It was on March 30th, 1867 that the treaty drawn up by the Russian minister to the U.S., Eduard Andreevich Stoeckl, and his friend, Secretary of State William H. Seward, the night before, was taken before the U.S. Congress. It was signed by both Seward and Stoeckl and presented to that body. Named the […]
It was on March 29th, 1867, that the stirrings began that would change this great northern land into the territory then state of Alaska. It was on this day that the Russian minister to the U.S., Eduard Andreevich Stoeckl, rushed to Secretary of State William H. Seward to bring him important news from […]
“The Trump administration’s decision to purchase cluster munitions shows that the Pentagon no longer considers protecting civilians a priority,” said one critic. A coalition of advocacy groups is imploring US lawmakers to stop the purchase of next-generation cluster bombs from an Israeli state arms maker, citing “severe, foreseeable dangers” that the internationally banned weapons pose to […]
