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For the past three and a half years, the predominant narrative underlying most foreign policy actions in Europe has been about Russia’s “unprovoked aggression” in Ukraine. These words have led to the wasting of hundreds of billions of dollars in military expenditures, the deployment of the largest-ever sanctions regime, the sacrificing of hundreds of thousands of Ukrainian lives, and the […]

The credibility of the EU’s claims to defend democracy and free speech is dwindling by the day, as Brussels takes increasingly aggressive actions to impose “thought control” by threatening and sanctioning those who criticize its policy line. The most egregious case is that of Jacques Baud, a highly respected former Swiss Army colonel, former officer of the Strategic Intelligence Service, […]

While the European Commission is busy controlling what information citizens of EU member states are allowed to have access to, it is up in arms against the measures taken by the Trump administration against former European commissioner Thierry Breton, barring him from travel to the United States, as well as three other Europeans. Breton is considered to be the “mastermind” […]

The looming financial crisis has generated apprehension in Switzerland because of the exposure of UBS, the megabank whose assets are twice as large as the entire nation’s GDP. UBS is a global leader in providing its wealthy clients and institutional investors a gateway to access the private credit market, that is, the very market where subprime loan defaults have begun […]

Beyond continued support for the current leadership of Ukraine, the rabid anti-Russian alliance of Germany, France and the UK has created the pretext for arming Europe with weapons far more destructive than all the military hardware so far delivered to Ukraine. Germany, in particular, has begun to develop missile systems with a range of up to 1,000 kilometers based on […]

Just days before his visit to Washington to meet with President Trump and try and justify the continued killing of Palestinians and the attacks on their territory, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu launched a provocation aimed at extending into the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa the chaos he has sowed in South-West Asia. Indeed, on Dec. 26, Israel formally […]

There is a general consensus within the scientific community that China is advancing more quickly than others in certain critical areas of science and technology. The prestigious Nature magazine has published relevant figures regarding the issue, and even among members of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, there is a general understanding of that reality. Although the White House is […]

Dear Readers, this is the final issue of the Strategic Alert for the year 2025. Your next issue will be dated January 1, 2026. We wish you joyous holidays and thank you for your loyalty and for making an extra effort to help us balance our budget at EIR. If you have not been able to do so yet, there […]

As the year-end approaches, the tension between two simultaneous and opposite trajectories in the world underscores the urgent need of a global new security and development architecture. On the one hand, the Global Majority is moving to consolidate relationships of cooperation and win-win agreements for growth, while on the other hand, an increasingly irrelevant, yet nuclear-armed, elite class in the […]

An international youth movement dedicated to the common interests of the one humanity is taking form, in response to the initiative launched by the Schiller Institute (SI) worldwide. On very short notice, and building on the dynamic of the SI conference in Paris on Dec. 8-9 (cf. SAS 46/25), a first online meeting took place on Dec. 14, bringing together […]