STRATEGIC ALERT Service

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 […]

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, praised until now as a model pupil of NATO doctrine to the detriment of German interests and sovereignty, has made newspaper headlines in the past two weeks with remarks seeming to go in a different direction. He spoke of the need of diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, he confirmed he would continue to oppose […]

Former investment banker, central banker and Italian PM Mario Draghi has delivered the report on The Future of European Competitiveness, which the failed but re-appointed head of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen had commissioned. The most remarkable thing about the report is that both Draghi and von der Leyen have been wrong in every forecast made, and are […]

In preparation for the BRICS summit to be held on Oct. 22-24 in Kazan, high-level officials responsible for security matters of the member countries gathered in St. Petersburg Sept. 11-12. In addition to those nine members (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates), a meeting also took place with representatives of countries that are working […]

At the same time U.S. Secretary of State Blinken was consolidating a U.S.-U.K. agreement to provide long-range missiles to Kiev to strike deep in Russian territory, he released a lengthy State Department Fact Sheet, which detailed U.S. sanctions against RT, its owner Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian news outlets, and anyone working with them. Speaking to the press on Sept. […]