Displayed on a site where American citizens were held against their will for more than three years, the signs encourage visitors to report any depictions of U.S. history that “inappropriately disparage Americans past or living” or fail to highlight the “beauty, abundance or grandeur” of the landscape, according to a Manzanar official.

Identical signs are now posted at every national park site across the nation, regardless of whether that site’s purpose is to educate the public about horrifying mistakes and grave injustices perpetrated by the U.S. government. Although it’s unclear how and where the president’s directive will be enforced, park advocates and historians are bracing themselves for a drastic reframing of the darkest chapters of the nation’s history.

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Israel is among the nations “believed to be modernizing its nuclear arsenal,” the Stockholm-based SIPRI institute has said

The world risks plunging into a “new dangerous arms race” as most nuclear powers seek to modernize and expand their arsenals, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has warned in its annual review.

The pace of disarmament is slowing as nuclear-armed states launch “intensive” arsenal modernization programs, the research center said in a paper published on Monday.

Russia and the US, which together possess around 90% of all nuclear weapons in the world, are set to see the last remaining bilateral nuclear arms control treaty – the New START – expire in February 2026, SIPRI noted. The agreement limits the number of simultaneously deployed strategic nuclear warheads.

Moscow suspended its participation in the treaty in 2023, citing the impracticality of the inspection regime due to deep Western involvement in the Ukraine conflict. However, it maintained that it remained open to dialogue on the issue if the arsenals of Washington’s NATO allies were also considered.

Washington, meanwhile, insists on including China in any new agreement. According to SIPRI, China possesses the fastest-growing nuclear arsenal in the world and could rival “either Russia or the USA” in its number of intercontinental ballistic missiles by the end of the decade.

The UK and France are also modernizing their nuclear forces, focusing on nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines, the report said. Paris additionally aims to develop a new ballistic missile warhead.

“The era of reductions in the number of nuclear weapons in the world, which had lasted since the end of the Cold War, is coming to an end,” said Hans M. Kristensen, Associate Senior Fellow with SIPRI’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Program. “We see a clear trend of growing nuclear arsenals, sharpened nuclear rhetoric, and the abandonment of arms control agreements.”

The research institute also listed Israel among the nations “believed to be modernizing its nuclear arsenal.” While West Jerusalem does not officially acknowledge possessing nuclear weapons, SIPRI pointed to tests of new missile propulsion systems and alleged upgrades at the plutonium production reactor site in Dimona.

Israel could have up to 90 nuclear warheads at its disposal, the report stated. The findings come as West Jerusalem conducts air raids against Iranian nuclear and military facilities, claiming the Islamic Republic is nearing the creation of a nuclear bomb. Tehran, which maintains that its nuclear program is peaceful, was not mentioned in the SIPRI report.

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Pakistani Defense Minister Khawaja Asif has called on all Muslim nations to unite against Israel following its strikes on Iranian military and nuclear sites. He warned that failing to act collectively would only encourage further attacks across the Middle East.

Speaking in the National Assembly on Saturday, Asif argued that Israel “did not act alone” and had received “intelligence, cover, and support.” He said the Muslim world remained “militarily vulnerable” and urged a joint response.

“Just as Israel is currently targeting Yemen, Iran, and Palestine, if the Muslim world does not unite today and continues to prioritize its own interests and agendas, then everyone’s turn will come,” he told lawmakers.

Asif called for the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to convene and devise a strategy to confront Israel. “Wherever there are diplomatic ties with Israel in the Muslim world, they should be severed,” he said. “We stand behind Iran and will support them at every international forum to protect their interests,” the defense minister added.

https://xcancel.com/globaltimesnews/status/1934774316182458823#m

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/chinese-embassy-israel-urges-citizens-leave-2025-06-17/

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202506/1336314.shtml

edit : Global Times published an article an hour after the tweet.

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New evidence suggests that Iran successfully compromised Israel’s vaunted air defense systems during recent attacks — forcing Tel Aviv to fire on its own positions. How?

Iran overwhelmed Israeli defenses by breaching the data transmission and correction system early in flight, explains military expert and historian of the Air Defense Forces Yuri Knutov.

"Based on the footage that was released, it seems that the Iranians were able to breach the data transmission and correction signal system at the early stage when the missiles were flying, using an inertial guidance system. As a result, the system misdirected the missiles, not toward their intended target, but toward Israel’s own surface-to-air missile batteries, leading to a strike on them."

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"During the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1970 and 1973, similar jamming techniques were used by both Israeli and Egyptian pilots, as well as Soviet pilots who assisted the Egyptians," he adds.

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The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), in a new phase of the ongoing Operation True Promise III, launched a massive barrage of ballistic missiles and drones at the occupied Palestinian territories late on Monday.

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According to sources, this phase of Operation True Promise III is expected to be longer and more intense than the previous eight phases, which began Friday night following the Israeli military's unprovoked aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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Settlers have been banned from sharing or publishing images or videos related to the Iranian retaliation to avoid further embarrassment for the regime's embattled military.

However, some images that leaked through social media showed panic-stricken settlers hiding in underground shelters as the missiles and drones rained down on the occupied land.

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1934644035215339592#m warning: video shows bombing, I was believe the woman was not harmed by the explosion

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1934645829966651674#m footage outside the station

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1934648647490342921#m woman from the first video goes live again

https://xcancel.com/DropSiteNews/status/1934649957941936597#m Israel confirms that it is targetting journalists in Iran

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/15/updates-death-toll-grows-as-iran-and-israel-continue-to-trade-attacks?update=3779733

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/israel-iran-battle-escalates-will-be-high-agenda-world-leaders-meet-2025-06-16/

https://www.kaine.senate.gov/press-releases/kaine-statement-on-israeli-strikes-on-iran

The use of compulsory arbitration to end legal strikes is a long-lasting challenge, according to the International Labor Organization (ILO).

Compulsory arbitration is not justified by a strike having potentially unfortunate long-term consequences for students. This is the opinion of the International Labor Organization (ILO).

The Norwegian Union of School Employees (Skolenes landsforbund / SL) was the first teachers' organization to send its members on strike in 2022. Three union members working at Olsvik school in Bergen met at their workplace wearing strike shirts the morning of June 8; they would become the union members who were on strike the longest. The teachers' long strike of 2022 was ended by compulsory arbitration, at that point being the longest teachers' strike in Norwegian history, lasting from June 8 to September 27, with >8,000 teachers participating at the strike's conclusion.

The Norwegian Union of Education (Utdanningsforbundet) soon filed a complaint to the ILO regarding the use of compulsory arbitration to end the strike; the ILO has now formally criticized the actions of the Norwegian government, and SL has declared its agreement with the ILO's statement.

The Norwegian Union of Education reports to the Norwegian News Agency that the ILO's Committee on Freedom of Association finalized last weekend their conclusions regarding the Norwegian teachers' strike of 2022.

The Norwegian government in 2022 stated that they ended the strike because it could have a negative long-term impact on students.

The Norwegian Institute of Public Health (Folkehelseinstituttet / FHI) estimated that 14,000 students were at risk of developing issues with worsening mental health had the strike continued for longer than it did.

—"[Teachers'] strikes have a big impact on the lives of children and young people, because the structure that school provides them with in their daily lives disappears, and because the education they're offered isn't what it should be," Minister of Labor Tonje Brenna said to NRK back in 2022.

—"Vague concerns"

The Norwegian government's justification for its use of compulsory arbitration is not supported by the ILO. The agency says that the potential long-term impacts of a school workers' strike does not justify encroaching on workers' right to strike.

—"This is important for us in the Norwegian Union of Education, because we emphasized in our complaint that the government's decision to use compulsory arbitration to end the strike was not based on knowledge of the actual consequences, but rather was first and foremost based on vague concerns about the long-term consequences of a teachers' strike," says union leader Geir Røssvoll.

He emphasizes that the right to strike is a human right and crucial for the labor movement.

—"We never agreed with the government's reasons for ending the strike, so we're glad that the ILO is now in agreement with us," says Mette Johnsen Walker, leader of the Norwegian Union of School Employees.

—"We spoke here about an interruption in education over a longer period. There were too few facts on the table, but more than enough concern in a post-pandemic^[As of 2025, the WHO has still not declared an end to the COVID-19 pandemic.] age about what could happen to students if schools were to close. Teachers' right to strike is still strong. The psycho-social conditions of young people could've been kept in order by other municipal institutions," she adds.

Critical voices

Many people were overjoyed when the teachers' strike ended, while others in our country were critical, among them the Liberal Party (Venstre / V) and Socialist Left Party (Sosialistisk Venstreparti / SV).

SV's spokesperson for educational policy, Freddy André Øvstegård, expressed concerns that the strikers' employers could utilize a compulsory arbitration to further their own interests.

—"The results here show that our party made the right decision in voting against the use of compulsory arbitration. The frequent use of force to end strikes in this country weakens the position of public sector workers. The government's policy here is gutting the right to strike and with it the power of the unions in our country," he said.

—"Cut the use of compulsory arbitration"

The ILO's Committee on Freedom of Association has stated that they condemn Norway's use of compulsory arbitration to end legal strikes, according to the Norwegian Union of Education.

The ILO has previously criticized Norway for other similar cases.

The Committee on Freedom of Association now describes the use of compulsory arbitration to end legal strikes as a long-lasting challenge. They expect that the Norwegian state will cooperate with organizations party to labor disputes to find solutions which might reduce the use of compulsory arbitration going forwards.

—"The ILO has stated in clear terms that school workers have a broad right to strike. This is very important for us going forward," Røsvoll says.

Five nights of anti-migrant protests, riots and attacks on property has left the streets of several Northern Ireland towns littered with debris and burnt out cars. At its height, following protests involving hundreds of far-right thugs, migrant houses were set on fire and a leisure centre, in which migrants where thought to be sheltering, petrol bombed.

The riots followed an alleged sex attack on a teenage girl in the town of Ballymena on Saturday, June 7. Two Romanian teenagers have been arrested and have denied charges of attempted rape in Coleraine Magistrates’ Court.

Ballymena is a Protestant dominated industrial town in County Antrim, home of the unionist dynasty of the late Reverend Ian Paisley. It registers some of the highest deprivation indicators in Northern Ireland, having lost a number of major employers over the last few years. Those that continue are increasingly dependent on migrant workers to fill low paying jobs.

The Ballymena attack, as in the UK following the 2024 stabbing deaths of three children in Southport, and in advance of any facts being established, was seized on as a pretext by far-right forces for a large demonstration on June 9. Estimates put numbers at several hundred to 2,500 people who assembled in the Harryville area of the town.

The demonstration, undoubtedly with the approval of loyalist paramilitary groups, and amplified on social media, moved toward the Clonavon Terrace area where a number of migrant families live and rapidly became a pogrom. A section of the demonstrators broke off and set up barricades against Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Land Rovers and riot police who were blocking access to Clonavon Terrace.

Over several hours six houses were attacked, four of them set on fire. Shops were also damaged. One family with young children barricaded themselves in an attic. Rioters threw petrol bombs, bricks and fireworks at PSNI vehicles.

The news article is old but CNN had this guy on their show this morning and asked him again if Gaza should be nuked and he still said yes. No pushback at all on the part of CNN. Would it fucking kill you neoliberal pukes to at least say "the fuck is wrong with you?"