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Jan 13, 2025 | 
msn.com | Patrick Bond
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
links.org.au | Patrick Bond
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny comes at a time that poses profound challenges for solidarity with Palestine.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Patrick Bond
The sudden regime overthrow in Syria and the long-delayed opportunity to confront the legacy of Bashar al-Assad’s tyranny are either being celebrated or condemned, as explored below, but they come at a time that poses profound problems for solidarity with Palestine. In Johannesburg, these problems are particularly acute given contradictions exposed last week.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
cadtm.org | Patrick Bond
In Johannesburg, these are particularly acute given the contradictions exposed last week.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Patrick Bond |Richard D. Wolff |Amy Goodman
Will the BRICS economic and political alliance change the world’s U.S.-centered balance of power? As the annual BRICS summit wraps up in Russia, we host a debate between American economist Richard Wolff and South African sociologist Patrick Bond over the significance of the conference.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
globalresearch.ca | Patrick Bond |sub-Saharan Africa
IntroductionThe Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit in early September follows a markedly unsuccessful Dakar FOCAC in 2021 (where Chinese investment commitments dropped radically), in turn following overhyped events in Beijing in 2018 and Johannesburg in 2015.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
counterpunch.org | Patrick Bond
Untenable G7/BRICS+/G20 assimilations within rapacious global capitalismFollowing the Johannesburg BRICS summit in August 2023, the new ‘BRICS+’ – whose leadership will be hosted by Vladimir Putin in Kazan from October 22-24 – now consist of not only Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but also Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates – with Saudi Arabia potentially joining before 2024 ends, in the event Donald Trump is not elected U.S. President on November 5.
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Oct 19, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | Patrick Bond
Following the Johannesburg BRICS summit in August 2023, the new ‘BRICS+’ – whose leadership will be hosted by Vladimir Putin in Kazan from October 22-24 – now consist of not only Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, but also Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates – with Saudi Arabia potentially joining before 2024 ends, in the event Donald Trump is not elected U.S. President on November 5.
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Oct 18, 2024 | 
cadtm.org | Patrick Bond
But what also needs contemplating is a sub-set of economically-pro-Israel ruling classes where one might not expect them: within the BRICS BRICS The term BRICS (an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) was first used in 2001 by Jim O’Neill, then an economist at Goldman Sachs.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
lacasademitia.es | Patrick Bond
El equipo de facilitación del genocidio Biden-Harris está celebrando las últimas atrocidades desde Gaza hasta Cisjordania y el Líbano, como es de esperar de un bloque de poder imperialista central que carece de un ápice de humanidad cuando se trata de los pueblos a los que los israelíes ahora oprimen más allá de toda comprensión. Pero también es necesario pensar en un subconjunto de clases dirigentes económicamente pro-Israel en un lugar en el que no se las esperaría: dentro del bloque BRICS+.
