STRATEGIC ALERT Service

U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, known for his unbridled enthusiasm for unconstitutional U.S. imperial wars, died on July 11, after returning from a short visit to Ukraine. This was his tenth trip there since Russia’s Special Military Operation began in February 2022, as his Russophobia and hatred for Vladimir Putin led him to demand that the U.S. and NATO fully arm […]

In 2004, the Syrian government led by Bashir Assad proposed a plan to turn Syria into a crossroads linking 5 Seas: the Mediterranean, the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Red Sea, and the Arabian Gulf. Today, Türkiye and Syria have proposed an initiative dubbed the “Four Seas-Nine Corridors”, aimed at transforming Southwest Asia from a region of endless wars […]

A new UNESCO report titled, Breaking the Debt Trap: Policy Paper on Restoring Fiscal Space to Save Education, states that in 2025 113 countries paid more for debt service than education. For the 18 poorest countries, their debt payment exceeded by five times what they spent on education, with the most extreme figure being 16 times for Sri Lanka. The […]

As NATO holds its summit in Ankara on July 7-8, two major conflicts in which member countries are deeply involved, Russia-Ukraine and Iran, could quickly escalate to a point of no return. While European leaders continue to present Russia as an imminent threat to Europe, Russian forces launched a major offensive against military production sites in Kyiv on July 6, […]

On the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence of the United States, Diane Sare, independent candidate for the presidency in 2028, held a day-long conference on July 5 in Philadelphia dedicated to restating and to reviving the founding principles of the Republic, as stated in that historic document. Unfortunately, as the various expert speakers pointed out, […]

In a July 3 video address to the National Constitutional Center in Philadelphia, commemorating the founding of the United States, Pope Leo XIV gave the speech that President Trump should have given for the Fourth of July celebrations. Speaking as “a son of this great country, founded by courageous men and women who dreamed of liberty and of a better […]

Just over two weeks before leaving Downing Street, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer unveiled, on June 30, his much-touted Defense Investment Plan (DIP), which provides for a £15 billion increase in defense spending this year. To sell the plan to the public, the outgoing Prime Minister attempted to sell the military buildup as a jobs program. “It will create nearly […]

As German Chancellor Friedrich Merz hosted the leaders of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania in Berlin on July 3, he pledged an even greater military build up against Russia. Just one day before, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda had announced that his parliamentary leaders are favorable to changing their nation’s constitution, to allow foreign nuclear weapons to be stationed in Lithuania. This […]

The debate on a serious investigation into the September 2022 attack on the Nord Stream pipelines transporting Russian gas to the German coast has been on the political back burner in Germany for a long time. But developments last week introduced new elements into the affair: the German Federal Public Prosecutor announced on July 2 that the indictment against one […]

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced during the NATO summit in Turkiye the nations that have agreed to become founding members of the global bank he has promoted to finance the military build-up in NATO countries and, although he doesn’t say so, to prop up the western financial system (cf. SAS 27/26). This Defense, Security and Resilience Bank (DSRB) is […]