Archive for March, 2009

Hatred on Facebook.

The popularity of Facebook increases on a daily basis, but this popularity is coming at a price. Facebook administrators seem to be unable or unwilling to keep up with the amount of groups that promote totalitarian ideologies such as fascism and communism, cults of personality, racism, religious hatred, hate crime, etc. There are a number [...]

Fogh To NATO? Hell No!

The Danish Prime Minister, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, is apparently interested in becoming the next Secretary General of NATO. Why do I say “hell no”? Dragging Denmark into the war on Iraq is one good reason. Probable participation with American rendition policies would be another. However, I first and foremost oppose his possible candidature because his [...]

No democratic oversight of intelligence services in Denmark?

Danish Minister of Defense, Soeren Gade, refuses to publicly comment whether Denmark is in a state of war. The current “war on terror” and the war in Afghanistan give the Danish intelligence services the justification to monitor e-mail, post, telephone, etc. without democratic control under paragraph 17 of the Danish National Defense Act, according to [...]

Lost in translation.

Globalization has yet to fulfill the promises of democratic change and a reduction of human rights violations around the world that pundits and politicians have insisted were inevitable. There are so called “movers and shakers”, that would like to base rights on the shifting sands of political pragmatism or expediency. Still others, would like to [...]