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Dear friends, Just yesterday I discovered the amazing musician Naudo Rodrigues.  Here is a short bio of his I found online: He began to play guitar at age five. He

I got this email yesterday, I am posting it with the author’s kind authorization. There is “another West” which is ignored by the Hegemony’s rulers, but which is still real. 

  [Scott] This post is a ‘thank you, guys’ note from the Saker and thesaker.is editorial team dedicated to the Russian military intelligence officers. They celebrate their professional holiday on

and, yes, I love alligators too :-) Note: Seriously, while alligators can be as big and as powerful as the largest Nile or Saltwater crocs, they are not aggressive at

Boris Johnson gives the Russians a case of hysterical laughing When I first heard that the ex-Mayor of London Boris Johnson had won an anti-Erdogan insult competition I was not

Alone with my thoughts this evening I walked on the banks of Tyne I wondered how I could win you Or if I could make you mine Or if I

Mi-28: Ka-52:

Dear friends, On Monday March 14th, Orthodox Christians will begin the 40-day long period known as the “Great Lent“.  The single most important “theme”, so to speak, of that period