With more events planned this week to mark President Ronald Reagan's 1987 challenge for the Soviet Union to dismantle an iconic symbol of the Cold War, a Cybercast News Service investigation shows that Reagan's own State Department tried to prevent his famous "tear down this wall" speech...
In the summer of 1997, as I recall, Gen JFR Jacob of Bangladesh war fame, was on one of his visits to London; time hung heavy, so I took him to see my old friend, the late Gerald Segal, then head of the Asia Pacific desk at the Institute of Strategic Studies, an autonomous think-tank with close Whitehall and White House links...
'It ain't what we don't know that bothers me so much, it's all the things we do know that ain't so,' said Moses Abramovitz, a Stamford economist (1912-2000) who challenged the modern wisdom that the magic of the market leads to prosperity and order...
People who are pushing for a “guest worker” program show not the slightest interest in what has been happening under guest-worker programs in Europe...
Twenty years ago today, the President of the United States did what every single diplomat told him not to do, but he did it because he believed it was the right thing to do...
When Ronald Reagan stood in front of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago Tuesday and challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to "tear down this wall," few believed it might someday happen...
