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. 

‘Africa must unite’: Why this man was feared by the US and Britain
Kwame Nkrumah’s insight into the true nature of neo-colonialism was ahead of his time and is still relevant today

By Maxwell Boamah Amofa

The EU is having a full-blown existential crisis. Someone has really screwed up its economy, and the culprit is conspicuously absent from a new report outlining the carnage. Are there no mirrors in Brussels?

Has the EU suddenly realized how much it has screwed itself over?
Mario Draghi’s ‘competitiveness report’ says the bloc’s economic situation is dire… but shies away from pointing out the culprit

Former European Central Bank president and Italian prime minister, Mario Draghi, has published a new “economic competitiveness” report after a year of work at the request of unelected ‘Queen’ Ursula von der Leyen’s ‘Royal’ European Commission. And it’s a real page-turner, one of the great mysteries of our times.  

In the Intellectual Self-Defense Manual (special edition of Le Monde Diplomatique), the media philosopher MICHEL ONFRAY gets his ears rubbed by Benoît Bréville, director of Le Diplo.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters announced Wednesday that it will not endorse any candidate for president, amid polling which shows that its membership favors former President Donald Trump.

The decision comes as a blow to the campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris; until this year, the influential 1.3 million–strong labor union had endorsed the Democratic nominee for president in every cycle since 1980. 

The Biden White House and the Democratic Party machine trying to advance Kamala Harris from No. 2 in the regime to No. 1 gets more interesting by the week, I have to say. 

The Harris campaign has at last, two months after the party’s elites and financiers railroaded her candidacy past any semblance of a democratic process, published a platform it calls A New Way Forward, and I will get to this in due course.