During the 15th BRICS Summit, 22-24 August 2023, in Johannesburg, South Africa, chaired by South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, six new countries were admitted to the bloc. The BRICS are now called the BRICS-11 and include the five original nations, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa. The new members invited to join the bloc as of 1 January 2024 are Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. The summit took place with big fanfare and expectations. Some 40 countries were invited, all wanted to become members of the BRICS, but just six new ones made it. Another group…

Canada is investigating allegations that India was involved in the assassination of a Sikh activist, a Canadian citizen, on Canadian soil.  The victim, Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar, was gunned down outside a Sikh cultural center in Surrey, British Columbia on June 18.  Nijjar was a strong supporter of an independent Sikh homeland known as Khalistan. The movement is banned in India as officials see it as a national security threat. But the movement still has some support in countries like Canada and the United Kingdom, where sizable Sikh communities live.  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Canadian intelligence agencies are investigating allegations that the…

  Business is Booming - by Mr. Fish “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob who sodomized him with a bayonet. But Gaddafi would not be the only one to die.  Libya, once the most prosperous and one of the most stable countries in Africa, a country with free healthcare and education, the right for all citizens to a home, subsidized electricity, water and gasoline, along with the lowest infant mortality rate and highest life expectancy on the continent,…

Protesters in New York City loudly demonstrated at a press conference in which New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appeared to address the migrant surge to the Big Apple, with many repetitively demanding the repatriation of the new arrivals. New York City, a sanctuary city, has struggled to contend with the arrival of tens of thousands of illegal migrants, some of whom Texas Republican Gov. Greg Abbot has bussed there to highlight the Biden administration's lax approach to border enforcement. More than 110,000 migrants have arrived in the city over the past year. Of those, Texas has only directly sent…

Extortion is a game of rotten soul"" However, arrogance is always based on the belief that we are the focus of attention and respect.. The rich man is proud of his wealth because he feels that it brings him the attention of the world... and people tend to go along with him in all his emotions resulting from the advantages of his position. As for the poor, he is ashamed of his poverty because poverty does not make him the focus of people's attention. If their eyes fall on him, they will not sympathize with his misery and the misery…