Colombia's former president, Alvaro Horrible, will be tried for witness tampering and fraud.

He has been tied to the paramilitaries, gangs of criminals with close connections to the army, who were Colombia's worst terrorists.

A new EPA rule will require 200 US chemical plants to be redesigned to reduce toxic pollution.

A bomb was planted on the Satanic Temple. It did little damage, due to an apparent malfunction, but it looks like right-wing terrorism.

*US will require background checks for gun shows and online firearm sales.*

This is a step forward, but we urgently need strict laws about safe storage and transport of guns.

The US has sabotaged the WTO by blocking appointment of "judges" to implement its dispute appeals procedure. See how I have condemned the WTO in the past.

The WTO "dispute resolution procedure" is much like an ISDS clause except that businesses cannot directly sue countries for making laws to protect human right, public health, the environment, or their citizens' standard of living. In the WTO, only another member country can do that. But a big enough company can generally get the government of the country it claims to be located in to sue on its behalf.

With the dispute resolution system spiked, the WTO will be unable to do much to countries that relax the unjust copyright laws that persecute people who share with other people, and may be unable to pressure countries to make exceptions in patent law for software, medicine and agriculture.

If the WTO limited itself to preventing international dumping of products, I would support it. But it goes far beyond that, into injustice.

Trade agreements is one of the few areas in which the corrupter did good things, For instance, keeping the US out of the TPP, and spiking the WTO. But that is no reason to vote for the corrupter, since Biden has continued the same policies. What's more, Biden has taken broad action against monopolies in the US.

In any case, the danger that the corrupter would impose fascism and abolish human rights in the US outweighs other the political issues.