Lately a few cases about espionage have been at the front pages for days in the Danish neoliberal press as well as the rest of the papers and news outlets.
The first one was about a big time spy for the Russians during the Cold War. The historian that stumbled upon the information about this spy didn't want to reveal the identity of the spy, but that didn't deter the press from filling the front pages with this non-story. At best this is really poor journalism and at worst it's pure propaganda. It's like a setup-payoff scenario designed in the best classical Hollywood fashion to take out a political opponent. I'm not saying this is the case, but it's certainly a possibility.
The story is still in the papers, when a second story pops up about a 49 year old Finnish professor at Copenhagen University, who supposedly has been feeding the Russians with informations. At least that's what he's accused of. He will be charged with the so called "mild espionage clause". The professor, Timo Kivimäki claims that he's been talking to Russian diplomats about non secret information that he's the leading expert on. His area of expertise is peace studies and he's been very active in promoting peace almost everywhere on the planet.
The right wing nationalist party in Denmark follows up with a demand that the leader of the People's Socialist party, who is also the minister of foreign affairs tells the Russian diplomats to leave the country immediately.
I find the timing of these espionage "stories" very interesting. Just a couple of days ago i posted an article about the Russian troop gathering near the Iranian border in preparation for an Israeli/US attack on Iran. Denmark is an integrated member of the neo-liberal Empire and pretty much always does what the big boss (US) says, so it doesn't take much imagination to make a theory about the espionage stories: That they are pure fabrication or at least blown out of proportions to create fear in the Danish population, so the government can gain public support against Russia and its allies by reanimating the ghost of the Cold War (who some argue never really ended).
A little update.
ReplyDeleteI just read that the so-called Socialists People's Party's head is changing the principles of the party. Their name is horribly misleading as they are neo-liberals posing as socialists. They are a disgrace and not worthy of having "socialist" as part of their name.
The party's head now wants the party to be for military intervention without UN mandate. An attack on Iran would never get the UN mandate as Russia and probably China would veto it in the security council. So this change of stance surely also has an interesting timing. Is it related to the espionage "stories" and a potential attack on Iran? Time will tell, I guess.