STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Germany and Italy represent together almost half of EU manufacturing output (45%). Figures for December 2023 for both countries show a deadly trajectory towards industrial collapse, mainly due to the effect of the sanctions on Russsia. Industrial production fell 1.5% on average in Germany, and 2.5% in Italy. This process of deindustrialization led the head of the German industrial association […]

The spectacular actions staged for weeks now by farmers throughout Europe have succeeded in pushing back the EU’s “Green Deal”, and that is no minor accomplishment. But much more remains to be done. Meanwhile, the official farmers associations in some countries, after obtaining the promise of concessions, have suspended large-scale protests for the time being, but similar actions have spread […]

The national election of Feb. 8 in Pakistan saw a massive show of support for former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was removed from power and imprisoned in 2022 in a de facto US-NATO-backed coup. Although Khan’s party, the Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTT), was banned from running, independent candidates loyal to him won the most seats — 97 out of 265. The […]

On Feb. 8, on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Russian Academy of Sciences by Tsar Peter I in 1724, a gala celebration was held in the Kremlin Palace, with many speeches and theatrical performances depicting the history of the Academy and its achievements. The real inspiration for the founding of the Academy in 1724 […]

“Knew or Should Have Known: Governments Complicit in Genocide Will Not Be Able To Plead Ignorance at the Coming Nuremberg Tribunal.” That is the title of the statement issued Feb. 4 by the International Schiller Institute, which summarizes the current strategic emergency as follows. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruled on Jan. 26, 2024 that it is plausible that […]

The Schiller Institute statement goes on to propose immediate concrete actions that all citizens are encouraged to take to put an end to this situation. The first proposal is to hold demonstrations worldwide, either in front of government buildings and parliaments of the countries which have frozen funding for UNRWA, or in in front of the embassies or consulates of […]

At the request of the Algerian government, the United Nations Security Council held an emergency session on Jan. 31 to discuss giving “enforceable effect” to the provisional measures the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to take. The draft resolution prepared by Algeria was not made public, but reportedly called for an immediate ceasefire, which the United States ambassador indicated […]

In December 2023, it was announced that the U.S.-based Stanton Foundation had granted another “generous endowment” to the project titled, “Understanding Assurance, Deterrence, and Potential Nuclear Escalation in Europe”, based at the Hertie School’s Centre for International Security in Germany, and co-sponsored by the Munich Security Conference. In fact, the founder and former head of the Centre is Wolfgang Ischinger, […]

Two events in the first weeks of 2024 reminded the world that the 2007-2008 financial crisis has never ended, and that we are sitting on a volcano waiting to erupt in a pyroclastic flow: the resurgence of the crisis of community banks in the United States and the bankruptcy of Chinese conglomerate Evergrande. Both events have a common underlying feature: […]

Besieged by 1,399 tractors that had rolled into Brussels on the morning of Feb. 1, the European Commission indicated its intention to grant a few concessions. Farmers will be allowed to cultivate the 4% of their farmland that the EU had previously ordered must remain fallow, and to sell their production off this land, without losing the planned agricultural support. […]