*The two-state solution has been a diplomatic failure, [thus far]. It's also still the best answer we’ve got.*

Israeli officials have explicitly stated that they plan mass murder, mass hunger, mass thirst and mass sickness in Gaza. And annexation.

None of those is a part of legitimate self-defense against HAMAS.

Prisons in the US increasingly censor the books and magazines mailed to prisoners, often for trivial reasons.

They often don't bother to tell the prisoners what they have have blocked or why.

A rebel alliance in Burma has made substantial military progress against the military rulers.

The military rulers get support from China, which makes western sanctions against them ineffective. But they have failed to satisfy China's demand to crack down on swindling and cheating of Chinese by people in Burma. The rebels say they will do it. If they can win China's cooperation, the military government might fall.

I do wonder whether China can corrupt the rebels, so that their victory would not make things much better.

*It's Time to Exit ISDS: 200+ Labor, Environment, and Other Civil Society Groups Urge Biden to Eliminate Extreme Corporate Powers From Existing Trade Pacts.*

A ISDS clause, which I describe as standing for "I Sue Democratic States", subjugates all the signatory countries to the power of businesses located in the other signatory countries.