🔴 The World is Shifting
US outspends everyone on war (74% of global military budget) while Global South rises. China now leads 57/64 key technologies—US only 7.
BRICS+ and South-South trade surge as nations ditch dollar dominance. From Burkina Faso’s anti-French coups to Latin America’s left wave, nations are shaking off western dominance.
https://thetricontinental.org/dossier-tricontinental-anniversary-global-south-sovereignty/
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs discusses the militarism of the declining Western hegemony and the rise of BRICS to accommodate multipolar realities.
For the second time this year, the world’s most powerful finance ministers gather in South Africa without the presence of the U.S. Treasury secretary. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/14/economy/g20-bessent-south-africa/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #scottbessent #g20 #southafrica #us #donaldtrump #republicans #brics
Brazil is responding the old-fashioned, counterproductive way by matching Trump's tariffs in the other direction. A FAR better response: Adopt Cory Doctorow suggestion to make Brazil a tech jailbreak haven, helping tech users and putting a big dent in the the tech monopolists' power.
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Big Tech is in bed with #BRICS. It's why blue-chip tech is so willing to push foreword with all the user antagonistic features they have in the past two years. It's why they so blithely dismiss rule of law respecting places like the EU and Canada.
Blue chip tech companies are not worried about Brazil cutting into their profits because the've already brokered the terms of engagement between their respective syndicates. It's a textbook case of #rackiteering
New Delhi has found itself in a tough position following U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to impose new tariffs on India over its participation in the BRICS forum. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/10/trump-brics-india-trade-deal/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #india #narendramodi #brics
BRICS+: empowering development.
It is time to lay firm, interconnected and enduring bricks that will advance development and shared prosperity for the Global South.
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2025/07/08/brics-empowering-development/
With U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs upending global commerce, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is looking for ways to deepen trade ties with India. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/09/world/politics/brazil-lula-modi-india-trade-partner/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brazil #luizinacioluladasilva #india #narendramodi #brics #trade
Trump alleged the BRICS group is working to weaken the US dollar.
Read more: https://t.co/qLOOKUulpo
Hahaha. Ahahaha!
Maybe so but you're doing a fine job all on your own, Trump. You astounding cretin.
With the U.S. withdrawing from international organizations and alienating other countries with tariffs, the 10-nation BRICS grouping has been gradually stepping in to fill a growing soft-power vacuum, analysts say. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/world/politics/brics-soft-power-trump-analysis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brics #g7 #us #donaldtrump #healthcare #ai #diseases
Ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's first Asia trip this week, to attend meetings of Southeast Asian Nations in Malaysia, U.S. President Donald Trump slammed tariffs on the hosts and allies in the region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/08/asia-pacific/politics/rubio-asean-trump-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #marcorubio #malaysia #asean #us #donaldtrump #trade #tariffs #brics
Leaders of the BRICS group of developing nations on Sunday condemned attacks on Gaza and Iran, called for reforms of global institutions and presented the bloc as a haven for multilateral diplomacy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/politics/brics-global-reform/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brics #us #trade #gaza #israelhamaswar #iran #israel #tariffs #donaldtrump #brazil
Russia and Iran were relegated to the periphery of a BRICS summit in Brazil. But even as the meeting got off to an awkward start, it was clear that the grouping is already challenging the U.S.-led order. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/07/world/politics/russia-iran-brics-guests/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #brics #brazil #russia #iran #us #donaldtrump
BRICS leaders meeting in Brazil are expected to decry U.S. trade tariffs, saying they are illegal and risk hurting the global economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/07/06/economy/brics-trump-tariffs/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #economy #brics #us #trade #globaleconomy #donaldtrump #tariffs
Until recently, the accepted wisdom in Mexico was that Mexico’s economy is simply too integrated with the US and Canada’s and too dependent on the US for it to be able to join the BRICS.
Fast forward to today, and President Sheinbaum has just announced that her government will be participating as an observer in the 17th annual meeting of the BRICS summit in Rio de Janeiro on July 6-7.
https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2025/07/this-time-its-true-mexico-is-going-to-the-brics-summit.html
BRICS has expanded to 20 countries – 10 members and 10 partners – after adding Vietnam. BRICS+ now makes up 44% of world GDP (PPP) and 56% of the global population. The US failed to divide China and Vietnam in its Second Cold War.
https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2025/07/04/brics-expansion-population-gdp-vietnam/
BRICS is about to launch an investment fund managed by China's New Development Bank for member states, to rival the World Bank.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/exclusive-brics-launch-guarantee-fund-160723574.html
China’s vast clean-energy industry has spearheaded a solar-power boom in the BRICS grouping of emerging economies, with the bloc accounting for more than half of global generation last year, according to a new report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/07/03/energy/china-brics-solar-power/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #energy #china #renewables #brics #solar
Vladimir Putin will not travel to Brazil for next month's BRICS summit due to the outstanding International Criminal Court arrest warrant on the Russian president. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/26/world/politics/putin-brics-brazil-icc-warrant/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #politics #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin #brics #brazil #icc
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