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Jul 05 2025 
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.
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Jul 02 2025 
BRICS basics and India states a desire for ‘change’ (you can believe in)
This is a short update on the size of BRICS as a bloc plus a little about India having a shower with half of an Obama like statement.
Member Countries
The BRICS is currently composed of eleven countries:
Five original members
– Brasil, China, India, Russia, and South Africa
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Jun 28 2025 
Brian Mier: BRICS (Cleanup necessary in Aisle Brazil!)
Brian is a Brazilian correspondent and also writes for Telesur. He is not generally a BRICS correspondent. Nevertheless, his observations are accurate. https://www.brasil247.com/blog/cade-os-brics-quando-precisamos#google_vignette
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For the past eight years, I have heard journalists, academics and commentators proclaim that we are living in a new multipolar world and that the BRICS are liberating us from US imperialist hegemony.… Continue reading
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Jun 03 2025 
Can BRICS Really Kill the Dollar? Think Again
Can BRICS kill the dollar? Why de-dollarization may already be happening—and what the media isn’t telling you. Discover what’s really behind the BRICS vs Dollar debate.
This video breaks down the real strategy of the BRICS nations—not through flashy announcements, but through a methodical dismantling of the US-led global financial system.
You’ll learn how digital… Continue reading
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May 24 2025 
A Travelogue of Modern Iran: From the Caspian to the Persian Gulf
The full version, including what happened in Tehran on several fronts – IRGC, nanotechnology, academic debates – of the column originally published on Sputnik.
By Pepe Escobar at VKontakte.
ON THE ROAD IN IRAN – The International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) is one of the most crucial geoeconomic/infrastructure projects of the 21st century. It unites at… Continue reading
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May 15 2025 
Some good news from BRICS (out of Russia)
While we wait in vain for any substantive news out of BRICS Brazil, Russia is continuing.
Maria Zakharova spoke at the II BRICS Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum at the Russia National Center
The National Center is hosting the 2nd BRICS Women’s Entrepreneurship Forum. At the panel session “BRICS and International Institutions: Joining Efforts as a Guarantee of a… Continue reading
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May 01 2025 
Pepe with Judge Napolitano
Thanks to Tariffs, China Ditching US Tech. Napolitano interviews geopolitician Pepe Escobar, April 30th, 2025.
“… in this wilderness of narrative mirrors, Trump should be perceived as all characters combined: the White Rabbit, Humpty Dumpty (“When I use a word, it means what I choose to mean, no more and no less”), the Mad Hatter, the… Continue reading
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Apr 30 2025 
Going to Kashmir…just to find Alice in Wonderland
Welcome to “Ruler of the World” does Wonderland – to the sound of that hypnotic ‘Kashmir’ riff.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
Two overarching taboos reign on the – now shattered – collective West:
Can’t define the Ukraine regime as Nazi.
Can’t condemn the psychopathological Israeli genocide in Gaza.The taboos happen to be inextricably linked… Continue reading
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Apr 26 2025 
South Africa: Wearing out the tarnished liberation credentials
Events in South Africa have been turbulent for months now, since Trump spoke out about ‘bad things’ happening in South Africa and inviting white farmers to avail themselves of an opportunity to go to the US and? … Farm for the US of course. He is not doing it out of the goodness of his… Continue reading
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Apr 23 2025 
The United Global South Front against the Tariff Paper Tiger
An excellent wide ranging discussion and follow-up on the Spirit of Shanghai article.
coalescence of new Primakov Triangle with all three at once under the Orange devil-storm
Yanquis about to be submerged in their own Century of Humiliation
BRICS regain focus with urgency, propelled by ASEAN and China
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Apr 21 2025 
The Shanghai Spirit – China Will Take No Bullying
Shanghai shows China relishes its new role as a Resistance beacon, bent on defying bullying, busy building a Global Majority consensus. It’s all about strategic patience …
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
SHANGHAI – There could not be a more strategic place to spend these past Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT) heady days than in Shanghai –… Continue reading -
BRICS: The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated
MORE COUNTRIES JUMP ON BOARD THE BRICS PEACE TRAIN – (at Warp Speed now) 🙂
By Colin Maxwell
There is an increased flood of nations looking to jump on board the BRICS train.
No doubt with renewed urgency, thanks to Captain Chao$ declaring a trade war on the entire planet, including on his own extremely fragile domestic economy.
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Apr 13 2025 
Why China won’t call a ‘tariff-wielding barbarian’
Three wise monkeys are perfectly aware of what a pigeon posing as eagle is really up to.
By Pepe Escobar at the Strategic Culture Foundation.
The Toddler Temper Tantrum-style Trump Tariff Tizzy (TTT), now accelerated to 145% – and counting – is yet another thunderous trademark pigeon smashing the chessboard gambit.
It won’t work. Trump claimed that China would… Continue reading
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Mar 21 2025 
Development of Special Economic Zones in BRICS
Wang Shouwen, China International Trade Representative and Vice Minister of Commerce, gives a speech at Progress Meeting for China Center for Cooperation on Development of Special Economic Zones in BRICS Countries held in Hangzhou, East China’s Zhejiang Province, on March 21, 2025. Photo: Courtesy of the Ministry of Commerce
China calls for embracing multilateralism through concrete… Continue reading
