The coming month of January 2025 is shaping up as Australia Day month. The Coalition has signalled it will be making heavy weather of the weeks leading up to and following Sunday, 26 January. The hubbub will likely focus on Australian flags and an intense determination to stand by the 26th as the day in January sanctified by tradition as the one when the nation contemplates the glories of our history and the impact we make on the world beyond our land of beauty, rich and rare.

For Palestinians in Gaza, there is no room for death, as there is no room for life, due to Zionist crimes and Israeli savagery, writes Refaat Ibrahim from occupied Gaza. “Many die and are turned into body parts, their limbs mixed together and lost… They transport them into Israel, subject them to examination, sometimes steal organs in certain cases, and then return them as remains of many individuals, often mixed together. Thus, these bodies bear no features, and their identities remain unknown, eventually buried in mass graves in a way that degrades human dignity and attacks it even after death…”

Socialism burst on the American political scene with Sanders’ strong bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Not a one-time fluke, Sanders currently ranks at the top of the crowded 2020 Democratic field.

[GUS SPOILER ALERT — BERNIE WAS SHAFTED ONCE MORE IN 2020, THIS TIME BY JOE BIDEN-THE-CROOK AND THE "DEEP STATE". IN 2024, BERNIE SUPPORTED KAMALA (HARRIS) WHO, TO SAY THE LEAST, WAS VERY ENTHUSIASTIC WITH VERY LITTLE ELSE TO SELL THAN ANTI-SEXISM AND ANTI-RACISM]

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General Kirillov, head of Russia’s Radiological Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, gained prominence due to his regular appearances at military briefings, accusing the Kiev regime and its US patrons of operating biolaboratories and using chemical weapons.

Western leaders think they’re chosen by God – Putin
The US and its allies continue their efforts to maintain global dominance, the Russian president has said

Western countries continue to act as if they are God’s representatives on Earth by trying to maintain their global dominance through imposing duplicitous rules, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

Speaking at a meeting of top Russian Defense Ministry officials on Monday, Putin noted that the military and political situation in the world remains complicated and unstable, pointing to the bloodshed in the Middle East and other regions of the world.

Dutton’s nuclear plans provide an opportunity for a campaign Labor could win. But it won’t be won without girding for war. The need for some political alliance is greater given that neither Albanese nor his senior ministers, and the party organisation, have shown themselves up to serious political struggle on climate change.

Hungary agreed not to veto the EU’s latest package of sanctions on Russia after pressuring the bloc to abandon “crazy ideas” such as blacklisting the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.

EU foreign ministers formally adopted the bloc’s 15th package of economic penalties on Russia at a meeting in Brussels on Monday. The latest tranche of sanctions blacklists 54 people and 30 entities, including Russian military commanders, oil tankers allegedly connected to Russia, Russian defense firms, and “various Chinese actors” accused of supplying electronic components to Russia.

Beijing has long maintained that it does not supply any military goods or components to Moscow.

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CNN's Jake Tapper sits down with Senator Mitt Romney in an exclusive interview discussing his decades-long political career and President-elect Donald Trump's upcoming term.

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PLEASE DO NOT BLAME RUSSIA IF WW3 STARTS. BLAME YOURSELF.

After Election Day, the President-elect and various federal and state agencies begin planning for inauguration. An inaugural committee is appointed by the President-elect to be in charge of the presidential inaugural ceremony and activities connected with the ceremony. This committee may accept donations but must file a report with the FEC.

“Criminal lunatics” in the West want to bring about a future in which genocide is permitted, and it’s up to people who don’t agree with that to make a stand, Pink Floyd frontman and human rights activist Roger Waters has said.

The rock legend is well known for his support of the Palestinian cause and criticism of Israel and its supporters. The 81-year-old discussed the escalation of violence in the Middle East and revealed what gives him strength to keep campaigning during an interview on the program Going Underground.

The Ukrainian leadership turned down a phone-call request from Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban in a manner that was “unprecedented” in nature, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has revealed. The rebuff followed an hour-long conversation between Orban and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In an interview with public broadcaster Kossuth Radio on Sunday, Szijjarto said that he had approached Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrey Sibiga and Vladimir Zelensky’s top aide Andrey Yermak, asking for the authorization of a telephone conversation between Orban and the Ukrainian leader.

”In a gesture that was quite unprecedented in diplomacy,” the request was refused in “a somewhat strained” manner, Szijjarto said, as quoted by the Magyar Nemzet newspaper. Hungary’s top diplomat did not elaborate on the exact wording used by the authorities in Kiev.

Pope Francis made history on Sunday with the first-ever papal visit to Corsica. He urged local priests to resist spiritual groups that fuel political divisions and championed a "dynamic" form of secularism, promoting the kind of popular piety that distinguishes the Mediterranean island from secular France as a bridge between religious and civic society.

EU leaders are avoiding German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who either sits silent or tries to lecture them, his main political rival Friedrich Merz has claimed.

Merz, who heads the country’s largest opposition party, the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU), and will be its candidate for chancellor in the next election, launched an attack on Scholz in his MerzMail newsletter on Sunday.

The current German government’s EU policy has been a “total failure,”resulting in the chancellor being politically isolated in the bloc, he wrote.

“Regrettably, it should be said so: the majority of European politicians simply do not want to meet anymore the German Chancellor, who either sits silent for hours or lectures the world,” the CDU’s head stressed.

New scientific findings from a Russian research institute challenge the grim forecasts predicting that Arctic ice will disappear due to climate change.

The Arctic will not melt by the mid-century, as previously forecasted, due to a drop in air temperature expected between 2030 and 2050, according to the press office of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI), based in Saint Petersburg.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has called on his fellow G7 leaders to “continue maximizing Putin’s pain” through economic sanctions on Russia and increased military aid to Ukraine.

During a video conference on Friday, “the Prime Minister said that with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin showing no sign of relenting, it is vital that we bolster our support to put [Ukraine] in the best possible position for the future,” according to a readout released by his office.

“He called on fellow G7 leaders to continue maximizing Putin’s pain by increasing military support to the Ukrainians and ramping up economic pressure, including via further sanctions where possible,” the statement continued.