STRATEGIC ALERT Service

On April 18, the UN Security Council held its vote on Palestine’s request to become a full member state in the United Nations. The overwhelming majority, 12 nations from all parts of the world (Algeria, China, Ecuador, France, Guyana, Japan, Korea, Malta, Mozambique, Russia, Sierra Leone and Slovenia) voted in favor. Two abstained, the United Kingdom and Switzerland. The United […]

Folker Hellmeyer, one of Germany’s most popular economists, warned in an April 17 interview with PrivatInvestor TV that the German economy is running into a wall, and that the crash will rapidly become non-linear. The world economy is witnessing a fragmentation, Hellmeyer explained, with the Global West decoupling from the Global South which, measured in purchase power parity, now represents […]

The “Neutrality Initiative”, launched by the “Pro Schweiz” group and the Swiss People’s Party (SPP), has filed a petition in favor of a national referendum to restore strict neutrality status for the country. The number of certified signatures (133,000 plus many more uncertified) gathered in a relatively short time period reflects the large support the initiative has found in the […]

All in all, despite the differing views on Ukraine, Taiwan and the South China Sea, Chinese media coverage of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s visit to Chongqing, Shanghai and Beijing one week ago was positive. The presence of so many German industry leaders was portrayed as beneficial for both sides, while Scholz’s statement in support of Chinese e-car exports to Europe […]

Russia has ambitious plans for the BRICS Plus in the course of its chairmanship of the group in 2024, as presented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the April 16 meeting of the United Russia Party in Moscow. Efforts, he said, will be focused on three main areas: “politics and security, the economy and finance, and cultural and humanitarian contacts”. […]

The current danger of a war breaking out between Iran and Israel appears to be aimed at sabotaging, among other things, a major initiative to finally build a rail network linking the Persian Gulf and the Mediterranean, that would involve Iran, Iraq, Syria, Türkiye, Saudi Arabia, and other regional players. On April 22, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made an […]

“We are organizing this Oasis Conference to inject a perspective of hope and show a way out of an otherwise desperate, extremely dangerous, and indeed, catastrophic situation in Southwest Asia.” With this forward-looking challenge, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, Chairwoman of the international Schiller Institute, began her keynote speech to the Institute’s April 13 online conference devoted to the Oasis Plan, “The LaRouche […]

After opening remarks by Helga Zepp-LaRouche (cf. above), two ambassadors from Palestine had the floor: H.E. Prof. Dr. Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Ambassador to Denmark; and H.E. Mounir Anastas, Palestinian Ambassador to UNESCO. Professor Hassassian said that Palestine had been conquered many times in history, pointing to the Balfour Mandate that unleashed a century of aggression and ethnic cleansing in the forced creation […]

From the moment Israeli missiles destroyed the Iranian consulate in Syria on April 1, in flagrant violation of international law, the international community was speculating over the reprisals the Islamic Republic vowed to take. It was only 12 days later – after the United States and other Western countries had refused to condemn the bombing – that the counter-attack was […]

With a rerun of the 2020 election underway between the same two candidates, whom polls show are widely disliked, it is no surprise that the U.S. is facing intense political turmoil seven months before voters go to the polls. There are deepening splits within both parties, driven by the growing recognition that the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is […]