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The 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 […]

Veteran 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 […]

To 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 […]

A 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, […]

The 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 […]

On 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: […]

The rules governing the conditions under which the United States would resort to use of a nuclear weapon are being rewritten right now, in a document Congress will not vote on and no citizen will ever read, as confirmed in the Washington Times of Aug. 18 by Under Secretary for Policy at the Pentagon, Elbridge Colby(cf. SAS 33-34/26). The document is […]

Executive Intelligence Review and the International Peace Coalition will hold a roundtable discussion on “An Alternative to War and Looting in the Americas” on September 4, from 17.00 to 19:00 CEST, and from 19:30 to 21:30. The subjects taken up will include the Trump doctrine for Latin America and the attempts to establish U.S. hegemony in the Western hemisphere. Both […]

Flocking to Kyiv to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, leading politicians of the “Coalition of the Willing” met there on Aug. 24. Some of them did not arrive empty-handed; the European Commission, for instance, released an additional €6.1 billion in financial aid for Ukraine. The funds are earmarked for the Ukrainian purchase of new […]

The “Toughest Sanctions in History” sounds like the title of a bad Hollywood western, and an “Economic D-day Assault” sounds like another. But that’s what U.S. Treasury Secretary Bessent promised on Aug. 20, in reference to the economic warfare against Iran, that went into effect four days later. “We are going to collapse this regime”, he told CNBC. That will […]