Author
Øystein Steiro Sr.
Everything indicates that Norway’s intelligence service had an agent inside IPI — most likely Camilla Reksten-Monsen, Terje Rød-Larsen’s assistant and closest collaborator for 10…
Twelver Shia Islam is an apocalyptic end-times cult. It cannot be understood through Western concepts. This makes the regime completely unpredictable. If it acquires…
State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik (Labour Party), presents a glossy picture of Norwegian foreign policy in Aftenposten. There…
America’s conventional power projection is being challenged by new technology, Iran’s asymmetric naval strategy, and its willingness to absorb losses. This won’t defeat superior…
Niall Ferguson reminds us that great powers often lose not because they are militarily weak, but because they underestimate how quickly economic shocks, allies’…
Norway is the world’s 5th largest shipping nation and has strong interests as well as a long tradition of helping to keep maritime trade…
Do not underestimate the stupidity of politicians. Reason and integrity are often inversely proportional to self-awareness and restraint. The Fideco scandal, like the Oslo…
Nuclear weapons on Norwegian soil would clearly contribute to deterrence and reduce the risk of a conventional attack on Norway. But they would simultaneously…
The Epstein files expose parts of a corrupt snake pit of network relationships where profiteers are sucking money from the Norwegian state. The toxic…
When the party handbook becomes too dominant and the roles of political leadership and the civil service blur into one another, professional integrity erodes…
The Norwegian Epstein network could have been taken straight from Shakespeare’s «Hamlet», with deep corruption at the centre of power. That the scandal has…
The release of the Epstein files has exposed numerous alarming reports of serious and long-standing irregularities within Norway’s Foreign Ministry (UD). The unhealthy entanglement…
Was Jeffrey Epstein an information broker or a spy running a global honeytrap? Either way, compromised individuals—including Norwegians—may have breached national security laws. That…
The fact that Mette-Marit has been on the sidelines and is now lying through her teeth is part of a pattern in an otherwise…
The arrogance among the elites remains widespread. And proposals to meet the US with a trade ‘bazooka’, or even militarily, will only serve to…
The urban political elite in Norway has made the wrong choice before. They manoeuvred around the popular majority that said no to the EU…