US border thugs use a blacklist of activists and journalists as a guide for systematic harassment at the US border, then make it worse by refusing to acknowledge that this is a system for harassment.

It's like the way city thugs use "stop and frisk" policies to systematically harass black males, then deny this because there is no written policy saying "search each black male".

"The campaign for a 'drug-free world' is costing lives."

Freedom of expression in Burma is rapidly deteriorating. Promises to allow a free press have not been kept.

Guaidó, as leader of Venezuela's National Assembly, had the constitutional authority to declare himself interim president and to call new elections. This explains why Maduro has not charged him with a crime such as rebellion. If Guaidó wins the confrontation and it is not due to US intervention, it will not be a coup d'etat.

I still have misgivings about Guaidó because of his association with right-wing governments that support plutocrats in their own countries and internationally.

The undiplomat has "suspended US compliance" with the INF nuclear missile treaty, but not actually canceled it yet.

This seems to be an attempt at diplomacy, but carried out in a heavy-handed way that would be unlikely to result an agreement.