Erdoğan demands western help in setting up a "safe zone" in Turkey for refugees to return to.

In principle, this is reasonable. But neither Assad nor the Syrian Islamists would run a zone that is safe for Syrians in general. The Idlib domain of the Islamists is not safe for transgender Syrians.

The US intervention in Somalia against al-Shabaab cannot succeed, because it doesn't recognize the role that al-Shabaab plays in life in Somalia.

The article omits to mention that the US is responsible for the very existence of al-Shabaab. The Islamic courts movement had taken control of Somalia had established peace. Peace with incomplete respect for human rights, to be sure — Islamists oppose some aspects of human rights — but peace with incomplete human rights was a big step up from faction war with incomplete human rights.

Then Ethiopia intervened, clearly as a US proxy, to destroy the Islamic courts government. One part of it, no longer in power, was al-Shabaab.

San Francisco's city council voted to designate the National Rifle Association as a "terrorist organization".

The NRA uses disinformation tactics to promote sales of guns, and supports candidates that are right-wing extremists (Republicans).

That is harmful, but it is not terrorism.

It is wrong for any government (or the UN) to arbitrarily attach the label of "terrorist" to an organization. Such designation is legitimate only as the result of a fair trial.

If AI leads to an effective lie detector, those that have dangerous power already will leverage it to get more power.

Comparing Biden, Sanders and Warren in regard to global heating.

Each one made a valid point, but Biden's point is useless without the other points. The only way the US can get other countries to do more to curb global heating is by doing more itself.