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
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
Note: 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 Сhairmanship. 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
We will be looking back at these two assessments posted in the past few days:
1) https://globalsouth.co/2024/10/29/the-brics-16th-summit-kazan-revisited/
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2) https://globalsouth.co/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 Moscow’s 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
The Kazan lab has laid out several geoeconomic road maps, and is seriously taking the inevitable roadblocks into account.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
We will need weeks, months, years to fully grasp the enormity of what took place in Kazan during the annual BRICS summit under the Russian presidency.
For the moment let’s cherish arguably… Continue reading
A Dialogue Works interview
Hi, everybody, today is Thursday October 24, 2024, and we’re having Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson with us to talk about the BRICS Summit in Kazan. Let’s start with Michael. Michael, what was important about this summit?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it was important not for coming up with solutions, but just to lay… Continue reading
The much-awaited BRICS heads of state meeting in Russia’s Kazan did not disappoint. The multilateral institution has finally brought bite and substance to many of the global financial and political conundrums that have long-challenged a genuine reshaping of the global order.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
The Russian presidency of BRICS 2024 could not have chosen… Continue reading
Geopolitician Pepe Escobar reviews the seminal gathering of the sovereign harmonious multinodal world.
STRENGTHENING MULTILATERALISM FOR JUST GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT AND SECURITY
1. We, the Leaders of BRICS countries, met in Kazan, Russian Federation, from 22 to 24 October 2024 for the XVI BRICS Summit held under the theme: «Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security».
2. We reiterate the importance of further enhancing BRICS solidarity and cooperation based on… Continue reading
David Skripac and Peter Koenig
Despite the overall accolades the recent BRICS summit in Kazan received, both from the mainstream and non-mainstream media, not all is gold that shines. A second look reveals – unfortunately – that the BRICS nations follow the same globalist agenda – as does the western world.
And if the BRICS are representative… Continue reading
BRICS plans to transform the international monetary and financial system, and discussed policies at the 2024 summit in Kazan, Russia. Can it successfully challenge the dominance of the US dollar? Political economist Radhika Desai is joined by Ben Norton and former central banker Kathleen Tyson, author of the book “Multicurrency Mercantilism”.
The Kazan Declaration is no less than a detailed diplomatic manifesto to propose real reform, moving in practice towards in-depth institutional changes and to reject Hegemony, in particular the post-WW2 Anglo-American levers of global control.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik.
The not so simple twists of fate always allow certain cities to make their mark in History… Continue reading
