed the Russian intervention in Georgia and the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, is hypocritical to the extreme.
First of all, what took place was that the president of Georgia chose to use force of […]
The Norwegian Martyr And The Belief In Western Journalism
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008Few Norwegians die in conflicts or attacks abroad, and when it happens the attention to the events rival those of the martyr tradition of more martial cultures elsewhere. In an attack on the luxury Serena Hotel in Kabul, Afghanistan, on Monday, the Norwegian journalist Carsten Thomassen was killed when exiting the elevator in the lobby […]
Feature article in Dagbladet
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006about demonising Syria (in Norwegian obviously)
http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2006/09/18/477018.html