🇮🇷 Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, declared that while internal unrest has been crushed, the fight isn’t over — justice must reach beyond borders. He insists America must answer for its role in fueling instability.

🌍 For many in the Global South, this echoes a broader call for sovereignty and resistance to foreign influence.

#GlobalSouth #Iran #Accountability #Geopolitics
Source: Prof. Marandi on FB

US forces seize the 7th Venezuelan-linked oil tanker, the MV Sagitta, in the Caribbean Sea as part of efforts to enforce sanctions and control oil flows.

Tensions rising in the region! 🇺🇸🇻🇪

#Venezuela #USMilitary #Geopolitics

Do you think BRICS will really challenge the dollar and Western dominance? Let’s discuss.

From a BRICS digital currency and a potential BRICS CBDC payment system, to BRICS joint naval exercises and Russia’s Starlink rival, we’re watching the foundations of a BRICS multipolar world take shape in real time.

💬 What do YOU think matters most right now?
➡ The push toward BRICS de-dollarization and a new BRICS financial system?
➡ Growing BRICS military cooperation at sea?
➡ Or satellite independence through a Russia satellite internet network?

Could this be the beginning of a lasting global power shift and the eventual end of US dollar dominance — or are these moves still too fragmented to challenge the existing order?

BRICS News: India Bets on Common Digital Currency, Joint Navies & Russia's Starlink Rival
▶️ https://youtu.be/yI_2RAgO4vI?si=8VuLmdoyvvJDQaap

#BRICS #BRICSNews #BRICSDigitalCurrency #MultipolarWorld #Geopolitics

Meanwhile at Davos - Trump is out here saying: "Sometimes you need a dictator"

Of course he said that while praising his "great speech" at the WEF

Agree with POTUS?

⚓ From landlocked to sea-linked! 🇪🇹 Ethiopia is reviving its navy and seeking military relevance within BRICS. Lieutenant Yosef Shegaw calls Ethiopia the "Anchor of the Horn," pursuing interoperability with global naval powers through deepening ties with Russia and China. Access to the sea via Djibouti railway makes this possible. Is this the future of African military power?

#BRICS #Ethiopia #AfricanNavy #Geopolitics
by: Business Insider Africa

🌍 A “Board of Peace” to govern Gaza? World leaders sign a bold new charter in Davos!

💬 At the World Economic Forum, 19 nations — including Azerbaijan, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and the UAE — joined Donald Trump in signing the “Board of Peace,” a body meant to administer the Gaza Strip and “other regions.” Over 50 countries may join soon, with Trump announcing he’ll personally chair it.

⚖️ Bloomberg reports each member’s term is capped at three years — unless they contribute $1 billion to extend participation.

🤔 Will this board bring genuine peace or mark a new era of geopolitical influence led by the Global North? What role should the Global South play in shaping such initiatives?

#Gaza #GlobalPolitics #PeaceTalks #BRICSWatch
Source: Bloomberg

🔄 China's "Post-GDP Prosperity" is rewriting economics! 💡 While GDP growth slows, real output is booming—solar capacity up 210GW+, EVs flooding markets, real wages rising as prices fall.

This isn't decline; it's "good deflation" like the 1870-1890 Great Deflation in the West. Productivity gains are crushing costs faster than demand can absorb them.

📊 China produces more than ever (use value) even as exchange value plateaus.

Are we witnessing the first major economy to prosper WITHOUT perpetual GDP acceleration? The welfare of a nation can't be measured by GDP alone!

#China #PostGDP #BRICS #GlobalEconomy
by: Prof. Warwick Powell on Substack

A Great Redivision?
This article will be published in the second issue of Russia in Global Affairs for 2026.

 

The fall of 2025 saw renewed discussion of an alleged impasse on the Ukrainian front, necessitating a well-founded assessment of Russia’s Special Military Operation (SMO).

Following the May 1943 victory over German troops in North Africa, Winston Churchill said: “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” To understand this, reca...  Read more »

Madagascar's military leader Michael Randrianirina seeks BRICS partner status, backed by South Africa's Ramaphosa—aiming for India's June summit amid Russia ties post-2025 coup. Africa's BRICS push accelerates!

#BRICSby: Business Insider Africa

Stitching up the world economy
As the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos debates this week the pathways to re-building connectivity in an increasingly fragmented world economy, regionalism appears to be singled out increasingly as both a trend and a key instrument to address such challenges[1]. So if the world economy is indeed becoming increasingly regionalized, then what are the mechanisms of bringing the economies of these regions and con...  Read more »

Chinese cops come up with genius PSA to help people against pickpocketers.

Not gonna lie, the cop has some fast hands

🚨 TikTok’s new U.S. joint venture—protection or illusion of control?

🇺🇸 TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC is now officially operational, following President Trump’s executive order. The company is majority U.S.-owned by Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX, with ByteDance retaining 19.9%. While the partnership promises “national security,” the key algorithm remains under ByteDance’s control—licensed, not transferred.

🤔 If China still holds the algorithm’s core code, can the U.S. truly claim digital sovereignty? Could this model set a precedent for data governance across the Global South?

#TechGeopolitics #DigitalSovereignty #USChina #DataSecurity

Kim Jong Un opens a revamped hot spring resort in North Korea, showing off renovated pools and leisure facilities at the Onpho Holiday Camp

State media framed it as a people-first project, with Kim touring the resort alongside bathers, ahead of its planned February opening

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🌏 America’s surprising new mindset? Nearly half of Americans (47%) now believe China is already more powerful than the U.S. — or will be within the next five years. Even more striking, 62% say their lives wouldn’t get worse if that happened.

💭 This marks a major shift in U.S. public opinion — one that could reshape global perceptions of power, from Washington to Beijing and far beyond.

🔥 Do you think this signals acceptance of a multipolar world — or quiet resignation to decline?

#Geopolitics #USChina #GlobalShift #BRICS
Source: Carnegie Endowment

History is wild sometimes!

Did you know that this isn't the first time US made a land deal with Denmark?

Only last time - one of the islands turned into Epstein Island

🔥 France Told To Treat Toxic Masculinity As A Security Threat 🇫🇷

💡 A new report from France’s gender equality council warns that rising “masculinist” ideology – fuelled by online manosphere content and culture wars imported from the US – is no longer just about sexist jokes, but a potential driver of real-world violence and even terrorism. 😬

🌍 While France lags behind countries like Canada and the UK in treating extreme misogyny as part of counter‑extremism policy, similar trends are visible across the Global North and spilling into Global South online spaces.

⚠️ Should the so-called "toxic masculinism" be treated like violent extremism worldwide, and how is this ideology showing up in your country’s social media and politics?

#France #GenderEquality #OnlineRadicalization #GlobalSouth
Source: Modern Ghana

⚡️ Iranian Revolutionary Guard media released a video warning the United States, showing the locations of U.S. military bases across the Middle East that are within range of Iranian missiles.

That is INSANE!