Considering significance of the BRICS 15th Summit Declaration, Countercurrents is posting the Declaration’s complete version. XV BRICS Summit Johannesburg II Declaration BRICS and Africa: Partnership for Mutually Accelerated Growth, Sustainable Development and Inclusive Multilateralism Sandton, Gauteng, South Africa Wednesday 23 August 2023 Preamble We, the Leaders of the Federative Republic …

Le Maghreb ne déroge pas à la règle des nations-civilisations qui veut que leur géopolitique soit forgée par l’histoire longue. Il a connu une période de décadence qui a commencée au XIIIe siècle et a atteint son point culminant avec la mise sous tutelle complète par la colonisation courant du …

À contre pied de quelques va-t-en-guerre occidentaux, la Hongrie, à l’instar de la Bulgarie, refuse d’alimenter le conflit en livrant des armes à Kiev. Source d’inspiration pour la Suisse qui a déjà perdu sa neutralité ? À l’heure où l’issue du conflit armé à haute intensité qui frappe l’Ukraine fait …

Voici la réflexion d’un intellectuel sénégalais qui est largement majoritaire au Sénégal, qu’il s’agisse du peuple, des universitaires de l’université de Dakar ou de la puissante confrérie des Mourids, la politique du président sénégalais, sa répression son alignement est de plus en plus contestée. Il fait ici une analyse de …

The Wagner Group, a notorious private military company that has been involved in conflicts and controversies around the world, is facing an uncertain future after the now confirmed death of its founder and leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, in a plane crash near Moscow on Wednesday. Prigozhin, a close associate of Russian …

Following Russia’s annexation of four regions of Ukraine in September last year, Kyiv formally applied for NATO membership. However, despite the ongoing Russian aggression, Ukraine’s membership remains unresolved.

When people such as Vivek Ramaswamy, a candidate for the Republican Party nomination in the 2024 US presidential election, call for decreasing aid to Israel, they are actually sending a message of support to the mullahs in Tehran and their proxies, Hamas and PIJ, as well as the Iran-funded Hezbollah …

For some months now, officials in Washington and other world capitals assumed that diplomatic efforts to reach a deal between the United States and Iran to curb the Islamic Republic’s growing nuclear program would reach a dead end. But after two years of uncertain negotiations, there are signs that the …

Geopolitical rivalries having intensified in recent years between China and India was logically bound to affect the cohesive continuance of the five-member BRICS grouping with no ideological bindings and different strategic perspectives, but only an initial show of economic resurgence as a binding adhesive.. BRICS Summit 2023 held at Johannesburg …

The withdrawal of the US from the Middle East and the increasing involvement of China (and Russia to a lesser degree) have altered the geopolitical landscape of the region and intensified the competition among the major powers. The EU and European countries have adopted a pragmatic approach that concentrates on …