Today the US Justice Department subpoenaed Twitter for the account information of an Icelandic politician who worked as a volunteer with Wikileaks and Julian Assange. “I got the letter from Twitter a couple of hours ago, saying I got 10 days to stop it,” wrote Birgitta Jonsdottir, a member of ...
Wikileaks, Julian Assange, Bradley Manning, Iceland, Birgitta Jonsdottir
Tonight’s insanity break is an incredible video by Marc Szeglat of the Icelandic volcano with the jawbreaker name, Fimmfördurhals. [Video] (Now that an erupting volcano has disrupted air traffic all over the world, I wonder if Bobby Jindal feels a little ashamed of saying, “Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be ...
Video, Short Film, Vimeo, Iceland, Volcano, Szeglat, Bobby Jindal, Volcano Monitoring
Michael Rubin visited Iceland, and stepped into the middle of a festival of anti-Americanism (and thinly veiled antisemitism): I Was an Icelandic “War Criminal.” I looked forward to returning to Iceland. It had been seven years since I last lectured there, and I remembered it as a beautiful, rugged country, great ...