By David Moberg, In These Times | Haiti Chery. At a Friday, May 18, 2012 rally in Chicago to kick off no-NATO protests, nurses wore Robin Hood attire to demand a financial transaction tax, also called the Robin Hood tax.
Continue reading →By Lauren Indvik, Mashable | Naomi Spencer, WSWS. The entire Icelandic Parliament and the Oklahoma Center for Conscience and Peace Research are among those who have nominated24-year old U.S. Army private and Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning for a Nobel Peace Prize. On Feb 23, after 9 months of detention without charge, 22 formal charges were brought for the first time against Manning.
Continue reading →Press Release, IceNews. After a parliamentary resolution that passed unopposed, the Government of Iceland, on 15 December 2011, recognised Palestine as an independent and sovereign state within the pre-1967 Six Day War borders. This is the first recognition of Palestine by a Western European or Northern European country.
Continue reading →By Deena Stryker, Daily Kos. In Iceland the financial crisis resulted in people recovering their sovereign rights through a new approach to direct participatory democracy that led to a new Constitution. (English | French | Portuguese | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Jordan Shilton WSWS Last month, former Prime Minister Geir H. Haarde became the first leading political figure to be charged for his part in the 2008 economic collapse, which hit Iceland with particular severity. In a charge filed at … Continue reading →
By Bill Wilson, Net Right Daily. Iceland is free. And it will remain so, so long as her people wish to remain autonomous of the foreign domination of her would-be masters – in this case, international bankers.
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