STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Joseph Aoun, Chief of Staff of the Lebanese army, was indirectly elected President of the Republic of Lebanon on Jan. 9, in the second round of a vote in parliament. General Aoun’s candidacy was supported by the United States, Israel, France and Saudi Arabia. The Hezbollah group in the national assembly could have blocked his election, but the head of […]

The Brazilian government, which has the chairmanship of the BRICS in 2025, announced on Jan. 6 the entry of Indonesia as the tenth full member of the BRICS group, just days after it had been admitted as one of nine new partner countries on Jan. 1 (cf. SAS 2/25). The membership of Indonesia had already been approved by the five founding […]

What the mainstream media never reports, is that the Russian development and deployment of a whole range of hypersonic weapons (including the recently deployed Oreshnik medium-range missile), reflects a breakthrough in applied physics which the West would need years, if not a decade, to catch up to. At present, there is no defense against a weapon that flies at a […]

It seems that no one in the West is predicting peace, prosperity and joy for the year 2025. And there are good reasons for that, given the very real danger that one of the two most acute regional crises could develop into a global war, while economic hardship is pre-programmed. But there is also a real possibility that the opposite […]

On Dec. 24, Pope Francis officially opened the Jubilee Year of 2025, calling for the coming year to be one of hope. The Catholic Church celebrates a Jubilee every quarter of a century, a practice traditionally associated in various religions with the time when slaves would be emancipated and debts would be forgiven. At a major conference on the debt […]

The American organization “Doctors Against Genocide” (DAG) is demanding an immediate stop to the genocide being perpetrated in Gaza, in a call that has been endorsed by the Schiller Institute and dozens of other organizations. “The deliberate bombing of hospitals, the targeting of healthcare workers, and the systematic destruction of medical services must be stopped. Not another child should suffer, […]

Four years ago, on January 6, 2021, demonstrators poured into the Congress, demanding a fair count of the vote, believing that Donald Trump had been denied re-election due to vote fraud. Events which unfolded that day are described as either a violent insurrection, according to Democrats and Never-Trumpers, or a “Day of Love”, according to Trump. In the weeks and […]

Elon Musk’s confrontational posts on X about German, British and Italian politics have triggered protests of “interference” from those countries’ liberal establishments. However, irrespective of their content, Musk is simply paying them back in their own coins: for decades now, European liberals have been interfering in U.S. politics, openly campaigning for Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. […]

As energy prices in Europe continue to soar, the hypocrisy of the European Commission is blatant. Despite claims of having cut energy ties with Moscow, Russia is still the largest supplier of gas to the EU (along with the U.S.), but at much higher prices because it is resold to the Europeans by third parties, or because it is purchased […]

With the dawn of the year 2025, some very gloomy forecasts were made about the German economy, but the bleakest was a report from the Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI). “The German economy is in the midst of its biggest crisis in post-war history. The pandemic, the energy crisis and inflation have made Germans poorer on average”, Handelsblatt chief economist Bert […]