US “SECOND CIA” LEAD THE WAY IN THE USE OF SOFT POWER FOR REGIME CHANGE
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Since its establishment in 1983, the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED) has stayed true to its nefarious objectives, which are aimed at subverting undesirable foreign governments that are deemed to pursue malign activities that threaten the foreign policy interests of the world’s superpower. When the Ronald Reagan administration founded NED as an NGO, they […]
FROM MOSCOW TO THE SAHEL: UKRAINE’S ALLEGED USE OF TERRORIST TACTICS TO ATTAIN POLITICAL OBJECTIVES

On February 6, 2026, Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseyev, a senior official in the Russian Ministry of Defense, was shot in Moscow. He received at least three gunshot wounds and remains in serious condition due to major blood loss. Alekseev is deputy to Igor Kostyukov, the head of Russia’s delegation at the current trilateral negotiations in […]
MOROCCOS’S MELTDOWN: TANTRUMS, TOWEL WARS AND TAKING THE ‘L’

AFCON promised pageantry. What it delivered was drama so excessive it made reality TV look subtle. Truly, the Senegalese AFCON win unfolded like a storm in slow motion. Goals ruled out, penalties handed like surprise plot twists, players storming off, and a stadium caught somewhere between awe and disbelief. The world tuned in for sport […]