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Brazil must diversify its trade portfolio to include certain industrial areas where it can truly compete on a global level [Xinhua]
Brazil’s economy has suffered a series of setbacks and pitfalls in the midst of political crises in the past two years.
Earlier this week, President Dilma Rousseff was temporarily removed from office pending a trial as the country’s leaders face down a number of corruption allegations and a barrage of negative economic news.

When you have a self-righteous provincial judge threatening to imprison former President Lula for a modest apartment and a ranch that he does not own, but at the same time is incapable of laying a finger on Brutus Two, alongside largely pompous Supreme Court judges, you have a banana republic.
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Government “corruption” – trumpeted by international media and exploited by U.S.-funded NGOs – is a favorite weapon for discrediting and removing populist leaders, as is now occurring in Brazil, explains Dan Steinbock. By Dan Steinbock While international media focuses on Brazil’s mass demonstrations against…Read more →

The BRICS Post – March 25, 2016 The New Development Bank launched by the BRICS will soon issue between 3-5 billion yuan in bonds in China in the second quarter of 2016, a senior bank official said on Thursday. Leslie Maasdorp, NDB vice-president and chief financial officer, was speaking on the sidelines of the Boao […]

The BRICS Post | March 19, 2016 Russia’s new national Analytical Credit Rating Agency (ACRA), seen as a domestic competitor to global ratings agencies, plans to issue its first ratings this year, according to CEO, Ekaterina Trofimova. ACRA applied for a license to operate in Russia on February 29. On Friday, one of the “BIG Three” […]

Since April of 2015, the Republic of Burundi has been beset by a violent protest movement organised by NGOs financed by the United States and the European Union. These so-called ‘civil society’ organisations have engaged in mass murder, arson, and sabotage in a concerted attempt to spread anarchy in the country on behalf of neocolonial interests.

On May 19, 1916, representatives of Great Britain and France secretly reached an accord, known as the Sykes-Picot agreement, by which most of the Arab lands under the rule of the Ottoman Empire were to be divided into British and French spheres of influence upon the conclusion of World War 1. That this agreement was conducted in secrecy, reveals to what extent the voices of the inhabitants of this region were absent from negotiations. It was as if the voices of the ruling Colonial elites were the only ones that had credibility.

Sputnik – November 23, 2015 On Sunday, Argentina held a runoff vote to pick its next president, resulting in a narrow victory for conservative Let’s Change coalition candidate Mauricio Macri over his center-left Front for Victory coalition opponent, Daniel Scioli. The question on everybody’s mind now is: what should Argentinians, and the world, expect from […]

Gabriel Rabhi, auteur du documentaire « Dette, crise, chômage : qui crée l’argent ? » et passionné de géopolitique replace les attentats de Paris dans le contexte global des luttes d’intérêts entre grandes puissances. Il nous livre une analyse étayée, au delà de l’émotion et des déclarations étriquées omniprésentes dans les médias de grande diffusion.

In December of last year we published an intriguing article by Dmitry Kalinichenko, “Grandmaster Putin’s Trap,” which has drawn far more attention from readers than we ever expected. It continues to be cited by many international political and economic experts. That article addressed Russia’s latent strategy to get rid of US bonds and use its petrodollars to buy monetary gold.