Epstein Secrets

of democratic renewal even in deeply troubled societies. The events of late 2014 and 2015 include vivid re- minders of the power of the ballot. In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and largest economy, voters who were fed up with governmental complacency, terrorism, and graft rejected the incum

common themes: 1. Color revolutions are a U.S. strategy to break Russia's influence over its neighbors.' Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Security Council and a longtime director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), has described color revolutions as an American scheme to bring down gov- ernments t

people, sending tens of thousands of refugees fleeing into neighboring Mauritania. And they have given sanctuary to notorious terrorist groups like Nigeria's Boko Haram and Algeria's Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, a group that Washington suspects may have been involved in the September attack on the

estimated to cost more than $2O0 million a year, though it is unclear which nations would be willing to pay. Washington played a useful role in the Security Council deliberations by insisting on an initial period of planning and attention to human rights concerns before any military action takes place. Page I 1

fer financial support from the United Nations. While a detailed military plan has yet to be drafted, the idea has been for about 3,30o troops from Nigeria and other African countries to help Mali's military mount a campaign against the militants. France, the United States and other countries would help

t present. . Chief Expresses Support for Military Action In late November, Ban Ki-moon, the United Nations secretary general, recommended that the Security Council endorse a plan by the African Union and the Economic Community of West African States to deploy a security force at the request of the Mali governme

t of democratic renewal even in deeply troubled societies. The events of late 2014 and 2015 include vivid re- minders of the power of the ballot. In Nigeria, Africa's most populous country and largest economy, voters who were fed up with governmental complacency, terrorism, and graft rejected the incumben

al common themes: 1. Color revolutions are a U.S. strategy to break Russia's influence over its neighbors.' Nikolay Patrushev, secretary of Russia's Security Council and a longtime director of the Federal Security Service (FSB), has described color revolutions as an American scheme to bring down gov- ernments thro