With men at the BRICS helm like Serra and his president Michel Temer (who is also corrupt and widely despised), so too has the bloc become damaged goods
CITES comes to South Africa
Gates specialises in top-down technicist quick-fixes – ‘silver bullets’ – which often backfire on the economic shooting range of extreme corporate influence and neoliberal policies
The only short-term solution is a radical tightening of exchange controls against corporations and wealthy individuals
The response to the Brazilian coup shows that the BRICS powers are not a real alternative to US imperialism
Grassroots protesters all over Africa are questioning the logic of export-led ‘growth’ and renewed fiscal austerity, instead demanding that policies meet their basic needs
A wedge is being quickly driven through Pretoria’s political elite
Subsidized white capitalists and oppressed activists are amongst those who must “not be named”
Brazil, Russia, India and China quietly step on African heads to get more IMF voting power, as one instance of the anti-Western rhetorical charade
The Chinese financial meltdown is another instance of the system’s core contradictions, but one potentially big enough to pull it all down
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