STRATEGIC ALERT Service

The recent attacks by Ukrainian/NATO forces on nuclear power plants in Russia and in Zaporizhia have exposed to the entire world the hypocrisy of the anti-nuclear ecologist movements in Europe, in particular in Germany. While many such movements have campaigned for decades against the use of civilian nuclear power on the pretext that any military attack against the plants would […]

European and American leaders love to praise democracy, free speech, and “Western values”. But in times of war against virtually the rest of the world compounded by access to social media, they’re having upholding such principles at home. So it’s back to reliable, old police state measures, as these examples show: France arrests founder of Telegram app. On Aug. 24, […]

The UN’s top humanitarian official for the Palestinian territories, Muhannad Hadi, confirmed Aug. 22 that some 90% of 2.1 million residents of Gaza have been displaced, many of them several times, since Oct. 7. They are forced to flee into ever smaller areas, that are crowded and unsafe, where they are usually deprived of medical care, shelter, water wells and […]

International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan has urged the court to “urgently render its decisions” on the issuance of arrest warrants for five leaders of Israel and Hamas. His submission, which was made public on Aug. 23 (cf. SAS 21/24). , follows on the request he originally filed in May, accusing those leaders of commiting war crimes and crimes against […]

Day by day, the world is moving closer to an all-out, direct war between NATO and Russia. One by one, Western countries have crossed the limits they themselves had set, apparently believing that since Moscow has not yet responded with full force, they can go even further. The latest move is the incursion, allegedly by Ukrainian forces alone, into the […]

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 […]