Month: June 2025

The G7 has proved once again its uselessness at the summit held 16-17 in Kananaskis, Canada. While Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney had announced prior to the event that no final communiqué would likely be issued, presumably because of irreconcilable positions, all the leaders did agree to sign at least one statement, apparently with a view to escalating the fighting […]

In the immediate aftermath of the Israeli assault on Iran and the subsequent counter-attacks, the confusing and often contradictory comments from President Trump again raised the pressing question of whether he had known about it in advance and approved it, or had been kept “in the dark”. Trump now says he had foreknowledge of the Israeli actions, but that the […]

On June 13, just hours after the surprise attacks on Iran by Israel, followed by the beginning of Iran’s counter-attacks, an extensive policy discussion on the issue was taken up at the 106th consecutive weekly meeting online of the International Peace Coalition (IPC). Participants included M.K. Bhadrakumar, a retired ambassador and 30-year career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service, including […]

In a dramatic and very timely three-and-a-half minute video, titled “Tulsi Gabbard on Her Visit to Hiroshima” posted June 10 to her personal YouTube page and her X account, President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issues a stark warning of the catastrophic global effects that would be unleashed by nuclear war today. She reports on what she had […]

One more step toward the legislation that will deliver the final blow to the U.S. dollar was taken on June 10, when two Committees of the United States Congress voted up the CLARITY Act, which overlaps the GENIUS Act (cf. SAS 22, 23/25). The two will now be merged and go to a vote on the floor. President Trump recently […]

A new financial scam, designed to bail out the financial industry and perhaps give the death blow to the U.S. dollar, is being organized in full public view, despite the warnings issued by a few voices, thus far unheeded. For example, Yesha Yadav of Vanderbilt University and Brendan Malone (independent) just wrote a paper pointing to the stablecoin risks for […]

A long-overdue manifesto, signed by 100 prominent Social Democrats, has created an uproar among German Russophobes. While stating that “a defensible Bundeswehr and a strengthening of Europe’s security policy capabilities are necessary”, the signers also emphasize that “this defense capability must be embedded in a strategy of de-escalation and gradual confidence-building, not in a new arms race”. Titled “Peacekeeping in […]

As the BRICS prepares to hold its summit in Rio de Janeiro in July, under the presidency of Brazilian President Lula da Silva, Vietnam has just accepted the group’s invitation to join as a partner country. The importance of this Southeast Asian country was identified in a statement by the Brazilian Foreign Ministry: “With a population of almost 100 million […]

Since early June, the nation of Bolivia, under President Luis Arce Catacora, has been wracked by political violence unleashed by followers of former President Evo Morales and by a profound economic crisis, which the International Monetary Fund sees as an opportunity to demand that “statist” economic policies be abandoned and replaced by the failed radical neoliberal policies of the past. […]

The massive coordinated drone attacks launched by Ukraine on June 1 against one of the components of Russia’s nuclear triad clearly crossed a “red line” laid out in that country’s nuclear doctrine, all the more so as the operation could not have been carried out without the involvement of one or several NATO member states (cf. SAS 23/25). Although a […]