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Oct 21 2024 BRICS Offers Hope in a Time of War
A date with Destiny .. “Well, Doctor, what have we got, a New Start or more Tyranny?” “A new start… if you can keep it.”
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
This is it. A date with destiny. All set for the most crucial geopolitical/geoeconomic gathering of the year and arguably the decade: the BRICS Summit under the… Continue reading -
Oct 21 2024 BRICS Summit in Kazan: Three days that can change the world
Alexander Dugin and Pepe Escobar join #NewRulesPodcast to discuss BRICS expansion, de-dollarization, and the roadmap for creating a multipolar world order.
(1:31) Geopolitical significance of 2024 BRICS summit
(7:19) Economic agenda for BRICS summit
(11:05) De-dollarization and alternative payment systems
(14:17) BRICS against Western liberal capitalist ideology
(24:09) Why are countries lining up to join BRICS?
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Oct 21 2024 Don’t Let Them Change The Subject
This is a companion to Nico Cost’s article: Is the ISLAM a lifeline for the Woke West?
From Shahid Bolsen from Middle Nation.
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Oct 21 2024 Medvedev: To the XVI BRICS Summit
To the XVI BRICS Summit: https://t.me/medvedev_telegram/536
The formal English translation has a slightly different headline: On the eve of the 16th BRICS Summit
Remember: “…there can be no alliance between Russia and the West either for the sake of interests or for the sake of principles, that there is not a single interest in the West, not… Continue reading
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Oct 21 2024 BRICS RISING – Pepe Escobar, Scott Ritter & Mark Sleboda (with a side of Slip Slidin’ Away)
Joe Lauria interviews first Pepe Escobar with some limited comments from Scott Ritter. Mark Sleboda follows.
In addition (Slip Slidin’ Away)
SLIPPIN'N SLIDIN' Talk about a beauty of timing. Lula slipped in the bathroom, fell on the floor, hit his head, and according to his doctor this "domestic accident" precludes him from… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2024 APEC – BRICS-plus, and the Global South
From Peter Koenig
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) – November 13-15, 2024 Summit in Lima
Background
For the third time, Peru will host the APEC Summit in Lima from 13-15 November 2024, bringing together over 1,000 international executives. Peru previously hosted the APEC Summit in 2008 and 2016. This is the 34th APEC Conference. APEC was created in 1989,… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2024 Is the ISLAM a lifeline for the Woke West? (Update, companion piece)
By Nico Cost for GlobalSouth.co
I write my reflections from a Western perspective while I myself am not religious and usually deviate strongly from any groupthink. I grant everyone that freedom.
Here in the West we struggle with ourselves and blame others. After a few centuries of colonialism and slavery, we have turned to legalized robbery with… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2024 FM Sergey Lavrov’s interview: Argumenty i Fakty newspaper, Moscow, October 20, 2024
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/1976783/
(Ed: Bolding is mine.)
Question: Let me commence with BRICS. A significant number of countries, approximately 30 or perhaps more, have voiced their intention to join this group. Notably, Türkiye, a NATO member, which was rather surprising to me. Conversely, it has been reported that Kazakhstan, through the statement of President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s Press Secretary, has… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2024 Reviewing Fortress Iran
1️⃣ “Iran is a country that has managed to maintain its sovereignty despite facing significant geopolitical challenges for centuries. Whether we talk about modern military powers or historical empires, few have succeeded in subduing this strategically critical nation. But what makes Iran so difficult to invade? In this video, we’ll explore the geopolitical, military, cultural,… Continue reading
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Oct 20 2024 Daily Chronicles – Sticky
We are in the throes of One War, with one objective. Only the proxies and strategies are different. There is a genocidal empire to bring down and a multipolar and multinodal world to build in an atmosphere of schizophrenia, ignorance, unawareness, confusion, greed, anger, jealousy, arrogance, NATO, and war.” Currently, we stare into an abyss… Continue reading
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Oct 19 2024 Xi urges strategic missile troops to enhance deterrence, combat capabilities
Ministry of National Defense of the People’s Republic of China
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, learns about the history of a brigade, on Oct. 17, 2024. Xi inspected a brigade of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Rocket Force on… Continue reading
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Oct 19 2024 Mao: Tyrant or Great Leader?
Mao: Tyrant or Great Leader? • Debunking American lies about the Great Leap Forward and the “Great Famine”
Mao’s Legacy and Accomplishments
Written by SL Kantham and edited by the Greanville Post Video at the end.
“Mao Tse‐tung, who began as an obscure peasant, died one of history’s great revolutionary figures. In Chinese terms, he… Continue reading
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Oct 18 2024 Benjamin Norton on the detailed financial proposal for the BRICS Kazan summit
BRICS plans to challenge US dollar dominance and transform the international monetary and financial system by developing infrastructure for cross-border payments using local currencies.Russia made a detailed proposal for the BRICS Kazan summit this October.In this video, I… pic.twitter.com/dHAI8R1Olt— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) October 18, 2024
With Ben’s explanation as a background, this is how… Continue reading
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Oct 18 2024 The Geoeconomic Drivers of SCO-BRICS Synergy
Expanding on the SCO summit earlier this week in Pakistan – and focusing on the interconnection of connectivity corridors, a key vector developed right before the BRICS summit.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
One week before the absolutely crucial BRICS summit in Kazan, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) held a summit in Islamabad.
This convergence is important in… Continue reading