The Post-Partisan Emporium

  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

 Thanks to Saint Jimmy (Russian American) for bringing this article to our attention. You will have to go to the source to watch the videos in this article... Change Is in the Air in Africa SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER Change is in the air. Under cover of the Ukrainian war, vast sweeping changes are in order for the global architecture which has secured Western hegemony for the past century and a half. The events currently playing out in Africa and the ‘global south’ dare to eclipse the significance of the Ukrainian war, which acts merely as the frosting to the revolutionary layer cake of anti-imperialist sentiment bursting forth around the world. Africa has had enough, and is self-assembling along geopolitical lines. The U.S. stooges of ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States) seek to keep the status quo going while rival blocs are ready to strip the Western powers of their self-proclaimed birthright to the African land—and its resources—once and for all. This new revolt of the g