The Israeli military carried out a series of airstrikes on Lebanon on Monday, reportedly killing over 500 people, including 50 children and 94 women. The strikes, which have been described as the deadliest since the 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah war, come amid the Jewish State’s expanding campaign against the Lebanese militant group.

Lebanese authorities have reported that over 1,800 people have been injured. The country’s Health Minister Firass Abiad has claimed that the strikes have hit hospitals, medical centers and ambulances.

The government has ordered schools and universities across the country to begin preparing shelters as thousands of people flee from the southern regions of Lebanon.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military has claimed to have struck over 1,500 targets, describing them as Hezbollah weapons sites.

Turkey’s interest in joining BRICS stems from several reasons, primarily rooted in its geopolitical ambitions. The country is frustrated with its stalled EU accession process, which has seen little progress over the past few decades. Moreover, Turkey seeks to diversify its alliances, reduce its reliance on the West, and strengthen ties with emerging powers like China, Russia, and India.

Last week the world narrowly escaped likely nuclear destruction, as the Biden Administration considered Ukraine’s request to allow US missiles to strike deeply into Russian territory. Russian president Vladimir Putin warned, as the request was being considered, that because these missiles could not be launched without the active participation of the US military and NATO, Russia would consider itself in a state of war with both NATO and the US should they be launched. It was a Cuban Missile Crisis on a massive scale.

    by Ron Paul

President John F. Kennedy is heralded in some circles as a pacifist anti-imperialist whose assassination was triggered by neo-conservative hawks intent on escalating the war in Vietnam and supporting Israel to the hilt in its wars with neighboring Arab states and the Palestinians.

 Jeremy Kuzmarov

Death toll nears 500 in Israeli strikes on Lebanon, health ministry says
At least 492 were killed and 1,645 wounded in Israeli strikes on Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese health ministry said, after the Israeli military said its air strikes had hit more than 1,300 Hezbollah targets in the past 24 hours. Tens of thousands of people are fleeing southern Lebanon "due to Israeli atrocities", Nasser Yassin, the Lebanese minister coordinating the crisis response, said. Read our liveblog for the latest news on the conflict in the Middle East.

https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240923-%F0%9F%94%B4-israeli-military-launches-fresh-strikes-on-hezbollah-in-lebanon-urges-civilians-to-evacuate

Russian President Vladimir Putin was joking when he endorsed US Vice President Kamala Harris’ election campaign, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. The outcome of the election doesn’t matter, Lavrov added, because Washington is controlled by the “deep state.”

The most recent QUAD summit concluded in the United States late last week, where the group's member states particularly focused on expanding mutual maritime security cooperation.

"The SCO [Shanghai Cooperation Organization] is what really matters in Asia these days, including Russia, Iran, India, most of the "Stans," with Belarus, Afghanistan and Mongolia in the breech, while 14 other Asian and African nations are participating as observers. It makes America’s QUAD look like an anemic midget," Jeff J. Brown, author of The China Trilogy, told Sputnik.

In Germany's recent elections, a far-right, anti-immigration party claimed its first state victory since WWII.

The country has spent decades reckoning with its Nazi history, but far-right extremism and violent plots, particularly targeting Jews, Muslims, and immigrants, have been on the rise.

This environment has paved the way for the AfD (Alternative for Germany) party to gain political ground.

This week on Four Corners, filmmaker Evan Williams investigates the rise of the AfD and far-right extremism in Germany.

He speaks to intelligence officers, political figures, and victims of far-right violence and asks how did this happen?

Germany’s Enemy Within reported by Evan Williams went to air on Monday 23 September at 8.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u15U2GOPB1k

Megyn Kelly is joined by The Daily Mail's Maureen Callahan to discuss the Kamala Harris campaign town hall hosted by Oprah Winfrey, the elitist celebrity-filled event, Harris struggling to give substantive answers in this easy setting, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkyXUGoKc5c

The BRICS alliance has proposed setting up a new currency for trade among member countries as part of its de-dollarization strategy. Pending the August 2023 BRICS Summit, this initiative was speculated to be the principal topic of discussion. However, this proved to be wishful thinking. The possibility is still imminent, with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva showing support for the BRICS currency last year. 

Why can’t an institution like the BRICS bank have a currency to finance trade relations between Brazil and China and between Brazil and all the other BRICS countries? Who decided that the dollar was the (trade) currency after the end of gold parity?

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has slammed former President Donald Trump’s running mate, J.D. Vance, as “too radical” in his views on ending Kiev’s conflict with Moscow.

Zelensky’s comments were published as he arrived in the US, where he is expected to attend the UN General Assembly in New York and meet with President Joe Biden at the White House.

Speaking to The New Yorker, the Ukrainian leader suggested that “Trump doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.”

When asked about Trump’s vice presidential pick, Zelensky replied: “He is too radical.”

As the war in Ukraine heads into its third winter, Western leaders appear to be sinking further every day into a delusional belief in the success of their hydra-headed attempts to first defenestrate Russia before moving on to do the same to China.

Kiev is working to obtain patriarchate status for the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU), a schismatic entity propped up by the Ukrainian government, according to Vladimir Zelensky.

Speaking to reporters on Saturday, Zelensky revealed he had discussed the matter with a delegation of hierarchs from the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in late August. The hierarchs already have a “vision of an action plan,” yet the matter is still pending discussions with the patriarch of Constantinople.

“I’ve said that our people, Ukrainians, would understand if our status was elevated to patriarchate. The exarchs accepted the information and will convey it to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, they will discuss it,” Zelensky stated.

Large protests took place across France on Saturday over the appointment earlier in the day of a right-leaning government. Thousands marched in Paris, denouncing President Emmanuel Macron and his new conservative prime minister, Michel Barnier, claiming they had disregarded the results of the July parliamentary election.

The vote left France deadlocked and with a hung parliament consisting of three roughly equal blocs – the left-wing New Popular Front (NFP) alliance, the center, headed by Macron’s Renaissance party, and the far-right National Rally. Although no party won a majority, the NFP coalition secured the most seats, which was seen as providing a mandate to present its candidate for prime minister.

Boris Johnson has argued that Russia must be forced to accept defeat, even if doing so costs a trillion dollars

Russia must understand that “it’s over,”and that Ukraine will not concede any territory for peace, former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has argued. For this goal to be achieved, however, Kiev will need long-range weapons, NATO membership, and half a trillion dollars, Johnson added.