Amidst Western Decay, the 17th BRICS Summit Convenes in Rio De Janeiro

12-07-2025: In a world beset with seemingly intractable problems, the 17th Summit of the BRICS bloc in Rio De Janeiro comes as somewhat of a welcome relief. With the traditional Western colonial powers increasingly losing the preeminent position they held for 500 years, and especially the decline of the USA (United States of America) as the unipolar hegemon, a new multipolar world is rising to … Continue reading Amidst Western Decay, the 17th BRICS Summit Convenes in Rio De Janeiro

BRICS Expands to Cover Almost Half of the World’s Population

04-01-2025: The first of January 2025 saw another expansion of the BRICS economic-political alliance following on from its most successful summit in October 2024. The nine member BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, United Arab Emirates) has now officially welcomed nine new partner nations, these being: Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Thailand, Uganda and Uzbekistan. The combined populations of … Continue reading BRICS Expands to Cover Almost Half of the World’s Population

Groundbreaking BRICS Summit Marks a New Era

21-10-2024: The BRICS Summit in the Russian Tatarstan capital of Kazan from October 22 to 24[1] is set to break new ground in the advance of the bloc, and potentially marks a new era in international history. Perhaps a new name needs to be coined for the BRICS alliance, given that its membership has expanded well past the five original members of Brazil, Russia, India, … Continue reading Groundbreaking BRICS Summit Marks a New Era

BRICS Rises, G7 Decomposes

24-06-2024: It was an uninspiring spectacle. The G7 (Group of 7 – USA, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Canada) meeting in Apulia from June 13 to 15 was almost entirely devoid of meaning and appeared to portray the end of an empire. The G7 advanced and industrialised countries, birthed in the early 1970s, at that time accounted for more than 60% of world Gross Domestic … Continue reading BRICS Rises, G7 Decomposes