STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The Trans Afghan Railway Corridor is a long-overdue project that could transform the economy of Afghanistan. Starting in Uzbekistan, in the border town of Termez, which is already a rail depot center, the line is planned to stretch to Mazar-i-Sharif in the northern Afghan Balkh Province, then on to Kabul, and from there, to Peshawar, in North-Western Pakistan. There, the […]

What effect would a nuclear war have on our planet’s climate? If that were the central issue to be addressed at the Climate Change Conference in Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, it would be a useful event for the future of life on Earth. But since it’s not, this year’s COP27 promises to be just as much a waste of time […]

The Schiller Institute will hold an online conference on the above theme this coming Saturday, November 12, from 15:00 to 20:00 Central European time, at https://schillerinstitute.com/. We quote from the invitation to the event: “In this time of great political tumult, of controversy concerning the positive role of human technological progress, and of the growing danger, whether through design or […]

A massive aerial and maritime drone attack was launched Oct. 29 against Russian ships in Sevastopol, on the Crimean peninsula. The drones reportedly used the special “security zone” reserved for grain deliveries, and were also aimed at ships protecting the grain corridor. In a statement describing it as a “ terrorist attack,” the Russian Defense Ministry charged that it had […]

In the run-up to the Nov. 8 Congressional elections, anxiety is spreading among Democrats. They are facing an increasingly restive public, angry over the failure of the Biden Administration to address the nation’s economic woes. Food, energy and housing prices have forced families to make major sacrifices, while concern grows that the President lacks the mental fitness to tackle the […]

The official narrative: the EU is no longer dependent on Russian gas, the ECB has aggressively moved to fight inflation and the Russian economy is collapsing under EU sanctions. The real picture: the EU still depends onRussian gas, inflation is out of control, and the Russian economy is performing better than expected while the EU economy is sinking. Energy. As […]

On the eve of Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to China on Nov. 4, the mainstream media are full of attacks on continued economic cooperation with the Chinese, arguing that Germany must not repeat the “mistake” of over-dependence, as in the case of Russia. In 2021, China accounted for 9.5% of Germany’s total foreign trade, with exports amounting to about €103.7 […]

Unnoticed by the public, the German Bundestag passed a law on the evening of Oct. 20, that will severely curtail the freedom of speech and penalize the expressing of views that differ from official “narratives”. With next to no parliamentary debate and lumped together in an “omnibus bill” with a completely unrelated law, this amendment provides for punishing anyone who […]

Two components of the new government coalition in Italy have broken ranks with transatlantic “unity”. Both the Lega, by way of its Senate leader Massimiliano Romeo, and Forza Italia, via its founder and historical leader Silvio Berlusconi, have called for negotiations with Moscow on ending the war in Ukraine. Berlusconi had already briefed the FI parliamentary group in a closed […]

Following the attempted drone attacks on ships of the Russian Black Sea Fleet (cf. above), Russia suspended its participation in the Black Sea Grain Initiative agreed upon last July, involving the export of agricultural products from Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement that it was no longer able to guarantee the safety of civilian dry cargo ships […]