Look, everything I have said before about the pivot to the Global South, the pivot to Asia and Africa and the Middle East, BRICS and so on; that still stands. And the fact that the Muslims represent the largest single most cohesive population IN the Global South, and the fact…

Power and control are not straightforward matters anymore. Empires and imperialism exist in different forms today than in the past. Economic empires exist, private sector empires, shareholder empires. Empires of debt. Oligarchical empires. And they overlap and intersect. There are spheres of influence that operate like soft empires. BlackRock and…

If you think about the totality of our history, human beings have not lived in sprawling, cosmopolitan communities for very long. It is only relatively recently that we came up with non-familial, or non-tribal formulations to organize ourselves. The most natural organizing principle has always been family, then extended family…

“After you posted some excerpts from our interviews, your online profile has risen rather dramatically. I think your following across social media has probably more than doubled over the past 10 days or so. …

If you find this controversial, it is because you have never heard the conversation being had by most of the planet about the West, and don’t realize how ludicrous Western exceptionalism sounds to the rest of us.

It’s impossible to not recognize the orchestrated shift taking place. Not just the Ukraine war and the Russian sanctions; but, I mean, with that issue, you should notice that overwhelmingly, the isolation of Russia from the Western economies was not actually the result of legal sanctions imposed by the US…

So, Anwar Ibrahim had a virtual meeting with Elon Musk, and apparently immediately ordered the purchase of 40 starlink internet devices at a total cost of 90k ringgit, which will then have a monthly cost of 20k for internet service. …

Now, don’t misunderstand me. The development of BRICS, and the potential expansion of BRICS is a good thing, or CAN be a good thing. No question about it. But we have to understand that this is not something that the global business and investment community is alarmed by or…

OK, I hate to be negative, or to sort of dampen the collective enthusiasm people have these days about the emerging (alleged) multipolarity in the world; but I think we may need a bit of a reality check. What we are seeing with the BRICS project, with multiple countries…