A Canadian company has sued the US demanding that the US construct the Keystone XL pipeline or pay 15 billion dollars.

The lawsuit is under the original NAFTA treaty, which has an ISDS clause ("I sue democratic states") It is peculiar that this lawsuit is proceeding, given that NAFTA was replaced by a newer treaty which does not have an ISDS clause. The article notes this peculiarity but does not explain how that is possible.

Republicans, who control Iowa's legislature, have proposed a bill to put drastic limits on federally-funded food aid.

A think tank recommends that the British Labour party move to the right on "social issues". Starmer has moved it quite a ways to the right on economic issues.

If he follows this advice, the result will be "Tory lite" across the board.

The Biden administration is still sending government lawyers to defend various bad policies instituted by the wrecker.

Biden has been accused of hypocrisy for trying to extradite Julian Assange while criticizing other countries for imprisoning journalists and editors.

The article's original line, "Joe Biden has been accused of hypocrisy for demanding the release of journalists detained around the world while the US president continues seeking the extradition of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange," implies that Biden's wrong is to criticize the other countries. I rewrote the line to indicate that what's wrong is to try to imprison Assange.