Midterm malaise in the USA
Socialists, and rational people everywhere, can only rejoice that vile conspiracy-monger Alex Jones has been ordered to pay close to a billion dollars damages to parents whose children were murdered in the gun massacre at Sandy Hook school, Connecticut in 2012. Jones’s far right website InfoWars claimed the school shooting was “fake” — a plot organised by the Federal government to tighten gun control laws — and parents of slain children were “crisis actors”. Fellow scumbags waged a campaign of harassment against those grieving for their lost ones. This included death and rape threats...