In this latest documentary, Viggo Mortensen narrates the story how of the corporate oligarchy was able to suppress democratic fervor and install Hillary Clinton as the nominee for presidency. Below is episode one in what appears to be a series.

Despite claiming humanitarian motives, US actions in Syria are meant to undermine the power of Russia and Iran, with Washington trying to achieve this goal by directly supporting terrorists, Syrian President Bashar Assad has said.

The US' secret collaboration with terrorists is the reason why all attempts at a ceasefire and political transition in Syria have so far failed, the Syrian leader told Serbian newspaper Politika. The interview was also published by the Syria's SANA news agency.

"Supporting the terrorists is a war of attrition against Syria, against Iran, against Russia, that's how they look at it. That's why not only this ceasefire - every attempt regarding ceasefire or political moving or political initiative, every failure of these things, the United States was to blame," the Syrian president said.

Assad was referring to the deal negotiated by the US and Russia in September, which it was hoped would pave the way for a lasting truce in Syria. In practice, the agreement was derailed by armed groups, which had rejected it from the very beginning. The US pledged to convince the so-called moderate opposition to stick to the bargain and separate from terrorists, who would then be legitimate targets for a joint Russian-American air campaign. Washington didn't deliver on this promise, however.

More emails from Hillary Clinton's campaign chair John Podesta have been released by WikiLeaks.

The latest batch consists of over one thousand emails, bringing the number released so far to over 44,000. WikiLeaks said it will publish a total of 50,000 emails in the run up to next week's presidential election.

Yesterday WikiLeaks released the 26th batch of emails, shedding light on a relationship between Google and President Barack Obama dating back to September 2008 in which the internet giant helped the president's transition team set up 'secure data rooms'.

Frustration with Benjamin Netanyahu

In the latest release frustration is expressed about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. A mail from Clinton aide Neera Tanden to Podesta asks why the White House isn't asking for "proof of his support for 2-state solutions. Like a settlement freeze?"

"Given nature of gov't- he may not be able to do but it proves the point then," Tanden says in the mail from March 2015.

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Russia is compelled to take defensive measures in response to NATO's increasing activity on the western borders of the Union State of Russia and Belarus. Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu stated this at a joint meeting of the Russian and Belarusian defense ministries.

At the NATO summit in Warsaw in July, the member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreed to increase their military contingent in Eastern Europe: by 2017, four multinational battalions will be deployed in the Baltic counties and Poland.

In addition, NATO is constantly discussing strengthening its presence in the Black Sea region. The alliance justifies these actions by alleging a threat posed by Russia. Moscow has repeatedly stated that it will not go to war with any NATO member countries, but will not leave unanswered the organization's increasing military presence near its borders.

Western claims that the "moderate rebels" fighting the Syrian government are totally separate and antagonistic to ISIS are disproved by the fighting in Aleppo.

Nothing illustrates the mismatch between Western reporting of the war in Syria and the reality on the ground better than an incident which took place on 1st November 2016 south of Aleppo.

The Syrian government's main supply lines to Aleppo are the roads from the south. This has been especially so since the Jihadi capture of most of the province of Idlib together with its regional capital in the first half of 2015.

As the noose tightens on the Jihadis in eastern Aleppo, with their latest counter-offensive repulsed and reports that the eastern districts of the city under Jihadi control are running out of essential fuel and other supplies as the cold weather closes in, the Jihadis attempted on 1st November 2016 to try to turn the tables on the Syrian army by cutting its road links to the south of the city.

The US-led coalition supporting the siege of Mosul has hit residential areas in and around the Iraqi city, the Russian military reported.

"The US is continuing to carry out airstrikes on residential areas in Mosul and towns in the Nineveh Governorate," Rudskoy said.

"On October 31, the Bazvaia and Gogieli neighborhoods located 14 kilometers and 19 kilometers east of Mosul were subjected to massive bombardment by coalition aircraft," General Lieutenant Sergey Rudskoy, head of operations for Russia's General Staff, told journalists on Thursday.

Militants used the humanitarian pause, introduced by Moscow and Damascus in Aleppo, to launch attacks. They have shelled the city 64 times, killing 127 and wounding 254 residents during the week, according to the chief of the Russian General Staff Main Operational Directorate.

"Over the past week, terrorists fired mortars and "hellfires" [improvised cannons] 64 times at western Aleppo. The shelling killed 127 and wounded 254 civilians," Lt. Gen. Sergei Rudskoi said Thursday.

He added that on October 30, shells with toxic agents killed two Syrian servicemen and injured 37 civilians.

A group of Russian experts from the radiation, chemical and biological defense units have arrived in Aleppo to take samples in the area where the chemical weapons were used, Rudskoi added.

The State Department was in touch with Hillary Clinton's team mere hours before releasing one of the first revelations of her Benghazi emails. That media report puzzled Clinton's staff, coming just before she launched her campaign, newly leaked emails show.

"You may have already heard from other channels, but NYT will have a story tomorrow on HRC's Benghazi emails. Unclear to me how NYT got, assume from Gowdy. Better now than April," Clinton's communications director Jennifer Palmieri said in a March 2015 email to campaign chairman John Podesta.

The premature results appeared on NBC affiliate WRCB in Chattanooga, Tennessee, but were stored on the servers of a widely used news content management platform.

A NBC affiliate in Chattanooga, Tennessee inadvertently published what appear to be election night results. The results are published in the typical format used by mainstream news networks and display Presidential and Congressional results, the popular vote count, electoral votes, and percentage of precincts reporting in. The page was taken down soon after but is available via the internet archive. The results of the Presidential contest name Hillary Clinton the winner with 41.7 million votes or 42% of the total. Trump, on the other hand, received 40.1 million votes or 40%. The results also gave Gary Johnson 8% while Jill Stein received 5%.

Faced with an unending scandal about her use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton decided last September to "reset" her presidential campaign. As Amy Chozick wrote in the New York Times, the new Hillary would display her "humor" and her "heart," the qualities that her friends say rarely come across in public appearances.

The reset reached its zenith on October 3 when Hillary appeared on Saturday Night Live as "Val," a bartender to whom Kate McKinnon, as Hillary Clinton, pours her heart out. The six-minute segment ends with "Hillary" and "Val" bonding as they sing "Stand by Me," the Ben E. King classic. "Hillary" gets so carried away with her manic crooning that she doesn't realize "Val" has disappeared and been replaced by cast member Cecily Strong, playing a character known as "Huma." "I was just hanging out with my best friend Val," Hillary says. Huma tells Hillary there is no one there. "I think you've had one too many, Hillary, let's go," Huma says.

Huma, as anyone who follows politics knows, is 40-year-old Huma Abedin, Hillary Clinton's "shadow," as Politico once described her. She began working for Hillary in 1996, when she was a 19-year-old intern fresh from George Washington University assigned to the First Lady's office. Abedin had wanted to be a journalist like her hero Christiane Amanpour and was hoping to work in the White House press office. "Take a chance," her mother told her. "Don't fall in love with Plan A." Huma took the advice. "Sixteen years later, I wouldn't change a thing," she told a dinner audience in 2012, at a Fortune conference. "And I got to meet Christiane Amanpour."

Over the years Huma has served in several positions, with increasingly important-sounding titles. She has been Hillary's "body woman," her traveling chief of staff, a senior adviser, and a deputy chief of staff when Hillary was secretary of state. Now, based in Brooklyn, she is the vice-chair of Hillary's 2016 presidential campaign. But whatever the title, the job she performs for Hillary has always been essentially the same: confessor, confidante, and constant companion. It's safe to say that over the years Abedin and Hillary have spent more time together than either has with her husband.