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WikiLeaks 16: Fresh batch of emails from Clinton campaign chair


RT
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:54 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Carlos Barria / ReutersU.S. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton
The whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has released a new tranche of emails from the hacked account of Hillary Clinton's campaign chair, John Podesta.

The organization had already released more than 26,000 emails by Saturday in a series of 15 consecutive daily releases.

Sunday's leak includes Clinton aides corresponding about former Republican Party candidate Marco Rubio and concerns over President Barack Obama's Afghanistan strategy.

The leaks have offered extraordinary insight into the operations of Clinton's campaign team, revealing details about Clinton's Wall Street speeches, 'pay for play' discussions, Hillary's "Achilles heel", and addressing her server scandal through jokes.

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US misreading Russia, thinks it can kick it out of Syria without a fight

Dmitry Yevstafiev
Russia Insider
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 20:24 UTC
US Russia Syria
Somehow Washington always think it can strike at whomever it wants and these won't retaliate in other ways

Despite the signs that the U.S. and Russia are on the verge of a military confrontation in Syria, Washington is counting on Moscow to back down in the event that it decides to intervene. However, this betrays a lack of understanding both of the significance of Syria for the Kremlin and of the way public opinion is formed in Russia.

For now a military clash between Russia and the United States seems very unlikely. However, some events can already be interpreted as the preparation of public opinion for a direct armed conflict with Russia in a local theater of military actions. On Oct. 13 the British Foreign Secretary recommended that "military options" be considered to solve the Syrian question.

The fall of 2016 has brought several strange events, beginning with America's mystification over Russia's bombing of the UN humanitarian convoy near Aleppo and ending with an extremely dangerous situation involving the maneuvering of a Ukrainian passenger plane in Syria's skies. Too much in the latest information wave around "the genocide of civilians in Aleppo" reminds us of the "shelling of the Sarajevo market" in April 1995, which led to the bombing of former Yugoslavia.

Comment: Wishful thinking at its finest.

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Snakes in Suits

US deadly word game: 'Collateral damage' and 'enemy combatants'


RT
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:29 UTC
US fighter jet
© Lee Jae-Won / Reuters
Western media will never portray the real human toll in Daquq, Iraq, where a funeral procession was targeted. It will be brushed under the carpet or explained as 'collateral damage,' says Steve Topple, independent journalist and political analyst.

In Iraq, an alleged US-coalition strike on Saturday hit a funeral procession at a shrine in the northern city of Daquq killing over a dozen civilians.

This comes when Iraqi forces, backed by America, are also conducting a massive anti-ISIS operation in the area focusing on Mosul and surrounding villages. That is being widely covered by major news outlets - unlike the funeral attack that claimed 15 civilian lives, many of them women and children and also left 50 more injured.

The Russian Defense Ministry said the procession was likely mistaken for terrorists by coalition forces. It also added that according to its data there are no ISIS fighters in the area. Russia slammed the incident as a war crime.
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SOTT Focus: Behind the Headlines: Fake American Democracy, Imperial Hubris Russophobia and Outrageous Lies


Sott.net
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 16:00 UTC
Spectator Magazine Cover Putin
Today on Behind the Headlines: the third presidential debate, the Project Veritas expose showing DNC operatives admitting to inciting violence at Trump rallies, Philippine President Duterte's historic visit to China, the U.S./Iraqi offensive to retake Mosul prior to the election at the same time that Russia and Syria begin a temporary ceasefire in eastern Aleppo.

The last week has been jam-packed with news, some horrifying, some entertaining, and even some that provides a tiny ray of hope.

Running Time: 01:55:35

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No peace for Yemen: Saudi-led coalition resumes airstrikes despite UN call to extend truce


Sputnik
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:34 UTC
Saudi airstrike in Yemen
© AP Photo/ Hani Mohammed
The Saudi Arabia-led coalition resumed its airstrikes against Houthi positions in Yemen on Sunday despite the UN calls to resume truce active in the country for the past days, local media reported.

According to the SABA news agency, on Sunday morning the coalition conducted at least 9 airstrikes in various regions of Yemen. A ceasefire in Yemen started in the early hours of October 20 and lasted for 72 hours.
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More Wikileaks Podesta emails: Clinton staffers aimed for 'moral high ground' in Benghazi testimony


RT
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 15:09 UTC
Hillary Clinton
© Joshua Roberts / ReutersU.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton exhales while testifying to the House Select Committee on Benghazi on Capitol Hill in Washington October 22, 2015.
A leaked email thread from Hillary Clinton's staff and lawyers reveals that her team disagreed over elements of her Benghazi testimony and sought to achieve the 'moral high ground' ahead of the hearing.

The email chain, released in the latest batch of leaked emails from her campaign chair John Podesta, began on October 16, 2015 and ended on October 20, 2015 - just two days before the former Secretary of State testified in front of the House Select Committee.

US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, US Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith and CIA contractors Tyrone Woods and Glen Doherty were killed during an Islamic militant attack on the US diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya in 2012. Clinton was Secretary of State at the time.
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Snakes in Suits

UK outrage after govt admits training Saudi pilots despite war crimes allegations


RT
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 12:30 UTC
Saudi-led air strike in Yemen
© Abduljabbar Zeyad / ReutersPeople gather at the site of a Saudi-led air strike in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen
The UK is still training the Saudi Air Force despite growing evidence of the Saudi-led coalition's crimes against civilians in Yemen, Defence Secretary Michael Fallon admitted, replying to an MP's question. The statement outraged the opposition.

Fallon was responding to the written questions asked by Stephen Doughty, Labor MP for Cardiff South and Penarth, on the UK involvement in the Yemen military intervention, when he admitted that "UK has provided training to the Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) both in the UK and in Saudi Arabia," in particular, to "improve their targeting processes" and ensure its better compliance with international law.

At the same time, Fallon denied that UK military has been involved in decision-making process in the Saudi-led campaign in Yemen, saying that UK "has not provided training on political authorization of military operations."

Comment: Of course there is outrage but there is nothing being done to stop the weapons sales or training which is even more outrageous.

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Clinton to drop Israel from 'public' speeches, put it back in 'with donors'

Philip Weiss
Mondoweiss
Fri, 21 Oct 2016 14:40 UTC
Joel Benenson, Clinton pollster
Joel Benenson, Clinton pollster
I've been on the road for days, and a few more Clinton emails have thudded down from the Wikileaks heavens revealing deliberations about Israel inside the Clinton braintrust. Some day we will put together a leatherbound edition with morocco covers of Clinton's Israel emails, but for now we're just trying to chase the latest.

And these three are stunners because they baldly expose the importance of Israel to donors and the party establishment.

First, there was this amazing email thread among top strategists from May 2015 about revising Clinton's talking points in her speeches at rallies and fundraisers in the weeks before she officially launched her candidacy. You just gotta read these comments as they fall. The conversation started out on a bunch of different talking points, but everyone quickly turned to Israel, and the public and private messaging.

Comment: More information about Zionist influence on US elections:

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President Assad interview with Swiss SRF 1 TV: 'Fighting terrorists is the way to protect civilians in Aleppo' (VIDEO)


SANA
Wed, 19 Oct 2016 00:00 UTC
Assad interview
Damascus, - President Bashar al-Assad stressed that protecting civilians in Aleppo necessitates getting rid of the terrorists.

Speaking in an interview with the Swiss SRF 1 TV channel, the President said "Of course, it's our mission according to the constitution and the law. We have to protect the people, and we have to get rid of those terrorists in Aleppo. That's how we can protect civilians."

He added that it goes without saying that the way to protect the civilians in Aleppo is to attack the terrorists who hold the civilians under their control and are killing them.

Following is the full text of the interview:

Journalist: Mr. President, thank you very much for having welcomed Swiss Television and our program Rundschau here in Damascus.

President Assad: You are most welcome in Syria.

Question 1: First, please, allow me to clarify one thing: may I ask you every question?

President Assad: Every question, without exception.

Comment: Assad really proves his mettle here by answering such obviously uninformed and Western narrative-slanted questions with such rigor and aplomb.

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Zakharova: Russian Foreign Ministry's official website hacked


RT
Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:06 UTC
russian foreign ministry
© Maksim Blinov / Sputnik
The Russian Foreign Ministry's official website has been hacked, ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova told Russian media, adding that an investigation is currently underway.

"The website has been hacked. By whom - that's what the experts are trying to figure out," Zakharova told the Govorit Moskva radio station.

Earlier, a hacker named 'the Jester' claimed he had penetrated the website and left a note there, CNN reported.

"Comrades! We interrupt regular scheduled Russian Foreign Affairs Website programming to bring you the following important message," the alleged note said.

"Knock it off. You may be able to push around nations around you, but this is America. Nobody is impressed," it added.
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