STRATEGIC ALERT Service

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has recruited none other the head of Greenpeace International, American national Jennifer Morgan, as her special envoy for international climate policy. Ms. Morgan has frequently taken part in the organization’s aggressive, high-profile campaigns, joining last year, for instance, 40 Greenpeace activists on kayaks, protesting against the Shell company’s oil drilling. But she has also had […]

In an attempt to drum up enthusiasm for the EU-Africa to take place this week in Brussels (Feb. 17-18), Commission President Ursula von der Leyen went to to Morocco and Senegal last week, to tout the European Union’s Global Gateway project – which is explicitly designed to compete with Chiny’s Belt and Road Initiative. The project, announced on Dec. 1, […]

A joint seminar sponsored by the Schiller Institute (SI) and the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) on Feb. 10 took up the challenge of how to overcome the deadly humanitarian crisis which threatens the lives of more than 23 million people in Afghanistan. The two opening statements, by Dr. Andrey Kortunov, the Director General of RIAC, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, founder […]

After months of urgent appeals to the Biden Administration to release the $7 billion of Afghan assets frozen by the Treasury Department in order to alleviate the acute humanitarian crisis, President Biden finally issued an executive order on the issue on Feb. 11. Of the $7 billion in funds of the Afghanistan Central Bank (DAB) that have been frozen in […]

The Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the Schiller Institute (SI) will be convening a seminar on Thursday, February 10, 2022 from 2 PM to 4 PM CET, which can be followed at https://schillerinstitute.com/. Among the topics to be addressed by a panel of six speakers will be: What are the causes of the Afghan humanitarian crisis? What are the […]

Just prior to attending the opening ceremony of the XXIV Olympic Winter Games in Beijing on Feb. 4, President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin held wide-ranging talks, saw to the announcement of 15 economic and policy deals, and issued a “Joint Statement of the Russian Federation and the People’s Republic of China on the International Relations Entering a New […]

To understand the profound importance of the document signed by Presidents Xi and Putin on Feb. 4, and why it represents such a dire threat to the modern-day British Empire, it is instructive to read what the Daily Telegraph, a leading mouthpiece of that Empire and the City of London, has to say about it (cf. item above). Under the […]

At 4:00 p.m. on Feb. 4, the following headline appeared on the Bloomberg News website: “Russia Invades Ukraine.” Note that it was then midnight in Moscow, and that President Vladimir Putin was not in the country, but in Beijing. For a full 30 minutes, this headline remained on the website, before it was finally removed, with the news agency posting […]

Although the ECB left interest rates unchanged on Feb 3 and President Christine Lagarde has attempted to show that the glass is half-full, by saying that the ECB won’t “rush decisions” on a policy course, “the markets” see the glass as half-empty, and continue to factor into prices a four-time interest hike this year through a sell-off of bonds. Thus, […]

One week long of extreme cold, and Germany would run out of natural gas reserves. According to a study carried out for the Economic Ministry back in 2015 by the Becker Büttner Held consultancy, gas storage facilities must be at least 40% full by Feb. 1 of each year in order to suffice for seven days of very cold winter […]