Tanker Armada Races For Hormuz After Iran Says Strait Is Open

Just because we don’t get invoices in the mail, doesn’t mean we don’t pay dearly for the empire’s senseless wars. Most of us Americans have been hammered our entire lives to pay for them. It was hoped that the long-train of disasters was coming to an end with the second Trump Administration. But alas, it […] The post War Isn’t Free … How The American People Pay Dearly For It appeared first on LewRockwell.

"Can Only Imagine What FCC Has To Say": Open Source Military Radar Plans Appear Online Someone on GitHub has built an open-source radar system capable of tracking multiple targets up to roughly 12 miles away, at a fraction of the cost that a major defense contractor would typically charge for a comparable system. AERIS-10 is an open-source phased-array radar system that demonstrates how advanced sensing technology has moved out of the defense-prime world and into civilian hands, with one person releasing all the design and development files on GitHub. The...

Fico Threatens To Cut Ukraine's Emergency Power As Russian Oil Transit Fight Escalates Slovakia's populist Prime Minister and pro-Trump ally Robert Fico has drawn an unexpectedly hard line in his country's ongoing energy showdown with Ukraine: restore Russian oil flows, or else a key emergency electricity lifeline for Ukraine gets pulled. In a weekend post on X, Fico warned that unless Ukraine resumes pumping Russian crude to Slovakia by Monday, Bratislava will cut off its emergency power exports. This is an immense threat given current frigid subzero temperatures in war-ravaged Ukraine. "If...