31 October 2016 — TRNN
The Reykjavik Grapevine’s Paul Fontaine discusses the possible outcomes after Saturday’s parliamentary vote
Tag: Iceland
Iceland Congress puts forward bill to grant Snowden citizenship By Patrick Henningsen
4 July, 2013 — 21st Century Wire
One day before members of the Icelandic Parliament are due to break for summer vacation, leaders of three political parties have submitted a special piece of legislation which would make NSA whistleblower and fugitive, Edward Snowden, a citizen of Iceland. Continue reading
WikiLeaks volunteer spied for the FBI
28 June 2013 — RT
According to an article published Thursday by Wired’s Kevin Poulsen, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson, now 20, approached the Federal Bureau of Investigation in August 2011 and offered to provide American intelligence with information about the antisecrecy website that he had been assisting with for the previous year and a half.
Tracking Edward Snowden: Chartered Russian Jet lands in Reykjavík, Iceland
27 June 2013 — 21st Century Wire
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Yesterday evening June 26th, at approximately 3:00am Iceland time, an in-bound Russian Sukhoi Super Jet 100-95 chartered flight landed at Keflavik International Airport, after being held in a holding pattern for approximately 45 minutes while circling the airport.
Snowden on his way to Iceland?
27 June 2013: Further Update also from 21st Century Newswire:
REYKJAVIK, Iceland – Yesterday evening June 26th, at approximately 3:00am Iceland time, an in-bound Russian Sukhoi Super Jet 100-95 chartered flight landed at Keflavik International Airport, after being held in a holding pattern for approximately 45 minutes while circling the airport.
Video: ‘Snowden exposes criminals, criminals are going for him now’
23 June 2013 — RT
Information that NSA leaker Edward Snowden is exposing can lead to trials against those involved in war crimes in Afghanistan or Iraq or in money laundering and that is why “the West is so afraid,” investigative journalist Tony Gosling told RT.
Video: 'Russia safe for Snowden for now as it will not be pressured'
23 June 2013 — RT
Russia is “a very safe place” for the NSA leaker Edward Snowden as it will not be pressured by the US, former MI5 agent Annie Machon told RT as the whistleblower arrived in Moscow reportedly en route to a third country.
Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 21 June 2013
21 June 2013 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks plane ‘ready’ to bring Snowden to Iceland
Times of India
REYKJAVIK: A chartered private jet is ready to bring US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden to Iceland from Hong Kong, a businessman connected to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said on late Thursday. “Everything is ready on our side and the plane …
Wikileaks Newslinks 20 June 2013
20 June 2013 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks Says It Is Working to Negotiate Asylum in Iceland for Snowden
New York Times
WASHINGTON — WikiLeaks activists in Iceland are discussing with government officials there the possibility of asylum for Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor who disclosed hundreds of classified documents on N.S.A. … Continue reading
Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 6 May 2013
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
Truthdig
In these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …
http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/
Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 4 May 2013
4 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Government-operated spyware on the rise around the world – report
RT
More and more regimes across the world are using Western-made ‘lawful intercept’ software to spy on their own citizens, a brand new report has revealed. Citizen Lab, a digital research unit at the University of Toronto, says that servers running …
http://rt.com/news/citizen-lab-finfisher-wikileaks-spyware-788/
Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 3 May 2013
3 May 2013 — williambowles.info
‘We Steal Secrets’: WikiLeaks and the US intelligence-industrial complex
The Seattle Times (blog)
Into this stew marched WikiLeaks and Assange in 2010. Despite antipathy for Assange himself, I admire his vision and skill at piercing the shadow world of government secrecy. As the film notes, WikiLeak’s first big expose – a military video showing a …
http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinionnw/2013/05/02/wikileaks-we-steal-secrets/
Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 May 2013
1 May 2013 — williambowles.info
Pirate Party gains three seats in Iceland’s parliament
CBS News
Physically isolated near the Arctic Circle, it is one of the world’s most wired countries and has been a hub for the online secret-spilling group WikiLeaks. Jonsdottir has worked with WikiLeaks in the past. In 2011 the country announced it would crowd …
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57582088/pirate-party-gains-three-seats-in-icelands-parliament/
Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 29 April 2013
29 April 2013 — williambowles.info
WikiLeaks to release more records – The Frontier Post
Frontier Post
LONDON: Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks was on Monday to publish more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence documents from the 1970s, founder Julian Assange revealed. The website has collated a variety of records including cables, …
http://www.thefrontierpost.com/article/4152/
Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2013 By Birgitta Jónsdóttir
4 March 2013 — Global Research News
February 1st 2013 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement in the Icelandic Parliament, the Pirates of the EU; representatives from the Swedish Pirate Party, the former Secretary of State in Tunisia for Sport & Youth nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Wikileaks / Bradley Manning Newslinks 1 February 2013: Bookies think Assange could win seat
1 FEbruary 2013 — williambowles.info
Iceland Kicked Out FBI Agents Who Flew in Unannounced to Investigate …
Cleveland Leader
According to the RUV, the Icelandic National Broadcasting Service, FBI agents landed in Reykjavík in August 2011 without prior notification in an attempt to investigate WikiLeaks operations within the country. However, their plan was interupted when …
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20013
The BBC’s Coverage of Southern Europe by Dan Hind
30 September 2012 — Return of the Public
Yesterday’s main news bulletin on BBC 1 somehow managed to miss another large demonstration against austerity in Lisbon, where tens of thousands gathered in the capital‘s Praca de Comercio square. The bulletin also didn’t find time for yet more protests in Madrid.
Information Clearing House Newsletter 18 February 2012: Millions of Christians Want to Start WWIII
18 February 2012 — Information Clearing House
Another March to War?
By Matt Taibbi
You can just feel it: many of the same newspapers and TV stations we saw leading the charge in the Bush years have gone back to the attic and are dusting off their war pom-poms.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30576.htm
Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But is Not By Deena Stryker
14 September 2011 — Daily Kos
An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into oblivion.
Why Iceland Voted ‘No” to the Diktats of the Creditor Banks
10 April 2011 — Global Research
See also: ‘The Economic Crisis in Iceland: “IMF Medicine” is not the Solution‘
About 75% of Iceland’s voters turned out on Saturday to reject the Social Democratic-Green government’s proposal to pay $5.2 billion to the British and Dutch bank insurance agencies for the Landsbanki-Icesave collapse. Every one of Iceland’s six electoral districts voted in the ‘No’ column – by a national margin of 60% (down from 93% in January 2010).
The New Dark Age 