Month: September 2024

This could be a crucial week for international diplomacy, with heads of state and government and many other leaders meeting in New York City for the General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly, from Sept. 24 to Sept. 30. On the sidelines of the debate, the foreign ministers of the G-20 will meet on Sept. 25, and a separate […]

A blunt warning was delivered by former U.N. weapons inspector and peace activist Scott Ritter on the weekly International Peace Coalition Zoom call on Sept. 20. He said the attempt by British Prime Minister Starmer to get President Biden to agree to allow Ukraine to destroy targets inside Russia, had it succeeded, likely would have provoked a nuclear response by […]

As we prepare this issue of the Strategic Alert, tensions between Israel and the Hezbollah in Lebanon have escalated to the point of threatening an all-out war in the region, involving Iran. Strikes on both sides have continued for days now. The attacks surged after the two waves of explosion of pagers and two-way radios last week in Lebanon supposedly […]

The headline above is the question asked by Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy in a column dated Sept. 15. His horror at what his country has become is shared by growing numbers in Israel, despite the controlled environment that the government has put into place, as well as internationally. But not nearly quickly enough. As seen in the brief testimonies we provide […]

Could it get any worse? The new European Commission presented by Ursula von der Leyen on Sept. 17 is even more pro-war and anti-Europe in its profile than its predecessor. The most powerful posts are given to the tiny Baltic republics, notorious proxies for British and American interests. Kaja Kallas (Estonia), a known warmonger, is the new High Representative for […]

As for the policy that the new European Commission intends to implement, its President Ursula von der Leyen has indicated that the it will follow Draghi’s recommendations. She was referring to the report on European Competitiveness prepared by Mario Draghi and presented Sept. 17 to the European Parliament. As we reported last week, Mario Draghi calls for €700-800 billion per […]

The election for the new parliament of the German state of Brandenburg on Sept. 22 ended up with a very slim win for the Social Democrats (SPD), at 30.7%, over the Alternative for Germany (AfD) at 29.4%, after opinion polls had shown the contrary. A decisive factor in boosting the SPD was the spectacular endorsement of the party on the […]

On the morning of Sept. 23, Argentina’s self-proclaimed “anarcho-capitalist” President Javier Milei stood at the podium of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street to manically ring the bell opening that day’s trading session. Just before this, he had met with a group of New York City investors to vow he will intensify the Malthusian policies he has imposed […]

We wrote last week in the slug entitled “SpaceX Astronaut-Violinist Performs from Space with Youth Orchestra on Earth”, that “Besides being the first to play the violin from space, Sarah Gillis also made history by becoming the first female to conduct a spacewalk, accompanied by Jared Isaacman, also the first to do a private spacewalk on a private commercial mission.” […]

We have repeatedly warned here that the weeks leading into the U.S. elections and thereafter will be crucial for the question of war and peace in the world, a period during which tectonic shifts can be expected, regardless of the outcomes of specific events. The second assassination attempt against candidate Donald Trump, had it not been foiled by the Secret […]