by Ryan McMaken, Ron Paul Institute:
In the latest demonstration of the absurdity of defamation laws, radio show host Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $965 million to people whose didn’t like things Jones said about the 2012 Sandy Hook massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
In the years following the massacre, Jones repeatedly stated that he thinks the shootings were staged and that the purported parents were so-called “crisis actors.” (He has since said he thinks the shootings were real.) Some of Jones’s listeners chose to agree with Jones’s claims that the shootings did not occur, and this allegedly informed the decisions by some listeners to engage in the harassment of some of the parents of murdered children.
With 300,000 troops mobilized and a reported 70,000 Belarusian troops ready to join the fight, Russia is staging tanks, personnel and even Mig-31 fighter jets in Belarus in what appears to be preparation for a 2nd wave assault against Ukraine. Kiev will likely be the target in this assault, as Putin attempts to topple the Ukrainian government and bring an end to Zelensky’s corrupt regime and its failed chapter of western expansion in Eastern Europe.
Last month, activists and comic book fans alike were in uproar over Marvel Studios’ announcement that Israeli actress Shira Haas will play Zionist superhero Sabra in the upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) film Captain America: New World Order. Many Palestine advocates accused Marvel’s decision to add Sabra to the MCU as exalting Israeli abuse and war crimes.
The sudden collapse of prices. The Great Depression began with the collapse of stock market prices in 1929. That was preceded by the collapse of agricultural prices in the United States during the 1920s.
Marjorie Cohn warns that the rightward-veering Supreme Court may continue demolishing the Voting Rights Act.
