How a right-wing billionaire compelled CNN to take a neutral stand about the bullshitter's gusher of lies.

Mike Africa Jr, one of the survivors of the Move collective, was not in the house when thugs firebombed it and killed everyone inside. He has bought the building that was built to replace that house, and plans to make it into a memorial to Move and the people who were killed in that fire.

Poland has declared a new name to use for the currently Russian city of Kaliningrad. Poland's choice choice of name, Królewiec, was the Polish name for that city during the short period, 1454 to 1457, that the city was under Polish control. Aside from those few years, the city's name was Königsberg for 7 centuries.

It seems to me that Russia and Poland are both being fools about this.

Russia is a place of horrible tyranny and repression. Poland is a place of diminished human rights and imposed Christian restrictions. Those issues are more important than the name of Kaliningrad.

*The grotesque rehabilitation of Bashar al-Assad's regime — Syria’s criminal president has been cordially invited to this week's Arab League summit in Saudi Arabia — makes sense to cynical Arab governments. They hope to reduce Damascus's dependence on Iran, encourage refugees to return, halt state-sponsored drug rackets and cash in on reconstruction.

Would it be better to maintain hostilities so that Assad is not forgiven? I'm not sure.

On one hand, peace would do a lot to reduce Syrians' suffering. On the other hand, peace could result in Assad's getting the support to conquer Rojava.

CNN's live presentation for the bullshitter was a complete success for the bullshitter and for the plutocratists. They both got what they wanted: to tell the public, "You can choose fascism, or you can choose the cruel system that boosted fascism."