US citizens: call on US officials to pressure Iceland to stop killing whales.

Don't believe the whitewash of Larry Summers — here's a series of times when he supported harmful or unjust economic policies.

Israel is cheating the Palestinian Authority of 300 million dollars a year.

The EU is considering a plan to put speed limiters on all cars.

Making the system warn the driver could be a good thing; making it a hard limit would be nasty, as speed limits on some roads are too low.

I worry also about whether this system would do surveillance. Having a camera recognize speed limit signs would not inherently imply surveillance, but if the system keeps a history of the signs it sees or the speed of the car at each time, that would effectively add up to surveillance. As for the vaguely described satellite-based system, that might involve surveillance depending on details.

The Center for Constitutional Rights is suing for release of US videotapes of the torture of Mohammed al-Qahtani.