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Is the Caribbean even ready for Brics?
These rich islands still have close political and economic relationships with the nations that enslaved them — is it any wonder truly independent nations in Africa are considered for Brics first, asks ROGER McKENZIE
Brics is about creating new rules of the game. By definition, this means not allowing the old bullying tactics that the colonialists adopt to seep into the work of Brics.
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STEPHEN ARNELL casts a critical eye over the sudden rash of challenges to the two-party system on both sides of the Atlantic, noting that today’s performative populist politics sadly lacks Roosevelt’s progressive ‘Bull Moose’ vision of the early 20th century
BILL KIDD MSP says increasing Britain’s nuclear arsenal at this time is dangerous and expensive folly
ROGER McKENZIE asks whether the US’s shift to targeting everyone at once will instil greater co-operation among rising powers
THE expansion of the Brics bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) to include Iran, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Argentina, the United Arab Emirates and Ethiopia has rightly received a lot of column inches.
It has given the millions of people in the global South who are fed up with the bullying behaviour of the US and the other former colonial powers some reasons to be optimistic and, indeed, to be just a little bit cheerful.
Those of us in the belly of the beast who work as dissidents against the behaviours of the neocolonialists also have much to organise in support of the resistance and fightback from the global South.
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