STRATEGIC ALERT Service

With the dawn of the year 2025, some very gloomy forecasts were made about the German economy, but the bleakest was a report from the Handelsblatt Research Institute (HRI). “The German economy is in the midst of its biggest crisis in post-war history. The pandemic, the energy crisis and inflation have made Germans poorer on average”, Handelsblatt chief economist Bert […]

In an interview with Vatican News on New Year’s Day, Cardinal Mario Zenari, the Papal Nuncio in Damascus since 2008, expressed cautious optimism about the future of Syria. Asked about the meeting that had taken place one day before between HTS leader Ahmad al-Sharaa and Christian leaders, he viewed it as very hopeful. Cardinal Zenari also urged Christians to stay […]

The newly created African Energy Bank is a joint initiative of the African Petroleum Producers Organization (APPO) and Afreximbank, that will begin operations in early 2025 with an initial capital of $5 billion. The bank will finance energy projects including hydrocarbons and coal, for which the West is beginning to deny financing. This is yet another sign of the dynamic […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche was joined on her weekly webcast on January 1 by Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer in Europe and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), for a fascinating “insider” discussion of developments in Europe since the Cuban Missile Crisis. The webcast can be viewed in English here, and in German here. On Jan. 8, Zepp-LaRouche was […]

As the old year draws to a close and the new year opens, the outgoing Biden Administration and its allies continue to use the little time left until Jan. 20, to wreak havoc internationally, with a view to ensuring that the Trump presidency has few, if any, chances of establishing an alternative policy, even if it intends to. Thus, the […]

Helga Zepp-LaRouche will be joined on her weekly webcast on January 1, at 18:30 CET, 12:30 EST by Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer in Europe and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), to discuss the new paradigm for peace and economic development. Click here to follow the webcast live, in German or English.

A truly horrifying picture of the situation in Gaza was presented on Dec. 29 at the event convened under the leadership of Doctors Against Genocide co-founder Dr. Nidal Jboor. It brought together physicians from Gaza and those who had worked there recently– including Dr. Mark Perlmutter and Dr. Mimi Syed — and political commentators and activists, including Norman Finkelstein, Green […]

What the world will look like after January 20th and the inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. President is the subject of intense speculation throughout the world. Given his notorious unpredictability and his penchant for making provocative proposals, no one knows what policies a President Trump will actually implement. But the one point the he has made repeatedly is that […]

During the discussion following Panel I of the Schiller Institute international conference on Dec. 7 (cf. SAS 50/24), the panelists were asked which parties they think should take part in negotiations over a settlement in Ukraine. The first to answer was Dmitri Trenin, Academic Supervisor of the Institute of World Military Economy and Strategy at the Higher School of Economics […]

After just three months in power, the French government of Prime Minister Michel Barnier collapsed in early December, to be replaced a few weeks later by a new one, which may be just as short-lived. New Prime Minister François Bayrou, a pliable centrist, has been around for decades in French politics, and prominent members of his government are just as […]