STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Since the fall of the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad on Dec. 8, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been jubilant. The very next day, he declared that “a new chapter” had opened, that Israel had “reshaped the Middle East” and was defeating its enemies “step by step” in a “war of existence”. He boasted that those enemies included Hamas (without […]

The last weeks of autumn have brought the European energy network close to collapse, due to the “black hole” created in Germany by so-called renewable energies. As any schoolboy could predict, the prolonged absence of wind has created what the Germans call “Dunkelflaute” (a “dark lull”, with no wind and no sunshine), generating a deficit in the electricity supply that […]

After heading a minority government for the past six weeks, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz lost his confidence vote in the Bundestag on Dec. 16, with 394 voting against him, 207 for him,and 116 abstentions. The result was no surprise, after his Green Party coalition partner, with the consent of Scholz’s Social Democrats, announced one week ago it would abstain, in […]

On Dec. 2, the U.S. Commerce Department added 140 companies, mostly Chinese, primarily in the semiconductor field, to “The Entity List”, a compilation of foreign individuals, companies, and organizations that are subject to export restrictions and licensing requirements, because the U.S. government considers them a national security threat. The decision was obviously designed to damage China’s semiconductor sector. The response […]

In the opening segment of Panel I of the Schiller Institute online conference of Dec. 7-8 (cf. SAS 50/24), an excerpt of a webcast given by Lyndon LaRouche on Dec. 7, 2012 was shown. The subject of the webcast was how to stop economic collapse through hyperinflation, by re-enacting a separation of banking activities (Glass-Steagall), but only as one aspect […]

The dramatic turn of events in recent days in Syria is not an expression of dynamics internal to that besieged nation, but the result of external pressures, interventions and manipulations. These reflect a world in turmoil as a dying world order struggles to recover a hegemony that is gone forever. South-West Asia has been thrown into yet more uncertainty, as […]

Among the countless comments on what is happening in Syria with the rapid fall of the Assad government, and its repercussions, one assessment worth reflecting upon was given by former U.S. State Department official Chas Freeman in an interview on Dec. 8 with Pascal Lottaz, for his Japan-based blog Neutrality Studies. Freeman, a respected diplomat whose career included service as […]

The political crises in France and Germany have created a large vacuum of power in Europe, which is being exploited by the EU supranational government, the European Commission. In the postwar period, European governance was built on the Franco-German axis, first as an engine of stability, eventually as the backbone of the EU system. All major decisions in the EU […]

With Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s confidence vote less than a week away, what will actually transpire on Dec. 16 is uncertain, and opinion polls are unreliable. However, if the date for early elections remains Feb. 23, the party constellations in the newly elected parliament will not be the same, as the Left and the FDP (liberals) may be voted out. And […]

Schiller Institute founder Helga Zepp-LaRouche opened her keynote speech to Panel I of the SI conference on Dec. 7, stating, “We are coming together in this international Internet conference, in order to send an urgent call out to the world, not only, that we may be weeks, days, or hours away from the potentially greatest catastrophe in human history — […]