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By Pepe Escobar

After a long-running buildup pinpointed by immense expectations all across the Global South, Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (as coined by Belarus President Lukashenko), the BRICS summit in South Africa, on its first day, revealed a “lost in translation” incident that should be...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The attractiveness of the BRICS countries demonstrates that the West has lost its former integration strength, and the world has entered a phase of development of a multipolar world order. This opinion was expressed on August 26 by the member of the Bundestag from the Alternative...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The jubilee meeting of the Five and its adherents in Johannesburg will obviously cost Western leaders more than one sleepless night. The members of the union celebrated the 15th anniversary with landmark decisions and signals to the whole world. At the same time, the BRICS inter...

By Pepe Escobar

The Chinese President Xi Jinping defined all the major decisions embedded in the 15th BRICS summit in South Africa as “historic”. That may be seen as an understatement.
It will take time for the Global South, or Global Majority, or “Global Globe” (copyright President Lukashenko),...

By Alexei Kupriyanov.

To win the war of economies, where the enemy has all the trump cards — from a solid share in world trade to the printing press of the world’s reserve currency — we need, as military theory teaches us, an asymmetric strategy. It is useless to try to break through the sanctions...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The expansion of BRICS is taking place in the context of a change in the global world order, the collapse of the previous one and the process of the forming a new multipolar world, in which individual players in different regions, as well as influential organizations, one of whic...