How NYT’s Bad Reporting Helped Justify Trump’s Tariffs on Brazil
The arguments presented in the New York Times have bolstered Trump’s justification for imposing tariffs on Brazilian goods.
In Protest Over Gaza, Brazil Withdraws From International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Brazil’s withdrawal from the IHRA comes on the heels of its decision to join South Africa in accusing Israel of genocide at the ICJ.
BRICS Grows, Adding Indonesia as Member: World’s 4th Most Populous Country, 7th Biggest Economy
BRICS keeps expanding. As a new full member, it added Indonesia, the 4th most populous country with the 7th largest economy on Earth. BRICS now has 10 members and 8…
G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas
This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
The Landless Workers’ Movement at 40
By Liam Crisan / CounterPunch This month marks the 40th anniversary of the largest social movement in the Americas: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, or MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem…
800+ Global Groups Back South Africa’s Genocide Case as ICJ Prepares for Hearing
"The very least states can do is to submit Declarations of Intervention as a small part of fulfilling their obligations under Article 1 of the Genocide Convention," said a peace…
US Media Suppressed Their Government’s Role in Ousting Brazil’s Government
By Brian Mier / Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting In a new peer-reviewed academic article in Latin American Perspectives (11/19/23), “Anticorruption and Imperialist Blind Spots: The Role of the United…
Latin America and the Caribbean Stand With Palestine: Israel Viewed as a US Proxy
By Roger D Harris / Pressenza The countries of Latin America and the Caribbean, with a few notable exceptions, have been critical of Israel’s ongoing campaign of genocide in Gaza.…
Brics Leaders Condemn Israeli War Crimes in Gaza, Call For End of Hostilities
A delegation of Arab-Islamic countries also met Chinese and Russian foreign ministers earlier this week in order to push for an end of of Israeli violence against Palestinians and lasting…
Human Existence Is in Danger. The UN at the Crossroads
By Partido Humanista de Chile / Pressenza In 2015 the UN (United Nations), whose main functions are to maintain international peace and security, protect human rights and support sustainable development…
BRICS and the Future of Humanity, an Invitation to Reflection
By Anna Polo / Pressenza A multipolar and heterogeneous world is certainly more interesting than one dominated by a single power, the United States, with Europe in tow. The recent…
BRICS Calls for Global Economic Decision Making in the Interest of the Majority
Policies followed by the West such as sanctions, conditionalities in loan disbursal, and dollar hegemony were the targets of speeches made by the BRICS leaders on the first and second…
The BRICS Have Changed the Balance of Forces, but They Will Not By Themselves Change the World
By Vijay Prashad / Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research In 2003, high officials from Brazil, India, and South Africa met in Mexico to discuss their mutual interests in the trade…
Bolsonaro’s Butchery: CIA Fingerprints Are All Over Brazil’s Indigenous Genocide
Kit Klarenburg delves into the brutality meted out during the tenure of former President Jair Bolsonar by Brazil’s infamous Rural Indigenous Guard—an undercover, lethal elite police force clandestinely established by…
The BRICS Revolt: How Ukraine War Eroded U.S. Authority
By Glenn Greenwald / Rumble The proxy war in Ukraine has presented a grand opportunity for competitors of the U.S. — a chance to exploit longstanding resentments of American empire…