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Hans Rustad

Editorials

Using history to bring history down
Hans Rustad 
9/11 cannot be passed over, but it can be used by America’s enemies, such as NRK. The cultural divide is enormous, and a state…

The board

‘The Danish People’ demonstrates in Copenhagen
Hans Rustad 
A right-wing group calling itself Det Danske Folk marched through Østerbro in Copenhagen on Saturday. They were far more numerous than before. Such demonstrations…

News

Norway: Easy to defraud, aggravated fraud in taxi companies
Hans Rustad 
The taxi industry has been hit by fraud before, as we remember from the taxi scandal in Oslo many years ago. Now a network…

News Brief

Iran has two months’ worth of petrol
Hans Rustad 
A senior Iranian source told Reuters that Iran has only about two months’ worth of petrol left in its stockpiles. At that point, its…

Opinion

Voters are redrawing the political map
Hans Rustad 
It has been a recurring theme in these columns that politics is subject to the iron law of oligarchy. Those with power accumulate it…

News

District Court ordered seizure of ship in Barentsburg without first informing Russia
Hans Rustad 
Russia claims that Norway has placed Russians on Svalbard under blockade. It is a serious accusation. Will the Russians do anything to break it?…

The board

Norway's state broadcaster spreads Israel–Russia conspiracy theory about Ceuta
Hans Rustad 
State broadcaster NRK repeats the canard that Israel and Russia deliberately spread rumours that led to the storming of Ceuta, long after the story…

News

Ukrainian security services open fire on each other
Hans Rustad 
The Ukrainian security services HUR and SBU opened fire on each other in Kyiv on Wednesday, leaving three agents wounded. The shooting was caused…

News

Putin on Norwegian seizure: ‘State terrorism’. Ambassador summoned
Hans Rustad 
Norway’s ambassador in Moscow has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry to answer for the seizure of the Russian cruise ship in Barentsburg.…

News

Svalbard drawn into the dispute between Ukraine and Russia
Hans Rustad 
Russia is protesting vehemently against the Norwegian authorities’ seizure of a Russian cruise ship at the request of a Ukrainian company. The Ukrainians want…

News

Secret Spanish police report: Morocco behind the invasion of Ceuta
Hans Rustad 
Just days after Pedro Sánchez absolved Morocco of responsibility for the invasion of Ceuta, the country’s own police have pulled the rug from under…

Editorials

The Socialists want to take over America
Hans Rustad 
109 years after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in Petrograd and carried out the Russian Revolution, socialists in the United States are attempting…

News Brief

Anniken Huitfeldt: King Haakon will carry on the legacy in the US
Hans Rustad 
Norwegian Americans regarded King Harald as ‘their’ king. Ambassador Anniken Huitfeldt believes they will also feel that King Haakon is ‘their’ king. – It…

News

Iran attacks Jordan
Hans Rustad 
On 25 August, Trump said that the Strait of Hormuz had been cleared of mines. On Sunday, the Americans saw that Iran was preparing…

News

Boris Pistorius (SPD) and Cem Özdemir (Greens) want to ban the AfD
Hans Rustad 
Germany’s Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, together with Baden-Württemberg state minister Cem Özdemir, is calling for a process to be launched that would ultimately lead…

The board

Hasan Piker dances on Charlie Kirk’s grave
Hans Rustad 
Just before the first anniversary of Charlie Kirk’s murder, Hasan Piker joins in a song about how ‘we are all Charlie Kirk’, intended as…