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  • Insulting Foreign Leaders Will Remain Illegal In Iceland For Time Being

    Insulting Foreign Leaders Will Remain Illegal In Iceland For Time Being

    The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is against dropping Article 95 of the General Penal Code, which prohibits Icelanders from insulting foreign leaders, despite a bill from the Left-Greens which is calling for exactly that. The article in question is fairly wide-reaching, with…

  • Grapevine Interviews Amaryllis Fox

    Grapevine Interviews Amaryllis Fox

    Amaryllis Fox spent a little under a decade working for the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) focused on counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation, i.e., keeping weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of non-state actors. Before then, she did extensive work in human…