STRATEGIC ALERT Service

Before participating in the Ibn-Sina Forum in Kabul (cf. below), the former Executive Director of the UN Office on Drug Control and Crime Prevention (UNODC), Pino Arlacchi, attended the XVI Eurasian Forum in Samarkand Nov. 3-5. On the sidelines of the event, he gave an online interview to Ottolina TV, where he touched on various subjects, including the collapsing Western […]

The Ibn Sina Research and Development Center sponsored an extraordinary conference in Kabul on Nov. 6-8, focused on the rapid economic development of the country (cf. SAS 45/23). Over 500 people attended, including officials from the ministries of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan and a wide spectrum of Afghan and international experts (including 80 women). Day-long workshops took place on […]

The First Saudi-African Summit was held on Nov. 10 in Riyad, Saudi Arabia, with the principle aim of mapping out a path for cooperation in ensuring the economic development of the African continent. The event is an example of the new paradigm of cooperation taking hold in the Global South, led by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa). […]

On Nov. 6, Palestinian health authorities announced that the death toll in Gaza had exceeded 10,000, prompting UN Secretary General Guterres to exclaim that Gaza is becoming “a graveyard for children”. Just one day earlier, Israeli forces had cut off all communications in the Gaza Strip for the third time, fully surrounded Gaza City and cut the Gaza Strip in […]

On. Nov. 4, thousands of protesters gathered outside the residence of Prime Minister Netanyahu in Jerusalem, demanding his resignation. They bitterly criticized him for his handling of the crisis, which has severely endangered the lives of the hostages, as well as for the blatant failure of security services to prevent the Oct. 7 attacks by Hamas in the first place. […]

On Nov. 4, 1995, Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated in Tel Aviv, while leaving a large peace rally in support of the Oslo Accords he had signed with Yasser Arafat two years earlier. The murderer was spurred by a climate of hatred toward Rabin, and the agreements, created by Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies among the extremist supporters […]

A groundbreaking conference was just held Nov. 6-8 in Kabul, Afghanistan, hosted by the Ibn Sina Research and Development Center. Titled: “Creating the Afghan Economic Miracle,” the conference has attracted scholars and guests from across Afghanistan and from other parts of the world. It’s stated aim is: “to present a comprehensive plan for the economic reconstruction of the entire country, […]

When the financial meltdown hit the world in 2007-2008, the centers of financial power, i.e., the City of London and Wall Street, responded by further hyperinflating their speculative financial bubble with quantitative easing and zero interest rates – instead of shutting down the whole casino. This only worsened the problem that had led to the 2008 crisis in the first […]

The data for the Eurozone in Q3 this year show a contraction of 0.1%, which is only an approximation of the real contraction because GDP figures include both productive and non productive activities. A better indication is provided by figures for the manufacturing sector. The Hamburg Commercial Bank Economics has released a survey of those figures for the EU and […]

With a popularity rating down to less than 20%, the three-party coalition government of Chancellor Olaf Scholz now also has to deal with a campaign among Free Democratic Party (FDP) members to pull out of the coalition. The drive, which had been building for months, took off after the drastic losses of votes for the FDP in the Oct. 8 […]