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Yesterday, for the first time since the beginning of hostilities in Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin received "peace proposals." We have already talked about the fact that Putin initiated behind-the-scenes talks through proxy intermediaries in various formats, with an attempt to reach agreements on freezing hostilities in Ukraine or to find a possibility of concluding a peace agreement, of course, taking into account the interests of the Russian leadership. The "peace proposal" received yesterday comes from the intermediary country, but the channel that was used for the transfer and the persons participating in the process do not cause doubts about...

Demands Obama's Intervention IRATE MUSLIMS PROTEST SIDDIQUI TERROR TRIAL IN NYC thelastcrusade.org Global Voices for Justice, and members of RevolutionMuslim.com, are planning a massive protest before the federal courthouse at 500 Pearl Street in New York City in support of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, who is on trial for opening fire on a US Soldier and being an Al Qaeda member. During a typically stormy hearing last week, Dr. Siddiqui interrupted the presiding Judge Richard Berman, rebuked her own lawyers, and directed strident appeals to the courtroom which was filled with her Islamic supporters. “I am boycotting this trial,” she...

Most of us old enough to have been reading newspapers and watching television in the mid-1980s remember when the Soviet-backed Marxist-Leninist junta “Sandinistas” were battling the anti-communist guerrilla army of “Contras” in Nicaragua. And who could forget the overblown Iran-Contra affair, the attempt to arm the Contras through a deal to swap arms for hostages with the mullahs in Iran. What might be hazy in the memory after 20 years, however, is the Keystone Kops, I-want-to-play-president role of the freshman senator from Massachusetts, John Forbes Kerry. Still humming his “Give peace a chance” mantra from Vietnam days, Kerry jumped into...