French far-right figurehead Marine Le Pen was on Monday holding talks with Prime Minister Michel Barnier as her party intensified warnings it was prepared to topple his government in a move that would fling France into political crisis.

The UK and France have “reactivated”talks on sending troops to Ukraine, French newspaper Le Monde reported on Monday. The idea has already caused a rift among European NATO members.

Back in February, French President Emmanuel Macron caused controversy by declaring his willingness to send ground troops to Ukraine “to prevent Russia from winning this war.” The statement was quickly disavowed by NATO officials, while German Chancellor Olaf Scholz told reporters that Ukraine’s Western backers were “unanimous” in their opposition to the idea.

More than 1,000 doctors and nurses are among at least 44,211 people killed in Israel’s 13-month assault on the Gaza Strip, officials in the Hamas-governed Palestinian enclave said Sunday.

“Over 310 other medical personnel were arrested, tortured, and executed in prisons,” Gaza’s Government Media Office also said in a statement, according to Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency. “The Israeli army also prevented the entry of medical supplies, health delegations, and hundreds of surgeons into Gaza.”

PLEASE STOP BLAMING RUSSIA FOR THE WAR IN UKRAINE — BLAME NATO.

Angela Merkel's book will be launched with fanfare in the West but also in China. Tickets for Tuesday evening's initial presentation of the former German chancellor's 736-page opus at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin sold out online within minutes of going on sale a few weeks ago.

Ukraine/Russia – Interview given by M. Christophe Lemoine, Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs Spokesperson, to LCI (excerpts)

Paris, 20 November 2024

Q. – What’s your reaction, France’s reaction to the immediate development, i.e. the firing of Storm Shadow missiles at positions in the Kursk region? We’ve got a lot more details coming in, we’re going to see the images. It’s reportedly a [command] post where North Korean officers were operating, in Marino, which is in the Kursk region. It’s in keeping with what the Americans said: you can fire, the Ukrainians can fire these weapons in this region. What’s France’s view on this?

Below is my column in The Hill on new evidence released by the House related to the January 6th riot. The J6 Committee fueled doubts about the official accounts by using only Democratically-appointed members and skewing the evidence. The new information further undermines the narrative pushed by both members and the media.

    by Jonathan Turley 

Here is the column:

In the space of a couple of days this week two completely unprecedented attacks occurred that have the potential to rewrite world history. The US and UK directly attacked Russia and, for the first time ever in war, an Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile was fired – by Russia. Naturally, most people in the West paid little attention.

Herbicide atrazine, widely used on agricultural crops in the US, Canada, and Australia, was banned in the European Union in 2004 after it was found to surpass the regulatory limits of pesticide (0.1µg/L) in groundwater. It has also been banned in over 40 countries. Sputnik investigates why is the US in no hurry to follow suit.

Registered initially in 1958 by CIBA-GEIGY, atrazine has been a major agricultural herbicide in the US for more than 30 years. Manufactured by Swiss-based agrochemical giant Syngenta, it is a chlorinated triazine systemic herbicide.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Thursday that a controversial US missile defense base in Poland is a potential target of the Russian military, comments that come amid soaring tensions as the US just authorized Ukraine to strike Russian territory with long-range NATO missiles.

US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for National Security Adviser, Mike Waltz, has laid out the incoming administration’s strategy for addressing the Ukraine conflict. He said the Trump team will begin working on negotiations from the very first day of Trump’s term, which begins on January 20.

Speaking on Fox News on Sunday, Waltz emphasized that a key priority will be organizing talks between Russia and Ukraine, with the aim of bringing both sides together to negotiate a ceasefire or peace agreement. “We need to discuss who is at this table, whether it will be an agreement, a truce, how to put both sides at the negotiating table, and then what is the scope of the deal,” he said.

This week marks a fateful threshold for the world. In a grave announcement, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the three-year proxy war in Ukraine has now reached a global dimension.

The responsibility for this abysmal moment lies fully with the United States’ elitist rulers and their British accomplices. They are inciting global catastrophe in a desperate bid to save their hegemonic empire.

They’re at it again… the U.S. and Britain, inciting global war, must be defeated for good

Will the U.S. imperial aggressor and its NATO front go down in defeat, or will it push the world to a final global war?

ONE OF THE MAJOR ISSUE IN REGARD TO GLOBAL WARMING IS THE WAY THE WEST — THE MAJOR POLLUTER/EMITTER OF CO2 WANTS TO SHARE RESPONSIBILITY/GUILT WITH THE REST OF THE WORLD. 

IN THIS REGARD, GUS WOULD LIKE TO SEE NOT A COPXX BUT A WESTERN WORLD FINDING ITS OWN WAYS TO STOP CARRYING ON WITH ITS PRESENT OIL AND GAS MARKETS AND INDUSTRIAL STRUCTURE. 

THE REST OF THE WORLD DOES NOT HAVE TO SHARE THIS GUILT TRIP, WHICH AT EVERY COPXX HAS BECOME THE NORM. CHINA IS DOING FAR MORE TO SOLVE ITS EMISSION PROBLEMS THAN THE USA, EMBROILED IN FOREVER WARS THAT PRODUCE MORE EMISSION THAT CAN BE SAVED BY CHANGING 650 BILLION LIGHT BULB….

After two weeks of intense negotiations, delegates at the UN climate summit in Baku, known as COP29, agreed late on Saturday to provide funding for developing countries to combat and adapt to climate change.

Historic wealthy emitters offered climate finance worth $300 billion a year by 2035, far lower than developing countries hoped for.

Also included in the agreement was a broader goal of raising $1.3 trillion in climate finance annually by 2035. 

This would include funding from both public and private sources, which economists say matches the sum needed every year to address global warming.

Russian President Vladimir Putin should continue exercising “restraint” in his responses to the US-led proxy war against Russia waged by the Kiev regime, Jimmy Dore, political commentator and host of the Jimmy Dore Show, has warned. According to the progressive pundit, it is imperative that Putin wait until US president-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House in January before making decisions that could kick-start World War III.