STRATEGIC ALERT Service

“Brazil and India are not just two major democracies of the Global South. We are the meeting point of the pharmacy of the world with the breadbasket of the world…. Two megadiverse countries, with cultural strength and commitment to multilateralism and peace”, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote after his Feb. 21 state visit to India at the invitation […]

The Great Green Wall: China’s Forestation Program. Once a barren wasteland, the Taklamakan Desert in northwestern China is undergoing a remarkable transformation. Since 1978, 66 billion trees have been planted around its edges, with the aim of turning what was considered a “biological void” due to the severely arid conditions, into a thriving carbon sink. This groundbreaking shift, highlighted in […]

The Munich Security Conference of last weekend did not provoke the same eclat as last year’s uproar over the sharp criticism of Europe delivered by U.S. Vice President JD Vance, but it did confirm that neither European leaders nor the Trump Administration are ready to accept the profound shift away from the West occurring in the “non-West” , in favor […]

On January 12, 2026, EIR magazine sponsored an emergency international roundtable dialogue to address the total strategic crisis, after international law had been declared “unnecessary” by President Donald Trump (cf. SAS 3,4/26). What has swept to the surface in the few weeks since that meeting, has opened up an even deeper abyss facing mankind. Even a preliminary look into the […]

On Feb. 13, the Financial Times published a signal article by Gillian Tett entitled “Crypto’s Battle With The Banks Is Splitting Trump’s Base”. As a member of the FT editorial board, Tett’s views can be considered as representative of at least one faction of the City of London. Indeed, they are quite similar to earlier reports issued by the Bank […]

The speeches and discussions by Europeans at this year’s annual Munich Security Conference (MSC) held February 13-15 conveyed one central message: the geopoliticians who continue to define policy in most European countries will keep pushing their vast and costly rearmament program, under the pretext of becoming able one day to wage war against Russia. The views expressed by Secretary of […]

At the Feb. 12 informal EU summit in Belgium’s Alden Biesen castle, the site of a former headquarters of the Teutonic Order, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz blocked the initiative, led by French President Emmanuel Macron, to take a further step toward the construction of a European federal state, through the creation of a common debt to finance rearmament. But not […]

At least some European leaders have begun to recognize the need to talk directly to Russian officials, if only to have some say in how the war in Ukraine will be resolved. In addition to French President Macron, who had sent a top diplomat, Emmanuel Bonne, to Moscow in January, Swiss Foreign Minister Ignazio Cassis was in the Russian capital […]

With the intense media focus on the degeneracy of the circle of wealthy and powerful British establishment figures associated with convicted criminal Jeffrey Epstein, pressure is growing on Prime Minister Keir Starmer to resign. Epstein is, in reality, a minor figure in the mega-scandal of the overall corruption of the City of London, but the stories of his abuse of […]

Not yet three weeks after U.S. President Trump’s Jan. 29 Executive Order declared that any country which “directly or indirectly sells or otherwise provides any oil to Cuba” will face economic retaliation, the effects inside the island country — already subjected to 60 years of a U.S. embargo — are unbearable. Hospitals are reducing all but emergency services; families are […]