Messages at Shangri-La

by Brian Berletic

During this year’s Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore, U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth laid out an alarming vision for the future of the Asia-Pacific region, a vision that includes the same type of U.S. military encroachment and confrontation that has turned Europe, North Africa and the Middle East into devastated battlegrounds over the past two decades.

Messages at Shangri-La (archived)

Zikoko Citizen Another CIA Social Engineering Front Encouraging Young Nigerians to Immigrate to the West

An investigation by West Africa Weekly’s Editor-in-Chief, David Hundeyin, has raised serious concerns about foreign interference in Nigeria’s media landscape, particularly surrounding a popular emigration-themed content series published by Zikoko Citizen, a civic-focused vertical of the youth culture platform Zikoko.

Zikoko Citizen Another CIA Social Engineering Front Encouraging Young Nigerians to Immigrate to the West

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US Embassy in Uganda Runs Clandestine Foreign Interference Program Targeting East African Journalists

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The United States Embassy in Kampala, Uganda is actively involved in Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) activities targeting audiences in East Africa. This was the verdict of selected journalists who took part in a secret program it organised in Kampala last week, ostensibly to train them on countering what it terms ‘Russian propaganda and disinformation.’ The clandestine program – where participants were electronically surveiled to ensure they recorded nothing – took place between Monday 19 May and Friday 23 May, 2025 under the theme “Understanding and Countering Russian Propaganda and Disinformation in Uganda.”

US Embassy in Uganda Runs Clandestine Foreign Interference Program Targeting East African Journalists

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Germany’s Missile Range Decision: A Perilous Step Towards Global Conflict

Berlin, 26 May 2025 – In a chilling act of imperial hubris, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has declared that Germany, in lockstep with its NATO overlords, has unshackled the range restrictions on missiles supplied to Ukraine, greenlighting strikes deep into Russia’s heart. This brazen escalation, announced today, is no mere policy shift; it is a deliberate provocation, a reckless lunge towards a global conflagration that could sear humanity’s future. The West, cloaked in the sanctimonious rhetoric of “defending Ukraine,” is goading Russia into a corner, gambling with the lives of millions in a game of geopolitical brinkmanship.

Germany’s Missile Range Decision: A Perilous Step Towards Global Conflict

The Web of State-Backed Extremism: From COINTELPRO to MKY

In July 2024, U.S. authorities indicted Michail Chkhikvishvili, the alleged new leader of Maniac Murder Cult (MKY), on four counts related to soliciting hate crimes and planning mass violence in New York City. Chkhikvishvili, 21, was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova, and extradited to the United States on May 22, 2025. The following day, he made his first appearance in Federal District Court before Magistrate Judge Peggy Kuo. Operating under the alias “Commander Butcher,” he was accused of coordinating with an undercover law enforcement officer to orchestrate a large-scale attack. Following his arrest, the militant accelerationist group Injekt Division claimed he had previously lived in Tbilisi, Georgia, and had ties to the Georgian military.

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