Donald Trump, Courtney Love, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and uber-lawyer Alan Dershowitz may have been identified by a butler as potential "material witnesses" to pedophile billionaire Jeffrey Epstein's crimes against young girls, according to a copy of Epstein's little black book obtained by Gawker.

An annotated copy of the address book, which also contains entries for Alec Baldwin, Ralph Fiennes, Griffin Dunne, New York Post gossip Richard Johnson, Ted Kennedy, David Koch, filmmaker Andrew Jarecki, and all manner of other people you might expect a billionaire to know, turned up in court proceedings after Epstein's former house manager Alfredo Rodriguez tried to sell it in 2009. About 50 of the entries, including those of many of Epstein's suspected victims and accomplices as well as Trump, Love, Barak, Dershowitz, and others, were circled by Rodriguez. (The existence of the book has been previously reported by the Daily Mail. Gawker is publishing it in full here for the first time; we have redacted addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, and the last names of individuals who may have been underage victims.)

Blackwater founder and former Navy SEAL Erik Prince told Breitbart News Daily on SiriusXM that according to one of his "well-placed sources" in the New York Police Department, "The NYPD wanted to do a press conference announcing the warrants and the additional arrests they were making" in the Anthony Weiner investigation, but received "huge pushback" from the Justice Department.

Prince began by saying he had no problem believing reports that the FBI was highly confident multiple foreign agencies hacked Hillary Clinton's private email server.

"I mean, it's not like the foreign intelligence agencies leave a thank-you note after they've hacked and stolen your data," Prince said to SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.

Prince claimed he had insider knowledge of the investigation that could help explain why FBI Director James Comey had to announce he was reopening the investigation into Clinton's email server last week.

'I Saw My Father Dying': A View From Aleppo's Government-Held Side:

Even as Syria and Russia threatened an all-out assault on the rebel side of Aleppo, saying Friday was the last chance for people there to exit, they had been unable to put down a counteroffensive by a mix of Qaeda-linked and United States-backed insurgent groups.

Three Qaeda-linked suicide bombers attacked a military position with explosive-packed personnel carriers on Thursday, ...

Sources: U.S. intel warning of possible al Qaeda attacks in U.S. Monday

Sources told CBS News senior investigative producer Pat Milton that U.S. intelligence has alerted joint terrorism task forces that al Qaeda could be planning attacks in three states for Monday. ...

'I Saw My Father Dying': A View From Aleppo's Government-Held Side:

Instead, they are trying to break the siege, with Qaeda-linked groups and those backed by the United States working together — the opposite of what Russia has demanded.

Sources: U.S. intel warning of possible al Qaeda attacks in U.S. Monday

The source said there has been pressure on al Qaeda and its affiliates AQAP and AQIS (al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent) to regain relevance with its mission.

What is the message the U.S. government is sending with such accounts? Are we to love al-Qaeda or fear it?

Or are we to fall silent in awe of the sheer genius of Obama's strategic planning?

The Syrian and Russian bombing is not dissimilar from recent US and Israeli offensives - but you wouldn't know that from the reporting

The Russian-Syrian bombing campaign in eastern Aleppo, which has ended at least for the time being, has been described in press reports and op-eds as though it were unique in modern military history in its indiscriminateness. In an usual move for a senior US official, Secretary of State John Kerry called for an investigation of war crimes in Aleppo.

The discussion has been lacking in historical context, however. Certainly the civilian death toll from the bombing and shelling in Aleppo has been high, but many of the strikes may not be all that dissimilar from the major US bombing campaign in Iraq in 2003, nor as indiscriminate as Israel's recent campaigns in densely populated cities.

The impression that the bombing in Aleppo was uniquely indiscriminate was a result of news reporting and commentary suggesting, by implication, that there are no real military targets in east Aleppo.

But in fact, al-Nusra Front turned Aleppo into the central hub of a massive system of conventional warfare in Aleppo province in late January 2016 when it sent an enormous convoy of at least 200 vehicles with troops and weaponry into eastern Aleppo. A dramatic three-minute al-Nusra video shows what appears to be hundreds of vehicles full of troops and trucks with weapons mounted on them.

Browsing the Wikileaks dump of 47,000+ emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta this morning, there are more great revelations about how our mainstream politics really work, when it comes to Israel and Palestine. In no clear order of importance, let's have a look. I'm starting with the gossip. I'll get to the policy position in my headline at the end.

Notice the way Hillary Clinton corrects a foreign policy ad in January that shows her brokering a peace deal and pictures her with Israeli and Palestinian leaders:

One question: the images of Bibi and Abbas w the narrative being the cease fire are off. The images are from our peace efforts not the cease fire. Worried we'll be criticized. There should be photos from cease fire announcement in Cairo.

It's that nickname, Bibi, parallel with Abbas. You know who counts. Even Dennis Ross calls Abbas by his informal name, Abu Mazen.

This email sent to the campaign braintrust last year by Haim Saban's aide links to a Jerusalem Post list of the world's most influential Jews. Saban is number 6, and pictured with Hillary Clinton. The list includes also Janet Yellen, Jack Lew, and Wendy Sherman. Netanyahu and Sheldon Adelson and Malcolm Hoenlein and Ron Lauder are in the top ten too. Saban's aide comments to the Clinton team: "You are all in good company."

If you want your kids to believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is waging wars in defiance of international law and bombing hospitals, a German news show for children named Kakadu is probably your best bet. Aptly named after the cockatoo parrot, the show aired by German national radio station Deutschlandradio targets children as young as six years old.

"Russian President Putin is waging two wars now - one in Ukraine and another in Syria," the October 19 edition of the show tells its young listeners, adding that "Putin does not abide by the norms of international law."

Kakadu goes on to claim that "the Russian Air Force is bombing hospitals and UN aid convoys," thereby committing "grave human rights violations." The program, which features comments from a former Deutschlandradio reporter in Washington, Marcus Pindur, even goes as far as to say that Russia's actions in Syria are the main cause of the massive refugee influx flooding Germany. The show also says that "it is unclear how Putin can be deterred from continuing the wars in Syria and Ukraine," before stressing the importance of the sanctions that have been imposed on Russia and the necessity for all European countries to support them.

When Russia's Sputnik news agency asked Deutschlandradio for comment, an official from the radio station replied in a statement which asserted that "the text of ... our program issued on October 19 does not contain any false, judgmental or distorted reporting," while adding that "children have a right to get basic information about the political situation [in the world]."

The program has provoked criticism from some German public organizations, however. The Regular Public Conference for the Public Media, a German NGO dedicated to monitoring the activities of Germany's publicly owned media, has lodged a complaint with Deutschlandradio over the controversial show, saying it presented "disputable" and "false" information.

In reality, since even before Syria's conflict began unfolding in 2011, the United States had been planning for the nation's division and destruction through the use of militant proxies allied to Al Qaeda since as early as 2007. Like Libya, Syria was meant to be swiftly overwhelmed by covert terrorism and military operations backed by the West and its regional allies, as well as a torrent of psychological, economic, and even cyber warfare.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh in a now prophetic 2007 article titled, "The Redirection: Is the Administration's new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?," would reveal (emphasis added):

To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia's government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda.

However, with Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi's stubborn defense against NATO-backed militants and direct NATO airstrikes in 2011, time was bought for the Syrian state to move past the initial shock and awe of American designs and strike an operational pace that has since allowed it to weather, even overcome the worst of this proxy conquest.

And since then, US policymakers have searched for "alternatives" to achieve their goals in Syria, without overtly revealing the fact that since even before "day 1," the US has banked its entire strategy on the use of Al Qaeda and other designated terrorist organizations for the overthrow of the Syrian government and the division of the Syrian state.

The real crime revealed in the Hillary Clinton emails sent from her private server has been carefully covered up, at least until now. It is a criminal conspiracy - yes, a real conspiracy - to hide something from the American people and from the world. It's so explosive that it could not only derail Clinton's bizarre Presidential campaign. It is so dangerous to those implicated that a US Attorney General and a Director of the FBI covered it up at risk of career. It could likely lead to impeachment charges against President Barack Obama for criminal complicity in heinous crimes against the United States. This is what's being covered up.

The key person to examine is Huma Mahmood Abedin, Hillary's ever-constant companion since she was Hillary's aide in the scandal-ridden Bill Clinton White House beginning 1996. Today 40-year-old Huma Abedin is Presidential candidate Hillary's Vice Campaign Manager.

Huma Abedin is the only other person apparently with complete access to Hillary's private email account when Clinton was Secretary of State and Huma was Clinton's Deputy Chief of Staff, and, in an eyebrow-raising arrangement that had "conflict of interest" painted in day-glo red, at the same time she held her US State Department job with highest security clearance, Abedin was employed with the Clinton Foundation, which is under investigation for illegally using Hillary's Secretary of State position to peddle influence in exchange for million dollar "donations" to Bill's foundation. The major donors included the governments of Saudi Arabia and Qatar, not accidentally, the two major financiers of Al Qaeda's al-Nusra Front (the Washington "moderate opposition" to Assad) and ISIS today.

An FBI investigation into the Clinton Foundation is advancing rapidly - unless the Justice Department interferes, two sources familiar with the probe told Fox News.

The Clintons are accused of running a pay-for-play operation out of the State Department that favored donors to their charity - a charge they have denied.

But the feds are 'actively and aggressively pursuing this case,' Fox's Brit Hume and Bret Baier reported Wednesday, and they have an 'avalanche' of evidence.

A Wall Street Journal report says the FBI's pursuit of the case is rooted in recordings of a suspect in a different corruption case who spoke about the Clinton Foundation's alleged dirty dealings.

When the "end of history", meaning the establishment of a permanent Western hegemony over the entire international system, was proclaimed in the early 1990s, it was not yet obvious how the pursuit of said hegemony would evolve over the succeeding decades. The "velvet" expansion of the 1990s into the post-Soviet vacuum gave way to the "iron fist" for which the 9/11 terror strikes provided the excuse and which meant invading whichever country Washington desired. However, the "iron fist" efforts in the post-9/11 world demonstrated West's weakness , as sustaining operations in Iraq and Afghanistan proved too much for NATO. This failure ushered the post-"post-9/11″ world, and the "Arab Spring" became the first, though far from the only, demonstration of the evolved Western strategy which fuses the earlier approaches.

The "velvet" aspect is still there: Western entities claim they are promoting "universal human values" which, evidently, is the end that justifies all means and which automatically means it is impossible to commit war crimes in its pursuit. Also, by implication, anyone who stands in the West's way operates under the presumption of guilt. In order to promote said "universal values", the West identifies, creates, or even invents a political movement which, although it consists of corrupt opportunists and outright criminals, ostensibly stands for "universal values". This entity then receives overwhelmingly positive media coverage, to the point of referring to any police or military response to the violence it perpetrates as "war crimes", in order to shape the public opinion in favor of limited military intervention in the form of airstrikes and a small number of special operations troops. Then one merely needs an excuse, a small incident, an insignificant act of violence by the target country's law enforcement of the kind that happen in the US in a daily basis, in order to start beating the war drums against the "blood-soaked regime." This approach was pioneered in Bosnia and Kosovo, the early exceptions to the "velvet" policy, but was then shelved in the post-9/11 era when it seemed that West's aims could be achieved through more direct - and brutal - means, only to be resurrected by the Obama Administration and applied in Libya, Syria, and Ukraine with only minor variations.