IMF Urged “Debt Restructuring Outside Courts”
According to one of the American diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, Mark Flanagan, chief of the IMF team in Iceland, advised the Icelandic government to encourage the restructuring of private...
View ArticleÓlafur Ragnar Grímsson Founds The Arctic Circle
President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson announced the formation of a new institution designed to facilitate global discussion about the arctic at a National Press Club luncheon in downtown Washington D.C....
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Partying With The Pirates
Two weekends ago, I couldn’t have been happier to be in Reykjavík, thousands of miles from home— even more pleased than I normally would have been to participate in typically depraved Saturday night...
View ArticleA Future Citizen Of Iceland?
Just three years after WikiLeaks first published classified information with help from volunteers in Reykjavík, another massive national security scandal in the U.S. has managed to weave Iceland into...
View ArticleEvery Thug Needs A Lady
Remember the war in Afghanistan? Of course you do. Not only does it have the distinction of being the longest U.S.-fought war in history (“Vietnam” has finally been defeated! U-S-A!), but Iceland has...
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The Secret History Of The Collapse
The world has changed significantly since 2008, and it owes a great deal to Iceland for this shift, but not for reasons claimed by Facebook Revolutionaries who praise the country for “setting an...
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How The Pirates Are Taking Over Icelandic Politics
If you’ve been online in the past seven years, you most likely know that the world has a minor fascination with Iceland’s criminal justice system. A number of stories with a varying degree of...
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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...
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