The missiles that Biden wants to sell to Salafi Arabia this time are air-to-air missiles.

Since the Houthis have no air force, these missiles would not be very useful for actual fighting against them. But they could be used for blockading Yemen's airport.

China's leaders ask, "Why do you make such a fuss about our disappearing Peng Shuai, when the other things we are doing are millions of times worse?" ;-{.

*India’s farmers have won — but this doesn’t mean Modi is softening.*

Medea Benjamin claims that the US is arming Ukraine offensively against Russia and looking to start a war.

Her arguments are logical based on the one-sided understanding of the situation that the article presents -- in which Putin's actions cannot be judged, and the US is automatically to blame if Putin starts a war.

That approach grants legitimacy to any aggression he might try. It is Russia that has launched armed warfare against Ukraine, first by seizing Crimea, then by organizing a rebellion near the Russian border — accompanied in both cases by duplicity. There was also the attempt to seize power in Odessa.

Putin is an audacious, opportunistic, power-grabbing bully that despises truth, much like the wrecker. Taking an attitude of "make sure never to cross his red lines" toward Putin is equivalent to "give him whatever he grabs, and always back down."

The natural way to resist that is to arm Ukraine for defense, but not start a fight. To confront Putin's red lines with other red lines, so that both sides will let the situation stabilize and quiet down.

What the US is doing looks like that to me.

*Raids, Arrests, and Death Threats: Israel's Strategy of Silencing Human Rights Defenders.*

These attacks against Palestinian human rights organizations began over a decade ago. Arbitrarily labeling them "terrorist" was just the latest step.