Iran Mulls Allowing Tankers Through Strait Of Hormuz If Trade Conducted In Yuan

Toward Dual-Use Deterrence On The Moon Authored by Rick Fisher via The Epoch Times, As the United States pursues its goal of sending astronauts to the moon starting in 2028 to start building lunar bases—and China pursues its goal of sending its people to the moon by 2029 or 2030, also to start building lunar bases—it is necessary to consider a lunar political-military stability based on dual-use technologies. Concern that China could behave aggressively on the moon is justified based on its behavior on Earth: an unwillingness to recognize the territory of...

COVID Cover-Up: Hiding Star Researcher Ralph Baric's Ties To Global Pandemic Authored by Paul D. Thacker via RealClearInvestigations, In March 2020, a couple of months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the United States, editors at the journal Nature Medicine appended a note to a coronavirus study it had published five years prior. “We are aware that this article is being used as the basis for unverified theories that the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19 was engineered,” the journal editors wrote. “There is...

"It's Our Nature": Colorado Doubles Down On New Assaults On The First Amendment Authored by Jonathan Turley, Colorado’s tourism slogan, “it’s our nature,” has a menacing meaning for free speech advocates. Colorado is now arguably the most anti-free speech state in the union, pushing an array of measures attacking those with opposing social and political views. The irony is that the state has proved a bonanza for free speech with spectacular legal failures that reaffirmed rather than restricted the First Amendment. Now, the Democratic legislature and governor are back with new...