STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The United States, as rotating chairman of the UN Security Council, convoked a special conference on food security on May 18. Given the dire and worsening hunger crisis in the world, it should have been devoted to launching a crash program to increase food production and ensure emergency distribution to the most endangered areas, which could be done fairly quickly […]

On the evening of May 19, the Foreign Minister of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) held a virtual conference to address the pressing needs of their nations as representative of the developing nations of the Global South. As currently constituted, the group of five represents 40% of the world’s population and 20% of global GDP. But the […]

The Schiller Institute is hosting an emergency webinar on May 26 on the theme: “US and European Military and Security Experts Warn: The Insanity of Politicians Threatens Nuclear War”. The featured speakers, in addition to the Institute’s chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche are: Colonel (ret) Richard H. Black, former Chief of the Army Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former State […]

The Foreign Ministers of the G7 together with the EU’s top diplomat released a virtual declaration of war against Russia, at the end of their May 14 meeting on the Baltic Sea in Germany. Their statement, as usual, accuses Moscow of bearing sole responsibility for the escalation in Ukraine and makes no offer of negotiations. It asserts: “We will never […]

One of the key components of the “all-everything” bubble is the highly leveraged U.S. stock market – and deleveraging is on. The fall of the stock market is very similar to that of 2007, when it slid week after week, and month after month, before abruptly collapsing around the Lehman insolvency crisis. As for today, the Dow Jones just closed […]

European Union policy towards Russia energy supplies is a combination of the foolish behavour exposed by Aesop and Phaedrus. On the one side, they steal Russia’s foreign reserves and accuse Moscow of not wanting to pay in euros (The wolf to the lamb: “How dare you trouble all the flood?”); on the other side, they keep repeating that Moscow is […]

The cohesion of the three-party government coalition of Chancellor Olaf Scholz is undermined by many serious frictions — ranging from issues of economic and social policy to differences on how to respond to the war in Ukraine. The dominant impression on the latter is that Scholz is turning Germany into a party to the war, by giving in to the […]

Following the very short lead of Emmanuel Macron in the first round of the presidential elections, who received 30 % of the votes against the sizeable score of 23% for Marine Le Pen and 22% for Jean Luc Mélenchon, Solidarité & Progres President Jacques Cheminade immediately recognized the emergence of a new majority. This « popular bloc », he said, was not between […]

Within days after Russia launched its “special military operation” in Ukraine on Feb. 24, the West unleashed what it called “the largest sanctions in history,” including the “nuclear financial option”, which involved banning seven Russian banks from the SWIFT financial system. A few weeks later, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that, as a result of those sanctions, the […]

Amidst the many demands made on all countries but their own by the G7’s Foreign Ministers at their May 14 meeting (cf. above), they issued an outrageously insulting statement on China to which Beijing gave a swift and stinging response. The G7 officials call on China “not to assist Russia in its war of aggression” or “undermine sanctions imposed on […]