In parts of Africa, people generally believe Putin's lies about Ukraine.

People reproach western governments for their history of colonization and repression in Africa, and are inclined to assume they are to blame this time too.

It's a mistake to understand events in terms of "the good guy" and "the bad guy". The US has done wrong to many countries in recent decades (and did wrong before ethat too); now Russia and China are playing the same game and committing similar wrongs.

*Fiji says Asia's biggest security threat is climate change, not conflict.*

Bravo! In fact, that is true for almost all the world, but few political leaders dare to recognize the magnitude of this danger.

There is a tentative bipartisan agreement in the Senate for some small but useful advances in gun control.

In addition, I fear that "safety measures in and around primary and secondary schools" could include more thugs stationed in schools, arresting more students, and feeding them into the school-to-prison pipeline.

Business-supremacy treaties with ISDS clauses ("I Sue Democratic States") are becoming a big obstacle to laws to defend the climate from global heating.

I've condemned business-supremacy treaties for years.

A right-wing British billionaire has lost his libel suit against journalist Carole Cadwalladr. This slightly blunts the threat that UK libel law poses to journalism. But it's not enough.