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Editor: Dr. G.G. Parikh | Associate Editor: Neeraj Jain | Managing Editor: Guddi
From July 6 to 7, BRICS held its 17th annual summit in Rio de Janeiro. Against the backdrop of growing global polarization and open threats from the United States, the summit signalled that BRICS is no longer just a talking shop; it is becoming a force Washington can’t ignore.
‘As French Embassy Closes in Niger, West Africa Charts a New Course’: Over the past few years, numerous West African states have taken steps toward greater economic and security sovereignty, often in opposition to Western (specifically French) designs on the region. Also: ‘Barrick Gold Bristles at Mali’s New Mining Code’.
Sankara’s vision of an independent, socialist, pan-Africanist model of development—one in which wealth produced in Africa remains in Africa to develop the majority of the population—was not buried with him. He remains an inspiring symbol for people in Africa and beyond.
Art is a cultural weapon. It is a tool for educating, for inspiring change. It gives voice to the injustices of the past and present and gestures toward a more just future. The Israeli government seems to recognize this fact. In over two months of slaughter, Israeli forces have devastated Gaza’s cultural sector.
The law provides a model for how the knowledge and traditions of small-scale farming can be defended against corporate dispossession.
One of the most compelling aspects of Venezuela’s ongoing Bolivarian Revolution, founded with the election of Hugo Chávez in 1999, is the central role that communes play in the process. There are almost 50,000 communes in Venezuela, concentrated in the countryside and the urban barrios.
When it comes to Western Sahara, the West’s collective silence can be called nothing but a double standard. An important reason is that many Western countries profit from the illegal exploitation of Sahrawi resources.
Articles on the ongoing tragedy in Haiti do not highlight the nefarious role that groups affiliated with the United Nations and the US have played in Haiti in the past, and the positive role that other countries in the Global South, particularly Venezuela, have had on Haiti’s development.
Walter Rodney wrote, “The development of Europe [was] part of the same dialectical process in which Africa was underdeveloped.” In recent decades, Canada has played an outsized role in this process of underdevelopment – particularly in Burkina Faso.
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