Trump Backs Off 20% Fee Plan For Hormuz, Asserts 'FULL Blockade' Only On Iranian Ports

Like so many intellectuals, Hilary Putnam is a good philosopher but a poor judge of good economics. In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon dissects Putnam’s confusion between facts and values.

IAEA Chief Confirms Nuclear Inspectors Returning To Iran, No Timeline Given For the first time since the US-Iran MoU was signed earlier this month, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced it will have access to Iran for official inspections of the country's nuclear facilities. However, a precise timeline for when the inspections are expected to commence was not given. "There is an agreement and to comply with that agreement, the IAEA will have to have access and inspect,” UN nuclear watchdog chief Rafael Grossi said at a news conference in...

European Official Warns That Americans Can Be Silenced By EU Online Speech Laws Authored by Kevin Stocklin via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Europeans who face criminal charges for what they said or wrote warned that Europe’s speech laws can silence Americans as well, regardless of the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment protections.  Finnish Member of Parliament Paivi Rasanen arrives to attend a court session at the Helsinki District Court in Helsinki, Finland, on Jan. 24, 2022. Antti Aimo-Koivisto/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images While testifying before the House Judiciary Committee last week, Paivi Rasanen, a...