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BRICS to more

3 min read XULIO RIOS

XULIO RIOS
If the summit that the BRICS have held in Johannesburg has revealed anything, it is the firm will to reactivate their association with two main parameters of action. First, development issues will continue to be high on its agenda; secondly, issues related to peace and security will gain relevance in their positions.

The common denominator is the implementation of a roadmap in which both issues are inextricably linked.
After enlargement, the BRICS will represent 37% of world GDP and 46% of the planet's population.

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What is happening in Niger is far from a typical coup

8 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
On 26 July 2023, Niger’s presidential guard mobilised against the incumbent president, Mohamed Bazoum, and staged a coup. A brief stand-off between the country’s various armed forces ended with all branches agreeing to remove Bazoum and create a military junta led by General Abdourahamane “Omar” Tchiani, commander of the Presidential Guard.

This is the fourth country in the Sahel region of Africa to have suffered a coup: the other three are Burkina Faso, Guinea and Mali. The new government announced that it would stop allowing France to extract uranium from Niger (one in three French light bulbs is powered by uranium from the Arlit deposit in northern Niger).

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Fifteen reasons why media employees act like propagandists

28 min read CAITLIN JOHNSTONE

CAITLIN JOHNSTONE
If you look at the Western media with a critical eye, you end up noticing how their reporting consistently aligns with the interests of the US centralized empire, much as you would expect if they were government-run propaganda outlets. That this extreme bias occurs is obvious and indisputable to anyone paying attention, but why and how it occurs is harder to see.

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Towards de-dollarization and a multipolar world

9 min read SERGIO NAVAS

SERGIO NAVAS
The dollar has lost its purpose as a “trusted global currency” and emerging powers are eager to build a less dangerous alternative. The point is not to replace the United States with China as the dominant force, but to establish multiple poles, each enjoying its significant sphere of influence.

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Those who pollute, those who pay and those who get rich with green capitalism

11 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
The phenomenon of global warming and all that this implies for the future of our planet has generated a movement of concern, concern and reforms at a global level. The simplified speech is simple, the future of humanity is in danger due to the activity of the human being and we must take measures to face this deterioration.

Now, many nuances arise. Are we all really equally responsible? Does it make sense to ask for voluntary actions and sacrifices that may have a very limited impact, if the governments and citizens of the most powerful countries do not take action?

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Arabi: Rabat has exerted enormous pressure to condition the Spanish government

10 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
The Polisario Front celebrates 50 years today since it was founded in Maurtinaia on May 10, 1973. We spoke with Abdulah Arabi, the front's delegate in Spain, about the situation in Western Sahara after the drastic change in the position of the Spanish Government, which in March 2022, he supported Morocco's position in the conflict.

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The Sudan war and foreign interference

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The war that broke out on April 15, due to a conflict of egos, could be complicated if the generals leading the two sides, Abdel Fattah al Burhan, supreme commander of the army, and Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo, Hemedti, head of the Rapid Support Forces (FAR) -a powerful paramilitary formation not integrated into the army- gather the support they are looking for in other countries in the area and what until now is a local conflict turns into another of a regional nature.

Lula and Dilma Rousseff at her inauguration as president of the BRICS Bank in Shanghai. Photo: Ricardo Stuckert

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The great opportunity of the BRICS to improve world development

6 min read MARCO FERNANDES

MARCO FERNANDES
The BRICS countries occupy an increasingly important place in the world economy. In GDP by purchasing power parity (PPP), China is the world's largest economy, India third, Russia sixth and Brazil eighth. The BRICS now account for 31,5% of global PPP GDP, while the G7 share has fallen to 30%. They are expected to contribute more than 50% of global GDP by 2030, and the proposed expansion will almost certainly bring this forward.

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Laura Lanuza, spokesperson for Open Arms: the Mediterranean is a great mass grave for migrants

11 min read Jayro sanchez

JAYRO SANCHEZ
Laura Lanuza is one of the most veteran activists and the head of communication for the humanitarian organization OpenArms, which was founded in 2015 by the Spanish lifeguard and businessman Óscar Camps with the aim of protecting the lives of people abandoned in international waters. fleeing war conflicts, persecution or poverty. We spoke to her about the rise in migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea.

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Marx as a solution to the climate crisis

6 min read PASCUAL SERRANO

PASCUAL SERRANO
“Are you taking any action against global warming? Have you bought ecological bags to reduce the use of plastic ones? Do you always carry a canteen to avoid buying drinks in PET containers? Have you changed your old car for a hybrid one?
I will tell you clearly: only with that kind of well-intentioned measures you will not get anywhere; what's more, they could even be counterproductive”.

With these provocative words begins the book by the Japanese Kohei Saito "Capital in the era of the Anthropocene" (Editions B, 2022), an era in which the footprint of human activity completely covers the face of the Earth.

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The Global South rejects pressure to side with the West against Russia

6 min read VIJAY PRASHAD

VIJAY PRASHAD
New Delhi
On the first day of the Munich conference, French President Emmanuel Macron said he was “shocked by how much credibility we are losing in the Global South.” The “we” in Macron’s statement was the Western states, led by the United States.

Whether fed up with pressure from the West or seeing economic opportunities in their relationship with Russia, more and more countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America have avoided pressure from Washington to cut ties with Moscow.

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Qaradawi and his Islamist legacy

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
On September 26, the influential thinker Yusuf al Qaradawi died in Qatar at the age of 96. It is not easy to give notice of the traces that throughout his long life he has left on contemporary Islam, of the phobias and philias that his words have aroused and arouse in detractors and followers, elites and ordinary people, and of the feelings that they awoke in regions prone to polarization.