Economy / Finance

Birth of a new financial world order

by Guy Mettan,* Geneva

(30 May 2023) The war in Ukraine triggered the shift of the world towards Asia and the Global South. Since February 2022, events have been accelerating, both politically and economically: an increase in trade agreements in national currencies, a peace plan between Saudi Arabia and Iran under the auspices of China, an increase in the number of BRICS membership applications, a project for a common currency between Argentina and Brazil, etc.

19 nations ready to join BRICS

Among them five Arab states plus Iran

by The Cradle (News Desk)

(16 May 2023= As Global South nations continue to ditch the US dollar for trade, BRICS officials have said the bloc is working on developing a new currency.

First preliminary stage: economic war against China?

by Prof. Dr. Eberhard Hamer*, Germany

(2 May 2023) (Edit.) With his frank analyses, Professor Eberhard Hamer, founder of the “Mittelstandsinstitut Niedersachsen” (Lower Saxony Institute for Small and Medium-Sized Businesses), doesn’t beat about the bush. Particularly in these times, in which the political guidance of Germany, takes orders from big brother almost like a subordinate bailiff. Will Germany refuse to comply with the disastrous China policy of the U.S. administration?

“The turning point is coming!”

The outcry in the west will be deafening

by Peter Hänseler*

(25 April 2023) Western media are full of emotional stories about war and banking crises but missing the story of the century. The outcry in the West will be deafening when commodities must once again be paid for with money of value.

Industrialisation of agriculture through “Great Food Reset”

Sustainable agriculture by small farmers is being destroyed worldwide

by Thomas Fazi,* Great Britain

(26 April 2023) France is in flames. Israel is erupting. America is facing a second January 6. In the Netherlands, however, the political establishment is reeling from an entirely different type of protest – one that, perhaps more than any other raging today, threatens to destabilise the global order.

The victory of the “Farmer-Citizen Movement” (BBB) in the recent provincial elections on 15 March represents an extraordinary result for an anti-establishment party that was formed just over three years ago. But then again, these are not ordinary times.
De-dollarization

BRICS advances alternative to US-dominated financial system

by Tanupriya Singh

(25 April 2023) A senior Russian official indicated that a new currency project might be announced at the upcoming BRICS summit in South Africa. The alliance’s other members – Brazil, China, Russia, and India – have already taken steps to bypass the US-dominated global trade and finance system.