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At the meeting in Davos on Jan. 21, where Donald Trump announced the charter of the new “Board of Peace” for the Middle East (cf. SAS 4/26), his son-in-law and special advisor Jared Kushner unveiled a $30 billion plan for rebuilding Gaza, which presents “amazing investment opportunities”, he said. It would begin with the reconstruction of the southern city of […]

While the Trump Administration and the Danish government debate whether to engage in a trade war or a diplomatic war over Greenland, a different perspective has been voiced from Russia. The head of Russia’s nuclear engineering company Rosatom, Alexey Likhachev, proposes that the real issue for Greenland is to integrate it into an Arctic transportation circle, adding that the political […]

Belt and Road Investment Increases by 75% in 2025. Construction contracts and investments in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, increased by three-quarters in 2025 to a record $213 billion. The latest figures estimate total BRI engagement at $1.4 trillion, according to a study conducted by Australia’s Griffith University and the Green Finance & Development Center in Shanghai, which Construction Briefing […]

The World Economic Forum in Davos opens this year in the midst of an accelerating disintegration of the institutions of the post-war world order, and of the increasingly irrelevant WEF itself. Violations of international law, including by the western powers which claim to own it, are not new, but U.S. President Trump has now declared it officially defunct, for his […]

At the EIR Emergency Roundtable on Jan. 12, dedicated to reversing the breakdown of international law, a valuable contribution to the discussion was given by Naledi Pandor, the former Foreign Minister of South Africa, who had led her country’s delegation at the hearings of the International Court of Justice on South Africa’s complaint against Israel for genocide (cf. SAS 2-6/24). […]

At the EIR Emergency Roundtable, former U.S. Ambassador Chas Freeman, who had a long career in diplomacy, intelligence, and government, brought up what could be done as an alternative to get around the blocks that have been set up in the United Nations. “Peace in Ukraine would benefit the entire world, but it alone would not cure the manifest infirmities […]

The confrontation between the Trump administration and the Federal Reserve has escalated to unprecedented levels. On Jan. 9, the Department of Justice (DOJ) served subpoenas to the Federal Reserve relating to a probe into the cost of renovating the central bank’s headquarters. Contrary to tradition, Fed chairman Jerome Powell, who has refused to lower interest rates, decided to respond publicly […]

Donald Trump’s threats to impose trade tariffs of 10%, as of February 1, and 25% as of July, on European countries opposing his Greenland policy have dealt a huge blow to the already shaken transatlantic cohesion. It will be further weakened if the EU decides in the coming days to launch counter tariffs. A full-scale trade war on the backdrop […]

The just-completed modern Budapest-Belgrade railway is a flagship project of China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in the Balkans. Built in cooperation with China Railway International and China Communications Construction Company, the 350 km long line will allow speeds of up to 220 km/h, cutting travel time from eight hours to just over three hours. On the Serbian side, the […]

The White House released on Jan. 16 a document described as Phase Two of Washington’s “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict”. It specifies new international entities to be created, including a Board of Peace, a Gaza Executive Board, an International Stabilization Force, etc. But nowhere does the document even name or identify Palestine or Palestinians. While the idea of […]