March 22, 2010
Propaganda
The following articles have been tagged with "Propaganda":
Swede hit with 10 month jail sentence in Turkey
Society: 1 Jan 10
A Swedish citizen was sentenced to 10 month’s prison by a Turkish court on New Year’s Eve on charges of spreading Kurdish propaganda on behalf of a prohibited political party.
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White power groups on the increase: report
National: 2 Dec 09
Sweden’s white power movement is in the midst of a transformation, according to a new report, which also found organizations within the movement are more active than in previous years.
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Sweden slammed for UN rights failures
National: 9 Nov 09
Sweden has come in for harsh criticism from the country's United Nations association and 15 other organizations for failing to abide by a number of UN conventions.
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Ex-moderate Muslim to form 'anti-Zionist' party in Sweden
Politics: 3 Nov 09
A once moderate Muslim spokesperson who last year came out as an Islamist radical has announced plans to start a political party uniting all of Sweden’s anti-Zionists.
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Carnal knowledge: A sex scandal made in Sweden
Analysis & Opinion: 2 Nov 09
Classroom warfare has erupted in Sweden as conservative commentators are appalled by what they view as a "try everything" approach to sex education in the nation's schools, writes The Local's Christine Demsteader.
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'What do the Sweden Democrats want to do with us Muslims?'
Analysis & Opinion: 21 Oct 09
Anna Waara, chairperson of Swedish Muslims for Peace and Justice, calls for politicians and the media to reject the views expressed in an opinion piece by Sweden Democrat leader Jimmie Åkesson, in which he refers to Muslims as the greatest threat to Sweden since World War II.
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Islam 'Sweden's biggest threat': far-right leader
Politics: 19 Oct 09
An article by the leader of the far-right Sweden Democrats claiming that Islam is the biggest threat to Sweden since World War II is tantamount to hate speech, according to legal experts.
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Sweden slams paper over Israel allegations
National: 19 Aug 09
Sweden's embassy in Tel Aviv has sharply condemned Sweden's largest circulation newspaper Aftonbladet for publishing an article accusing the Israeli Defence Forces of harvesting the organs of Palestinians.
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EU slammed for 'propaganda'
Politics: 27 Jul 09
The European Union spends millions every year on publicity material about itself that can only be described as propaganda, a Swedish think-tank has said.
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Women 'more active' on Swedish neo-Nazi scene
Society: 22 May 09
Women are playing an increasingly active role on the Swedish neo-Nazi scene, a new book has revealed.
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Stockholm anti-fascists admit to mugging right-wing extremist
National: 11 Feb 09
The Stockholm chapter of Antifascist Action (AFA) admitted on Tuesday that its members had carried out a violent attack against a prominent right-wing extremist in Stockholm.
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'Anti-Semitism on the rise in Sweden'
Analysis & Opinion: 9 Feb 09
An ugly wave of anti-Semitism is on the rise in Sweden, and politicians who compare Israel with Nazi Germany or apartheid-era South Africa cannot claim to be free of responsibility, writes David Stavrou, a freelance Israeli journalist based in Sweden.
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SVT criticizes BBC Africa report
National: 19 Nov 08
A documentary broadcast on Swedish public television on Tuesday called into question the reputation of Britain’s public broadcaster, the BBC, for filing misleading and inaccurate reports about the severity of a food shortage in Niger in 2005.
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Military ordered to pay for using iconic wartime image
National: 24 Sep 08
The longstanding dispute over who owns the rights to a famous image from Sweden’s wartime propaganda campaigns is over.
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Reports of routine Swedish racism 'grossly exaggerated'
Analysis & Opinion: 23 Sep 08
While immigrants can find it difficult to establish a foothold on the job market in Sweden, politicians, intellectuals and the media are often too quick to make employment a race issue, writes Nima Sanandaji.
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Kids' books become ideological battleground in Sweden
Lifestyle: 4 Aug 08
Boys in pink sandals and girls breaking wind with their armpits - two new Swedish publishers of children's literature are causing a stir with books deliberately designed to propagate the country's social values, writes AFP's Nina Larson.
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Sveriges Television in Olympic broadcast controversy
Society: 1 Aug 08
The journalists' union is accusing Sveriges Television (SVT) of spreading "uncritial propoganda" after broadcasting a documentary on Wednesday about preparations for the Olympic Games.
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Sweden Democrat used Nazi propaganda
Politics: 7 Jul 08
The Sweden Democrats have landed in hot water after one of their representatives published an article on the party's website using phrases borrowed from a neo-Nazi group.
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Sweden's new wiretapping law 'much worse than the Stasi'
Analysis & Opinion: 10 Jun 08
With just a week to go before the Swedish parliament is expected to pass a controversial wiretapping law, Pirate Party leader Rickard Falkvinge urges people to do all they can to block the legislation.
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Stockholm art gallery guide: June 6 - 12
Lifestyle: 5 Jun 08
Stockholm art gallery and exhibition tips from Kalendarium.
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Former Swedish minister calls for Olympic boycott
National: 27 Mar 08
Sweden’s athletically-inclined former Minister of Justice Thomas Bodström has suggested that Sweden boycott parts of the Olympic Games in Beijing.
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Interview: Lars Vilks
Lifestyle: 10 Mar 08
Swedish artist Lars Vilks sparked international controversy last summer when several Swedish newspapers published his drawings portraying the Muslim prophet Muhammad as a so-called roundabout dog. Rami Abdelrahman caught up with him at a seminar on International Women's Day.
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Swedish neo-Nazis become more violent
National: 9 Feb 08
Sweden's three largest neo-Nazi groups were busy in 2007 conducting 1,142 activities. The Security Service warns that neo-Nazis are becoming more violent.
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'We were right to question orphanage story' - SVT
Analysis & Opinion: 5 Jul 07
SVT's evening news team responds to Billy McCormac's criticism of its coverage of Iraq in an article published in The Local earlier this week.
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Swedish military loses wartime propaganda battle
Society: 2 May 07
Sweden's armed forces have lost a battle over the ownership of one of the country's best-known public information campaigns from the Second World War, known as 'En Svensk Tiger.'
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'Social Democrats invited known anti-Semite to seminar'
National: 23 Mar 07
In a statement released to The Local, Ulf Carmesund from Sweden's Christian Social Democrats rejects the charge of anti-Semitism levelled at a musician invited to who spoke at a seminar in Stockholm last weekend.
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The Holocaust: Sweden's complex legacy
Analysis & Opinion: 26 Jan 07
Bystander in the Second World War, yet refuge for victims of the Nazis. A leader in promoting tolerance, yet with a resurgent far-right. David Stavrou looks at the complex legacy of the Holocaust in Sweden.
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New centre will dispel Viking myths
Lifestyle: 3 Jan 07
Visitors to Stockholm have long been puzzled by the absence of a museum dedicated to the Vikings. Now plans are afoot for a major new Viking centre, which organisers hope will entertain as well as inform.
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Swedes see the funny side of Soviet power
Analysis & Opinion: 27 Dec 06
Nima Sanandaji reviews a new Swedish book analysing the use of humour under the totalitarianism of the Societ Union and a web site explaining how Soviet rule of Sweden's neighbours in the Baltic has affected the region.
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Castro tributes reveal Swedish journalists' bias
Analysis & Opinion: 11 Dec 06
When Swedish public TV channel SVT broadcast a series of programmes praising Fidel Castro's reign in Cuba it showed that Swedish journalism's left-wing bias remains, argues Nima Sanandaji.
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The Swedes who broadcast for the Nazis
National: 12 Oct 06
A new book details how 30 pro-Nazi Swedes lent their voices to Joseph Goebbels' propaganda machine in the Second World War, broadcasting on Radio Königsberg.
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Kurds with Swedish citizenship arrested in Turkey
National: 4 May 06
Two alleged Kurdish activists with Swedish citizenship have been arrested in Turkey on charges of spreading propaganda for separatist Kurdish rebels, judicial officials said on Thursday.
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Gay hate group set free
National: 14 Dec 05
Four men who distributed far-right homophobic propaganda outside a school in Sundsvall have been found not guilty of hate crimes by an appeal court, which drew parallels with the Åke Green case.
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Åke Green cleared over gay sermon
Society: 29 Nov 05
The pastor sentenced to jail for a controversial sermon about homosexuality has been freed by Sweden's Supreme Court. He's relieved, but one Christian liberal says he'll go to hell.
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Green case brings Bible talk to court
Society: 9 Nov 05
See also: Anti-gay pastor: I regret nothing
Pastor Åke Green tells Sweden's Supreme Court that gays are more likely to become paedophiles. Prosecutors are pressing for the controversial anti-gay preacher to be jailed.
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Apoteket "spread government propaganda"
Politics: 5 Oct 05
Sweden's state-run pharmacy gave out brochures explaining the latest budget in its stores. Propaganda, cries the opposition. But were they on the shelves with the hard-to-swallow pills - or the suppositories?
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Comment: Swedish Television cheapens the feminism debate
Lifestyle: 27 May 05
SVT's controversial TV programme on 'extreme feminism' has provoked a week of fierce media debate, with the chairwoman of ROKS, the national women's refuge organisation, portrayed as a man-hating loon. But how much of that was down to selective editing?
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Investigation into union benefit threats
Politics: 22 Mar 05
The justice ombudsman is to investigate an employment office that threatened to withdraw benefits from unemployed people who refused to attend a union demonstration. An example of how the Social Democratic Party and unions have become intertwined with the state, say Liberals.
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Swede kidnapped in Iraq appeals for his life
National: 18 Feb 05
An Iraqi rebel group releases a video of the Swedish citizen who was kidnapped three weeks ago. With a machine gun to his head, Minas Ibrahim al-Yousifi appeals to the international community to help free him. "If he had been called Kalle Svensson then this would have been front page news a long time ago," says the leader of the Christian Democrats.
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Legal traffic jam halts Stockholm?s congestion fees
Politics: 10 Feb 05
Hundreds of millions of crowns have been spent on the development of a congestion charge scheme for central Stockholm, but the whole project appears to have slammed into a legal brick wall. And the collision could be fatal.
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Swedish parents warned about umbilical blood collection
Science & Technology: 13 Oct 04
A Norwegian company has been criticised in Sweden for offering to freeze and store umbilical blood as an 'insurance' against children's future illness. Bad science or just bad marketing?
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Eurovision - it hurts
Lifestyle: 14 May 04
Shine your sequins, fluff up your chest wig and stick in your earplugs - it's Eurovision weekend.
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"When I studied at Stockholm University I was exposed to the telephone time concept. If you wanted to talk to a teacher you had to only call during certain times and visit them during certain times. Even if they were in their office with the door open you could not knock and talk to them..." READ »
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