Following Pepe Escobar at Pre-BRICS activities

Short Clips, early interviews, fora, discussion, speculations, Telegram notes and X updates on Pepe’s moves, dialogue sessions and early conclusions at BRICS, Rio.

➡️ Friday morning in Rio. Another frantic pre-BRICS networking day.

• Top NDB meeting in progress.
• The NDB, the BRICS bank, will launch a new investment fund, in direct competition with the World Bank.
• That will be part of the BRICS summit statement out next Monday in Rio.

➡️ Discussion with Jackson Hinkle:  Expectations, Brazil politics, current objectives re BRICS – Pepe mentions that the title is slightly misleading.  (I would say so!)   The discussion includes the fragmented political sphere in Brazil and India and the G7.  I’m glad to see that the conclusions that I made and posted re India and the Brazilian stance to use this BRICS summit as an erstwhile preparation for their own COP meeting at the end of the year, are spot on!  Pepe mentions that so far the value of BRICS is in the bilateral and multilateral discussions.

🚨🇧🇷🇨🇳 BREAKING: BRAZIL BREAKS RANKS WITH BRICS

Today on Legitimate Targets, Jackson Hinkle speaks with PEPE ESCOBAR (@RealPepeEscobar) about BRAZIL’S FAILURE to ADVANCE KEY BRICS PRIORITIES & the expectations for the BRICS 2025 SUMMIT in Rio de Janeiro. pic.twitter.com/ZuQtDwVoox

➡️ Legitimate Targets (@LegitTargets) July 4, 2025

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The Global Times article states:  The “Global Times Overseas China Week and Global South Dialogue: Roundtable Forum of China-Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) countries” was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Wednesday local time.

➡️Please change subtitles to English for watching the next video which is in Brazilian Portugese. This is not my favorite. In a fit of pique I asked: What is Pepe going to do with three Duginastas and one Right Winger? (Your mileage may vary and Pepe is a journalist. He speaks to everyone). He certainly told them some truths.

➡️Recorded for Geopolitics Prime:

Pepe Escobar reports directly from the BRICS frontlines in Rio

Pepe Escobar (https://t.me/rocknrollgeopolitics) brings us an inside look at the quiet revolution unfolding ahead of this weekend’s historic BRICS Summit – where media wars, financial revolutions, and the unseating of Western dominance dominate closed-door discussions.

🔴 BRICS Media Network in development – first step toward a Global South counter-narrative machine

🔴 New Development Bank turns 10 under Dilma Rousseff

🔴 Beijing Club think tank driving high-level academic-strategic dialogue (Tsinghua, CASS)

🔴 China-India relations & investments debated behind closed doors

👉”Stay tuned. We’re gonna have daily updates. Get ready for the main action, the main show is gonna start,” Escobar said.

➡️ THE WEST IS DECLINING AS A MORAL FORCE OVER SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL’S GENOCIDE IN GAZA

‘The US and the rest of the political West are in relative decline, and not only in economic terms, but also in political, cultural, and moral terms.

The West also declines as a moral force because of the support it’s giving to the genocide in Gaza.

Now, the BRICS need to take a stance on the genocide that is occurring in Gaza. And I hope there will be sufficient support for that at the summit in Rio.’

-Prof. Paulo Nogueira Batista Jr., former Vice President of the New Development Bank, on the latest episode of Going Underground, ahead of the BRICS+ Summit in Brazil🇧🇷

➡️ For farmers, agriculturists and foodies: Chinese Farming Tech and everybody buys.

The video itself is promotional and made in a style that is not enjoyable: AI and clickbaity. It is, however, very quick to create a video using open-source backgrounds, an auto-narrator that reads from a script, and clearly, this needed to be uploaded quickly. The facts, though, about the farming drone technology are excellent. Regarding the title, why do we consider it in our media that talking about the US gives us a clickbait advantage? The US has large farmers, and they invest in technology. My comments about presentation may be critical, but the technology is real, meaningful, and is feverishly bought across the world. If you are familiar with farming and agriculture, you will immediately recognize the advantages and understand the high sell-through rate.

One fact that stands out is something that is often misrepresented about the advent of AI and technology. It does not kill jobs, but it increases the level of education and skill required, and therefore offered. As we transition to a technological world, we are increasing the requirements and level of knowledge and skill, rather than reducing it to mere automation.