*Mississippi's racist state flag has finally come down. Now the real work begins.*

*Weak, divided, incompetent... the west is unfit to challenge Xi’s bid for global hegemony.*

*Knife-edge Polish presidential race could slow the march of (right-wing) populism.*

I added "(right-wing)" so we will not forget that populism around 1900 was a movement for reducing inequality.

*Srebrenica 25 years on: how the world lost its appetite to fight war crimes.*

Since Dubya, the US has become responsible for atrocities around the world — and has constantly fought the ICC's efforts to prosecute them. Dubya start this, Obama continued it, and the bully has pushed even harder on it.

*Facebook is out of control. If it were a country it would be North Korea.* One man decides whether to allow it to wreak havoc on any particular target.

People say they need to try to use Facebook to persuade people of something-or-other. But even if something-or-other is a good thing, Facebook is a much bigger bad thing. Because if you think you are using Facebook, really Facebook is using you.

So don't be a zucker! And don't encourage anyone else to be a zucker.

For Facebook to cease to mistreat its useds would require big changes. But ceasing to promote hate, lies and violence (above love, truth and peace) requires only changing the propagation system to reduce the R value that polarizing statements tend to get on Facebook. Censorship, as such, is not necessary.