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MP Raises Questions About CIA Activity
According to a report in Fréttablaðið, it has recently come to light that the Danish military’s intelligence service has given the CIA access to the country’s fibre optic network, which the Americans are using to spy on Denmark and other countries. A…
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Do Not Praise That POS Bjartur: Independent People, Reviewed
Six decades ago this year, Halldór Laxness was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vivid epic power which has renewed the great narrative art of Iceland.” Having just read ‘Independent People’—Laxness’ most celebrated work; largely the reason for the honour—it’s…
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IN PICTURES: Alex Weber’s Friday At Airwaves
Photographer Alex Weber has been doing his best to capture Airwaves, and a picture says a thousand words, so this is basically many words! Wow! Airwaves! So good! Milkywhale! Perfume Genius! CIA! East of My Youth! Wow!
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MFÍK Urges Investigation Of Iceland’s Role In CIA Torture
Þórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir, Chair of the Women’s Association for Peace and Culture (MFÍK), says it is urgent to thoroughly investigate whether Iceland in any way supported the CIA’s transportation of prisoners for torture. If that turns out to be the case, Icelanders…
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Opposition Proposes Condemnation Of CIA’s Torture
On Friday, members of all the parties currently in opposition proposed a resolution to Alþingi, by which the parliament would “severely condemn torture conducted by the USA’s secret service and which authorities have condoned since the terrorist attack on September 11, 2011”.…
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HALLDÓR LAXNESS AND THE CIA
In 1946 Halldor Laxness’ epic novel Independent People was published in America. The publication and the success of the novel in the United States caused Laxness and Iceland to become of interest to both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central…