STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The Ninth Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on Sept. 4-6 in Beijing should draw the attention of public opinion, media and government leaders as an event that has major implications for Europe. Leaders from 53 countries plus the African Union will deliberate with Chinese leaders on the next phase of Africa’s development, driven by the Belt and […]

An Israeli court ordered the premature end of a general strike called by the Histradut trade union confederation on Sept. 2, but not before it had closed local governments, schools and businesses across Israel and disrupted flights in and out of Ben Gurion airport for some eight hours. The strike had been called by Histadrut head Arnon Bar-David to support […]

Following a shocking warning by Russian Major General Apti Alaudinov on Aug. 19, the International Peace Coalition (IPC) issued an emergency statement, which has been endorsed by the Schiller Institute. It notes that World War Three may have begun on the day Ukrainian forces launched an incursion into the Kursk region of Russia (cf. SAS 34/24). In fact, it was […]

According to an article in the Aug. 20 New York Times, President Joe Biden approved last March a nuclear strategic plan for the United States that is so highly classified that only a few printed copies of it exist. Entitled Nuclear Employment Guidance, it reorients, for the first time, America’s strategy of deterrence to focus on the rapid expansion of […]

With ten weeks until election day, the U.S. presidential campaign remains both unprecedented and unpredictable. With Vice-President Kamala Harris anointed as the presidential candidate for the Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former Democratic Party candidate now running as an Independent, partially suspended his campaign, while endorsing Donald Trump. Events at the Democratic Party national convention confirmed our assessment that […]

Keynoting the annual central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Aug. 23, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced that “the time has come” for the Fed to cut interest rates. While some commented that his announcement “came in time” to favor the Democratic Party candidate, in reality it came almost too late. As Lyndon LaRouche often insisted, central […]

The Swiss government (Federal Council) formally approved on Aug. 21, the country’s participation in two projects of the European Union’s military pact called the Permanent Structured Cooperation project (PESCO for short). The Military Mobility program aims to facilitate cross border transport and deployments of the various armed forces in all the participating countries, which would simply Swiss operations abroad. The […]

The state-owned German railway company (Deutsche Bahn, DB) has been in steady decline for the past 30 years now, with the top management either unable or unwilling to finally begin modernizing or replacing all the bridges, tracks and signals in disrepair. The Swiss, for example, have often complained about Germany’s lack of investment in the needed upgrade for the north-south […]

The recent attacks by Ukrainian/NATO forces on nuclear power plants in Russia and in Zaporizhia have exposed to the entire world the hypocrisy of the anti-nuclear ecologist movements in Europe, in particular in Germany. While many such movements have campaigned for decades against the use of civilian nuclear power on the pretext that any military attack against the plants would […]

European and American leaders love to praise democracy, free speech, and “Western values”. But in times of war against virtually the rest of the world compounded by access to social media, they’re having upholding such principles at home. So it’s back to reliable, old police state measures, as these examples show: France arrests founder of Telegram app. On Aug. 24, […]