The BRICS organisation, often referred to as BRICS+ due to its continued expansion, make no mistake is here to stay. Those nations, members or partners, which make up the BRICS community, are well aware of the benefits accruing from membership or association in terms of national sovereignty and economic benefit. And interest is growing, despite... Continue Reading →
Paradise For All – The BRICS Aim. The Only Opposition To That is From Those Who Want the ‘All’ For Themselves – The ‘America First’ Principle. There Can Be No More ‘First’ For Anyone.
The time of being 'First' for any sector of mankind is well and truly over. And thank goodness for that. Our planet, the only home we have got - or ever will have - has bounty for all its peoples. The planet does not distinguish between rights for certain groups, or even for certain species.... Continue Reading →
If a Western Leaning or Appeasing Brazil Seeks to Hold Back BRICS, is Brazil Actually Needed as a BRICS Member? Or can they be Persuaded to Turn?
I am not seeking to sow discord among the BRICS members. Brazil has already gone some way to doing that. But the facts remain, Brazil does not exactly see eye-to-eye with the concept of BRICS or the views of many of its member states. Which views, while not directed against any particular nation, are obviously... Continue Reading →
Australia Gets Startled by its Own Shadow These Days – Needs to Turn a Corner
Australia, my own country, whose governments are always in a state of panic, increasingly so, and 'warmongers' to a man (or woman), are constantly jumping at any movement of shadows, including their own. That is no way to run a country. Or a world. Australia's Federal Government is obviously so intently engaged in jumping at... Continue Reading →
When Was the Last West Funded Road Built to Aid Another Country to Economic Prosperity?
And this is just one, the most recent, of many projects by China as economic assistance to other nations. 'China-funded road inaugurated for economic boom in Cambodia' - Xinhua - April 13, 2025 Just another example of China assisting neighbouring countries to economic prosperity. This is real cooperation, real help, and it brings the world... Continue Reading →
Do Not Underestimate the Importance of BRICS in Matters of Security and Trade Interdependence
It recently became known that BRICS is taking a pause in admitting new member states to its current group of ten nations. I wrote about that here a couple of days ago. But that has not stopped more countries applying to join the group. Azerbaijan has now made such an application. I am sure it... Continue Reading →
‘Clinging To The World Of The Past’
The world is changing. You can sense it. I can sense it. Everyone can sense it. It is now an unstoppable rearrangement of the global future. A new world order is forming. The old one, the current one, the one we all have known for the whole of our lives, the one we came to... Continue Reading →
Emerging International Structures
Pepe Escobar, as usual, proves he is right on the button when it comes to detecting important movements of various sorts spanning the world. "The ‘New G8’ Meets China’s ‘Three Rings’" - Strategic Culture Foundation When it comes to making agreements among nations and formatting working arrangements that actually work, there are so many imponderables... Continue Reading →
‘Reports of My Death Have Been Greatly Exaggerated’ – BRICS
I am always happy to read something new from Phil Butler, and doubly happy when that something is about BRICS - which has been receiving bad press recently as to maybe not so much its death (makes a good headline though) but its remaining relevance. The world needs BRICS as an ongoing and vital alternative... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 