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Feb 20 2025 BRICS Can Help Latin America Resist Re-emerging Monroe Doctrine. Peter Koenig and Drago Bosnic
Peter Koenig and Drago Bosnic
In a recent analysis of the strategic situation in Latin America and the resurgent Monroe Doctrine, I argued that BRICS can help push back against US imperialism. However, while my points were more general and concerned largely with pure geopolitics, I wanted to get a more nuanced opinion regarding the (geo)economic… Continue reading
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Feb 14 2025 Good Evening Mr Trump: Got a special secret for you
BRICS, SCO and the G20 is alive!
Ambassador Oleg Stepanov’s Comment on Russia & G7๐จ๐ฆ The strong reaction from certain Canadian politicians regarding recent hypotheses voiced in the United States about reviving the G8 has been met with surprise. In this regard, we would like to clarify the situation and temper these overheated emotions, seemingly caused… Continue reading
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Jan 13 2025 BRICS+ under attack in Brazil.
Pepe Escobar and I identified the current war as the first war on BRICS.
In Pepe’s last column he notes the following:
Itโs All About Debt โ and Industrial Production
BRICS of course is riven by serious internal contradictions, which will be ruthlessly exploited by the Empire of Chaos. Starting with Iran, UAE, Egypt and Saudi Arabia (when… Continue reading -
Jan 08 2025 The currency message from BRICS leaders
To speak of BRICS is to speak of the future but build it today, step by step.
To calm shattered nerves in the west, the message is out: BRICS is not floating a new currency; BRICS is providing alternative economic structures and systems (and currencies) to trade with one another.
China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided a… Continue reading
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Jan 07 2025 Ben Norton updates BRICS numbers
BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth.BRICS now has 10 members and 8 partners. Together they make up 41.4% of global GDP (PPP) and half the world population.(Full video below) pic.twitter.com/kURiF2OQpW— Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) January 7, 2025
China… Continue reading
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Dec 28 2024 Russiaโs Inroads into Africa: The Unstoppable March of the Global South
Russia by all standards is probably the most โsanctionedโ country by the west. But her economy keeps growing faster than any western economy. A normal thinker would say, there is something wrong.
Since the Russian Special Operation (SO) in Ukraine, the Russian economy has repeatedly defied expectations. The current forecast for 2024 is a 4% growth,… Continue reading
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Dec 27 2024 BRICS to build UAE-based logistics hub: Why it matters?
Building the BRICS Nodes
The BRICS Business Council is discussing a logistics platform based in the UAE, revealed Sergei Katyrin, chairman of the councilโs Russia Chapter, when speaking to Russian media.
๐The concept of establishing a logistics hub for the group was first introduced at the BRICS Kazan Summit, where the significance of enhancing cooperation was articulated… Continue reading
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Dec 25 2024 BRICS: The Real Reason why Asian nations are joining
By Nuri Vittachi
THE REAL REASON why Asian nations (next week, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, among multiple new members) are officially joining BRICS has nothing to do with politics.
It’s about rice. And schools. And the Ringgit. And most of all, it’s about Not Having Another War.
Eight under-the-radar BRICS issues:
1) NEW CUSTOMERS: In October this year, BRICS… Continue reading
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Dec 24 2024 BRICS expands with 9 new partner countries. Now it’s half of world population, 41% of global economy
Ben Norton. This piece is statistical and we surely can do with some qualitative commentary, but the hard facts are so good! Did you know that BRICS countries now control the world’s food? It is so good!ย Enjoy!
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Nov 27 2024 Opening remarks, Russian Sherpa at BRICS: Sergey Ryabkov
#BRICS2024
๐ Opening remarks by Russia’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Russia’s Sherpa in BRICS Sergey Ryabkov at the BRICS Sherpas/Sous Sherpas Meeting in Yekaterinburg, Russia
Key talking points:
โข Let me particularly welcome the two new BRICS Sous Sherpas โ esteemed Ms. Paula Barboza from Brazil and Ms. Lemlem Fiseha Minale from Ethiopia. I think we will… Continue reading
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Nov 22 2024 G20 knocks out G7 agendas
This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The G20 summit in Rio earlier this week offered the quite intriguing spectacle of a deeply divided world, geopolitically and geoeconomically,… Continue reading
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Nov 11 2024 Russia initiates creation of Eurasian multipolarity charter
Is BRICS realizing they need charters, and a secretariat and a written basis? I hope so:
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“This is a strategic document that will encompass all the proposals put forward during the discussions at the Minsk Conference and other forums,” Sergey Lavrov stressed
MOSCOW, November 11. /TASS/. The drafting of the Eurasian Charter of Diversity and Multipolarity for… Continue reading
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Nov 03 2024 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: Interview for TV BRICS
Note:ย In an interview with TV BRICS, Mr. Lavrov brings pragmatism back into the room without holding back on stating the bald-faced truth.
In 2024, Russia holds the BRICS ะกhairmanship. The summit in Kazan was a key event. What would you note if you summarised its main results as well as the results of Russia’s Chairmanship… Continue reading
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Nov 02 2024 BRICS Summit Declaration: Comments, Conspiracies and the IMF
We will be looking back at these two assessments posted in the past few days:
1) https://sovereignista.com/2024/10/29/the-brics-16th-summit-kazan-revisited/
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2) https://sovereignista.com/2024/10/31/the-roadblocks-ahead-for-the-sovereign-harmonious-multi-nodal-world/
This is in relation to the new information on the IMF by Moscowโs representative at the International Monetary Fund, Aleksey Mozhin, serving for 23 years and the longest serving IMF member, where he says the IMF became a NATO… Continue reading