STRATEGIC ALERT Service

After enthusiastically announcing on Oct. 16, that he would soon be holding a summit with Russian President Putin in Budapest (cf. SAS 43/25), U.S. President Trump made known on Oct. 22 that the plan was off the table, and that the United States would impose new sanctions on Russian oil companies. In Europe, the EU implemented the 19th package of […]

As the brutal siege of Gaza by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) continued through a second year, world opinion of the Netanyahu regime’s violence was nearly universally negative. The vast majority of the world’s population agreed that Israel was committing genocide against its Palestinian inhabitants. However, polls of Israeli citizens showed that the majority remained supportive of Prime Minister Netanyahu’s self-proclaimed […]

A refreshingly optimistic message came from Princy Mthombeni, the founder of “Africa4Nuclear” and South Africa’s voice for nuclear power, on Oct. 19. Earlier on the same day, the South African government had announced its new Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) for 2025, which modifies the previous plan to include significant development of nuclear energy in the country, in addition to other sources. […]

Jose Vega is a 28 year-old independent candidate for U.S. Congress from the LaRouche movement, running in the Bronx, the poorest borough of New York City. His campaign, although small and operating on a shoestring budget, has generated growing excitement, as well as curiosity, among thinking constituents, especially younger layers of the population, who are challenged to fight for their […]

The lengthy telephone discussion between Presidents Trump and Putin on Oct. 16, just three days after the ceasefire agreement on Gaza was signed, caught many political leaders and observers off guard. It was reported that another summit between the two would be held soon, likely in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss pressing issues in person, including bringing an end to the […]

As we report below in more detail, one of the most exciting prospects that serious Russian-American cooperation holds forth is the construction of a tunnel under the Bering Strait, from Russia’s eastern-most tip to Alaska. Ever since the 1980s, Lyndon LaRouche and his political movement have promoted such a project, as one which could open up tremendous opportunities to the […]

Just as we were finishing our weekly newsletter on Oct. 22, EIR Washington (Executive Intelligence Review), was about to host an emergency international round table discussion on the strategic implications of the Bering Strait Tunnel project, which has been put front-and-center in U.S.-Russian relations by social media posts of Kremlin special envoy Kirill Dmitriev, and by Donald Trump’s comment in […]

A Goldman Sachs note to customers on Oct. 20 warned of a high risk of a “credit tail event”. A credit tail event is an extreme credit loss scenario caused by widespread or concentrated defaults, credit rating downgrades, or severe market dislocations in credit spreads. It could be a sudden wave of corporate defaults, like in 2008, a major counterparty […]

Surely, investments in Artificial Intelligence are safer, some would protest. In fact, it’s also on the verge of bursting, as noted by former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich in an article on Substack: “Shares of stock surrounding AI and its data centers account for an estimated 75% of the returns to America’s biggest corporations, 80% of earnings growth, and 90% […]

New opinion polls in Germany show the Alternative for Germany party (AfD) either scoring 25%, putting it on a par with the CDU-CSU, or bypassing the latter by 1-2%. This has triggered a heated discussion about what the main governing party should do: attempt to ban the AfD by a Constitutional Cout ruling, or change some policies to boost the […]