Trump’s lashing out at the group of non-Western nations is so clumsy, so off the mark, so utterly unaware of where the hands are on history’s clock.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Washington Takes on the BRICS
Category: BRICS
Is BRICS the Way Forward?
After witnessing Cuba’s ailing economy in a recent visit, Asoka Bandarage looks beyond BRICS for an alternative to both authoritarian socialism and neoliberal capitalism.
BRICS Forges Ahead Building a Different Order
At their summit in Brazil, members of the expanding Global South group condemned recent Israeli-U.S. attacks on Iran and Israel’s aggression against Palestinians in Gaza, Abdul Rahman reports.
Vijay Prashad: Patents of a Parasitical North
Global South countries are trapped in Global North-dominated patents and licensing fees that are stripping them of wealth and stunting their development.
DIANA JOHNSTONE: Serbia’s Organized Chaos
Serbia has been racked for months by disruptive protests largely attributed to students, opposition leaders and university authorities. Are these organic protests?
Trade Wars: The Decline of America
Instead of judiciously adapting to America’s relative decline by carving out a new place for itself in the emerging multipolar world, U.S. leaders have pursued the fantasy of endless dominance, write Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies.
A New International Order?
Progressives’ support for a multilateral world often ignores how much the emerging new world is similar to the old one, a point also missed by Jeffrey Sachs in speaking of a “new international order,” writes Asoka Bandarage.
Craig Murray: Trump, Tariffs & Trade
There is no danger of the U.S. being unable to finance trillion-dollar trade deficits in the next few years. But for how long?
Jeffrey Sachs: Birthing a New International Order
The multipolar world will be born when the geopolitical weight of Asia, Africa, and Latin America matches their rising economic weight.
Trump’s Retaliation Against South Africa
As a warning to other countries, Washington’s ouster of Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool may well backfire, writes Medea Benjamin.