- EU Iran sanctions: Ministers adopt Iran oil imports ban--Around 95% of the world's tankers won't be transporting the oil.
- Sanctions take toll on ordinary Iranians
- Strait of Hormuz Will Stay Open, U.S. NATO Ambassador Says--And Britain, US and France sent warships there.
- Iran oil ban will up oil prices by 30%: IMF
- Tehran Pushes to Ditch the US Dollar--Wasn't this what Gadaffi wanted to do before?
- Revenge for EU Sanctions: Iran Set to Turn Off Oil Supply to Europe
- We've hit "peak oil"; now comes permanent price volatility
- How the media is legitimising war with Iran as if Iraq never happened
- US has arrested Iranian scientist--"The United States has arrested and charged an Iranian semiconductor scientist with violating U.S. export laws by buying high-tech U.S. lab equipment, a development likely to further worsen Iranian-U.S. tensions."
- 'Israel will indeed strike Iran in 2012'
- Israel Senses Bluffing in Iran's Threats of Retaliation NYT
- History of U.S. Intervention in Iran - 1953 Until Present
- Publisher Regrets Suggesting That Israel Assassinate Obama
- The "anti-Semitism" smear campaign against CAP and Media Matters rolls on Salon
- An interview with Norman Finkelstein: Israel 'has lost a lot of ground'
- UN tells Israel to halt demolition of Palestinian homes
- Secret EU report launches scathing attack on Israel
- US marine in Haditha case 'should serve no time'--"A US marine who admitted charges linked to the killing of 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005 should face no time in detention, a judge has recommended."
- Rules of American justice: a tale of three cases Salon
- Former CIA officer charged in leaks--What about those who were engaged in torture?
- Railroad Association Says Hack Memo Was Inaccurate--Was the DHS crying wolf?
- We Are Not The Dead: soldiers' faces before, during and after serving in Afghanistan
- Creeping authoritarianism on Capitol Hill Salon
- Judge: Americans can be forced to decrypt their laptops
- CIA Tracks Public Information For The Private Eye
- WikiLeaks Supporters Lose Court Bid to Protect Twitter Records
- FBI releases plans to monitor social networks
- Hawaii may keep track of all Web sites visited
- Supreme Court Court Rejects Willy-Nilly GPS Tracking
- TSA turns away Sen. Rand Paul at airport checkpoint--His father, Sen. Ron Paul, says that the "police state in this countrry is growing out of control."
- Opting Out of Naked Scans at the Airport: A Protest Movement--"[T]he status quo demeans a free people; and unless a critical mass of Americans gum up the works, TSA is sure to transgress against us more in time.
- TSA agents steal $40,000 from passenger luggage; sentenced to only five months in prison--" Any normal person found guilty of stealing $40,000 from, say, a bank or an employer, would likely be sentenced toat leastfive years of prison. But when you work for the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), you can expect to be given special legal treatment and sent on your way."
- Woman Claims Husband's Ashes Went Missing After TSA Made Her Move Them To Checked Baggage
- Random Acts of TSA Kindness, and Other (Mainly) Good Airport News
- More Friendly TSA Tales -- Plus, Is It Possible Ever to Change?
- It's fun to stay as the TSA
- FBI agent admits deleting emails amid terror probe--"An FBI agent testified Thursday that she deleted potentially sensitive emails covering several months when she was helping spearhead an investigation of a terror suspect."
- ICE mistakenly deports a 14-year-old U.S. citizen to Colombia: The Colombian govt is now refusing to release her from a detention center
- Another one in the net: Thou shalt not watch whales eating
