STRATEGIC ALERT Service

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 […]

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 […]