STRATEGIC ALERT Service

On the eve of Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani’s visit to Beijing amidst speculation that Italy would pull out of the 2019 MoU on the “New Silk Road” with China, former Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi made the case for Italy-China cooperation to develop Africa. Prodi, who is also a former European Commission President, specifically called on the Italian government […]

The last decade of wars, financial crisis and the COVID 19 pandemic led to the suspension of many ambitious infrastructure projects in Africa. This is now changing, and is expected to gain even more impetus as the BRICS dynamic sweeps over the continent. Libya: The end of the Libyan civil war through a ceasefire and the ongoing political negotiations between […]

Apparently at the urging of the Green coalition partner, the German cabinet approved draft legislation two weeks ago, which would make it easier for juveniles under the age of 18 to legally change their gender and their first name. Up to the age of 14, the parents or legal guardians would simply have to file the relevant declaration at the […]

The Schiller Institute will hold an international online conference on September 9, beginning 15.00 CET, on the theme: Let us Join Hands with the Global Majority To Create a New Chapter in World History! Please register for the conference here. Simultaneous translation in French, German and Spanish will be available on Zoom for those who register.

The proceedings of the BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, underscored that a worldwide tectonic shift is indeed underway, driven by the understanding that a new architecture of peace and development is now a prerequisite for survival. As announced, bringing Africa, as “the continent of the future”, fully into the new dynamic was a special focus of the five members […]

At a press conference held early on Aug. 24 in Johannesburg, Indian Prime Minister Modi, flanked by Cyril Ramaphosa, Xi Jinping, Lula da Silva, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, announced that the five member nations had agreed by consensus to welcome six new nations to become full-fledged members of the BRICS: Argentina, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia, Iran and the […]

While it is not a big surprise to hear that the mainstream media is involved in censoring and producing lies about significant strategic developments, the “reporting” on last week’s BRICS summit offers a prime example of using “narrative creation” to promote ignorance and fear. That summit accomplished major advances in ending colonialism, and provided an alternative based on peaceful, cooperative […]

Looking for the rationale of the messages given by the two major central banks in the world, the Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank, at the yearly central bankers meeting in Jackson Hole, Wyoming Aug. 25-27, is useless. Both the Fed’s Jerome Powell and the ECB’s Christine Lagarde warned that high interest rates are here to stay longer, regardless […]

Just recently, there have been almost daily warnings about the substantial contraction of the German real estate to be expected. The dominant aspect is that project developers are facing a dual threat: on the one hand, projects and expected profits never materialize due to bureaucratic delays and a never-ending list of environment-related regulations; on the other hand, pre-investments are, in […]

In the early morning hours of Aug. 24, Brazilian President Lula da Silva called his friend, Argentine President Alberto Fernandez, from Johannesburg to enthusiastically tell him that Argentina was one of six nations invited to become new members of the BRICS. To the beleaguered Argentine President, whose government has been subjected to relentless financial warfare, as well as threats and […]