Leaked emails from Hillary Clinton campaign manager John Podesta's personal email account published by WikiLeaks reveal the Clinton campaign's coordination with George Soros's Open Society Foundations on the subject of police reform.

Soros, who has given almost $10 million to Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, is a major funder of Black Lives Matter. The Washington Times reported in August that Soros has given at least $33 million to the group through the Open Society Foundations (OSF), which he funds and controls.

Both OSF and Clinton have called to crack down on police officers' "implicit bias."

For the Southeast Asian state of Thailand, overcoming corruption could be one of several essential steps required to fully tap the human and natural resources this already influential ASEAN state has benefited from for centuries. However, to tackle corruption, the nation must first define what it is, and what it hopes to achieve by confronting and overcoming it.

Currently, the focus unfortunately appears to be on addressing Thailand's score upon the so-called Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) put out by alleged nongovernmental organisation (NGO), Transparency International.

What must the world think watching the US presidential campaign? Over time US political campaigns have become more unreal and less related to voters' concerns, but the current one is so unreal as to be absurd.

The offshoring of American jobs by global corporations and the deregulation of the US financial system have resulted in American economic failure. One might think that this would be an issue in a presidential campaign.

The neoconservative ideology of US world hegemony is driving the US and its vassals into conflict with Russia and China. The risks of nuclear war are higher than at any previous time in history. One might think that this also would be an issue in a presidential campaign.

Instead, the issues are Trump's legal use of tax laws and his non-hostile attitude toward President Putin of Russia.

In an official statement released earlier today by the extremist Jund al-Aqsa terror group, a prominent affiliate of the Daesh (ISIS) terrorist network, the radical organization has merged with Al Nusra Front - formerly al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate that fights with US-backed rebel groups including Ahrar al-Sham under the umbrella group The Army of Conquest.

The merging of the terror groups follows intense fighting between extremists with US-backed Ahrar al-Sham, joined by Al-Nusra Front in the fight, waging a series of bloody offensives against the Daesh affiliate leading the group to give in and pursue the path of least resistance by joining arms with the al-Qaeda-linked terrorists against the Syrian government.

"In light of the critical situation whereby recent implication has given the opportunity for the Assad regime to recapture all of the recently liberated areas in Hama, and to stop the bloodbath among (Muslim) jihadists and overcome the infighting between us (Jund al-Aqsa) and Ahrar al-Sham - which only benefits the [Syrian] regime and its allies - we, hereby, pay allegiance to JFS (Al-Nusra Front), and together will carry on the holy jihad against the infidels," the statement read.

​The statement was written by hand and signed by Emirs from both Jund al-Aqsa and Al-Nusra Front cementing the relationship that represents Washington's worst nightmare as terrorist groups in Syria on both sides of the line are joining forces after the so-called moderate rebels had already joined up with Al-Nusra terrorists under the Army of Conquest banner to repel the siege of Aleppo.

Increasingly the lines between rebel groups and terrorist organizations have faded with the hardline Salafist groups amassing their collective forces to combat the Syrian Army and Russia Aerospace Forces (Air Force) with US regional partners providing the terrorists with powerful but inaccurate Grad Missiles and discussion of Saudi Arabia equipping the groups with anti-aircraft MANPADS.

They say that "life imitates art"...or is it the other way around...the lines are getting so blurred. In any event, we thought we would take this opportunity to highlight some of the most startling discoveries we found so far in Doug Stamper's...sorry, John Podesta's emails. You have to admit there are some similarities there and they even have the same position...hopefully the Clinton Foundation is receiving royalties from HBO...

Yesterday we pointed out the many amazing one-liners offered up by Hillary as she was out collecting millions of dollars for her "Wall Street speeches."

Sponsors of a French-penned draft resolution that Russia vetoed at the UN Security Council are obsessed with having the Syrian government overthrown by foreign-sponsored international terrorist forces, the Russian Foreign Ministry has said.

Russia blocked the French draft resolution at Saturday's UNSC meeting and suggested an alternative that failed to win enough votes from the other council members to pass. The French project was biased against the Syrian government, which was named as the sole party responsible for the escalating violence in Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement released on Sunday.

Intelligence officials formally accuse Russia of carrying out a broad campaign to influence the 2016 presidential elections, including the DNC hack.

It's official: The White House says Russia has been conducting a broad campaign to interfere with US elections.

This included hacking into the computers of the Democratic National Committee and other agencies and political officials.

"These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process," the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security said in a joint statement Friday. "Such activity is not new to Moscow - the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there."

Tianjin explosion appears to be state-sponsored industrial sabotage

WMR's sources from throughout Asia are reporting the same thing: the massive August 12 explosion that completely obliterated the Binhai New Area of the special economic zone city of Tianjin appears to not have been the result of an accidental chemical explosion but from state-sponsored industrial sabotage.

The initial explosion was followed by a series of other explosions, said to be from combustible materials stored in the port and warehouse area. Moreover, WMR's sources report that the nature of the initial shock wave and secondary fireball indicates that the conflagration may have been caused by a tactical nuclear bunker buster bomb hidden in a shipping container.

Among the 117 deaths from the explosion were a number of firemen. Some 70 people, most of them firemen, remain missing with a fear that they were vaporized by the series of explosions. Some 800 people were injured in the blast. Damage to the surrounding area was extensive with more than 8000 new cars from Hyundai, Kia, Volkswagen, Renault, and Toyota left as burnt-out shells from the explosion. Nearby metro train stations, a Japanese department store, and the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin were damaged by the explosions.

It's curious that it's often the thief himself found yelling "stop that thief!" in a bid to escape in the confusion he just created. Following this behavioral pattern, US Secretary of State John Kerry urged the international community to investigate alleged war crimes Damascus and Moscow the US accuses both governments of carrying out in Syria. The senior US diplomat cited such examples as attacks on civilians and hospitals, which, in his opinion, have been routinely carried out by the Syrian government and its allies.

But we must remember that Secretary Kerry is but one of many obedient servants of the White House, which is known for blaming others for the crimes it itself has committed. There's little wonder why the Washington Post has recently pointed out that Barack Obama has been providing hallucinatory explanations for his decisions.

He mangles the facts, jumbles chronology and, in effect, holds himself guiltless for Syria's approximately 500,000 deaths, 8 million internally displaced persons and a tidal wave of immigrants that has destabilized Europe.

While rejecting the very idea of any impartial international investigation of its own actions in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, and Libya that have resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths, the US argues that as a result of more than 11 thousand air strikes that were allegedly aimed at ISIS, US Armed Forces murdered no more than 55 civilians in Iraq and Syria since 2014 in the process.

Yet, the Norwegian news service, ABC Nyheter, points out that even Amnesty International and even the most reserved international experts simply don't believe these claims. After all, if those number are to be believed, it means US airstrikes cause one civilian death per 200+ sorties.

At the same time, the Pentagon officially recognizes that in Afghanistan every 15 sorties result in a civilian being killed, while the latest report from the White House indicated even higher civilians casualty rates: one per 4-7 strikes launched by US planes and drones against possible terrorist targets in countries such as Pakistan and Yemen. If these figures are to be used to figure out the average number of those killed by US airstrikes in Syria and Iraq, we will come to the conclusion there's been almost 3,000 civilians killed as a result of US actions.

This number is more consistent with the data provided by Airwars, a British news portal that collects documents regarding US-led airstrikes on ISIS. According to Airwars, a total of 9,600 airstrikes in Iraq and almost 5,000 in Syria over the past two years resulted in at least 1,584 civilians being killed.

I wish I could say things were improving between the US and Russia but they aren't. They're rapidly worsening.

There's so much happening right now, I can only provide a summary of a few of the more interesting and worrying developments.

This report builds on those I've released over the past two years and begins with a chilling editorial put out by the NY Times on September 29th, 2016, which further demonized Putin specifically, Russia generally, and openly advocates for military confrontation.

Hey, we've been down this path before. The deeply conflicted NY Times has never met a war in the Middle East it didn't support, and has never had any trouble repeating war plan talking points (that always neatly align with those put out by neocon think tanks) or even printing obviously fake "intelligence" from unnamed sources such as that used to justify the illegal US attack and invasion of Iraq.