“I really believe the situation is very dangerous,” said one Russian politics expert during a week in which the two countries exchanged strikes. Voices on both sides of the war between Russia and Ukraine have issued ominous statements during a week when the two countries traded escalatory missile strikes. Russia launched a strike on the Ukrainian city […]
One hundred and fifty-seven years ago, Alaska was formally transferred from Russia to the United States after it was purchased from Russia for the sum of $7.2 million on March 30th, 1867. It took several months for commissioners to arrive in the territory of Alaska to formally transfer ownership. And so, on October 18th, 1867, […]
“I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny,” said one survivor who was just 8 years old during the attack by U.S. Marines. After years of working with Iraqis whose relatives were killed by U.S. Marines in the 2005 Haditha massacre, American journalists […]