The US Congress supports trying Putin for war crimes. That is what he deserves — but so do some American politicians.

This is an instance of hypocrisy: the US supports doing justice in one case and opposes it in another similar case. In the Putin case, the US stance is correct — in the Dubya case, the US stance is wrong.

There are people who would argue that this hypocrisy is a reason not to punish Putin. That is misguided reasoning. The proper response to hypocrisy is to change the conduct in the case where it is wrong (US war criminals), not to change it in the case where it is right (Putin).

I support trying and punishing Putin, all else being equal. But I think we may end up in a situation where a just peace (Putin relinquishes the territory and Ukrainians that the Putin forces have seized, and ends the fighting) is possible but only in exchange for not trying to cature and try Putin. If this happens, I say we should take that deal.

A plane which the Argentine military used for throwing protesters into the sea is being returned to Argentina. It will be kept in a museum to help make the dictators' murders real to today's Argentines.

Inland reaches of Australia's longest river, the Murray, are suffering a continuing ecological crisis.

From what I have read before, it has to do with taking too much water out of the river for irrigation.

Robert Reich connects billionaires including Peter Thiel with the bank bailout and with right-wing extremist politicians.

Armies are developing weapons to attack countries by manipulating how people think. TikTok can be seen as one, and Facebook too.

The author is right to generalize this beyond TikTok, since many other antisocial media platforms can do similar things.

Systems to attack or control the human brain are being worked on. Even if technology never reaches the point of planting specific thoughts in a brain, it could be capable of conditioning people. All that takes is the ability to make someone feel good or bad.

Eventually this will be one of the reasons to reject nonfree software.