1.0 link 159552 <![CDATA[Iceland Is Burning]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/iris-lee/iceland-is-burning_b_159552.html While Americans were watching the historic inauguration of Barack Obama as successor to the deeply unpopular conservative George W. Bush, thousands of Iceland's citizens were fighting riot police around the Icelandic parliament building Althingi to try to prevent the world's oldest parliament from meeting.

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Riot police have fought protesters with pepperspray and teargas.
Photo credit: Johannes G. Skulason

"We are calling on the world to help us get rid of this corrupt government," Sturla Jonsson,...

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