STRATEGIC ALERT Service

As the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) begins its annual session, there is no issue more urgent than the demand for action against Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and the West Bank. With protests growing against the murderous policy of the Netanyahu regime — including in Israel — and opposition to further aid building even within the U.S. Congress, […]

Close relations between European leaders and leading banks and investment funds are not rare, but the case of German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and the BlackRock fund is a singularity. From 2016 to 2020, he served as top Manager of its German branch — a job that familiarized him with many details of corporations in which BlackRock was a prominent shareholder. […]

At least one Western head of state seems to have grasped some of the implications of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) meeting of Aug. 31-Sept. 1, and it has him very worried. As if to underscore what we have written repeatedly about the unstoppable dynamic in the Global South and East, Finnish President Alexander Stubb recognized that the SCO summit […]

Nikolai Patrushev has raised the possibility that NATO intelligence forces, and more specifically the British Special Boat Services, which is the special forces unit of the Royal Navy, may have been responsible for blowing up the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines on Sept. 26, 2022. Nikolai Patrushev has a good deal of experience in secret operations, having served as […]

Fresh off of his unprecedented four-day trip to the People’s Republic of China (cf. SAS 36/25), Russian President Putin stopped in Vladivostok to address the plenary session of the 10th Eastern Economic Forum. In 2013, the Russian government had developed an extensive plan for building infrastructure in the Far Eastern Federal District, which is the eastern part of Siberia, and […]

An article by Dennis Small titled “How Should The BRICS Countries Respond to Trump’s ‘Crypto Tariffs’”, published in EIR, has been commented by Ukrainian economist Natalia Vitrenko, who called Small’s proposals “reasoned and relevant”. In the article, Small suggests steps by which the BRICS could establish a credit system to expand investment and trade, and to defend themselves against the […]

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva convened an emergency BRICS virtual meeting on Sept. 8. Initially called in response to the Trump administration’s wildly punitive tariffs against the group’s member nations, the actual subject of discussion was the world system that is required for justice and physical economic development to prevail. All BRICS full members participated: Brazil, Russia, India, […]

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) concluded its two-day heads of state summit on Sept. 1, confirming the undeniable reality that the unipolar world is over, and that we have entered a new phase of history. The dynamic for progress lies squarely in a new multilateralism, fostered by the strategic cooperation among the leaders of China, Russia and India, and those […]

Possibly even more disconcerting for the transatlantic war party than the reception of Vladimir Putin in Tianjin, was the presence of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit. After years of considerable tensions between China and India due to a long-standing border dispute, the Indian leader held a bilateral meeting with President Xi Jinping on the […]

The announcement by French Prime Minister François Bayrou that he will call for a vote of confidence in the National Assembly on Sept. 8, to ratify a €44 billion austerity cut in the 2027 budget, is a death sentence for his government, which does not have a majority. It will leave President Macron with three options: 1) find a new Prime […]