Wednesday January 15 was a seemingly ordinary workday for me until my phone began blowing up with text messages and emails from people wanting to know my thoughts on some major event that had just taken

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On September 5th, RT ran an article quoting Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying he offered Donald Trump the opportunity to buy some of Russia's hypersonic missiles, a technology the US does not

Reality Winner was only 25 years old when she was arrested for removing classified material from an NSA agency and mailing it to a news outlet. According to official reports, the document she obtained

This March marks five years since the annexation of Crimea and the return of that long contested peninsula to Russia. As with everything relating to this subject, most of what people know about this incident

With the media harping on about Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election and now openly attacking anyone who shows even a sliver of truly progressive ideology as a Russian operative, it should

In 1982, Samantha Smith, a ten year old girl from Maine wrote a letter to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov expressing her concern that a nuclear war would break out between the United States and Russia. She

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St. Mary, Montana in the fall. Killisnoo, an orphaned Alaskan Coastal Brown Bear I helped care for at Fortress of the Bear in Sitka, Alaska. Mt. Sinopah at sunrise. Two Medicine - Glacier National Park,