Two Oil Tankers Hit in Strait of Hormuz, US Strikes Iran

Oil Spikes As Iran Denies Progress Despite Hasty Lebanon Truce: US Talks Halted For 'At Least A Few Days' Summary: Washington has seen the Lebanon partial truce as opportunity enough to press forward on broader talks, with Trump saying he expects a broader Iran deal "over the next week". But Fars denies this Tuesday: "exchange of messages between Iran & the US has been stopped for at least a few days" on MOU. In Lebanon, "While the ceasefire appears to be largely holding, there was further violence overnight," reports BBC, with more dead & wounded...

"The Rebirth Of America's Nuclear Industry": Antares Microreactor Goes Critical Antares just did something that has been painfully rare in American nuclear energy: it took a privately developed advanced reactor from concept to actual criticality on an aggressive, publicly stated schedule. On June 4th at Idaho National Laboratory (INL), the company’s Mark-0 microreactor achieved initial zero-power fueled criticality under the Department of Energy’s Reactor Pilot Program.  When a reactor goes critical, it is experiencing a self-sustaining chain reaction of fissioning uranium atoms inside of its core. A zero-power fueled criticality means the...

The Trojan Horse Inside Your Head: How Government Propaganda Is Quietly Dismantling Free Thought Authored by J.B. Shurk via American Thinker, Ignore the bureaucrats; listen to the free thinkers... If the Trojan War were being fought today, the Greeks would not need to hide inside of a big, wooden horse and hope to be dragged inside Troy’s city gates.  They’d simply disseminate all kinds of lies on social media and wait for the Trojan people to fight each other.  Such is the power of corrosive ideas: They can destroy a civilization before its defenders understand that...