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  Pepe Escobar: No Respite for France as ‘New Africa’ Rises African states are one-by-one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. They are saying “non” to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic and security affairs. Day Over, July 2019, Yanounde, Cameroon.  (Rikyelle Momo Nguematio, Wikimedia Commons,  CC BY-SA 4.0) By  Pepe Escobar B y adding two new African member-states to its roster, last months’ summit in Johannesburg heralding  the expanded BRICS 11  showed once again that Eurasian integration is inextricably linked to the integration of Afro-Eurasia. Belarus is now proposing to hold a joint summit between BRICS 11, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU).  President Aleksandr Lukashenko’s vision for the convergence of these multilateral organizations may, in due time, lead to the Mother of All Multipolarity Summits. But Afro-Eurasia is a much more complicated proposition. Africa still lags far behi

Meet the new boss... Same as the old boss? Exclusive: Russia's Sergey Glazyev introduces the new global financial system The world's new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity. By  Pepe Escobar Leading Russian economist Sergey Glazyev says a complete overhaul of the western-dominated global monetary and financial system is under works. And the world's rising powers are buying into it. Sergey Glazyev is a man living right in the eye of our current geopolitical and geo-economic hurricane. One of the most influential economists in the world, a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and a former adviser to the Kremlin from 2012 to 2019, for the past three years he has helmed Moscow’s uber strategic portfolio as  Minister in Charge of Integration and Macroeconomics  of the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU)

It's Confirmed: Tyrants LOVE China! . . . But Why? The Corbett Report by James Corbett corbettreport.com March 12, 2022 I'm sure by now you've all seen the clip of Justin Trudeau admitting that he "admires" China's dictatorship "because their basic dictatorship is allowing them to actually turn their economy around on a dime," but  here it is again . Given the absolutely unprecedented and utterly chilling events that have  just unfolded in Canada  under Prime Minister Trudeau's watch, it's no surprise that his bone-chilling admission from 2013 has been  making the rounds online  once again. But this is not some kind of one-off slip of the tongue or out-of-context "gotcha" moment. Time after time, (mis)leader after (mis)leader from around the world has confirmed their lust for China's dictatorial powers. In fact, it's not just the (mis)leaders who covet the Chinese authoritarian system; businessmen, pundits, think tank bigwig