Donald Trump's war on BRICS is heating up, but it's backfiring, as the Russia & China-led Global South moves to dump the US dollar and build a new order independent of its dictates. Journalist and geopolitical analyst Ben Norton breaks it all down.

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imperial and colonial masters. That seems to me the big problem that BRICS poses for imperialism<


Yeah, I was very glad to see that both Lula and Anoir of Malaysia mentioned colonialism and decolonization. And Anoir Ibrahim, the prime minister of Malaysia, gave a very interesting speech and I was I was actually pleasantly surprised by how pretty revolutionary it was. Again, he invoked the legacy of the non-align actually pleasantly surprised by how pretty revolutionary it was. Again, he invoked the legacy of the non-align movement and the Bond conference. He mentioned several anti-colonial leaders in the global south who were all you know revolutionary leftists including Chou Enlai, who is probably the second most powerful person in China after Mao in the Mao era, he mentioned Javaharuthe Mao era he mentioned Javaharu who was the found founding father of India the anti-colonial leader who was himself you know a left-wing leader and he mentioned Sukarno who was a socialist anti-colonial leader in Indonesia so hearing the prime minister of Malaysia mention these leaders as a positive example I think is is very positive.Also by the way I forgot to mention he also he also invoked he mentioned the name ofqwame encrum who was the revolutionary socialist leader of Ghana an anti-colonial leader and it's especially important that he mentioned encruma because encruma was the author of neoc colonialism so encrum famously of neoc colonialism so encrum famously argue by the way encrum was the victim of a USbacked coup like you know a yende and chile and so many other leftist leaders in the global south like Mosedc in Iran, Arben in Guatemala, Avo Morales in Boliviao in 2019. So anyway, and Kruma wrote this book neoc colonialism in which he argued that after the end of formal political colonialism by the European powers, there was a system offormal political colonialism by the European powers, there was a system of neoc colonialism in which the western colonial powers still controlled the the global financial institutions and trade with their formal colonies, former colonies. And they basically controlled the economies of many of these countries in the global south because even though the economies of many of these countries in the global south because even though they kicked out their colonial masters, their economies were underdeveloped. They were not industrialized and they were reli re reliant entirely on trade with their former colonial masters. And in the case of West Africa, which is where Nkruhma was from, it was especially important because France...<


we've been talking about. So bricks is about transforming these international financial institutions and creating true multilateral financial institutions so they're they can decolonize the global economy so you can actually have true decolonization. So I think hearing Lula and Anoir talk about that I think that was very important because it makes it clear that this is one of the key missions of