What to read: Changing world order

Painting by Ramkinkar Baij

This issue we don’t have an article on current world events and their understanding. Nevertheless, several very important shifts have happened just over the past few months which we must pay attention to. These include recent coups in Niger and Gabon, America’s deepening political crisis, the BRICS summit, increasing tensions between India and the West, the failed Ukrainian counter-offensive, and the meeting between Kim Jong Un and Vladimir Putin. Below, we suggest a few articles that cover these events 

Pepe Escobar
Welcome to the Brics 11
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/welcome-to-the-brics-11

M.K. Bhadrakumar
India won’t be bullied in a multipolar setting
https://www.indianpunchline.com/india-wont-be-bullied-in-multipolar-setting/

John Marsheimer
Bound to Lose
https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/bound-to-lose

Anthony Monteiro
America’s Domestic Political Crisis
https://forpositivepeaceblog.wordpress.com/2023/08/22/americas-domestic-political-crisis-the-greatest-threat-to-u-s-empire-saturday-free-school-july-15-2023/

Full Text Transcript of Meeting Between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un
https://www.miragenews.com/full-text-transcript-of-putin-kim-jong-un-1083492/

Text of Speech given by Ibrahim Traore, president of Burkina Faso at the Russia-Africa Summit
https://peoplesdispatch.org/2023/08/02/a-slave-who-cannot-assume-his-own-revolt-does-not-deserve-to-be-pitied-says-ibrahim-traore-of-burkina-faso/