It is now two weeks into the second Presidency of Donald Trump, and he continues to hold the world in suspense as to what his next moves will be. There are many breaking developments, but the question is, will they lead to solutions, or to an accelerated slide into chaos and danger? The jury is still out on that one. […]
Read moreThe confirmation hearings last week for Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence and Kash Patel as FBI Director were scenes of clashes between defenders of the old disintegrating order, and bold challengers deployed by President Trump to clean out the corruption of an old boys network which has presided over one failure after another. The hearings took place, respectively, […]
Read moreAs we have emphasized, Donald Trump’s weak flank is the economy. Faced with the threatened collapse of the financial bubble, which includes derivatives on out-of-control government debt, the Trump team of financial specialists is now planning to create another bubble, which might bring some results in the short (or rather very short) term, but will inevitably deflagrate the entire system. […]
Read moreOn Monday, January 27, the U.S. stock market suffered a surprise plunge, which highlights the reality of the dilemma facing the Western world today. The financial shock was in response to the news a few days earlier, that the new Chinese artificial intelligence model, DeepSeek, had outperformed the leading American models. And that, at a fraction of the cost and […]
Read moreReviewing the latest political developments in Germany and the chaos they have generated, one can only conclude that while the German elites are good at producing problems, they have no clue as to how to solve them. That was again made clear in the Bundestag last week. In an attempt to improve his popularity, CDU chancellor candidate Friedrich Merz initiated […]
Read moreOn Feb. 1, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the lead candidate for the BüSo (Civil Rights Movmenet Solidarity), made a two minute video on the vote that had just taken place in the Bundestag on the changes in the migration laws proposed by CDU leader Friedrich Merz (cf. above). The text of that video follows (cf. also SAS 4/25). Friedrich Merz has just […]
Read moreCiting two unnamed sources, Politico.eu announced Jan. 28, that the Trump administration had finally accepted the appointment of Lord Peter Mandelson as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to Washington, after the transition team had opposed it. This produced “sighs of relief” in London, commented The Independent. In fact, in a post Dec. 20 on X, President-elect Trump’s 2024 campaign coordinator Chris LaCivita […]
Read moreIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Washington on Feb. 2 to push his plan for an ethnically cleansed “Greater Israel”, presumably to little or no opposition from his interlocutors. The official agenda of his talks, including with President Trump on the evening of Feb. 4 (our editorial deadline), is focused on the nature of Phase 2 of the ceasefire and […]
Read moreA priority for U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is to kick China out of the Western Hemisphere, which he considers even more important than stopping migration and fighting drugs. With that goal in mind, he was in Panama on Feb. 2 to meet with President José Raúl Mulino and Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha, before visiting three other Central American […]
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