*Seventy five countries led by the US, UK and France are expected to sign a declaration in Dublin on Friday to refrain from urban bombing.*

Russia, China, Israel, and India said they would not sign. Ukraine also refuses to sign, but maybe it would sign if Russia does.

Three Russian officers were convicted of murder on grounds of being responsible for deploying the Buk missile launcher that was used to shoot down flight MH17.

I think it is wrong to charge soldiers with murder, in any form, simply for being involved with deploying a weapon, which weapon was later fired at civilians by mistake with fatal intent. That is not murder.

If soldiers had knowingly fired it at a civilian aircraft, that would be murder. But no one tried to prove that such a thing happened.

To respect the laws of war includes steadfastly refusing to stretch or twist them to "get at" people because they are on a side we oppose. We must support applying them evenhandedly.

Right-wing policians in Texas have, surpringly, supported criminal justice reform, and this has allowed Texas to close many of its prisons.

Supposedly leftist President Boric wants Chile to sign the TPP — which would eliminate Chile's right to regulate many areas of business and health.

Fossil fuel companies use these business-supremacy treaties to attack measures for decarbonizing. Boric also wants Chile to sign the Energy Charter Treaty, a business-supremacy treaty designed specifically to interfere with measures to reduce use of fossil fuels. It is effectively a suicide pact.

If you are in Chile, launch a fight against this absurd plan.

Kari Lake, a Republican election liar, was defeated for governor of Arizona. Now the question is whether she will try to bluff by claiming she actually won, and, if so, how the state will put a halt to the imposture.