*At least 64 killed in Ethiopian airstrike on Tigray market.*

When US pilots bombed weddings in the Middle East, perhaps they did not know what they were attacking. However, Ethiopian pilots ought to immediately recognize an Ethiopian market.

When the US claims that all the victims of a bombing were guerrillas, it is hard for Americans to know for certain that this is false. Most of us have never been to the countries where these attacks occurred, and we don't know what is normal there or not. We have to decide whether to believe the US government or believe local people that we don't know much about. Over time, it has become clear that the US often denies civilian casualties.

I expect that Ethiopians know what is plausible in Ethiopian life, and what really could or could not have happened in that bombing.

The European Parliament approved binding greenhouse emissions targets and other measures to curb global heating.

I think this is not strong enough, but it is still a good step forward.

The expected filibuster against the We the People Act was not a final defeat. Steady pressure can shift the votes of some senators and achieve victory.

Palestinian thugs beat Palestinian opposition candidate Nizar Banat so badly that he died from his injuries.

Dictator al-Sisi has taken at least 60,000 political prisoners, including four activists of the Egyptian Initiative on Personal Rights (EIPR).

*Part of the EIPR’s role is to investigate the [88]mistreatment of prisoners, and during interrogations the arrestees were asked why they had fabricated accounts of the grim conditions faced by those in jail, even as they sat in those very conditions themselves.*

Al-Sisi can continue this because he has outside financial backing, from the US for instance.