Wikileaks just revealed evidence that the Swedish foreign minister (who has been prime mininster in the past) has continuosly spied for the USA. Since the 1970s!

As revolting as this idea is, it is not exactly a surprise. I think he got in bed with the CIA back in the when he started his career. He hated the USSR and communism on emotional grounds because it confiscated some lands that belonged to his family, in Estonia - it's a Swedish aristocratic family and they had assets in the Baltics... but no longer, after the war! I guess he grew up a bit bitter and felt like "the enemy of your enemy is your friend".

His political party is called "The Moderates" and that means that they are moderately conservative or moderately socialist depending on who you ask. I think they are massively useless.
But it's the most conservative party in Sweden, that has been in power for the last 10 years, which they have spent selling off public assets and ignoring maintenance of the few public services they did not sell.

Anyway - I doubt he's done any serious spying or anything that would sound very cool if you knew the details... Probably he just passed on a bit here and there.

The story ran in one paper here, and then it was completely silenced.

Most people in Sweden believe the story that Assange raped the two girls that he stayed with when he visted Stockholm last year. So they don't like him anymore and many suspect that the story is just a way of getting back at Sweden in general. But this makes no sense - Bildt (the mans name) was never involved one way or the other in the Assange affair. But his idolisation of the USA on the other hand is well documented.

Wikileaks on the other hand believes that if Assange is extradited to Sweden (this is still pending --- insane!!!) then he will be passed on to the USA in one way or another. I'll definitely go along to the protests if there is ever any risk of that.