SACSIS.org.za » News » The World » Why Iceland Should Be in the News, But Is Not. Picture credit: may15internationalorganization.blogspot An Italian radio program's story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world.
Americans may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. Turkey. The Power Vertical Vs. The Power Horizontal. World business, finance, and political news from the Financial Times. WikiLeaks aside, Assange case strikes core of civil liberty. JULIAN Assange's current court appearance in Britain has nothing to do with sex or United States diplomatic cables or even with WikiLeaks.
But it may make an important contribution to European law. The United Kingdom Supreme Court will be considering the point I raised on his behalf when a Swedish prosecutor claimed to be a ''judicial authority'' empowered to issue a warrant to have him extradited to prison in Stockholm.