Today, the newspaper Politiken stands up for the basic freedoms against Danish authorities and publishes a “forbidden book” about the Danish security and intelligence service, PET. See the editor in chief, Christian Jensen, explain why (in Danish). Earlier, Danish authorities have made headlines for participating in breaking the ceasefire in Syria, for not allowing Danish citizens to sue their own prime minister and regarding torture in Iraq and Afghanistan (links to content in Swedish).

Read the article by the former British diplomat Alastair Crooke, were he explains how the USA, together with their allies, caused the mess in Syria and how it is getting out of control.

In an article published yesterday, Paul Craig Roberts wrote that:

the main European political figures are bought-and-paid-for by Washington. As a high US government official told me as long ago as the 1970s, “we own them; they belong to us.”

The same corruption seems to go deep also in much of European media, key government agencies and military. NATO is obviously a tool for that. Sweden is a discouraging example, which is year by year leaving neutrality and becoming involved in very questionable military activities, including alleged war of aggression, violent regime change and extrajudicial killings in far-away countries. How can anyone still believe that the individuals behind this are serving the Swedish people? In 1993, Cecilia Steen-Johnsson wrote a book exposing some of the hidden influence of NATO in Sweden. And last month, the magazine Filter wrote about Swedish propaganda against Russia. It is time to bring the corrupt individuals behind this to court, before they bring more of war. We as citizens are paying them with our taxes, but it is obvious that they are serving someone else.

Kidnapping is one of the most serious criminal offences. It is bad enough that parts of the private criminal sector does this, but even some governments are involved in such activities (although they like to call it something else, like rendition). Read about Andargachew “Andy” Tsegebut on CommonDreams and see the petition on Reprieve.

Too often we see that whistleblowers who expose wrongdoings are prosecuted themselves, instead of the real criminals. Now Washington Post makes history by calling for prosecution of it’s own source, Edward Snowden.

The only countries that have ever refused the former ambassador Craig Murray entry clearance are Uzbekistan and USA, after he exposed their cooperation on torture. If you only follow mainstream media you have probably missed this story, but you can find it for example on CommonDreams and The Real News Network. He has compared this to Russia, which never denied him entry, despite highly critical things he has published about Putin and about civil liberties in Russia. However, the latest news in this story is that after a RootsAction petition, he has finally been awarded a US visa. He will be going to Washington to chair the presentation of the Sam Adams Award to John Kiriakou – the CIA agent who blew the whistle on waterboarding, and was jailed for it. Also, he will be speaking at the World Beyond War conference at American University (which is said to be sold out, but much of it will be livestreamed by the The Real News Network).

We must not ignore, not least in education, that so called “false flag” attacks have been part of modern history.

Read why Bob McIlvaine, a former history teacher who’s son was killed 15 years ago on 9/11, calls this a false flag attack.

Professor Marc Chesney sees it as a responsibility to identify frauds and financial crimes. Watch the recent interview with him by Lars Schall about the likely insider trading related to the 9/11 tragedy. It is one of many examples of experts that disapprove the official 9/11 Commission Report.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has recently published a report about a campaign of phishing and malware, which they believe is likely to have been carried out on behalf of the government of Kazakhstan. Some of the tools in the campaign have been described as “commercial crime kits“.

According to Reprieve, the Bangladesh journalist Shafik Rehman has been falsely accused because of his attempts to investigate corruption and wrongdoing. See the call for Shafik Rehman’s freedom.

His case is one in a long row of reported human rights abuses in the country. According to Human Rights Watch:

The rights to freedom of speech and assembly are coming under sustained attack by Bangladesh’s increasingly authoritarian government. Bloggers and others espousing secular values have been killed or injured by extremist groups. Security forces continue enforced disappearances, killings, and arbitrary arrests with impunity. Bangladesh made some progress in ensuring better safety regulations in garment factories following the 2013 Rana Plaza building collapse, which killed thousands of workers. Government agencies continue to prosecute, and in some cases execute, those convicted of war crimes committed during the 1971 war of independence, despite concerns that the trials do not meet international standards. Bangladesh has the highest rate of marriage in the world for girls under 15.