STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Over 700 million barrels of government and private strategic oil reserves have been poured onto the market to partially offset the 20% missing from the Gulf region, since the war against Iran began. However, it is calculated that by September/October, strategic reserves will have reached their operational limit and, even if the Hormuz Strait were reopened today, it would take […]

The much awaited summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping is still scheduled to take place at the end of September in Washington, despite many and varied attempts by the anti-China lobby in the U.S. to upend the plan. The trade war is one issue that will undoubtedly be at the center of their discussions. On July 28, it […]

His Excellency Youssouf Abassalah, ambassador of the Republic of Chad to Germany, was a featured speaker at the July 31 online EIR Roundtable on the migration crisis, which was held in conjunction with the International Peace Coalition (cf. SAS 32/26). Ambassador Abassalah is perfectly aware of the problems posed by migration, both for the countries the migrants leave, and those […]

The north-south Trans-Saharan rail corridor is an ambitious project designed to link the port of Algiers, on the Mediterranean coast, to Tamanrasset in the south of the country. The corridor would eventually be extended to Niger and to the broader Sahel region, thus serving as a driver for regional integration and economic development. A core segment of the corridor will […]

In the two major conflicts in the world today, which are merging into one, involving NATO and Ukraine against Russia on the one hand, and the U.S. and Israel against Iran on the other, the danger of escalation remains acute. Just after Donald Trump had vowed on July 31 to hit Iran “very hard” and the State Department had advised […]

The timeliness of the July 31 EIR roundtable (“Solving the Migration Crisis”) was underscored by the fact that just one day before, nearly 70,000 mainly young African migrants had reached the city of Ceuta from Morocco, with several dozen dying in the attempt. The event made clear that, regardless of whoever or whatever had set off the mass influx, the […]

The sudden influx of tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on July 31, which has a population of only 80,000, gave rise to wild scare stories in European media about the uncontrollable hordes of migrants about to enter Europe. The crisis was brought under control within 48 hours by the Spanish authorities in […]

The main interest rate in Russia is 14%, under the “inflation control policy” of the central bank, in accordance with typical monetarist dogmas. Despite this being an obvious bottleneck to development, the head of the central bank Elvira Nabiullina recently defended her policy, when she lowered the rate only by one quarter point. Economist Sergey Glazyev has long opposed the […]

In a sane world, a country’s ability to produce more than it needs for its immediate domestic consumption, and therefore has enough to export to the rest of the world, would be considered a positive sign of productivity and growth. Not for the City of London and Wall Street. And not for the Trump administration, which initiated in March investigations […]

An impressive list of 1,293 employees of frontier AI companies have signed a statement titled “Pacing the Frontier”, that calls on the U.S. government to cooperate in international governance of AI development. This follows a recent incident that underscored the dangers of an uncontrolled technology. The signers include Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei; the head of research at OpenAI; the head […]