The
pots and pans revolution in Iceland was not covered by mainstream U.S.
media. In fact, any information about this revolution is found only on
international newspapers, blogs and online documentaries, not on
mainstream front-page articles as would be expected from news
organizations covering a story of this magnitude. The New York Times
published a small handful of piecemeal stories, blogs and opinion
pieces, but mostly glossed over the main narrative by saying the 2008
financial collapse in Iceland caused “mayhem far beyond the country’s
borders” rather than pointing out that Icelanders took to the streets
with pots and pans and forced their entire government to resign.
Can you imagine participating in a protest outside the White House
and forcing the entire U.S. government to resign? Can you imagine a
group of randomly chosen private citizens rewriting the U.S.
constitution to include measures banning corporate fraud? It seems
incomprehensible in the U.S., but Icelanders did just that. Icelanders
forced their entire government to resign after a banking fraud scandal,
overthrowing the ruling party and creating a citizen’s group tasked with
writing a new constitution that offered a solution to prevent corporate
greed from destroying the country. The constitution of Iceland was
scrapped and is being rewritten by private citizens; using a
crowd-sourcing technique via social media channels such as Facebook and
Twitter. These events have been going on since 2008, yet there’s been no
word from the U.S. mainstream media about any of them. In fact, all of
the events that unfolded were recorded by international journalists,
overseas news bureaus, citizen journalists and bloggers. This has
created current accusations of an intentional cover up of the story by
mainstream U.S. news sources.
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