STRATEGIC ALERT Service

One day before U.S. President Joe Biden requested over $100 billion in new funding for wars abroad (cf. above), Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the equivalent of approximately $100 billion in new funding for Belt and Road Initiative development projects. The contrast in policy orientation could not be clearer. Xi Jinping was speaking at the Third Belt and Road Forum […]

The speech delivered by Vladimir Putin at the Third Belt and Road Forum built on the renewed impetus for development spurred by the expansion of the BRICS group, as he focused on Russia’s planned transportation and trade corridors, which are to crisscross the entirety of the Eurasian continent. These routes, he pointed out, reflect “the deep changes that are ongoing […]

In Argentina’s Oct. 22 general elections, presidential candidate Sergio Massa, of the ruling Unity for the Fatherland (UP) coalition, won a surprising 36.7% of the vote, beating out Libertarian extremist Javier Milei of the Freedom Advances (LLA) party, whose 30.1% remained unchanged from his score in the Aug. 14 primaries (cf. SAS 36/23). Coming in third with 24% of the […]

The war unleashed between Israel and the Palestinians, if allowed to continue, could quickly escalate out of control, involving the entire Arab world, Iran, and well beyond. Therefore, the priority must be to stop the bloodbath, neutralize the “crazies” on both sides, and protect the civilian population in Gaza that is now threatened with “ethnic cleansing”. However, most Western media, […]

Over the course of 18 weeks of private weekly meetings, the IPC, co-initiated by the Schiller Institute, has built up a high level of cooperation between representatives of international organizations of different political outlooks which shared the recognition that the drive for global war must be stopped in favor of security and development for all nations. The coalition’s first public […]

Reports in Western media have mainly presented the Israeli population as being solidly unifed behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Israeli media, on the contrary, at least some of them, have given voice to the intense anger brewing at the government for having deliberately created the conditions for the renewed outbreak of war with Hamas. The following examples give the tenor. […]

The increase of central bank interest rates is creating an “imbalance” in the financial system that can unleash a global meltdown if not stopped. The problem is, that it can be stopped only if the speculative side of the system is shut down. Traditional measures, such as lowering rates again, would not work. It is like the driver who steps […]

In a study published Oct. 2, the Washington Post analyzed data from the past 40 years to address the dramatic decline in life expectancy in the United States, compared to other “peer” (developed) nations and even to some poorer nations. While not addressing the collapsing U.S. physical economy and related factors directly, the study does usefully refer to the failing healthcare […]

At the Russian Energy Week International Forum on Oct. 11, Vladimir Putin could hardly avoid ridiculizing the European Union’s energy policy – whether he wanted to or not. He reiterated that Moscow had proposed to immediately begin supplying Germany and other European countries with up to 27.5 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually, pumped through the undamaged pipeline of […]

Judging from the preliminary results of the national elections in Poland on Oct. 15, the current PiS government is set to be replaced by a coalition of the three opposition parties, which altogether received 53.1% of the votes. The new Prime Minister would be Donald Tusk, who served as Polish Prime Minister in 2007-2014 and President of the European Council […]