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Why is Big Capital ditching the ESG agenda?

... Swedish schools because they are stealing her childhood. In any case, she is too busy promoting Ukraine’s eco-friendly war arsenal these days. As for the child slave miners of Congo, “let them eat cake” as Marie Antoinette once allegedly said. 5. BRICS multipolar order There is a geopolitical dimension to Big Capital’s U-turn on ESG. The resource-rich sub-Saharan Africa is tilting towards the BRICS bloc, in particular China, even as the West implodes from within. A new generation of African ...

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13.07.2023 20:14:54

Did Wikileaks Sound the Death Knell of Western Tech Dominance?

Exactly three years after the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines MH370 on March 7 2014 (17:19 UTC time), the international whistleblowing site Wikileaks dropped a bombshell on how the US Central Intelligence Agency could weaponize just about every “smart device” on the planet. According to WikiLeaks: “‘Year Zero’” introduces the scope and direction of the CIA’s global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal and dozens of ‘zero day’...

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12.04.2017 13:37:40

Bilateral deals could trump BRICS game

... financial institutions so that they fully respect the institution of social inclusion as an entitlement as it was proffered by the UN Development Program and certain NGOs. Beijing in 2010 plays "the China card"... South Africa joins "BRICS" Historically underreported by western media, open sources indicate that China has been a longtime behind the scenes power player in the South African economy, which is considered by most experts and pundits as the "most developed" ...

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04.12.2016 06:46:00

Regime change diplomacy. Washington and Russian “adventurism” in Brazil

Having never officially observed an election in Brazil former U.S. president Jimmy Carter and the organization he founded to promote ethical democracy have given unequivocal support to president (sic) Michel Temer and his team in their efforts to safeguard Brazil's democratic values. The endorsement, signed by Carter, congratulated prominent electoral law specialist Torquato Jardim on his appointment as Temer's new Transparency Minister. It went on the official government website...

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20.06.2016 09:29:00

Overseas views on NPC & CPPCC: China can be a stabilizer of Asia-Pacific region

Panview: Geo-politics in the Asia-Pacific region continues to face turbulent times. What are your thoughts about the current state of this region? Maavak: Actually, they are not as "turbulent" as the Western media makes them out to be. Verbal spats – common to the Asia Pacific – are not the same as the pandemonium currently afflicting the West, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) as well as Afghanistan and Pakistan. Is there a single ongoing war in the Asia Pacific? Siblings...

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12.03.2016 02:29:00

Overseas views on China's Silk Road future: How Malaysia scholar sees the Belt & Road initiative?

The National People's Congress (NPC), China's top parliamentary body, and the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), China's top advisory body, are scheduled to convene its annual sessions, known as the "two sessions" on March 3-15 2016, which marks a pivotal year as the nation continues on to embark with its reforms and opening up policy, shifting towards a "New Normal" for economic growth rates, starting its 13th Five-Year Plan for social and economic development...

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06.03.2016 05:41:00

BRICS and DEVELOPING NATIONS – I hope we won’t be Subjugated ANYMORE

... challenges of multinationals – even in courts of other countries, namely the USA. So here we have it again – colonialism? NO it is Neo-colonialism at its finest – the NEW WORLD ORDER! However we have hope – the development of the BRICS coalition and partnership building with developing nations – the introduction of the BRICS Development Bank and the PRC’s AIIB. We are now able to fight back economically, politically and socially. We don’t have to accept the IMF,...

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09.12.2015 23:11:00

Is Greater Eurasia a Self-Sustaining Geoeconomic Ecosystem?

By Mathew Maavak Mathew Maavak is a doctoral researcher in Security Foresight at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM). Time to reorient our worldview? “Global interconnectedness” and “global governance” are the unchallenged dictums of the day. But is this Eurocentric axiom relevant anymore? This may sound rather disconcerting but the Eurasian Economic Union (EEU) or Greater Eurasia – facilitated by Russian geopolitics and Chinese Silk Road initiatives –may...

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24.11.2015 16:34:00

TPP VS Belt and Road (B&R): Who really benefits?

The tapestry of ancient Silk Routes The ancient maritime and overland Silk Routes have been revived. Its modern incarnation, driven by China’s Belt and Road Initiative (B&R), stands on the verge of connecting the Eurasian landmass, East Africa and Western Europe into a single trading matrix. Many Asian communities were defined by the ancient Silk routes. The Knanayas of the Malabar Coast, for example, were notable players in the western segment of the Maritime Silk Route. The symbol of...

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24.10.2015 17:56:00

Credit Agencies And Objectivity (Or The Lack Thereof)

... ratings organisations from five countries (CPR of Portugal, CARE Rating of India, GCR of South Africa, MARC of Malaysia, and SR Rating of Brazil) merged to launch ARC Ratings, a new global agency that was supposed to become an alternative. Naturally the BRICS nations have also brought up the question of creating a joint venture that will serve as an alternative source of credit ratings. The head of VTB, one of Russia’s leading banks, Andrey Kostin spoke to the Russia News Agency TASS about the ...

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30.07.2015 21:47:00

A Lesson In Business Mobility For The BRICS - How To Fast Track Bureaucracy

... not only negotiate final agreements and close deals, but to meet new clients, successfully establish and maintain long-term relationships and efficiently transfer technology, leading to greater innovation. Increasing the business mobility within the BRICS is one of the main priorities of the recently founded BRICS Business Council, as stated by Onkar S Kanwar, Chairman, BRICS Business Council, in a recent interview by the Russia&India Report. To "have a special arrangement for grant of long ...

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21.07.2015 15:12:00

Looking Back On Ufa

With the 7th annual BRICS summit more than a week behind us and yet another declaration signed by the heads of state, it would be only fitting to take a look back at the results of the summit and make predictions on its possible impact on the ever-changing geopolitical landscape....

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20.07.2015 11:22:00

BRICS And Its Recently Acquired Youth Factor

History was made last week when the first ever BRICS Youth Summit took place in Kazan, the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan. The event became the gathering place of over 200 young representatives from all five BRICS nations united by the common dream of creating a multipolar world. Throughout ...

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15.07.2015 09:05:00

BRICS and food security

Good idea, bad timing? It's not clear whether the world's worst drought in over a century provided impetus for the agriculture ministers of the BRICS nations to gather in Brasilia in March and launch a manifesto designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting. From a moral and business ethics perspective the effort makes sense ...

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08.05.2015 02:57:00

Iron ore and steel. Strategic, volatile and primed for conflict

Smarter “Smokestack Industries” are essential to the future. Considered to be developing economies in the “global governance” set-up, Russia and the BRICS know that traditional mainstream media and online propaganda vehicles driven by the “PR is the new journalism” mindset dismiss the reality that iron ore and steel are essential to the future. This means the assignment of a low importance ...

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02.03.2015 17:45:00

Disease and Diplomacy. Tuberculosis as a political weapon.

Last year 9 million people contracted tuberculosis and 1.5 million died from the disease. That's bad news for the public health infrastructures of the BRICS, who account for nearly half the TB cases worldwide. At the same time, however, non government actors with global political agendas, including philanthropies, the pharmaceutical industry and speculators, seek to disrupt government funded “social ...

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20.12.2014 17:49:00

Obama's "Scare Force" Targets BRICS

Calling the BRICS development bank “an insurance policy against the risk of U.S. sanctions,” experts at the prestigious Brookings Institution have joined Washington’s effort to disrupt the Russian economy and punish nations who do business with ...

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11.08.2014 07:12:00

 

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