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Aug 22 2023 
BRICS: the China–India factor
By Pepe Escobar: This is BRILLIANT. Strategic Culture has been heavily censored again. Their domain has been canceled. I’ve sent them this first BRICS column via a crucial helping hand, and the column is now out on Telegraph. No pasaran.
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After a long-running buildup pinpointed by immense expectations all across the… Continue reading -
Aug 22 2023 
BRICS2 for day 1: Leaders have taken the podium for their addresses
Excellencies: Cyril Ramaphosa, Lula da Silva, Narendra Modi, Wang Wen Tau representing Xi Jinping, Dilma Roussef, Deputy President Paul Mashatile are present. (Where is Mr Lavrov?)
The moderator stated that the business community report will be heard first. Economics and currencies were discussed at a high level but it gets complex and we will have to… Continue reading
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Aug 22 2023 
BRICS1 for Day 1: All arrivals are in and the business forum kicked off
… only to devolve into a completely broken sound system with everyone talking over everyone else in different languages – a Tower of “Babble”.
This is an unbelievable and unforgivable snafu. What are we to think? Did someone just very badly screw up, or was there interference? I don’t know what to think but I am… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2023 
Niger in jaws of US, France: War drums get louder as standofff continues
By Kimani Kahumbu and first posted at PressTV
As the political crisis in Niger enters its fourth week, both opposing sides are refusing to budge from their respective positions, setting the ground for potential civil war and external military intervention.
The crisis erupted following a military coup at the end of July, when the country’s presidential guard removed… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2023 
Xi Jinping on South African media on the eve of BRICS summit: “Sailing the Giant Ship of China-South Africa Friendship and Cooperation Toward Greater Success”
BEIJING, Aug. 21 A signed article by Chinese President Xi Jinping titled “Sailing the Giant Ship of China-South Africa Friendship and Cooperation Toward Greater Success” was published Monday on South African media as he is going to attend the 15th BRICS Summit in Johannesburg and pay a state visit to South Africa.
An English version of the… Continue reading
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Aug 21 2023 
FM Sergey Lavrov’s Article for South Africa’s Ubuntu Magazine: BRICS – Towards a Just World Order
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1901054/
On the eve of the BRICS Summit, I would like to share with our dear readers my thoughts on the prospects for cooperation among the group of five countries in the current geopolitical context.
Tectonic shifts are taking place in the world today. The possibility of dominance by one country or even a small group of… Continue reading
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Aug 20 2023
Our BRICS, our media
Although the official start date is the 22nd of August, the first sideline meeting in the current BRICS summit is off and running and this is on a business track. Media briefings at this time are ongoing.
The SA BRICS Business Council (SABBC) in collaboration with the Department of Trade Industry and Competition officially kicked off… Continue reading -
Aug 19 2023 
Central Asia is the prime battlefield in the New Great Game
By Pepe Escobar and first posted at The Cradle
Samarkand, Uzbekistan – The historical Heartland – or Central Eurasia – already is, and will continue to be, the prime battlefield in the New Great Game, fought between the United States and the China-Russia strategic partnership.
The original Great Game pitted the British and Russian empires in the… Continue reading
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Aug 19 2023 
Antifascist congress in Minsk
Again we have to look at the root of Nazism and Fascism. And we did think that those are historical and have passed from our consciousness. The second Antifascist congress has just completed its work in Minsk. This is how their resolution starts:
“We, participants of the 2nd International Anti-Fascist Congress, state that today humanity once… Continue reading
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Aug 19 2023 
Daily Chronicles
The Daily Chronicles are snippets of the most important news across the world for this and each day as it rolls in – as such, this thread is non-structured with the latest news on top.
Aug 23
In St Petersburg, people are starting to lay down flowers at a cafe owned by Prigozhin. The same cafe that… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2023 
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with The International Affairs journal
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with The International Affairs journal, August 19, 2023
Summary: https://t.me/MFARussia/17058
🔹 The ill-conceived policy pursued by the United States and its followers has made the current aggravation of the international situation inevitable despite our many years of attempts to prevent it, which is another manifestation of that degradation. I am referring to… Continue reading -
Aug 18 2023 
Nicaragua is doing well!
This is an unlocked Patreon podcast and it is not embeddable. But please go here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/nicaraguas-model-87346009
Latin America Review: Just back from Nicaragua, Fiona Edwards, journalist and co-founder of the No Cold War international campaign, discusses with Camila Escalante Nicaragua’s exercise of sovereignty and strengthening ties with China and the world, and its rejection of U.S.… Continue reading
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Aug 18 2023 
Putin’s Meeting with Government members – climate
With hopes that we can discuss this without feathers flying and hitting one another with hard ideology clubs. It is time to rediscuss these issues.
President Putin had a meeting with his government members basically on internal Russia issues. I would not call it a ‘must-read’ as it focused on internal Russia and what we are… Continue reading
