(satire) *U.S. Vows To Invade Next Country That Asks For Covid Vaccine [patent licenses or trade secrets]*

Even when you're joking, please don't lump together trade secrets and patents as if they were similar!

The US is using NAFTA to try to stop Mexico from banning glyphosate.

NAFTA is a business-supremacy treaty, and it used to contain an ISDS clause (I Sue Democratic States) which authorized businesses to sue a country for adopting a law or policy that interferes with their plans.

The bully revised NAFTA, eliminating the power, but another member country can still do so, and that is what the US is threatening to do.

Several plutocratist presidents have found ways to let businesses off the hook for their crimes. Will Biden change directions?

"Israeli" dates are mainly grown in Palestinian territory, and those grown in Israel proper depend on underpaid Palestinian workers.

* The Biden administration is reportedly considering teaming up with private companies to monitor American citizens' private online activity and digital communications.*

What creates the opportunity to try this the fact that these companies are already snooping on users' private activities. That in turn is due to people's use of nonfree software which snoops, and online dis-services which snoop.