The BRICS summit in Johannesburg that ended Thursday took on six new members but in other ways failed to live up to its billing, as explained in this episode of George Galloway’s MOATS.
WATCH: BRICS Summit Disappointments
Category: China
BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Global Order
Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony, Abdul Rahman reports.
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Biden’s Pointless Asian Summit
Let us consider the grist of the talks the U.S. president hosted at the presidential retreat in Maryland last week. This will not take long.
The West Keeps Whining That Ukrainians Are Cowards
Western officials — under cover of anonymity and from the safety of their desks — are expressing disapproval of Ukraine’s aversion to being killed, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
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BRICS & World Balance
The entire BRICS project is centred around the question of whether countries at the nether end of the neo-colonial system can break free through mutual trade and cooperation, writes Vijay Prashad.
Caitlin Johnstone: Smearing US Antiwar Leftists
A U.S. senator is using a McCarthyite article in The New York Times to call for an investigation of nine organizations for ties to the Chinese Communist Party, including the renowned peace activism group CODEPINK.
Patrick Lawrence: Africa for Africans
The animosities toward the French abroad among Nigeriens have been widely reported. But history is only part of the story, and not the largest part. Those who led the coup in Niger are facing forward, not backwards.
Rumors Over BRICS Summit Point to West’s Paranoia
Media speculation that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not attend the Johannesburg summit and that the nation isn’t receptive to BRICS expansion may be signs a threatened West looks to ‘divide and rule’, writes M.K. Bhadrakumar.
WATCH: The Australian Case Against AUKUS
Presented by Alison Broinowski for the 2023 IPAN ‘Peacewave’ conference. With former Foreign Minister Bob Carr, Senator David Shoebridge, Senator Jordan Steele-John, Mary Kostakidis, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, David Bradbury, Kellie Tranter, Brian Toohey, Michelle Fahy, Vince Scappatura, Michael West, Dr…