Washington Takes on the BRICS

Washington Takes on the BRICS

by Patrick Lawrence, The Unz Review: Well, it took long enough for the White House and the policy cliques to notice even the existence of the BRICS, the group of non–Western nations named for its first members. For many years after Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa coalesced to form this loose but formidable […]

A Critically Sympathetic Perspective of the BRICS Rio Conference

To what extent is BRICS solidly opposed to the West? After all, Lula blocked socialist Venezuela from entering BRICS. India is starting to make deals with the United States. Politically, socialist China is in the same organization with two fundamentalist countries, the Sunny Islamic fundamentalism of Saudi Arabia and the Hindu fundamentalism of India. Though Mordor is declining and Europe is its vassal, the NATO countries, though weaker technolo…