STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Since the publication of a petition by Sahra Wagenknecht and Alice Schwarzer on Feb. 10, calling for a ceasefire in Ukraine and peace diplomacy, which was signed by several hundred thousand people, and the mass rally in Berlin on Feb. 25, expectations were high that it would give a boost to the formation of a new political party (cf. SAS […]

Despite the EU’s much trumpeted deal with Tunisia of July 16, the flow of irregular migrants over the Mediterranean Sea has not stopped. In the ensuing weeks, an average of 1,000 migrants per day reached Italian shores. In the first six months of this year, ca. 90,000 irregular migrants have reached Italy, twice as many as last year. The mass-migration […]

Sebastien Périmony, the head of the Schiller Institute’s Africa desk, has posted an 18-minute video reporting on the July 27-28 Russia-African summit in Saint Petersburg, which he attended. Remarkably, the SI was the only Western organization invited to take part in this event, which Périmony explains by the Institute’s constant combat since 1984 “for world peace, mutual development and dialogue […]

The rates of electrification in Africa are appallingly low. A total of 580 million Africans lack electricity, according to the International Energy Organization, and the worst affected countries are in Central Africa. In Niger, only 3 % of the population has access to electricity; in Chad 9%; in Liberia 11%; in Burkina Faso 20%; in Mauritania 30% and Mali 40%, while […]

The Chinese cities of Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and the Hong Kong Special Administration Region are planning to design and build a maglev train system with a speed of 650 km per hour, that will link all three cities, and then extend elsewhere in China. The plan was disclosed at an Aug. 5 transportation infrastructure forum in Guangzhou, organized by the Chinese Academy […]

On Sunday Aug. 6, the 78th anniversary of the barbaric bombing of Hiroshima, dozens of parallel “Humanity for Peace” rallies across Europe, Ibero-America and the United States took place, led by a flagship rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza in front of the United Nations in New York City, demanding peace and a new international security architecture that protects the interests […]

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (RFK), the son of Robert and nephew of President John F. Kennedy, is running for the Democratic Party nomination to the Presidency. In his video message to the New York “Humanity for Peace” rally, he said: “Today we’re closer to a nuclear exchange than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962. […]

The July 26 coup in Niger is the latest manifestation of the rejection of the West’s Malthusian policy sweeping over the global South. It is the fourth coup in West Africa, that has nearly liberated francophone Africa from France. On Aug. 6, Niger’s military leaders addressed a rally of tens of thousands of supporters in the national stadium. The same […]

On August 22-24, the BRICS Summit will be held in Johannesburg, South Africa, and despite ongoing blackmail and pressure tactics coming from London and Washington, the heads of state or government of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa will take up their agenda of: 1) the expansion of the BRICS into “BRICS-Plus,” establishing the mechanism for inclusion of the […]

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, quoted by RT on Aug. 4, brought some clarity to the widely discussed issue of a “BRICS” currency. Introduction of a single BRICS currency is impossible right now but this does not mean that the issue should not be discussed, Peskov said. “Certainly, expert discussions are underway about the possibility, expediency and feasibility of plans to […]