STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The release of the latest tranche of three million Epstein documents by the U.S. Department of Justice has hit the City of London establishment with a devastating blow, threatening to topple the Starmer government, while forcing City of London bankers to scramble to head off a bond crisis. To begin with, the resignation of Prime Minister Starmer’s chief of staff, […]

A super-majority was handed to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in the Feb. 8 snap elections she had called for. With 316 seats out of 410 in the Japanese Diet, she now has the capability to pursue her agenda even without the views of any coalition partner. Since taking office in October, she has already charted a course of possible confrontation […]

The Egyptian government and a Chinese firm are now discussing the building of a 10 million metric tons per year capacity steel plant in Egypt, it was reported in late January. The plant, which is part of a larger integrated industrial project, will produce a variety of products, including automotive and structural steel, pipes, automotive components, galvanized sheets, etc. The […]

Once again, President Trump has the world guessing as to what his next move will be, this time as to whether or not he will launch strikes on Iran. So far, he has refused to give an answer, although the threats keep coming from his administration, as more U.S. sanctions are imposed and the U.S. military buildup in the region […]

The nomination of Kevin Warsh as successor to Jerome Powell at the head of the Federal Reserve will keep the central bank where it has been up until now: under the power of Wall Street. During the 2008 financial crisis, Warsh was the liaison between the Fed and Wall Street and a leading hawk in the push for bailing out […]

While the world globalist elite has crowned Mark Carney as the new leader of the liberal world following his speech at Davos (cf. SAS 5/26), many in the so-called sovereignist camp are praising another figure at the WEF, U.S. trade representative Jamieson Greer, for his address claiming a resurgence of the American System of Political Economy under President Trump. Greer […]

While the Trump administration pursues a policy of deprecation of the U.S. dollar, they are now demanding that China – and other countries – prop it up by revaluating their own currencies. Thus, the U.S. Treasury, in its semi-annual foreign exchange market report of Jan. 29, called on the Chinese authorities to allow the remnimbi (RMB) to “strengthen in a […]

On Jan. 27, EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi signed a free trade agreement in New Delhi. On the European side, the motive, after 20 years of negotiations, is to provide the ailing EU car producers with options for doubling their exports by 2032 and to increase the sales of weapons systems. While […]

On Jan. 26, a majority of EU ministers approved a ban on all imports of Russian liquefied natural gas as of Jan. 1, 2027, and of pipeline gas as of Oct. 30, 2027. To avoid vetoes by Hungary and/or Slovakia, the sanction was redefined as a foreign trade regulation, which does not require a unanimous vote. Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto […]

Following the killing of two people by agents of the Immigration police (ICE) and the Border police, both arms of the Department of Homeland Security, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, protests against the agencies spilled into the streets in all fifty states. Rachel Good and Alex Pretti were among the eight persons killed in encounters with federal agents or held in custody […]