Civil liberties activists called for governments to decide not to allow spy software such as Pegasus.

I wish getting rid of spy software were that easy, but I don't think it is. When programs have bugs, some people will exploit them as security holes, and just saying "That's prohibited" won't stop it.

Indeed, gangs do this and they are probably breaking a law by doing so, but that doesn't faze them — they break many other laws too.

Michael Chong, a member of Canada's parliament who originally came from Hong Kong, accused Trudeau of doing nothing to stop a Chinese diplomat from acting to harass him, his family in Hong Kong, and other members of Canada's parliament.

Senator Warren has called for the US Trade Representative to confirm he will oppose ISDS clauses in future trade treaties, as Biden promised.

This is the most salient requirement for making a trade treaty acceptable; but it by itself is not sufficient. There are other ways a treaty can give business an advantage over human beings and society, thus making it a business-supremacy treaty.

Dozens of women who worked for the CIA have accused it of disregarding accusations of some sort of sexual pressure on them.

It is not clear to me what the bounds of the term "sexual assault" are. The term is so loose that it is inherently misleading. But whatever it includes, the CIA should have handled these accusations properly.

US citizens: call on the House of Representatives to Repeal the 2002 AUMF.

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