Russia, China, and Norway killed the proposed Antarctic ocean nature reserve.

Senator Biden's privacy bill has admirably firm sanctions, but still has the usual flaw that it regulates mainly the use of data rather than trying to stop it from being collected.

This means that the data bases will still be waiting for the FBI to hoover up everything about everybody's activities using PAT RIOT Act.

A broken (financial) police force is great for the super-rich. But not for the rest of us.

US banking sanctions against Iran will block the import of medicine and food. This will kill sick people.

Something similar happened with the US sanctions against Iraq in the 90s: nominally food and medicine was exempt, but in practice importing them was difficult.

Pakistan has bowed to fanatical Muslims by stopping Asia Bibi from leaving the country. This will give the fanatics what they demand: a chance to murder her.