Chinese Containership Is First To Pay Iran For "Safe Passage" Through Strait As Iraqi Tanker Crosses With Signal Off

Systemic Risk: A 12-Order Cascading Analysis Of A Zero-Flow Strait Of Hormuz Closure Authored by Craig Tindale via X: Executive Summary The modern world order, having organized itself around efficiency, cost minimization, and logistical precision, has created a machinery of dependence so extreme that the interruption of one narrow corridor can propagate outward into a general crisis of civilization. What appears at first as a maritime blockade is in fact the exposure of the entire global system as a hierarchy of brittle interdependencies. Oil and LNG fail as inputs into electricity, fertilizer, shipping, chemicals,...

Rubio Says US & Europe "Belong Together", Urges Alignment With Trump's Vision For Western Revival Authored by Tom Ozimek via The Epoch Times, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told European leaders on Feb. 14 that Washington is not walking away from the transatlantic alliance—but called for a renewed partnership that aligns with President Donald Trump’s push for national revival, tougher border control, and a return to industrial and military strength. Addressing the annual Munich Security Conference, Rubio sought to reassure governments unsettled by a year of tensions over trade, defense spending,...

Voter ID Is Common Sense, But It Won't Fix Anything Authored by Connor O'Keefe via The Mises Institute, As panic builds within the GOP over the approaching midterm elections, Republicans have renewed a push for one of their most popular policy proposals: voter ID. In the latest version of the so-called SAVE America Act—formerly just the SAVE Act—Congressional Republicans added a requirement for every voter in federal elections to provide poll workers with a valid government-issued photo ID if they’re voting in person or a copy of a valid photo ID if they’re...