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Nigeria’s Elections: A Perilous Postponement
By International Crisis Group Why Is the Postponement, and Nigeria’s Wider Electoral Challenges, Important for Africa? Nigeria is Africa’s most populous country (est. 178 million) and largest economy (GDP over $500 billion). The growing risk of instability could have profound security, humanitarian and economic implications. Furthermore, any subversion of the country’s democratic progress could dampen democratic developments … Continue reading
Obama’s Latin American Legacy – Re-Militarizing Honduras – OpEd
Nearly a decade ago, a keen observer of Honduras produced a damning analysis of the country. “In a very real sense, Honduras is a captured state,” he began. “Elite manipulation of the public sector, particularly the weak legal system, has turned it into a tool to protect the powerful,” and “voters choose mainly between the two … Continue reading
Shinzo Abe’s Middle East Ambition
By Kai Schulze After his victory in the December 2014 elections, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has pledged to turn Japan into ‘one of the greatest powers in the world’ by implementing the new foreign policy approach of ‘proactive pacifism’. Abe is seeking to foster Japanese international engagement, which will increasingly reach beyond the regional … Continue reading
A New Rise Of Japan? – OpEd
Japan is trying to increase its influence by reinventing itself in the areas of foreign policy, security and economics and by repositioning itself in the global order. However, while it is observed that the country’s foreign and security policies are going through a tough test, it also would be difficult to say that developments in … Continue reading
Nigeria Postpones Election For Six Weeks To Combat Boko Haram
Nigeria’s electoral commission, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), announced on Saturday that it will postpone the nation’s February 14 Presidential and Legislative elections for six weeks, with a new date set for March 28, to allow time for a new multinational force to secure the northeastern region under the control of Islamic extremist group … Continue reading
Moussaoui Says Saudi Royals Backed Al Qaeda, Planned To Shoot Down Air Force One With Missile
A former Al-Qaeda member, Zacarias Moussaou, has revealed a strong connection between the terrorist group and the Saudi Royal family in the 1990s. More notably, he alleges that Saudi princes and terrorists discussed a plan to shoot Air Force One out of the sky. The revelations came in the form of a testimony, delivered from … Continue reading
Japan, Philippines Agree To Buoy Maritime Defense Cooperation
By Nikkei Asian Review TOKYO — The defense ministers of Japan and the Philippines agreed here Thursday to boost cooperation on maritime security, a move designed to curb China’s expansion on the seas. Gen Nakatani and Philippine counterpart Voltaire Gazmin discussed the Chinese navy’s activities in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, as … Continue reading
A Soros “Trojan Horse” Inside The New Greek Government?
By Wayne Madsen As Greece celebrates the inauguration of its anti-austerity government, the euphoria should be tempered with a bit of realism. Although new Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who named his son Ernesto after Cuban revolutionary Ernesto Ché Guevara, and the vast majority of his new Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) government have good … Continue reading
€425mn Anti-Terror Plan: France To Hire Thousands Of Extra Police, Spies & Investigators
France will create 2,680 extra anti-terror staff, as over 3,000 radical Islamists require surveillance, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said at a Wednesday meeting, revealing plans to boost terror strategies. In the next three years, the number of security agency employees involved in counter-terrorism activities, will be increased by 2,680 people. The funding will be boosted … Continue reading
Russia-US Nuclear Material Security Cooperation Discontinued
Moscow and Washington have officially ceased 20 years of co-operation over securing storage of nuclear material in Russia, US media reports. Russia’s Rosatom warned that no new contracts with the US were expected in 2015. The declaration on stopping co-operation in the nuclear material protection sphere was signed on December 16, The Boston Globe reported … Continue reading
