STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Paul Davies is a global banking analyst for Bloomberg News, who previously worked for the Financial Times and the Wall Street Journal. This is not a pedigree that inspires confidence, but his blunt judgment on the negative consequences of the Trump administration’s “crypto” financial policy is correct, and overlaps with what we have written here. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is […]

Further actions taken by President Trump’s Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Tulsi Gabbard continue to shake up the Washington apparatus often referred to as the “deep state”, especially in the intelligence community, as we have reported in previous issues (cf. SAS 30-34/25). * On Aug. 18, Tulsi Gabbard announced she would remove the security clearances of 37 former and current […]

The first round of Bolivia’s presidential elections on Aug. 17 gave the best results to two neoliberals — Rodrigo Paz Pereira and Jorge “Tuto” Quiroga – one of whom will win the runoff election scheduled for October. Their results, while not unexpected, raise grave concerns about the future of the crisis-ridden country, but also about how this may destabilize relations […]

The first half of August saw progress in the cause of peace through development and cooperation. This was the basis for the mid-August meeting between Presidents Putin and Trump in Anchorage and further developments, including a possible peace agreement for Ukraine. (On the latter,  Donald Trump forced reluctant EU leaders to accept his conditions in the meeting with President Zelenskyy […]

The beginning of Autumn this year could turn out to be a major political Spring, if the call by Helga Zepp-LaRouche and others for a Three Leaders Summit is successful. Indeed, on Sept. 3, China will celebrate the end of the war with Japan, that is, the end of WWII, with a big military parade to which all world leaders […]

When the time and place of the Trump-Putin summit was made public, the Schiller Institute took the opportunity offered by that geographical location to re-launch the great project of the Tunnel under the Bering Strait connect the U.S. state of Alaska with the Russian district of Chukotka. The Tunnel, more precisely two tunnels of ca. 80 km each, both connecting […]

The final approval of the long-conceived Bridge over the Strait of Messina (“Messina Bridge”) Project by the Italian government on Aug. 6, has produced a wave of happiness and enthusiasm among Italian patriots, and conniption fits among Transatlantic elites. The Messina Bridge is a major component of the North-South “Corridor 5” of the Trans-European network, aimed at getting Europe closer […]

Whereas British PM Keir Starmer kept a low profile at the White House meeting Aug. 18, the power of the British Establishment to derail the U.S.-Russia dialogue should not be underestimated. A key member of that establishment, former MI6 director Sir Richard Dearlove, described the perspective of a long-term peace as “very dangerous” in an article on his One Decision […]

Made irrelevant by the Anchorage meeting of the Presidents of the U.S. and of Russia, will the European “Coalition of the Willing” rethink their maximalist anti-Russian position which has been exposed as a dead-end street? At least verbally so far, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has publicly acknowledged that the pre-Anchorage position is untenable. In an August 16 interview on ZDF […]

  Speaking on the La7 television channel program “In Onda” on Aug. 13, UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine Francesca Albanese said it is wrong to say that the international community, as a community of states, is in shocking paralysis over Netanyahu’s criminal action against Gaza. “We say this and see it because of the Eurocentric view we continue to have […]