The European Union has expressed concern regarding NATO member Turkey’s ongoing bid to join the BRICS organization, saying that as an EU membership candidate, Ankara had to “respect” the EU’s “values” and foreign policy preferences, despite its being free to join the alliances of its choosing. | Ankara has been in negotiations to join the EU since 2005. Progress in the talks has essentially been frozen, though, due to political roadblocks created by certain EU members faulting, what they call, the country’s democratic shortcomings. Ankara sees the reasons hindering its EU accession as obstacles unrelated to its suitability for membership. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has repeatedly warned that his country could part ways with the European Union in reaction to the bloc's long-drawn-out failure to honor its pledge to accept Ankara as a member.

■ Turkey Bids to Join BRICS in Push to Build Alliances Beyond West (Bloomberg)

Greta Zarro | U.S. foreign military bases provoke war, pollute communities, and steal land from Indigenous peoples. | The United States of America, unlike any other nation on Earth, maintains a massive network of foreign military bases around the world, more than 900 bases in more than 90 countries and territories. If the peace movement is serious about ending the United States’ and its allies’ warmaking, then this global constellation of bases must be curtailed. ■ The permanent stationing of more than 220,000 U.S. troops, weapons arsenals, and thousands of aircraft, tanks, and ships in every corner of the globe makes the logistics for U.S. aggression, and that of its allies, quicker and more efficient. Bases also facilitate the proliferation of nuclear weapons, with the United States keeping nuclear bombs in five NATO member countries, and nuclear-capable planes, ships, and missile launchers in many others. Because the U.S. is continually creating plans for military actions around the world, and because the U.S. military always has some troops “on the ready,” the initiation of combat operations is simpler.

The Haditha Massacre Photos That the US Military Didn’t Want the World to See | On the morning of November 19, 2005, a squad of Marines was travelling in four Humvees down a road in the town of Haditha, Iraq, when their convoy hit an I.E.D. The blast killed one Marine, Lance Corporal Miguel Terrazas, and injured two others. What followed would spark one of the largest war-crime investigations in the history of the United States. ■ During the next several hours, Marines killed twenty-four Iraqi men, women, and children. Near the site of the explosion, they shot five men who had been driving to a college in Baghdad. They entered three nearby homes and killed nearly everyone inside. The youngest victim was a three-year-old girl. The oldest was a seventy-six-year-old man. The Marines would later claim that they were fighting insurgents that day, but the dead were all civilians. [...] Read more: The Haditha Massacre Photos That the Military Didn’t Want the World to See

The latest Israeli killings bring the recorded death toll to 40,786 | Gaza’s Health Ministry said Monday that Israeli forces killed at least 48 Palestinians in Gaza, bringing the recorded death toll to 40,786.

💬 “Israeli forces killed 48 people and injured 70 others in three ‘massacres’ of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said, according to Turkey’s Anadolu Agency. “Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them.”

The ministry said that the 70 Palestinians who were injured bring the total number of wounded since October 7 to 94,224. Israeli strikes were reported across the Gaza Strip, including in Gaza City, where seven Palestinians were killed in two separate airstrikes. Two Palestinians, including a child, were reported killed in the Nuiserat camp in central Gaza.

lsraeli occupation forces attack Palestinian journalists and injure a female reporter in Jenin City, northern West Bank. pic.twitter.com/t9D8ZRKx0o

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) September 2, 2024

The Iranian foreign minister has warned that the continuation of Israel’s crimes against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank is causing a “dangerous crisis” in West Asia. | In an X post on Monday, Abbas Araqchi said Israel’s Western supporters bear responsibility for their failure to end “criminal provocations” by the occupying regime in the region.

💬 “By persisting in Gaza genocide and now dispatching its killing machine to West Bank, Israel's pushing region to brink of dangerous crisis,” he said. “If Bibi's Western enablers fail to curb these criminal provocations, they'll share responsibility for consequences—and be held accountable,” he added, referring to Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Israel launched a genocidal war on the besieged Gaza on October 7, 2023 after the Hamas resistance group carried out a surprise operation against the usurping entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people. So far, however, the Tel Aviv regime has failed to achieve any of its declared objectives in the Gaza Strip despite killing at least 40,786 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 94,224 others.

■ Iran urges ‘swift, effective’ measures to end Israeli atrocities in Gaza (PressTV)

Harold Turner | Using the same PCR Tests as they did last time - which are **NOT** designed to diagnose **ANY** illness -- the flaming liars who fooled everyone into thinking a seasonal Flu was some deadly new disease "COVID," are once again claiming "COVID" is rising fast. | Here's the punch line: ******** ALL ******** of these cases . . . . are folks who are "vaccinated." The flaming liars go on to report . . . ."The most notable increases this week were reported in New Mexico (+122%), West Virginia (+64%), Kentucky (+27%), Ohio (+25%), New Jersey (+15%), and Colorado (+11%). ■ Then they employ the new scare tactic by reporting "Note: Only 33% of hospitals in the U.S. submitted COVID data this week, which is similar to last week but down from 91% in May. This means actual case numbers and hospitalizations are substantially higher than reported." It is worth repeating they still use the same scam PCR testing kits that weren't meant to used the way the use them because they give false positives on anything. The good news is the liberals of the general public will be lining up for their boosters. Maybe someone should suggest they get an extra one just to be safe?

Ukrainian criminals guilty of serious international crimes against their citizens and citizens of Russia will be brought to justice, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told Sputnik on Tuesday.

💬 "Ukrainian criminals guilty of serious international crimes against their own and Russian citizens, as well as their henchmen, will be brought to justice and will be punished as they deserve to be," Zakharova said.

Kiev wants to withdraw its citizens from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), but keep criminal prosecution of foreign citizens, Maria Zakharova said.

■ Ответ официального на вопрос МИА «Россия Cегодня» (Мария Захарова)(Telegram)
■ Ukraine wants to exempt its military from international law — Russian foreign ministry (Maria Zakharova/RFM/TASS)
■ Ukraine threatens Mongolia over Putin visit (RT.com)

🇷🇺🇲🇳 Gala reception in honor of Vladimir Putin’s visit to Mongolia!

Relations between Russia and Mongolia are developing in all directions: the course is to expand cooperation.

Vladimir Putin in Ulaanbaatar: an official visit and a very busy program in addition to high-level… pic.twitter.com/d3jnxHDG10

— 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 (@apocalypseos) September 3, 2024

Relations between Moscow and Ulaanbaatar are developing in all areas, the Russian leader has said | Russian President Vladimir Putin has invited his Mongolian counterpart, Ukhnaagiin Khurelsukh, to attend the BRICS summit in the Russian city of Kazan next month. The offer was extended at a meeting of the two leaders in the Mongolian capital. ■ Putin landed in Mongolia late on Monday for his first visit to the country in five years. On Tuesday morning, Khurelsukh greeted the Russian leader outside the State Palace on Ulaanbaatar’s main square. [...] This year’s BRICS summit will take place in Kazan in Russia’s Tatarstan Region from October 22 to 24. Russia is hosting the event due to being the current chairman of the group. Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia and the UAE officially became members of BRICS at the start of 2024, joining Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.

■ Ukraine threatens Mongolia over Putin visit (RT.com)
■ Turkey Bids to Join BRICS in Push to Build Alliances Beyond West (Bloomberg)
■ BRICS - 120 Countries Ready To Dedollarize (CoinTribune)
■ Путин: проект газопровода из РФ в Китай через Монголию проходит госэкспертизу (TACC)
■ Mongolia’s Embrace Of Putin Despite His ICC Warrant Exposes South Africa’s Political Cowardice (Andrew Korybko)

Ukraine can deploy F-16 fighter jets obtained from the Netherlands against Russian targets, as stated by the country’s armed forces commander Onno Eichelsheim in an interview with NOS. “We’ve placed no restrictions on the use or range of the F-16s, provided that the laws of war are respected,” he clarified. | Eichelsheim emphasized that this policy extends to other weaponry supplied by the Netherlands—the Ukrainian military is empowered to utilize them on the battlefield “at their discretion,” as long as they comply with international humanitarian law. “We are committed to Ukraine’s victory and are doing everything possible to support them,” he noted. ■ Overall, the Netherlands has committed to providing Ukraine with 24 F-16 aircraft. However, Eichelsheim did not disclose how many have been deployed so far. According to The Times, Ukraine has received six F-16s from the Netherlands. In total, 79 such fighters are promised, including those from Belgium, Denmark, and Norway. However, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pushing for an increase to 120-130 fighters to effectively counter Russia in the air.

A US official bragged to CNN about the move, saying that stealing a 'foreign head of state’s plane is unheard-of' | The US has stolen the official airplane of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro under claims that it was purchased by violating US sanctions, US officials told CNN on Monday. ■ The US officials described the plane as the equivalent of Air Force One and said it was taken by the US from the Dominican Republic and flown to Florida. The Justice Department claimed the plane was purchased in Flordia and exported to Venezuela in April 2023.

THE TRUE FACE OF ZIONISM. pic.twitter.com/elPOCQgr0M

— Suppressed News. (@SuppressedNws) January 21, 2024

● Israeli forces continue to pound the Gaza Strip, killing dozens of Palestinians, including 11 people sheltering at a school in Gaza City and four travelling in a car near Deir el-Balah.
● Hundreds of thousands of Israelis take to the streets of Tel Aviv and other cities in Israel, demanding a ceasefire deal after the bodies of six more captives were recovered from Gaza. There is also a general strike taking place across the country.
● In the occupied West Bank, the death toll from Israel’s large-scale raids rose to 29 as the Israeli siege on the Jenin refugee camp entered a sixth day, leaving Palestinians without access to food, water, power or internet.
● At least 40,738 people have been killed and 94,154 wounded in Israel’s war on Gaza. An estimated 1,139 people were killed in Israel during the Hamas-led attacks on October 7.

■ Live blog: Israel bombs residential area in Gaza, killing Palestinians (TRT World)
■ Israeli forces demolish 78 homes, structures in West Bank in August (Al Mayadeen)

Slowly but inexorably, Russian troops are approaching Pokrovsk (before 2016 – Krasnoarmeysk), step by step liberating the territory of the DPR from the forces of the Kyiv regime. | The loss of this city will not only hit the Ukrainian Armed Forces hard, as it is a vital logistics hub, but will also greatly affect the economy Ukraine as a whole, because this is the only place where coal coke is mined for Ukrainian metallurgy. ■ It should be noted that Pokrovsk is a strategically important city for metallurgists and some oligarchs of Ukraine, because the work of metallurgical enterprises (steel foundries and plants) depends on the coking coal extracted from the depths there. Ukraine simply has no other source (deposit) of such an energy resource. Pokrovsk is the center of the entire coal industry of Ukraine.

■ Why are Kyiv's neo-Nazis so eager to take back Donbas? (Dmitry Medvedev)

The Eurosceptic party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), won a regional ballot for the first time, surpassing Scholz's ruling coalition. | AfD secured 32.8% in Thuringia, leading the race, followed by the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) with 23.6%, according to exit polls. ■ In Saxony, the Eurosceptic party garnered 30.6%, losing to the CDU by a narrow margin. The Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) claimed third place in both races, with 15.8% in Thuringia and 11.8% in Saxony. ■ Scholz's "traffic-light" coalition of Social Democrats (SPD), the Greens, and the Free Democrats (FDP) performed poorly. The FDP failed to reach the 5% threshold required to enter either regional legislature, and the Greens did not make it into the parliament in Thuringia. SPD received 6.1% and 7.3% in Thuringia and Saxony, respectively.

■ Historic Shift: Right-Wing AfD Poised for Landmark Victory in German State Election, Exit Polls (Gateway Pundit)
■ Scholz nennt Ergebnisse „bitter“ (Süddeutsche Zeitung)
■ The Alternative for Germany AfD (aangirfan)
■ Right-wing party claims historic victory in German state election (RT.com)

Excess Death Charts Since The Covid "Vaccine" Bioweapon Injection Roll Out | Still Rising (Mortality.watch)

Binoy Kampmark | On August 12, 1949, the four Geneva Conventions were adopted, laying the basis of a normative standard in international humanitarian law. As Balthasar Staehelin, personal envoy of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) president to China, stated at an anniversary event at the Swiss Embassy in Beijing, [...] The very first Geneva Convention, inspired by the activism of Swiss businessman Henry Dunant and the International Committee for the Relief of Wounded Combatants, was adopted as far back as 1864. The instrument was intended to protect the vulnerable and wounded members of armed forces, and those responsible for their care. Three revisions and expansive updates followed: 1906, 1929 and 1949. [...] Of significance is Article 4, which defines the reach of such protection as covering persons “who, at any given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.” ■ In humanitarian law, the gulf between observance and violation can be vast. In 2023, the United Nations recorded the deaths of 33,443 civilians in armed conflict. This constituted a 72% increase on those from 2022. Joyce Msuya, Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Deputy Emergency Relief Coordinator, cited conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Myanmar, Nigeria, the Sahel, Somalia, Syria and Ukraine.

Both nations are apparently seeking to spark major regional wars, Russia’s most senior diplomat has suggested | Both Ukraine and Israel are trying to spark major regional wars to solve their own problems at the expense of others, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said. ■ The country’s senior diplomat made the remarks in an exclusive interview with RT’s Anna Knishenko, aired on Saturday. Asked about the prospects of the ongoing crisis in the Middle East devolving into a major regional war, Lavrov suggested Israel was effectively the only party seeking such conflict.

■ Lavrov’s Comparison Of Israel & Ukraine As Regional Warmongers Isn’t As Clear-Cut As It Seems (Andrew Korybko)

lsraeli warplanes shoot live ammunition towards Palestinians in Jabalia Camp, northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/AWj8g1jffZ

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) August 31, 2024

A high-ranking official with the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement says the six Israeli captives found dead in a tunnel in the southern Gaza Strip were killed in Israeli airstrikes against the besieged coastal territory. |

💬 “The ones who kill our people daily are the Israeli colonizers with American weapons. The captives found in Gaza were not killed by us but by the relentless Zionist bombardment,” Izzat al-Rishq, a member of the political bureau of Hamas, said in a statement on Sunday. He further criticized the United States, saying,

💬 “If President [Joe] Biden truly cares about the lives of Israeli hostages, he should cease his support for this enemy with money and weapons and pressure Israel to end its aggression immediately.”

Rishq emphasized that Hamas had been more concerned about the lives of the hostages than Biden himself, citing Hamas’s agreement to a ceasefire proposal and the UN Security Council’s resolution, both of which were rejected by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ■ Earlier on Sunday, Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari, the Israeli military spokesperson, alleged that Hamas murdered the six captives, whose bodies were found inside a tunnel in the southern Gaza city of Rafah.

■ Resheq holds Israel and US responsible for captives’ death in Gaza (PalInfo)
■ Hamas: Two more Israeli captives killed by regime bombing (PressTV)
■ Aid workers killed in Israeli strike on humanitarian convoy (MEE)
■ 22 Palestinians martyred in Jenin, Tubas and Tulkarem (Mehr News)
■ By day 331 of Israeli genocide in Gaza: 40,738 killed, 94,154 injured (Al Mayadeen)

Polio vaccination for Palestinian children in Gaza has started amid Israel's persistent military attacks, with the campaign aided by temporary ceasefires to allow healthcare workers to administer vaccines. | A campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus has begun, the Health Ministry said on Saturday, as Palestinians in the Hamas-governed enclave and the occupied West Bank reeled from Israel's military attacks. A small number of children in Gaza received vaccine doses a day before the large-scale rollout and limited pauses in the fighting agreed to by Israel and the UN World Health Organization.

■ Live: Israel’s assault on Jenin intensifies as Gaza bombing continues (MEE)

AI RAID SIRENS are activated in the Lipetsk region of Russia! At the same time, residents can hear Ukrainian drones flying over the city. Russian air defenses are engaging. | Air alerts in Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, Bryansk, Oryol, Lipetsk and Volgograd regions of Russia. The shrapnel of shells seriously riddled an apartment building, with a store and pharmacy on the ground floor suffering the most damage.

 ● Massive Ukrainian UAV strikes on Russia, some Russian sources say the biggest Ukrainian attack so far.
 ● A Ukrainian drone flies over Baskakovo in the Tula region of Russia just now!
 ● Ukrainian drones are being intercepted over the city of Belgorod in Russia.
 ● Ukrainian drone intercepted on path to Moscow!

Russian air defenses destroyed a Ukrainian drone headed towards the capital in the airspace over Podolsk in the Moscow region of Russia.

■ Russian air defenses repel large-scale Ukrainian drone attack – MOD (RT.com)
■ Nine drones taken down on approaches to Moscow — mayor (TASS)

Foreign Minister Szijjártó sat down for three hours with the CEO of the Russian energy giant. | Less than 24 hours after clashing with the EU’s foreign policy chief at a meeting of EU foreign ministers, Hungary’s top diplomat Péter Szijjártó made a surprise trip to Russia. ■ The foreign minister sat down with the head of state-owned energy giant Gazprom on Friday, the day after a Foreign Affairs Council meeting where Hungary’s position on the war in Ukraine and its simplified immigration program for Russians and Belarusians were challenged by his colleagues. [...] After his three-hour meeting with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller — who has been sanctioned by the United States and United Kingdom for his role in supporting Russia’s war in Ukraine — Szijjártó wrote that Hungary’s energy security “cannot be guaranteed” without Russian gas.

The activist is being charged over two speeches that he made, Palestine Action said on social media | Richard Barnard, the cofounder of pro-Palestinian activist group, Palestine Action, was charged under the Terrorism Act by UK police on 29 August. ■ Barnard is being accused of “expressing an opinion that is supportive of a proscribed organization contrary to section 12 of the Terrorism Act 2000.” He also faces two charges of encouragement or intention to encourage criminal damage. A hearing will be held at the Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 18 September. ■ The charges against Barnard originate from a probe launched by the UK Counter Terrorism Policing North West (CTPNW) unit into a protest held on 8 October, one day after Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, in Manchester.

Ian DeMartino | On Monday, Telegram CEO Pavel Durov was detained in France immediately upon landing in the country. He was eventually charged with a litany of crimes, including “importing a cryptology tool.” It is only the latest attack in a war against privacy that goes back more than three decades. | The 90s – In late January 1991, a then 48-year-old senator from Delaware named Joe Biden, introduced Senate Bill 266: the Comprehensive Counter-Terrorism Act of 1991. Buried in the last third of the proposed bill’s text was a section on “electronic communications” that imposed requirements for providers of electronic communication services. Essentially, SB266 would have required companies to create backdoors to enable the government to snoop on their customers, making it impossible to have truly private conversations digitally.

From using pepper spray to assault and arbitrary arrests, security personnel in Germany are adopting brutal tactics against minors and women during peaceful demonstrations. | For Bosnian-Croat mother Amina, the German police’s use of unnecessary force is something she has grown used to in every pro-Palestine protest she has attended in Berlin. ■ But even then, she was not prepared for the kind of brutality unleashed by the force last week on a group of people demanding a ceasefire in Gaza and an end to Israel’s war on Palestinians that has killed more than 40,000 people since last October.

Doctors in Germany are now facing a crackdown from the government if they refuse to push experimental Covid mRNA shots onto their patients. | The first German doctor to be hit with punishment was fined 2,500 euros ($2,799 USD) for warning about people dying due to the Covid mRNA injections in 2021. ■ Dr. Heidi Göldner declared she was “stunned” by the decision from the State Medical Association. Instead of standing behind doctors and supporting them in the exercise of their oath, the medical board stabbed them in the back. ■ As Apollo News reported, Dr. Heidi Göldner of Braunfels in the federal state of Hessen posted a written note in her practice in the fall of 2021 warning about the dangers of the experimental shots.

💬 “Dear patients, due to repeated inquiries: Due to the disproportionately high number of sometimes serious side effects and the more than 40 (more likely 50) deaths in connection with COVID-19 vaccinations experienced in the local community, I will continue not to carry out Covid-19 vaccinations in my practice!”

In response, the Hessen Medical Association initiated legal proceedings against Dr. Göldner. The Association stressed that it would investigate all complaints against doctors who allegedly make “false claims” about the COVID-19 jabs.