STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The wave of campus protests against U.S. support for Israel’s deadly assault on the population of Gaza began inauspiciously with the takeover of the Brown University (Rhode Island) administration building on Nov. 8, 2023. Among the demands of the students was for a printout of the university’s financial relationship with the Israeli government and military establishment, and of investments of […]

German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius’ two-day visit to the United States May 9-10 was above all a shopping spree for U.S.-made military equipment. Among his purchases were three complete units of HIMARS long-range missile launchers to be shipped to Ukraine, as well as 60 twin-engine “Chinook” transport helicopters, produced at a Philadelphia Boeing helicopter factory which Pistorius visited May 9. […]

China’s overall trade grew in April with both exports and particularly imports increasing from a year earlier, further indicating strengthening expansion in China’s economy. Exports rose by 1.5% from a year earlier in dollar terms, meaning the growth was significantly larger in volume of goods, given the dollar’s appreciation over that year. Imports were up by 8.4%, in part for […]

As usual, Lyndon LaRouche’s “typical collapse function” helps explain developments of last week. Western elites are operating within the constraints of the collapsing financial system, constraints that force them to both escalate global tensions and de-industrialize their own economies. Tensions escalated as French President Emmanuel Macron and British Foreign Minister Cameron raised the possibility of sending (NATO member country) troops […]

As University administrators collaborate with local police to silence dissent on campuses, Congressmen are racing to enact legislation to empower a thought police to monitor “anti-Semitism” and “extremism” which they claim leads to “violence and intimidation”. Leaders of both political parties in the U.S. are falsely denouncing protesters as anti-Semites and pro-Hamas, and have called for many to be arrested […]

Chinese President Xi Jinping began his first visit to Europe since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic on May 6, amid tremendous financial and geopolitical turbulence worldwide, and the acute danger of world war. Beginning in France, his trip will also take him to Serbia and Hungary. By all accounts, both from China-bashers and from those in favor of cooperation, […]

First was decoupling, then de-risking, now it is “overcapacity”: U.S. and EU leaders have no trouble in finding narratives to justify geopolitical hostility to China. During U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s recent visit to China, he pointed to the “unfair trade practices” and the potential consequences of “industrial overcapacity” for global and U.S. markets. In China a few days […]

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock has done it again. During her just-concluded trip to Australia and New Zealand, she again talked up the importance of economic warfare against China, while announcing an increased military presence of the German Navy in the Pacific and the Taiwan Strait. In this context, the table.media China newsletter published an interview May 6, with a […]

On April 30, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) voted 15-1 to reject Nicaragua’s case calling for a provisional order to be issued for Germany to stop arming Israel, and to renew funding for UNRWA (which the government actually did at the end of April). However, the court rejected Germany’s application to throw the case out, and will continue the […]

The World Bank’s International Development Association was hit with more criticism than it reckoned at the forum for African heads of state it organized April 29 in Nairobi, Kenya. The announced focus was on favorable lending terms and strategies to bolster sustainable development and promote foreign investment, but a number of participants disagree with the approach imposed by the West. […]