Opinion

Rubio: ‘The Left is driven by hatred’

“A distinct and unique evil.” That was how US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described the radical left in a remarkable speech in Washington. In uncompromising terms, he accused left-wing extremist movements of seeking to destroy society, arguing that they are driven by a profound hatred of the civilisation built by previous generations.

The Future of Free Speech

Private companies with ideological interests and advanced AI tools will pose a serious threat to freedom of expression even if the EU’s Digital Services Act is averted and the authorities are prevented from censoring online. Freedom of expression will readily be sacrificed whenever it creates difficulties for social harmony.

JD Vance stakes out his own position on the Iran war

In a lengthy interview with Joe Rogan, JD Vance sets out a position that diverges somewhat from what we have otherwise come to expect from the White House. Vance says the war is not in America’s interest. What is the solution? Is it simply to bomb, bomb, bomb? Vance asks, recalling the wave of refugees that poured out of the Middle East in the wake of the Syrian civil war.

Once Conservative, Aftenposten touts the left-wing line: Iran is winning

When you watch and listen to Fox News and read Aftenposten, you are presented with two diametrically opposed versions of reality. Both cannot be right. In Fox’s America, the United States has degraded Iran’s military capabilities to the point where the regime is making its last desperate attempts to strike back. In Aftenposten, it is the United States that is being defeated.

Marco Rubio: “The West must focus more on left-wing terrorism”

After two decades of focus on Islamist terrorism, the United States now seeks to broaden the fight against political violence. During an international conference in Washington, Secretary of State Marco Rubio argued that far-left terrorism has become a serious and underestimated threat that requires a coordinated international response.

Coppola’s warning against the surveillance regime

After more than fifty years, Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece «The Conversation» (1974) appears as one of the most precise portraits of the psychological costs of surveillance ever made on film. With digital mass surveillance the sanctuary where the human being can be alone with its conscience disappears.

The Labour government’s science council has no understanding of what science means

The Labour government has commissioned a report from its science council that has replaced science with tyrannical empty talk. If you are critical of the modern gender ideology, do not kneel before the EU and see some problems with mass immigration – then you need a state cure against ‘misinformation’.

Germany has a knife problem: Marius Dick (22) stabbed to death by “well-integrated” Afghan

The 22-year-old history student, Marius Dick, was stabbed to death outside his local shop on 19 July. The authorities classified the killing as an “isolated” incident and the perpetrator as “mentally unstable”. They profess not to understand what the motive might have been. The stabbing was accompanied by the battle cry “Allahu Akbar”.

Press veteran uses dirty tricks in a new attempt to exploit Breivik politically

15 years after the 22 July terror, Aftenposten’s long-standing political editor Harald Stanghelle is attempting to glue the right-wing populist wave to Anders Behring Breivik. In the attempt he distorts the terrorist’s universe of grandiose delusions.

VG’s interview with the “neighbour” in Spain cannot have taken place

VG’s anonymous source, who the newspaper says is Norwegian and owns a holiday home beside the motorway where Nikoline Piwoni Høie was found dead in Spain, claims there is an opening in the central reservation where people frequently cross. But no such opening exists.