Month: April 2025

In a statement issued April 10, the international Schiller Institute clarifies the underlying reasons for the current strategic crisis, and lays out the steps to be taken to bring about a new security and development architecture. We quote the beginning of that statement: “The Western financial system is now teetering at the edge of a general, systemic blowout which is […]

The main lesson to be learned from the US bond market crisis of last week is that actions by the U.S. government bear consequences – regardless of whether they are right or wrong. Indeed, the markets do not tolerate anything that disrupts the way the financial system is organized, including control over the sovereign debt of nations. In the world […]

The whipsaw shifts in the Trump administration’s tariff policy had a short-term effect of spooking markets and highlighting divisions within the Republican Party, which were momentarily calmed when Donald Trump issued a 90-day pause on most tariffs. However, the events around “Liberation Day” triggered uncertainty about the administration’s competence, and questions pertaining to the initiation of a trade war with […]

Senior Finance Ministry officials from six European nations attended a secret dinner in Brussels during the last week of March, arranged by Great Britain. . On the menu? A plan devised by the U.K. Treasury Ministry to set up a supranational bank to finance a massive European rearmament drive, outside the European Union and European Commission, as reported by Politico […]

In an effort to bolster the dwindling support for their policies, Western authorities are blatantly jeopardizing “freedom of speech” and have begun massive campaigns to isolate, censor and punish those who call into question their narratives. In Germany, this involves not only statements on the Ukraine war labeled “Russian propaganda”, but also satirical remarks concerning members of government. Several months […]

Despite the harsh words and threats coming from the White House, two major diplomatic initiatives with far-reaching implications are now running their course. First, Russian President Putin met on April 11 in Saint Petersburg with Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff. While little of the contents was made public, the Kremlin reported that the discussion focused on settling the Ukraine […]

Following the March 29 New York Times lengthy article titled “The Partnership: The Secret History of the War in Ukraine” (cf. SAS 15/25), the Times of London ran its own article covering the British side of the operations. The latter makes clear that the British military, from its Ministry of Defense to its various intelligence branches, was involved at every […]

Roughly one thousand Israeli Air Force reservists, 60 of them still on active duty, issued a public letter on April 10 charging that the Netanyahu government is continuing its war in Gaza at the expense of the hostages for personal political, rather than security reasons. The active duty reservists who signed were thrown out of the military the next day. […]

The necessity of re-introducing into the United States an economic policy modeled on that of Alexander Hamilton has been scarcely taken up in America itself, outside of Lyndon LaRouche, who was the recognized expert on the subject, and his growing political movement. Particularly now, when President Trump claims he wants to end the excesses of globalization and make America a […]

Two major flash points dominated the strategic news this week. First, was the announcement by U.S. President Trump of blanket tariffs on imports to the United States, which set off a stock market collapse amid a mixture of warranted and unwarranted warnings about the collapse of the entire globalized system. The tariffs, that go into effect April 9, come on […]