Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony, Abdul Rahman reports.
By Abdul Rahman
Peoples Dispatch
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa set the tone for the BRICS summit in Johannesburg when he opened
No, really. America has fucked up their democracy… It started good, for sure, but it keeps getting eroded (unrealistic time constraints, arbitrary boundaries and silly vetoes or weightings). I’m just sitting from the hip here, certainly no expert
Only white male landowners could vote when it started
That’s a very good point, I do concur. But it used to be a lot better just a (few?) decades ago
…And yet most of the rest of the world is streaking way ahead in terms of basic liberties
You might find this book pretty informative about USA democracy, especially that “few decades ago” period.