Author: - The Reykjavik Grapevine

Back To The Future

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“Good things happen slowly,” Björn Bjarnason, Iceland’s former Minister of Justice, wrote on his blog in March of last year…

ENVISION SOMETHING DIFFERENT

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Since the local fish factory in Stöðvarfjörður closed down in 2005 and its 32 employees lost their jobs, the eastern…

A Vicious Circle Of Victimisation

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In late October last year, a group of burka-dressed women who called themselves Big Sister, announced that they had “gone…

For The Greater Glory Of… Justice?

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Criminal court cases, waged by The State against political dissidents for acts of protest and civil disobedience, can be understood…

When Two Become One

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Those who are yet to give up on Icelandic media cannot have avoided noticing one Kristján Már Unnarsson, a news…

TIME STANDS STILL

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Friday September 2, two men appeared in court in downtown Reykjavík. It wasn’t their first time—and it probably won’t be…

Too Huge For A Monument

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When Helgi Hóseasson passed away two years ago, he had since the 1930s fought a harsh fight to get the…

Shoot Teenagers and Fight Environmentalists

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In a very short time the discourse following last week’s right-wing terrorist attacks in Norway reached both absurd and scary…

The Best Of Reykjavík : The Anarchist’s Edition

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An anarchist interested in history might want to take an ‘oppression tour’ around the city, checking out important power-symbols like…

THE REYKJAVÍK ONE

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A little more than a year ago, several Icelandic bankers were arrested and kept in custody in relation to the…

The First Step Away From Segregation

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Words are weapons. Controlling language—the meaning of words, which words exist and which do not—is the ruling powers’ fundamental premise…

Political Persecution: Setting Examples

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December 8 marks the two-year anniversary of an event that was later turned into a textbook example of political persecution….

The Nationalistic Grounds for Neo-Nazism

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When today’s upswing of fascism and neo-Nazism is discussed, referring to Nazi Germany is a certain taboo and a sidetracking…

Does Man Own Earth?

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There are countless reasons for Magma Energy not being allowed to purchase HS Orka. Those who have no idea why…