Peacemaker Oliver Stone and Jeffrey Sachs on the Geopolitics of Peace
Ginny Garner wrote: Lew, Oliver Stone posted on X on 3/11 his 2022’s views on the Ukraine-Russia war as well as Jeffrey Sach’s “Geopolitics of Peace” speech before the EU on 2/19. Sachs lays out the neocon foreign policy and NATO expansionism of the past 30 years that initiated no-win wars. Words of wisdom from peacemakers Stone and Sachs. My quibble with Stone, whose filmmaking especially “JFK” I hold in high esteem, is his unfortunate promotion of climate […]
Libel Lawsuit Brought by R. Kelly’s Personal Assistant Thrown Out on “Actual Malice” Grounds
From Copeland v. Netflix, Inc. (D. Del.), decided today by Third Circuit Judge Stephanos Bibas, sitting by designation: Fame has many costs. One comes from the First Amendment: It shields publishers from lawsuits when they report inaccurately about public figures involved in public controversies (as long as they do so without “actual malice”). This case begins and ends with that First Amendment shield. While R. Kelly was being tried for sex crimes and child abuse, his personal assistant […]
Doxing, 1770
From the Providence Gazette, May 5, 1770; recall that back then an article published in one newspaper would often be reprinted verbatim in others as well. For those having trouble reading the newspaper image, here’s the text (paragraph breaks added): To the PRINTERS. Please to give the following a Place in your Paper, which will oblige a Friend to Liberty. As informers against Printers for publishing papers friendly to liberty, are justly to be considered as enemies to […]
State-Owned Company
WSJ recently discussed Argentina’s future ability to get shale energy to market. ‘Tis state-owned. Isn’t that 100% contrary to Libertarian economic theory? I’ve read spillover here between Libertarian and AE thought. What does the latter theorize about state-owned companies (and resources)? submitted by /u/innersanctum44 [link] [comments]
The Universal Authority of St. Thomas Aquinas
In the post-conciliar age, there is often a tendency to look to the times preceding the Second Vatican Council and find attitudes that we can blame the whole crisis on. This is not an attitude unique to those who seek to save the Council from the “Spirit of the Council”; it is also found among traditionalists, who I believe don’t wish to seem unhinged by pretending that all our problems began in the 1960s. One of the so-called […]