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From the IMF to Brics: the emerging multipolar order and the imperialist backlash
New alliances like Brics are forging a multilateral world as the global South nations assert their true independence after almost a century of nominal sovereignty under the reality of crushing economic servitude, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Russian Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu (centre) and other participants pose for a photo during their meeting on the sidelines of the meeting of Brics and Brics Plus High-Level Security Officials in St Petersburg, Russia, September 10, 2024

MOST people on the planet do not live within the borders of the former colonial powers — but they have been dominated by them for most of the last 500 years.

But the good news is we are now at a major geopolitical tipping point, and the global majority is rising up and constructing a new world.

There are no demands for change as if permission were required; the vast majority of the global population is simply going about the business of constructing a new way of doing things that breaks away from the rule of the minority.

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