STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Following the conclusion of the official BRICS Summit meetings in Johannesburg, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and Chinese President Xi Jinping co-hosted Aug. 24 the China-Africa Leaders’ Dialogue, which was attended by the leaders of 12 African countries and regional organizations. The gathering, which had been initiated by Xi, was especially devoted to advancing development of the continent. China is […]

On Wednesday, Aug. 23, in the middle of the three-day BRICS summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, India succeeded in landing its Chandraayan-3 module on the surface of the Moon, near its South Pole. India is only the fourth nation to ever land on the Moon, and the very first to land at its South Pole — a whole new territory for […]

The BRICS summit in Johannesburg from Aug. 22-24 is set to be a strategic game-changer, although you would never know it from following mainstream Western media. With the representatives of over 50 countries attending, in addition to the leaders of the five members of the group (Vladimir Putin by video hook-up for security reasons), it will consolidate the fast-moving shift […]

Shortly before the opening of the BRICS Summit, the chairwoman of the Schiller Institute Helga Zepp-LaRouche issued a call to on Aug. 19 to citizens of the Global North to “support the construction of a New Just World Economic Order”. Her statement begins: The summit of the BRICS countries, which will take place from August 22-24 in Johannesburg, South Africa […]

A former vice president of the New Development Bank (2015-17), Brazilian economist Paulo Nogueira Batista, Jr., penned an op-ed on CGTN Aug. 21 titled, “Is a BRICS Currency Feasible?”. He goes beyond the recently common speculations about “de-dollarization” and a new BRICS currency, to link that issue implicitly to the NDB, and to the ability of such a BRICS financial […]

That the Ukrainian counteroffensive against Russia, finally launched June 4 after continuous postponements, has been a complete failure is now acknowledged by all but the most hard-core geopoliticians. But that, unfortunately, does not mean that Western political leaders, beginning with President Biden, have decided to seek an end to the senseless killing and destruction through diplomatic means. Rather, they remain […]

The Ukrainian government is heavily financed by Western multilateral institutions, such as the EU and the IMF, as well as by generous loans and grants from individual countries. The total amount pledged by governments, including EU institutions, was over $170 billion as of May 31, 2023 according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. Thus, Kyiv does not need […]

Under the von der Leyen presidency, the European Commission has launched a hostile policy against China, first calling it a “systemic rival” in March 2019, then launching the so-called “Global Gateway” project as an anti-Belt and Road initiative in September 2021, then finally initiating a “de-risking” policy (another name for “decoupling”) in March 2023. In addition to the fact that […]

Once again, cost-cutting bureaucrats and ecologists have joined forces in Germany to sabotage crucial infrastructure projects. The German government, relying on the opinions of “experts” who have no clue about the requirements of rapid and efficient rail freight operations, has now rejected the plan to build a 118 km long tunnel system along the Rhine, between Bonn and Wiesbaden, which […]

The fire that devastated the island of Maui, one of the archipelago chain of Pacific islands that make up the state of Hawaii, is the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over a century. Environmentalists are demanding that President Biden immediately declare an unprecedented Climate Emergency, with sweeping powers. But the climate is far less a factor in this catastrophe than the […]