STRATEGIC ALERT Service

On the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly, China and Brazil invited 15 nations of the Global South to a special meeting on Sept. 27 to discuss their joint peace plan for ending the war in Ukraine. The participants resolved to establish a “Friends of Peace” group to promote diplomacy, negotiations and an international peace conference. China’s Foreign Minister […]

On Sept. 25, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced proposed revisions of Russia’s standing doctrine for the use of nuclear weapons, which significantly lower the threshold for their use—at exactly the moment that the United States and NATO are considering action to cross that threshold. “The use of nuclear forces is the last resort measure to protect the country’s sovereignty”, he said […]

There are calls for the resignation of U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, following the publication of an article which exposes him for lying in order to enable U.S. aid to flow unimpeded to Israel, despite the latter’s violations of U.S. law. Democratic Party Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and Nihad Awad, the National Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, […]

The Federal Reserve of Atlanta has published a study which estimates that $13 trillion are created by offshore banks not headquartered in the United States. The study, albeit incomplete on the real dimension of the speculative bubble, points to the problem of money creation by private interests outside of U.S. sovereign control, and the role of London in initiating it. […]

Shortly after Michel Barnier was finally named Prime Minister on Sept. 5 (cf. SAS 37/24), Jacques Cheminade, the president of Solidarité et Progrès, issued a statement addressing the ostensible reason he had been chosen, namely the disastrous state of the French economy. “Our economy, subjugated to financial supervision, is undergoing a gradual disintegration”, he wrote, due to the nation’s “political […]

The fact that Austria’s right-wing Freedom Party is the winner of the national election on Sept. 29, has come as no surprise. The massive attempts by the other parties and the mainstream media to demonize the party have failed, because its positions critical of Brussels, against war and for resuming natural gas imports from Russia resonate with many voters. The […]

To a certain extent, the situation in Germany after the three state parliament elections in Thuringia, Saxony and Brandenburg in September is similar to that in Austria, although it’s characterized by an even more rapid disintegration of the traditional political parties (cf. SAS 36, 39/24). Following the Sept. 22, election in Brandenburg, which saw the Greens thrown out of the […]

Producing 1.5 million barrels of oil a day, Nigeria is Africa’s largest oil producer, yet has been forced for years to export that raw material to earn “hard currency”, and then spend that same “hard currency” to import all of the refined oil products. This process led to the creation of a murky “petro-dollar” economy, of exporters, importers and distributors, […]

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 […]