Ion Mihai Pacepa: 1928–2021
Highest-ranking Soviet-bloc officer ever to defect to the West has died
Commentary
In 2017, Christopher Monckton, Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley and a former adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, called Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa the “most influential man of the 20th century and, arguably, the beginning of the 21st.”
He was the man who pulled back the curtain to reveal the disinformation that was being churned out from the Soviet bloc. Unfortunately, most people remained unfamiliar with Pacepa and his work.
In the early morning hours of Feb. 14, COVID-19 accomplished what a $2 million bounty and two separate teams of Romanian-sponsored assassins could not. Ion Mihai Pacepa, “Mike” to those who knew him, was called home to his eternal reward.
Belarus And South Ossetia
When in 1990 U.S. Secretary of State James Baker assured Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization would not expand one inch eastward after German reunification, he was not alone in making that commitment.
Documents declassified a few years ago establish that the same pledge was also made by President George H.W. Bush, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, CIA Director Robert Gates, French President Francois Mitterrand, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, British Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd, British Prime Minister John Major, and NATO Secretary General Manfred Woerner.
George Shultz, who influenced geopolitics around the world as Ronald Reagan’s secretary of state, served two other presidents and rose to the highest levels of business and academia in a career that touched seven decades, died Saturday at age 100. His death was announced by the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, where he had long served as a distinguished fellow. Shultz died at his home on the university campus, Stanford said. Shultz.
By Kul Chandra Gautam The 1 February 2021 coup d’état by Myanmar’s military (Tatmadaw), has been widely condemned by all the world’s democratic leaders, human rights activists and genuine friends of the people of Myanmar around the globe. In an unusual manner for the world’s top diplomat, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has gone so far as to urge the world community to make sure that Myanmar s military coup fails.
By Kul Chandra Gautam I have had 5-decade long and happy association with the Peace Corps since I was a 7th grade student in the hills of Nepal. My wonderful Peace Corps teachers were instrumental in helping transform my life. And the 4000+ Peace Corps Volunteers who have served in Nepal have contributed immensely to my country’s development.
George Shultz, counsel and Cabinet member for two Republican presidents, dies at 100
Michael Abramowitz and David E. Hoffman, The Washington Post
Feb. 7, 2021
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Edward Miller, right, is sworn in as chairman of the National Labor Relations Board by Justice Byron White as Secretary of Labor George Shultz and his wife, Anne Harmon Miller, look on in June 1970.Washington Post photo by Harry Naltchayan
On Sunday, Oct. 12, 1986, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev had reached a climactic moment in their summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. Gorbachev proposed sweeping reductions in nuclear weapons if Reagan would constrain his missile defense plan, but Reagan balked.