STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Many headlines over the past days have conveyed the same message as that of the Washington Post on June 2: “Unprecedented Canadian fires intensified by record heat, climate change”. In reality, the wildfires that have ravaged over three millions of hectares of forest this year in Canada are neither unprecedented nor the result of climate change. They are primarily the […]

The Afghanistan government has cracked down heavily on opium cultivation, reducing it by 80% this year. In Helmand province (which produces more than 60-70% of the total), poppy growing has dropped to less than 1000 Ha in 2023, a reduction surpassing any previous ban, including that of 2000-2001. “This is a major piece of information”, the former director of the […]

With the danger of a nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia becoming more likely every day, it is urgent that the message of the June 10 Schiller Institute conference (cf. above) become a rallying cry for a growing segment of the citizens of the U.S. and Europe. The conference focused on U.S. President John Kennedy’s (JFK) speech of sixty […]

While the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive against Russian forces has still not happened, President Zelenskyy told the Wall Street Journal (June 3), that Kyiv is ready now, although it will mean tremendous losses for Ukraine. “I don’t know how long it will take”, the Ukrainian President said, and “it can go a variety of ways, completely different”. Without the Patriot systems […]

In welcoming Finland to NATO during a visit to Helsinki on June 2, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken gave a speech which confirms what a growing number of world leaders believe: his arrogance is matched only by his delusions. The latest in a line of geopoliticians from the Brzezinski school, Blinken seems to believe that those he is addressing […]

The foreign ministers of the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) met in Cape Town, South Africa, June 1-2, to prepare the agenda of the heads of state summit in Johannesburg in just under three months. The five ministers were joined on the second day by their counterparts from 15 nations of the Global South, for a […]

The potential importance of the New Development Bank (NDB), that is, the bank founded by the BRICS in 2014-2015, can hardly be overstated, at a time when the trans-Atlantic financial system and its institutions have proven themselves unable and unwilling to finance real development and to work for the general welfare. That reality is increasingly clear in the Global South. […]

As if its obsession to fully convert the nation’s energy supply system to “renewables” by 2030 were not enough, the German government also plans to mandate the replacement of gas-powered heating systems by heat pumps. Their number is supposed to increase six-fold, up to total of six million pumps, with the electricity to operate them being provided to a significant […]

On May 23, the Agriculture Committee of the European Parliament voted to reject the EU’s “Nature Restoration Law” draft bill, and the next day the Fisheries Committee followed suit. This is good news, as the EU draft bill calls reducing for agricultural land and fishing areas and restoring wildlife and wetlands, allegedly to “save the planet”. The package includes cutting […]

The Center for Countering Disinformation (CCD) of Ukraine published on May 31 a “Digest of Hate Speech by Russian Propagandists”, which twice accuses Schiller Institute founder and leader Helga Zepp-LaRouche of spreading Russian “hate speech” against both Ukraine and “its allies.” The CCD labels as “Russian propaganda” and “hate speech” any advocacy of peace with Russia, reference to any NATO […]