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When senior Western officials met in Ottawa last month to discuss potential terrorism threats in light of the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran, a top State Department counterterrorism official delivered an unexpected message.

The United States was as concerned as always about Islamist terrorism, said the official, Monica A. Jacobsen, according to a copy of her prepared remarks reviewed by The New York Times and three officials briefed on the meeting. But, she told her counterparts from Europe, Canada and Australia, the Trump administration also wanted more attention on what it believed was an insidious, underestimated threat: the far left.

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In September, days after signing his executive order on antifa, Mr. Trump issued a national security memo that called on the government to counter violence fueled by ideological beliefs, including anticapitalism, anti-Christianity and hostility toward “American views on family, religion and morality.”

Also: 5 Takeaways From the U.S. Push Against the Far Left

Oz came out on top, with Brisbane being No.1! And we complain in Australia. How difficult must it be elsewhere!

After all the talk about Tehran's 10-point Plan I realised I didn't actually know what all the 10 points are. This article summarises pretty clearly what each point is about

Do we really think we have any capacity to match China in manufacturing? What can we do?

I saw this news on ABC but I could not for the life of me find an article that wasn't just part of an ongoing liveblog. FFS Aunty.

The war in Iran may be over within days, weeks or months, but the lingering impacts will shape our global future. The 10 biggest emitters generate roughly two-thirds of the world’s annual carbon output, and many of them – Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the US, Indonesia – are also responsible for exports of fossil fuels that raise global emissions even further. They hold the world’s future in their hands. Whether we emerge set more firmly on a low-carbon path, or retreat yet further into a climate-blighting oil dependency, will depend to a large extent on the choices these countries make in the war’s aftermath.

Whatever the war’s outcome, one thing is certain: the current shock is only a blip. A far bigger crisis looms that will put the cost of living and recessions into an entirely new perspective. If we reach 2C above preindustrial levels – which on current form could be in less than two decades – the economic impact of climate breakdown will be the equivalent of having a new oil war every single year.

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When old (and some not so old), self entitled men are given more power than they know what to do with and want their last macho hurrah, these horrors happen.

Across the ME and West Asia region, more than 1.2 million children have been displaced (by now probably one and a half million)>

“Every war is a war on children,” said Alhendawi. “Children are living in fear, caught in the crossfire of this adult war,” he said. “Wars have laws and children must be off limits in every conflict.”

There'll be some who'll do very well from the West Asia war, just not you nor me.

https://www.voronoiapp.com/military/Largest-Arms-Exporters-2021-25-7807

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsZH6ZNV1CY

The Trump administration says the United States has struck 11,000 targets in Iran since the U.S.-Israeli war on the country began. Critics have questioned the accuracy of the Maven system, the artificial intelligence system used by the military to speed up the process of identifying targets.

But in 2025, according to Unicef, close to 50 million children were living in forced displacement, with young people accounting for around 40% of the more than 122 million people who had to flee conflict. Nearly one in six children are now affected by war, according to the UN council of Human Rights.

This is Meta’s second big loss in the US courts this week, with a New Mexico jury finding the company guilty on March 24 of concealing information about the risks of child sexual exploitation and the harmful effects of its platforms on children’s mental health.

Can we do it here please as well ?

This is infuriating.