Although Hillary Clinton selected Tim Kaine as her Vice President in this campaign, her true running mate might very well be her vagina. Indeed, while Clinton's support continues to be among the lowest for any Democratic nominee in recent memory, she has managed to position her gender as a focal point of her campaign, a move intended to capture the women's vote among liberals and conservatives alike. And, considering her opponent is Donald Trump, a man seen by millions of women as a misogynistic loudmouth, she has done this quite successfully.

But beyond the political window-dressing and empty rhetoric, Clinton's record on women and families should not only lose her the support of American women, it should qualify her as one of the most anti-woman candidates in history. For while modest progress has been made toward some semblance of gender equality, it is the actions of Clinton herself that have done more than any other single individual to harm women and families. Slick public relations aside, Hillary Clinton may very well be the most anti-woman candidate in generations.

Hillary's Relentless Attack on Women and Families

"I believe that the rights of women and girls is the unfinished business of the 21^st Century." So said Hillary Clinton in a 2011 interview with Newsweek. And this quote, among many others, has been trumpeted by Clinton supporters as the revelation of the angel of feminism, the gospel according to Saint Hillary. But in probing a little more deeply, some disturbing questions emerge which seem to cast doubt on her commitment to the rights of women and girls, both in the 21^st Century, as well as at the end of the 20^th Century.

As First Lady, Hillary Clinton, along with her then President husband Bill Clinton, did more than anyone to make the lives of poor and working class women and girls all the more precarious. Perhaps no single action taken by the Clintons did more to harm women and families than the evisceration of welfare. As part of a deeply cynical, and unconscionably reckless, strategy to win over racist white voters, the Clintons set their sights on Black and Latino women and children, portraying them as parasitical exploiters of hard-working whites.

Iran will allow the Russian air force to use its Hamadan airbase for as long as Moscow sees fit, the country's Defense Minister said, after Russian planes used the Iranian airfield to bomb terrorists in Syria for the first time this week.

Russia can station its forces at the base "for as long as they need" to support their mission against terrorists in Syria, Brigade General Hossein Dehghan said during a news conference on Saturday. Dehghan stressed that the base is solely to be used to launch airstrikes that "target gatherings, bases, and activities of terrorists."

The Minister also stressed that the cooperation with Russia is based on the Islamic Republic's general policies and the approval of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran. Permission to deploy an undisclosed number of Tupolev Tu-22M3 supersonic long-range strategic bombers and Sukhoi Su-34 strike fighters was granted at the request of Syria the Minister pointed out.

"It is a military decision made in the framework of cooperation in fighting IS and other terrorists, which was organized at the request of the Syrian government," the Defense Minister said.

German authorities are set to introduce a new state defense plan that would make citizens stockpile food and water, enough to last for at least ten days, in the event of a major disaster or an armed attack, local media revealed.

The nation is to be encouraged to put away food reserves to take care of themselves in case of emergency, Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (FAS) daily reported on Sunday citing a 69-page draft drawn up by the Interior Ministry.

"The population will have to hold an individual food stock that is to last ten days," the document titled "Concept for Civil Defense" reportedly said.

A newly-formed governing council in Yemen could work with Russia to "fight terrorism" by allowing Moscow use of the war-torn country's military bases, Yemen's former president said on Sunday.

Ali Abdullah Saleh, a former counter-terrorism ally of the U.S. who was toppled by mass protests in 2011, told state-owned channel Russia 24 that Yemen was ready to grant Moscow access to air and naval bases.

"In the fight against terrorism we reach out and offer all facilities. Our airports, our ports... We are ready to provide this to the Russian Federation," Saleh said in an interview in Sanaa.

The ex-strongman may lack the clout to implement such an offer. But officials from the party he heads now run a political council that controls much of the country along with the Houthi movement allied to Iran.

The arms deal with the Gulf dictatorships completely contravenes established US law prohibiting the transfer of arms to regimes that have shown a propensity to turn those weapons on their own civilians.

Kuwait's Al-Rai newspaper reports that White House sources indicate that it is likely that Congress will reverse its disapproval of US fighter jet sales to Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain before President Barack Obama leaves office on January 17, 2017 following intense lobbying by administration officials.

Obama administration officials with the US State Department and US Defense Department are engaged in a "brutal political battle" according to the Bahrain Mirror, in trying to convince Congress to acquiesce to the arms deal. President Obama agreed, almost a year ago, to sell 76 fighter jets valued at a total of $8 billion to the three Gulf States before the deal erupted into controversy.

Governor of the Kurdish-populated Province of Hasaka Mohammad Za'al al-Ala underlined that his government surely welcomes any initiative by the Kurdish groups to take part in the administration of Syria, stressing that Hasaka is a part of Syria and population are entitled to the right to have a share in ruling the country.

"The Syrian government has always supported Kurds and it will remain to do so, and we promise to settle all differences," al-Ala told FNA on Sunday.

He, meantime, pointed to the recent clashes between the Kurdish group, Asayesh, and the National Defense Forces (NDF) who are fighting alongside the Syrian army, and said, "Resorting to force will not help resolve the differences."

Turkey wants to patch up its differences with Egypt's regime, Ankara's prime minister Binali Yildirim said, after years of tension caused by '2013 military coup' against the former Egyptian president Mohammed Morsi.

Relations between the two countries soured following the overthrow of former Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, a close ally to the Turkish government, in 2013, leading to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to take over as leader.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan repeatedly condemned the ouster as a "coup d'etat" against Morsi.

He has also shown solidarity at rallies by flashing the four-finger "Rabaa" hand salute, seen as a symbol of the Muslim Brotherhood.

"We think we need to develop economic and cultural ties with Egypt as countries that use the two sides of the Mediterranean," Yildirim told reporters at a briefing in Istanbul.

Severe fighting in Hasakah, in north-east Syria, continues between Syrian government forces and U.S.-advised Kurdish YPG groups. It is still unclear why these clashes broke out after years of mostly peaceful co-existence in the city.

These clashes convince Turkey that the danger of a Kurdish state creation is imminent. This will unite the Turkish, Syrian, Iranian and Iraqi hostile positions towards such plans. This unity ends the dreams of an independent Kurdish nation.

The YPG declared that it wants all Syrian government forces to leave Hasakah. But those forces are the sole protection of the large Assyrian (Christian) and other minorities in the city. These minorities fear to be ethnically cleansed by the Kurds who try to install their own state in the north of Iraq and Syria.

The President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, has threatened that the country could leave the UN, after the organization urged the Philippines to stop executing and killing people linked to drug business and threatened that "state actors" could be punished.

"I do not want to insult you, but maybe we'll just have to decide to separate from the United Nations," Rodrigo Duterte told journalists on Sunday. "Why do you have to listen to this stupid?"

"I don't give a sh*t about them," he added. "They are the ones interfering. You do not just go out and give a sh*tting statement against a country."

On 18 August, the real reason why the establishment believes Jeremy Corbyn is so "dangerous" was made perfectly clear. Responding to a question about defence at a Labour leadership debate, the incumbent refused to justify military action by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), instead vowing to make efforts to create "a world where we don't need to go to war".

For millions of citizens around the world, this is great news. But for those intent on maintaining the politics of power and the lucrative industries that support that, Corbyn's vision is nothing short of a disaster.

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At the debate, Corbyn and fellow candidate Owen Smith were asked a question about Russia:

How would you as Prime Minister react to a violation by Vladimir Putin of the sovereignty of a fellow Nato state?

Corbyn responded:

You'd obviously try to avoid that happening in the first place. You would build up a good dialogue with Russia to ask them, support them in respecting borders. We would try to introduce a demilitarisation between Russia and Ukraine, and all the other countries down on the border between Russia and Eastern Europe.

What we cannot allow is a series of continuous buildups of troops on both sides which can only lead to great danger in the future. It's beginning to look awfully like Cold War politics at the present time. We've got to engage with Russia, engage with demilitarisation in that area, in order to try and avoid that danger happening.