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G20, BRICS, WEF and the “Building of a Just World and a Sustainable Planet”

This year will be decisive for the future agenda, with the upcoming United Nations Summit of the Future in September. This will lay the foundation for a strengthened economic global governance with the G20 in an elevated position within the UN and the international financial system.

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New Members Announced on Expanded BRICS+

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced that the BRICS leaders have made the decision to invite Argentina, Egypt, Iran, Ethiopia, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia to become full members of BRICS. This membership is set to commence from January 1, 2024.

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In Eurasia, the War of Economic Corridors is in Full Swing

Mega Eurasian organizations and their respective projects are now converging at record speed, with one global pole way ahead of the other.

The War of Economic Corridors is now proceeding full speed ahead, with the game-changing first cargo flow of goods from Russia to India via the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC) already in effect.

Very few, both in the east and west, are aware of how this actually has long been in the making: the Russia-Iran-India agreement for implementing a shorter and cheaper Eurasian trade route via the Caspian Sea (compared to the Suez Canal), was first signed in 2000, in the pre-9/11 era.

The INSTC in full operational mode signals a powerful hallmark of Eurasian integration – alongside the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU), and last but not least, what I described as “Pipelineistan” two decades ago.

Caspian is key

Let’s have a first look on how these vectors are interacting.

The genesis of the current acceleration lies in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s recent visit to Ashgabat, Turkmenistan’s capital, for the 6th Caspian Summit. This event not only brought the evolving Russia-Iran strategic partnership to a deeper level, but crucially, all five Caspian Sea littoral states agreed that no NATO warships or bases will be allowed on site.

That essentially configures the Caspian as a virtual Russian lake, and in a minor sense, Iranian – without compromising the interests of the three “stans,” Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan. For all practical purposes, Moscow has tightened its grip on Central Asia a notch.

As the Caspian Sea is connected to the Black Sea by canals off the Volga built by the former USSR, Moscow can always count on a reserve navy of small vessels – invariably equipped with powerful missiles – that may be transferred to the Black Sea in no time if necessary.

Stronger trade and financial links with Iran now proceed in tandem with binding the three “stans” to the Russian matrix. Gas-rich republic Turkmenistan for its part has been historically idiosyncratic – apart from committing most of its exports to China.

Under an arguably more pragmatic young new leader, President Serdar Berdimuhamedow, Ashgabat may eventually opt to become a member of the SCO and/or the EAEU.

Caspian littoral state Azerbaijan on the other hand presents a complex case: an oil and gas producer eyed by the European Union (EU) to become an alternative energy supplier to Russia – although this is not happening anytime soon.

The West Asia connection

Iran’s foreign policy under President Ebrahim Raisi is clearly on a Eurasian and Global South trajectory. Tehran will be formally incorporated into the SCO as a full member in the upcoming summit in Samarkand in September, while its formal application to join the BRICS has been filed.

Purnima Anand, head of the BRICS International Forum, has stated that Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Egypt are also very much keen on joining BRICS. Should that happen, by 2024 we could be on our way to a powerful West Asia, North Africa hub firmly installed inside one of the key institutions of the multipolar world.

As Putin heads to Tehran next week for trilateral Russia, Iran, Turkey talks, ostensibly about Syria, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is bound to bring up the subject of BRICS.

Tehran is operating on two parallel vectors. In the event the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is revived – a quite dim possibility as it stands, considering the latest shenanigans in Vienna and Doha – that would represent a tactical victory. Yet moving towards Eurasia is on a whole new strategic level.

In the INSTC framework, Iran will make maximum good use of the geostrategically crucial port of Bandar Abbas – straddling the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and the Indian subcontinent.

Yet as much as it may be portrayed as a major diplomatic victory, it’s clear that Tehran will not be able to make full use of BRICS membership if western – especially US – sanctions are not totally lifted.

Pipelines and the “stans”

A compelling argument can be made that Russia and China might eventually fill the western technology void in the Iranian development process. But there’s a lot more that platforms such as the INSTC, the EAEU and even BRICS can accomplish.

Across “Pipelineistan,” the War of Economic Corridors gets even more complex. Western propaganda simply cannot admit that Azerbaijan, Algeria, Libya, Russia’s allies at OPEC, and even Kazakhstan are not exactly keen on increasing their oil production to help Europe.

Kazakhstan is a tricky case: it is the largest oil producer in Central Asia and set to be a major natural gas supplier, right after Russia and Turkmenistan. More than 250 oil and gas fields are operated in Kazakhstan by 104 companies, including western energy giants such as Chevron, Total, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell.

While exports of oil, natural gas and petroleum products comprise 57 percent of Kazakhstan’s exports, natural gas is responsible for 85 percent of Turkmenistan’s budget (with 80 percent of exports committed to China). Interestingly, Galkynysh is the second largest gas field on the planet.

Compared to the other “stans,” Azerbaijan is a relatively minor producer (despite oil accounting for 86 percent of its total exports) and basically a transit nation. Baku’s super-wealth aspirations center on the Southern Gas Corridor, which includes no less than three pipelines: Baku-Tblisi-Erzurum (BTE); the Turkish-driven Trans-Anatolian Natural Gas Pipeline (TANAP); and the Trans-Adriatic (TAP).

The problem with this acronym festival – BTE, TANAP, TAP – is that they all need massive foreign investment to increase capacity, which the EU sorely lacks because every single euro is committed by unelected Brussels Eurocrats to “support” the black hole that is Ukraine. The same financial woes apply to a possible Trans-Caspian Pipeline which would further link to both TANAP and TAP.

In the War of Economic Corridors – the “Pipelineistan” chapter – a crucial aspect is that most Kazakh oil exports to the EU go through Russia, via the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). As an alternative, the Europeans are mulling on a still fuzzy Trans-Caspian International Transport Route, also known as the Middle Corridor (Kazakhstan-Turkmenistan-Azerbaijan-Georgia-Turkey). They actively discussed it in Brussels last month.

The bottom line is that Russia remains in full control of the Eurasia pipeline chessboard (and we’re not even talking about the Gazprom-operated pipelines Power of Siberia 1 and 2 leading to China).

Gazprom executives know all too well that a fast increase of energy exports to the EU is out of the question. They also factor the Tehran Convention – that helps prevent and control pollution and maintain the environmental integrity of the Caspian Sea, signed by all five littoral members.

Breaking BRI in Russia

China, for its part, is confident that one of its prime strategic nightmares may eventually disappear. The notorious “escape from Malacca” is bound to materialize, in cooperation with Russia, via the Northern Sea Route, which will shorten the trade and connectivity corridor from East Asia to Northern Europe from 11,200 nautical miles to only 6,500 nautical miles. Call it the polar twin of the INSTC.

This also explains why Russia has been busy building a vast array of state-of-the-art icebreakers.

So here we have an interconnection of New Silk Roads (the INSTC proceeds in parallel with BRI and the EAEU), Pipelineistan, and the Northern Sea Route on the way to turn western trade domination completely upside down.

Of course, the Chinese have had it planned for quite a while. The first White Paper on China’s Arctic policy, in January 2018, already showed how Beijing is aiming, “jointly with other states” (that means Russia), to implement sea trade routes in the Arctic within the framework of the Polar Silk Road.

And like clockwork, Putin subsequently confirmed that the Northern Sea Route should interact and complement the Chinese Maritime Silk Road.

Russia-China Economic cooperation is evolving on so many complex, convergent levels that just to keep track of it all is a dizzying experience.

A more detailed analysis will reveal some of the finer points, for instance how BRI and SCO interact, and how BRI projects will have to adapt to the heady consequences of Moscow’s Operation Z in Ukraine, with more emphasis being placed on developing Central and West Asian corridors.

It’s always crucial to consider that one of Washington’s key strategic objectives in the relentless hybrid war against Russia was always to break BRI corridors that crisscross Russian territory.

As it stands, it’s important to realize that dozens of BRI projects in industry and investment and cross-border inter-regional cooperation will end up consolidating the Russian concept of the Greater Eurasia Partnership – which essentially revolves around establishing multilateral cooperation with a vast range of nations belonging to organizations such as the EAEU, the SCO, BRICS and ASEAN.

Welcome to the new Eurasian mantra: Make Economic Corridors, Not War.

Pepe Escobar is a columnist at The Cradle, editor-at-large at Asia Times and an independent geopolitical analyst focused on Eurasia. Since the mid-1980s he has lived and worked as a foreign correspondent in London, Paris, Milan, Los Angeles, Singapore and Bangkok. He is the author of countless books; his latest one is Raging Twenties.

The Global Reset: Unplugged from the Deep State

Imagine, you are living in a world that you are told is a democracy – and you may even believe it – but in fact your life and fate is in the hands of a few ultra-rich, ultra-powerful and ultra-inhuman oligarchs. They may be called Deep State, or simply the Beast, or anything else obscure or untraceable – it doesn’t matter. They are less than the 0.0001%.

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The Covert Hybrid WW3 Video Series

We are creating videos for the proper interpretation of the geopolitical and geo-economic events in the hope that when more people understand their true significance, they will be able to supplant the motives of those who are taking them for fools! Continue reading The Covert Hybrid WW3 Video Series

Global Reset: When Past & Future Collide… Today

Some say that we are in constant exposure to a “divide and control” dialectic to limit the conversation into two, or more derivative narratives sowing disagreements and conflicts all the time while the controllers plot the real course for humanity, with their own interests properly served.
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1st Silk Road Train Arrives in Iran, West Sociopaths Trashing $100 & €500 Bills Out

Some very striking developments between East and the West in the realm of economics are happening very recently. What we thought would take more years to start is already here.
The Silk Road is well on course and the first train of goodies from China has arrived in Iranian railway terminals to inaugurate post-sanction Iran.
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Global Accounts Elders Prefer January 1st for Humanitarian Aid Release [Keenan]

Just like we’ve always warned about the attempt of the Jesuits, aka Khazarian Mafia, to hijack the upcoming massive release of humanitarian aid through the BRICS financial mechanisms, or otherwise, by proclaiming a “debt jubilee” and a partial controlled ET disclosure, the Keenan Group is advising everyone to stay away from any “Jubilee” sounding schemes.
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The Lies and Deception Known as the European Union

We’ve long known that trade pacts and organized economic blocks are not really instituted for our benefit but for facilitating totalitarian control in its grandest scale, and the recent leaking of the IMF document, emphasizing the futility for Greece to have accepted the Troika’s terms, only proves that sinister objective even more.
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Greek Domino falls, China moves in to pick up the pieces

June 29, 2015

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So, it has finally happened, Greece has shut down its banks and imposed capital controls. And so the dominoes start to fall. This is only the first act in a grand opera that will continue to unfold in the coming months. To try to guess what is in store for the European Union, it is good to take a look at how the fall of the Soviet Union took place.
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Power of Gold

We were all expecting a grand global announcement of a shift from fiat dollar to gold standard, actually a basket of sovereign currencies backed up by hard assets, e.g. oil, natural gas, copper, silver and gold, and yet, it is turning out not to be the case.
What we are seeing right now is a gradual implementation of that shift.
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Outline of ‘Future of BRICS institutions’

 In the run-up to the 7th BRICS leaders Summit to be hosted by Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will attend an event in Moscow on Saturday to outline priorities for Russia within the group of five.

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BRICS Global Bank Will Open Coffers by Year-End, Coinciding Jesuits' Debt Jubilee

As we have indicated in our previous article, “World Bank & U.S. Companies Ready to Cooperate with BRICS“, the Jesuits are planning to erase all persons’ debt starting December 8th of this year dubbed as the Holy Year of Mercy, a big PR stunt that is sure to lure the Sheeples once again into the caring arms of the Jesuit controlled Vatican Church, aka Roman Empire.
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Big public announcements and news events make it clear Khazarian rule is ending

There can be no doubt now that the global Khazarian crime syndicate is being dismantled by white hats in the US and Europe along with their BRICS allies. This can be seen in the many extraordinary events that have been taking place both in public and in secret.
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BRICS to Create Own Parliamentary Assembly

The BRICS is planning to establish its own United Nations on top of the other alternative infrastructures it has already established, i.e. new development bank, SWIFT alternative, credit rating agency, for global wide redevelopment.
To start the process, a fair representation from member nation states comprising the multilateral policy making body must be established.
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BRICS Finance Ministers to Meet at WEF Summit in Davos

January 18, 2015, 7:43 am

The five Finance Ministers of BRICS will meet on the sidelines of the WEF summit next week in Davos where they will discuss preparations on establishing the newly-launched $100 billion BRICS Bank.
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Nicaragua Canal: 'Great Project of Physical and Human Transformation'

Dr. Telémaco Talavera, president of the Agrarian University of Nicaragua, and spokesman for the Nicaragua Great Inter-Oceanic Canal Commission, gave the following interview to Gerardo Castilleja, of EIR’s Mexico City Bureau, on Dec. 20, 2014. It has been translated from Spanish.
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BRICS Gaining Control of IMF; U.S., Inc. Isolated

The global financial reset is imminent, and the Republic of United States will reemerge as all necessary preparations are completed.
The Israel controlled US Congress is deliberately ignoring ratification of IMF reforms, and decides to play hard ball.
These childish actions will surely amount to nothing as the rest of the world are about to welcome the “new normal”.
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Pope Bergoglio & The BRICS Bank

In spite of the heightened anticipation of the Big Event we have yet to lose our sight on the deceptive, behind the scene actions of the Jesuits.
Through the last two Fulford updates [here & here], the WDS is confirming that the European faction of the Illuminati are now actively involved in the planned New Age of Aquarius.
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Is There Room for the US in China’s 'Asia-Pacific Dream'?

China’s “Asia-Pacific Dream” involves a region led by Beijing, not Washington.

China Announces $40 B Silk Road fund

November 8, 2014, 5:04 pm

The Silk Road connected China and Europe from around 100 B.C. The 4,000-mile road linked ancient Chinese, Indian, Babylonian, Arabic, Greek and Roman civilizations [Xinhua]
The Silk Road connected China and Europe from around 100 B.C. The 4,000-mile road linked ancient Chinese, Indian, Babylonian, Arabic, Greek and Roman civilizations [Xinhua]
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday announced China will contribute $40 billion to set up a Silk Road Fund to strengthen connectivity in the Asia-Pacific region.
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APEC launches study of China-backed Asia Pacific FTA

November 8, 2014, 6:03 am

By pushing for a wider deal in the Asia Pacific that would equal the EU, China would also steal a march over the TPP championed by President Barack Obama’s administration [Xinhua]
By pushing for a wider deal in the Asia Pacific that would equal the EU, China would also steal a march over the TPP championed by President Barack Obama’s administration [Xinhua]
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Ministerial Meeting on Saturday decided to “launch and comprehensively and systemically push forward” the mammoth China-backed Asia Pacific FTA negotiations despite reported opposition from the US.
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BRICS is Unstoppable

The BRICS agenda of progressive cooperation between its 188 member countries is expected to dominate the APEC meeting this week. Already, Russia and China have agreed to formulate a unified stand on issues which could affect the planned New Silk Road that will cover the perimeter countries of both superpowers.
BRICS progressive global intercourse is a far cry to the genocidal character of the West.
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Total War Against BRICS

Here’s Pepe Escobar’s detailed analysis of what’s going on the surface of the ongoing battle for the control of the planet.

It’s now total war against the BRICS

Pepe Escobar is the roving correspondent for Asia Times/Hong Kong, an analyst for RT and TomDispatch, and a frequent contributor to websites and radio shows ranging from the US to East Asia.
Published time: November 04, 2014 21:07

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China-led new Bank challenges Japanese, US’ influence

October 26, 2014, 5:12 am
Emerging economic powers such as China, India and Brazil have long been demanding greater share of votes in multilateral development institutions like the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the Asian Development Bank to reflect their recent phenomenal growth. China’s economy is expected to grow to $10 trillion this year, yet its share of votes in the Bretton Woods institutions is only 3.72 percent, compared with 17.4 percent for the United States.
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OBJECTIVE GEOPOLITICAL VIEWS FROM RUSSIAN ANALYSTS

I’ve never anticipated that I’d see the day when we prefer Russian broadcast commentators more than those in US or EU, but they are getting mainstream. Thanks to Google’s CC translation button on YouTube, we get to understand them, too.
No holds barred, there’s no double-talking here.
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THE UNSTOPPABLE BRICS

With regards to progress and development, there is no stopping for the BRICS. This massive partnership is based primarily on mutual respect and prosperity which is what the New Silk Road symbolizes.
The Eastern Alliance is more than ready and sincerely committed to finance the redevelopment of the planet, including the financing of massive rehabilitation of Western economies for as long as the purge of dangerous parasites is done as soon as possible.
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THE EVE OF A NEW RENAISSANCE

Past civilizations on this planet may have gone so far than what we were taught but may not be farther than what we have attained right now. There’s no indication that they have reached a level comparable to our communication grid, i.e. the internet.
The internet has carried critical information away from the control grid and into the consciousness of the masses, through which spun a potpourri of ideas never before explored in a scale as it is today.
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THE MORAL SUPERIORITY OF BRICS

When comparing between contrasting philosophies we tend to look at the character of those who advance them. We seek to know more about the people involved.
In the case between BRICS and NWO, the choice is simple enough just by looking at the leaderships. We could go back much farther into the recent past and look at what they had actually done in any given situation.
Even in the absence of adequate exposure, those who are directly affected of their actions can objectively say that BRICS is a far better alternative.
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There Is a Sudden Explosion of Optimism

Helga Zepp-LaRouche made this presentation to the “One Belt, One Road” Conference in Beijing, Sept. 5, 2014.
The New Silk Road, as it was proposed by Chinese President Xi Jinping one year ago, and as it has developed momentum through the BRICS Summit in July in Brazil, followed by the BRICS-Latin American Heads of State Summit the next day, has already changed the world. As a result of this New Silk Road dynamic, numerous large projects have been agreed upon throughout the world, for example, the second Panama Canal through Nicaragua, a transcontinental railway from Brazil to Peru, and numerous nuclear cooperation agreements among various countries.
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China's Silk Road: Pathway to a New Human Civilization

Bao Shixiu, Professor (Emeritus) of Military Science, People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Military Science, gave this speech at the conference “One Belt, One Road,” held in Beijing on Sept. 5.
I would like to extend my greetings and my gratitude to Dr. Xiao Jingqiu for inviting me here. At the same time, I have to say that studies concerning the Silk Road are a very big issue, and I’m not the top-notch researcher in this field. So I’d just like to share with you my very shallow thoughts about it, and please feel free to contribute all your insights and criticisms to me.
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An Alliance of the Two Asian Giants Will Benefit Mankind

by Ramtanu Maitra
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Sept. 22—Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Sept. 17-19 visit to India, and his close interactions with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have advanced the important bilateral relations between the two giant nations, and has positive implications for the global development thrust being carried out by the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) as a whole. Today, in Beijing, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hua Chunying said that cooperation will remain the main theme of Sino-Indian relations. He pointed to President Xi’s observation that harmony between the Chinese dragon and the Indian elephant will bring benefits to the whole world.
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The New Enemy

At present, there is an emergence of two contrasting geopolitical philosophies. While China is busy strengthening relationships with its neighbors in Asia, and Russia is sending food and medical supplies to the war-torn Ukraine, Western oligarchs are busy sowing terror by proxies everywhere there’s oil, regrouping and enhancing their military command structure as if the East would buy into their warmongering habits.
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Global Financial Reset Coming

For the last few days, some  very significant events have taken place.
Among them was the  major steps taken to strengthen mutual cooperation amongst China’s closest neighbors through the Silk Road Belt Initiative and Shanghai Cooperation Organization.

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Saudi Joining BRICS to Ditch USD

Everybody with sovereign wealth substantial enough to dictate the global economic direction are making their voices heard, and their action felt.
China and Russia spearheading the establishment of a World Bank of Hard Currencies, e.g. gold, is now being joined by Saudi Arabia which might replicate what Iran has been currently doing in the energy market.
All these moves will have one sure casualty — USDollar.
But what’s in it for us?
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