STRATEGIC ALERT Service

“We need to prepare for fairly hard times, if not very hard times, for the West”, warned France’s Chief of the Defense Staff, Gen. Thierry Burkhard, as the “rejection” of the Western model continues to gain strength. “We are resolutely entering a new era, with a West that is being challenged … and an extremely strong fragmentation of the international order,” […]

The New Development Bank (NDB) held its annual Board of Governors meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, Aug. 29-31. The main mission of the bank, founded in 2015 by the five member countries of the BRICS, is to mobilize financial resources for projects in emerging economies and developing countries. One of the main obstacles to doing so, as NDB President […]

Just days after the New York Times had revealed a few aspects of the super-secret nuclear plan adopted by the Biden Administration last March, focused on the need to deter China, U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan was in Beijing Aug. 27-29, where he held up to eleven hours of discussion with Foreign Minister Wang Yi. This was the first […]

The Ninth Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) on Sept. 4-6 in Beijing should draw the attention of public opinion, media and government leaders as an event that has major implications for Europe. Leaders from 53 countries plus the African Union will deliberate with Chinese leaders on the next phase of Africa’s development, driven by the Belt and […]

An Israeli court ordered the premature end of a general strike called by the Histradut trade union confederation on Sept. 2, but not before it had closed local governments, schools and businesses across Israel and disrupted flights in and out of Ben Gurion airport for some eight hours. The strike had been called by Histadrut head Arnon Bar-David to support […]

Following a shocking warning by Russian Major General Apti Alaudinov on Aug. 19, the International Peace Coalition (IPC) issued an emergency statement, which has been endorsed by the Schiller Institute. It notes that World War Three may have begun on the day Ukrainian forces launched an incursion into the Kursk region of Russia (cf. SAS 34/24). In fact, it was […]

According to an article in the Aug. 20 New York Times, President Joe Biden approved last March a nuclear strategic plan for the United States that is so highly classified that only a few printed copies of it exist. Entitled Nuclear Employment Guidance, it reorients, for the first time, America’s strategy of deterrence to focus on the rapid expansion of […]

With ten weeks until election day, the U.S. presidential campaign remains both unprecedented and unpredictable. With Vice-President Kamala Harris anointed as the presidential candidate for the Democrats, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., a former Democratic Party candidate now running as an Independent, partially suspended his campaign, while endorsing Donald Trump. Events at the Democratic Party national convention confirmed our assessment that […]

Keynoting the annual central bank symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, on Aug. 23, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell announced that “the time has come” for the Fed to cut interest rates. While some commented that his announcement “came in time” to favor the Democratic Party candidate, in reality it came almost too late. As Lyndon LaRouche often insisted, central […]

The Swiss government (Federal Council) formally approved on Aug. 21, the country’s participation in two projects of the European Union’s military pact called the Permanent Structured Cooperation project (PESCO for short). The Military Mobility program aims to facilitate cross border transport and deployments of the various armed forces in all the participating countries, which would simply Swiss operations abroad. The […]