By Erika Gimenez * On Thursday, June 1, the BRICS Foreign Ministers Summit was held in Cape Town. South African Minister Naledi Pandor met with her counterparts, Vice Minister MA Zhaoxu of China, Minister Mauro Vieira of Brazil, Minister Sergei Lavrov of Russia and Minister Subrahmanyan Jaishankar of India. The strategic association between the BRICS, the institutional evolution of this ...
Reporting from Ceará, Brazil Only health reasons have kept Brazilian President from visiting China within the first 100 days of his third government. On March 24, during the routine medical check-up before leaving for an international commitment, the Brazilian president’s cold was diagnosed as actually aggravated pneumonia due to influenza A flu. Having overcome the respiratory viral picture, Lula left ...
The strict parameters of the European Union are trapping Italy in a cage with little space for maneuver. It is the only country in the European Union where average wages have fallen over the last 30 years. Since 1990, wages in Italy have stagnated, while in most other advanced countries they have increased significantly. In 2020, due to the impact ...
Second part of our extensive interview with Helga Zepp-LaRouche, the founder and President of the Schiller Institute. And what is your view about the Joe Biden and the previous Donald Trump governments? Do you think there are noticeable differences between these two? And if so, what is/are the main difference(s) between the Democrats and the Republicans? Biden as the main ...
By Walter Sorrentino * It is an honor to address you in congratulating on the success of the 20th Congress of the CPC of China at a time of rejoicing for theextraordinary victoryachieved in Brazil, electing president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. We defeated the main world representative of the extreme right in the government of a large country, who ...
New Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang’s choice of Africa as the destination of his first foreign tour, since taking office late last year, came as no surprise. Qin’s visit started on January 9. The trip included Ethiopia, the headquarters of the African Union, Gabon, Angola and Benin, Cairo and the headquarters of the League of Arab States. It was a ...
On November 7, the Republic of Algeria has officially and formally applied for membership in the BRICS, the organization comprised of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune already had participated in the BRICS summit in June. He was the first speaker on the summit held online, calling for “a new economic order where parity and ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * The framework on which the United States has been built upon is sustained by the idea of being a people chosen by God. A close look at the speeches of all its presidents shows the presence and continuity of this concept in all of them, although they have been careful to adapt it to each ...
The words of Turkey’s second President İsmet İnönü, one of the leaders of our War of Independence, “A new world will be established, and Turkey will take its place there” have become an apothegm. Behind İnönü’s sentence, there is a realistic foresight: “One day, this defense system of the West will collapse!” The relevant part of İsmet İnönü’s statement for ...
The Ukraine crisis has set debates on the so-called rules based order and multipolarity on the global agenda. BRICS is a usual suspect when talk comes to the polycentric or multipolar world system. And the 2006 established alliance between Brazil, Russia, India and China that later included also South Africa may present news very soon – with the inclusion of ...