Stay Behind is back. Not necessarily with buried radio transmitters, secret weapons caches and hand-picked men meeting in dark basements. The new version is more modern, more technological and far harder to detect. This time,…
The Dollar’s Power Rests on the World Needing…
Deutsche Bank’s new role as a renminbi clearing bank in Frankfurt is more than a technical financial development. Combined with the BRICS countries’ expansion of alternative financial institutions, Russia’s economic resilience and the increasingly heavy…
The Dollar’s Power Rests on the World Needing…
Deutsche Bank's new role as renminbi clearing bank in Frankfurt is more than a piece of technical financial news. Together with the BRICS countries' development of alternative financial institutions, Russia's economic resilience and the ever…
100 Countries in the Crosshairs: Bessent Unveils Global…
US treasury secretary Scott Bessent yesterday made a bizarre threat to isolate the world if it did not adopt Washington’s new round of sanctions against the Iranians. Details will be released today. “And any nation…
“YOU HAVE NO CHOICE”
When US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that America's allies are either “with us or against us” in the economic pressure on Iran, Norwegian politicians should hear the words for what they really are: a…
This Is an Amoral World
Killed 6,000 Jews: – Fine with it The Norwegian volunteer organisation supplies lethal equipment to Palestinian forces. In a conference room in Oslo, the Norwegian organisation Veteran Aid Palestine gives a talk about its work…
A Dangerous Power Game in the Middle East
What is happening in the Middle East right now should make everyone nervous, including in Norway. Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have concluded a defence agreement under which an armed attack on one of the…
Has Norway Fooled Itself?
Since 2022, Norway has opened its borders, its treasury and its weapons stores to Ukraine. It began as a temporary relief effort for people fleeing. Four years later, the aid has become an almost permanent…
When Sanctions Become State-Sanctioned Piracy
Vladimir Putin recently warned that attacks, harassment and unlawful interference against Russian merchant shipping will be met in the same way as piracy. The statement will naturally be presented as yet another Russian threat. But…