Author: Christine Schier

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 […]

In response to a reporter on Sept.12, the Russian President warned that “this is not a question of whether the Kiev regime is allowed or not allowed to strike targets on Russian territory. It is already carrying out strikes using unmanned aerial vehicles and other means. But using Western-made long-range precision weapons is a completely different story. “The fact is […]

The Sept. 13 weekly online meeting of the International Peace Coalition featured an important contribution from Dr. Ted Postol, MIT professor emeritus and one of the world’s foremost experts on nuclear weapons. He began by stressing that the very fact that Secretary of State Antony Blinken would even suggest considering “the use of tactical nuclear weapons”, means he doesn’t know what […]