STRATEGIC ALERT Service

On Aug. 7, the FBI and other federal agents raided unannounced the home of Scott Ritter, a former Marine, former United Nations weapons inspector, member of the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), and one of the most outspoken adversaries of the U.S. policy of permanent war and regime change. Ritter has been a frequent guest at events of the […]

As we reported in the last issue (cf. SAS 32-33/24), a minimal increase of interest rates by the Bank of Japan, from 0% to 0.25%, was the trigger for the stock market meltdown worldwide in early August. The fact that such a micro change in the cost of money by a G7 central bank could unleash a systemic crisis indicates […]

Last week was the 53rd anniversary of the fateful Aug. 15, 1971 televised policy speech by then-U.S. President Richard Nixon, which announced the end of the fixed-rate international financial system, and the beginning of the era of runaway speculative destruction of the world economy. It is useful to focus attention on the implications of that decision of half a century […]

In their rush to make Germany “ready for war”, a mission proclaimed by Defense Minister Pistorius, the country’s elites have apparently forgotten the lessons of World War II, and of the defeat of the German army by the Soviet armies. Thus, they are provoking a Russia that has become a nuclear superpower, effectively condemning Germany to national suicide, since in […]

The Civil Rights Movement Solidarity party (BüSo for short) held its national convention on Aug. 17 in Dresden, the state capital of Saxony, at a moment of extreme strategic tension. In her keynote speech, the chairwoman of the party, Helga Zepp-LaRouche, focused on the urgency of preventing a nuclear war and of re-establishing a sovereign republic that defends the interests […]

As we prepare this edition of our newsletter, the typical dog-and-pony show is ongoing at the Democratic Party Convention in Chicago, lots of wild clapping and pep talks, but nothing of substance being discussed, although outside, protests from anti-war movements are taking place. It was already decided beforehand that Kamala Harris would be anointed presidential candidate, and nothing indicates that […]

While negotiations on a possible ceasefire in Gaza drag on in Doha, with the Biden Administration desperate to achieve some kind of face-saving compromise for internal political reasons, the Palestinian population continues to suffer and die. Beyond a few crocodile tears, European nations have remained shamefully silent in front of the genocide. According to a letter published in the authoritative […]

People have been totally bewildered by the realization that the first flight of the Boeing Starliner, which brought two astronauts to the International Space Station for a ten-day stay on June 5, has left them stranded there for over 70 days now, and that they are liable to spend six more months on the ISS before they can return on […]

The world is facing a double crisis that has dramatically worsened over the past week: on the one hand, the danger of an escalation to world war, the potential theater of which is now being set in Southwest Asia and, on the other, an uncontrolled collapse of the world monetary system that would lead to widespread economic chaos (cf. below). […]

Stocks plunged on Wall Street Aug. 5, with the Dow Jones Index closing at 1033 points down, for a 2.6% drop, the worst in two years, while the Nasdaq Composite lost a daily 3.43%. The trend had started in Japan, where the Nikkei nose-dived more than 12%, the worst one-day loss since Black Monday in 1987. European stock markets followed […]