On one side of the planet, leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization were meeting in Kyrgyzstan to discuss economic cooperation and stabilizing relations, while on the other side, Finance Ministers and Central Bankers of the G20 gathered in North Carolina to hear U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent plead with them to join in the economic warfare against Iran, and continue to […]
Read moreAfter six months of failing to force the Iranian leadership to accept its conditions for an end to the conflict, the United States seems to think it can do so now, by launching a “ferocious” economic warfare campaign against the Islamic Republic and all of its trading partners, dubbed “Operation Economic Outcast” (cf. SAS 35/26). U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent […]
Read moreThe international financial system has entered a boundary condition, in which traditional measures do not work. Despite the massive buybacks of U.S. bonds implemented by U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, yields on those bonds have gone up, worsening the “fundamentals” of the country’s finances and sending shock waves through what has become a huge market for hedge fund collateral. Bessent […]
Read moreVeteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) has issued a new public memo to President Trump warning him that his advisors are selling him a “song and dance” on Russia and the war in Ukraine. They write: “The New York Times is reporting that the outlook for Russia in Ukraine is ‘bleak.’ C.I.A. Director John Ratcliffe is said to have explained […]
Read moreTo many analysts, the initial response to the announcement by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent that the U.S. would impose “Economic D-Day” sanctions against Iran and its trading partners was that this proved the U.S. had exhausted its options for a military victory. The consensus was that the failure to achieve any of the goals presented by President Trump when he […]
Read moreA series of nine emergency crisis meetings between the management and labor council of Volkswagen and the Lower Saxony government, which holds a share in the company, ended on Aug. 31, without coming up with an acceptable and constructive idea for a solution. Pointing to a drastic drop in car sales by 500,000 in Europe over the past 12 months, […]
Read moreThe outcome of the presidential election on Oct. 4 in Brazil will have major consequences not only for this largest Latin American country itself, but all of Latin America. Current President Lula da Silva is being challenged by Flavio Bolsonaro, the son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, who is now serving time in prison for plotting a coup d’état in […]
Read moreOn Sept. 4, the Executive Intelligence Review and the International Peace Coalition will hold a roundtable discussion on “An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas”. It will be streamed live on YouTube in English, and broadcast on Zoom with simultaneous interpretation into Spanish, German, French and Italian. Here is a preliminary list of speakers and topics: Panel 1: […]
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