STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Paris was under “siege” on Jan. 29, as farmers blocked the major access points to the capital with their tractors and bales of hay, and many planned to stay until the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday. This spectacular action followed days of protest actions throughout the country. The new Prime Minister Gabriel Attal did offer them a few concessions, […]

The BSW (Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht), initiated by former Linke politician Sahra Wagenknecht, held its official founding convention on Jan. 27 in Berlin. Some 400 delegates discussed the programmatic priorities, which are: an end to weapons deliveries to Ukraine and an instant ceasefire there; restoring cooperation with Russia, together with the lifting of sanctions and the resumption of natural gas imports […]

The Italy-Africa Conference opened on Jan. 29 in Rome, to launch the Italian government’s much touted “Mattei Plan” (named after the late industrialist and anti-imperialist leader Enrico Mattei). However, the title should have been “EU-Italy-Africa”, as Prime Minister Meloni (and her Foreign minister Antonio Tajani) invited the entire EU leadership: Ursula von der Leyen, Charles Michel and European Parliament chairman […]

The Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) sent President Joe Biden an “Alert Memorandum” on Jan. 25, warning him once again, that the intelligence on Ukraine he has been receiving since the beginning of the conflict with Russia has been dangerously wrong. The VIPS is a group of former officers of the U.S. intelligence community, many of them whistle-blowers, who […]

In the midst of the extraordinary ferment taking place internationally against the Wall Street and London authored neoliberal policies, an estimated 1.5 million Argentines took to the streets to march and protest on Jan. 24 as part of the 12-hour strike called by the trade union federation CGT and the allied CTA against the fascist economic policies of radical Libertarian […]

Simultaneous with the annual get-together of the world’s billionaire club in Davos, representatives of the entire “Global South” were meeting in Kampala, Uganda, to discuss the emergence of a more just world system, in which their nations and peoples, too, can develop. The 19th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, with its 120 member countries and 20 observer states, took place […]

The annual meeting of the World Economic Forum that took place on January 15-19 proceeded along the usual lines: a public circus to provide fodder for media headlines and pictures, and a non public level of discussions to deliberate on actions in the interest of the WEF “stakeholders”, i.e., the billionaire elite running the global financial system. On the public […]

As the power of the so-called “unipolar world” wanes, and the rules of the “rules-based order” cease to function, the propaganda machine in NATO countries is churning out warnings of imminent threats from supposed “enemies” out to destroy democracy and freedom. The overriding “danger”, this narrative would have us believe, remains Russia, but China and Iran must also be dealt […]

A special guest at the International Peace Coalition’s meeting on Jan. 19, was Francis Boyle, an American human rights lawyer, and Professor of international law at the Illinois University’s College of Law, who discussed the South African filing against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague (cf. SAS, 2,3/24). Professor Boyle served as counsel for Bosnia […]

Defying the world, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu has maintained his hard-line position insisting there can be no Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip, and not even a two-state solution as was (timidly) proposed by U.S. Secretary of State Blinken last week. At the World Economic Forum in Davos, Israeli President Herzog stated categorically before that distinguished audience that there will […]