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🇺🇸 Gloria Steinem, the pioneering feminist activist, author and cofounder of Ms Magazine, has died at the age of 92. For decades, Steinem was one of the most influential voices in the US women’s rights movement, advocating for equality and feminist causes worldwide. Source: Al Jazeera

🇪🇪🇪🇺 Estonia’s defence minister resigns over €70m Ukraine arms scandal Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur has resigned after a controversial €70 million procurement deal for artillery shells intended for Ukraine. In 2024, Estonia reportedly paid the money upfront through the EU’s European Peace Facility to companies that had no previous record of producing or selling artillery shells. Estonia later disputed the contracts, with the case now subject to international arbitration.  Pevkur said he had not personally read the contracts but accepted political responsibility for the defence ministry’s procurement system. Estonia’s National Audit Office had raised serious concerns over defence spending, while prosecutors have opened an investigation into the ministry’s finances. The European Commission is also examining whether Estonia may have to repay the €70 million. Source: Euronews / ERR #Estonia #Ukraine #EU #Defense 

🌐 Central govt offices in Delhi to remain closed on September 11 for BRICS Summit The closure is expected to help ease the impact of the extensive security and traffic arrangements that will be put in place across the capital Read more → Follow @ThinkBRICS

Just another day in traffic. A Russian Air Force Mi-8 helicopter made a hard landing directly on a highway in Sakhalin before sliding off the road into a ditch. The helicopter was returning from a remote area where election officials had been helping residents cast their votes when it began losing altitude rapidly while approaching airfield. All eight people on board survived. Post via Diamond Viral Feed Check out their pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diamond.viral.feed/ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@diamond.viral.feed X: https://x.com/DiamondFeedX

🇻🇪🇺🇸 Venezuela has signed major energy deals with Chevron and Eni as Caracas moves to revive its oil and power sectors. Chevron plans to invest over $7 billion in five years, while Eni will expand operations in Venezuela’s vast Orinoco Belt. Source: Anadolu Agency

🇺🇸⚡ US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says Ukrainian strikes on Russian energy infrastructure are contributing to a global “energy shock” and pushing prices higher. He said the disruptions, combined with the Iran war, are increasing pressure on global energy markets. Source: RT

Could changing the channel have helped instead? Netanyahu remains very much undestroyed — but their TV certainly didn’t. Post via Diamond Viral Feed Check out their pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diamond.viral.feed/ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@diamond.viral.feed X: https://x.com/DiamondFeedX #Netanyahu #Bibi #TV

How BRICS+ Should Shape a New Digital Order The 18th BRICS Summit, to be held on 12–13 September 2026 under India’s chairmanship at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, is set to be a major diplomatic spectacle. The elaborate protocol, heightened security and delegations from across the Global South are to symbolize the expanded BRICS’s growing political and economic weight. One major question on the agenda is who will write the rules of the emerging digital economy....  Read more »

Trump aides, including Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, are reportedly backing efforts to keep the Iran war relatively contained until the November 3 midterm elections. White House officials fear the unpopular conflict, rising gas prices and continued fighting could hurt Republicans as they defend narrow majorities in Congress. For now, the administration is emphasizing sanctions, economic pressure and the blockade around the Strait of Hormuz rather than a major military escalation. Officials may consider heavier strikes after the November elections, although no decision has been made. Source: Reuters

🇷🇺🇨🇳 RUSSIA SEES CHINA AS "KEY PARTNER" IN PEACEFUL NUCLEAR ENERGY – Putin At the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok, President Putin reaffirmed Moscow's strategic energy partnership with Beijing – a direct counter to Western attempts to isolate both nations. 🗣️ "Moscow is Beijing's key partner in the peaceful use of nuclear energy." 🤝 Chinese Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang co-chairs two intergovernmental commissions on investment and energy cooperation. 🏛️ Putin expressed confidence that joint efforts will "strengthen friendly Russia-China relations." #Russia 🇷🇺 #China 🇨🇳 #NuclearEnergy #BRICS

🇺🇸🛢️ US FINALIZES VENEZUELA OIL DEAL – A Colonial Heist Dressed as "Cooperation" US Energy Secretary Chris Wright has arrived in Caracas to finalise the US-Venezuela oil agreement, marking the culmination of a months-long process that began with the kidnapping of President Maduro and the installation of a US‑backed interim government. 🛢️ The deal gives the US majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of Venezuelan crude – more than doubling US oil reserves – while Venezuela's people see none of the proceeds. 🇻🇪 The US kidnapped President Maduro on January 3, installed a loyalist government, and is now carving up Venezuela's oil. 🏛️ The "interim government" is a US creation – not a legitimate authority. 💰 This is not a "deal" – it is a colonial heist. The US is taking the oil of a sovereign nation and calling it "cooperation." #Venezuela 🇻🇪 #US 🇺🇸 #Oil #Imperialism #BRICS #GlobalSouth

🇺🇸🚫 WHITE HOUSE PUSHES US SPACE COMPANIES TO SKIP MACRON'S SUMMIT – A Petty Tantrum or Strategic Panic? The Trump administration is pressuring American companies to boycott President Macron's international space summit in Paris – a move that exposes the empire's paranoia and its fear of losing control over a domain it once dominated. 🛰️ White House OSTP officials told companies including SpaceX, Stoke Space, K2 Space, and Astra that attending the summit could look like "tacit support for EU policy positions." 🇪🇺 France did not coordinate with the US on the summit – and the White House accused the country of "anti-competitive practices." 🇨🇳 The US also voiced concern about China's attendance – a classic sign of Washington's obsession with containing Beijing. #US 🇺🇸 #France 🇫🇷 #Space #Macron #BRICS #GlobalSouth #EmpireInDecline #Geopolitics #SpaceRace

🇺🇦💥 KYIV SHOOTOUT: Ukrainian Intelligence Agencies Clash in the Streets – A Sign of Internal Fracture A rare and alarming incident: SBU and GUR personnel exchanged gunfire in Kyiv's Berezniaky neighbourhood. Zelenskyy has called it "utterly shameful" – a telling admission of dysfunction at the heart of the war effort. 🔫 Residents reported a shootout between SBU (State Security) and GUR (Military Intelligence) personnel after GUR attempted to detain SBU agents at a high‑rise building. 🗣️ Zelenskyy: "As for today's utterly shameful incident between certain units of the SBU and the main intelligence directorate… we will get to the bottom of it." 🧠 Friendly fire at the heart of the regime. Ukraine's security apparatus is turning on itself – a sign of deep internal pressure. #Ukraine 🇺🇦 #SBU #GUR #Zelensky #BRICS #GlobalSouth #EmpireInDecline #InternalConflict #Geopolitics

He went to church to thank God for giving him another chance. A Staten Island man somehow survived being struck directly by lightning while walking to a dentist appointment. Thomas Fahmy described feeling intense tingling, numbness, pain and a burning sensation throughout his body the instant the bolt hit him. Despite the direct strike, doctors found no burns. Probably the most dramatic excuse imaginable for missing a dentist appointment. Post via Diamond Viral Feed Check out their pages: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diamond.viral.feed/ Threads: https://www.threads.com/@diamond.viral.feed X: https://x.com/DiamondFeedX

🏛️🌍 "SEATS AT THE TABLE ARE NOT THE SAME AS POWER OVER THE TABLE" A Global South policy brief tells Washington: more UN and IMF seats will restore legitimacy. 📜 The brief's diagnosis is Southern. The UN Security Council still runs on a 1945 membership list. Africa has no permanent seat. IMF quotas still reflect a mid‑century map of wealth. 🏛️ The remedy is still addressed to Washington. The brief asks the US to support "discussions" on representativeness, treat Southern demands as reform not attack. 🧠 Seats are not power. A government can sit in the room, sign the communiqué, and still watch a veto or a payments cutoff decide the outcome. 🌍 Alternative institutions are not decorations. 🛡️ Fragmentation is what states do when the timetable of reform is known and so is the result. 👉 Read the full analysis: https://thinkbrics.substack.com/p/seats-at-the-table-are-not-the-same #GlobalSouth #BRICS #UN #IMF #Reform

🇺🇸🤡 TRUMP WANTS TO RENAME THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ – "TRUMP STRAIT" The US president is floating a new name for one of the world's most vital waterways – while Iran still controls it. · 🗣️ "Now that we have it under U.S.A. control, should we change the name Hormuz Strait to TRUMP STRAIT??? Like America itself, it would be 'hotter' than ever before!" #Trump 🇺🇸 #Iran 🇮🇷 #Hormuz #BRICS #GlobalSouth

Undergraduate internship at the Laboratory for International Cooperation and Development Financing (LACID) The BRICS Policy Center at PUC-Rio is accepting applications for an undergraduate internship position at the Laboratory for International Cooperation and Financing for Development (LACID) to work on the “Financing... O post Undergraduate internship at the Laboratory for International Cooperation and Development Financing (LACID) apareceu primei...  Read more »

Picture this: years in the Army, desert heat, 3 hours of sleep… then they roll out a gaming cave and ask you to re-enlist. At Fort Irving, a unit is using video games as a re-enlistment incentive. Big screens. Consoles. Comfy chairs. The pitch is basically: deployments and low pay still exist, but you can grind Call of Duty after actual duty. Instead of fixing burnout and endless rotations, they’re handing out controllers and hoping people stay. Would that keep you in? #USArmy #Military #ReEnlistment #CallOfDuty #GTAVI

🇪🇺🤝 EU'S 'COALITION OF DESPAIR': German Lawmakers Scramble to Save a Failing Project Brussels' centrist parties are panicking. The far right is surging, the alliance is cracking, and two German lawmakers are proposing a "grand coalition" to keep the EU project alive. The empire is trying to hold itself together – but the cracks are showing. 🔴 What POLITICO reports: · 🗣️ Two German MEPs – CDU's Niclas Herbst and SPD's René Repasi – want the EPP and S&D to form a formal centrist coalition, borrowing from Germany's grand coalition model. · 📉 The far right is surging. The three centrist groups are on course to lose 49 seats at the next election. · 😬 Herbst warned: "If we don't find good solutions, the populists and extremists will decide." #EU 🇪🇺 #Germany 🇩🇪 #FarRight #BRICS #GlobalSouth

🌐 BRICS overtakes G7 in economic output, successfully finances development — expert Director of the Global South Program at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft Sarang Shidore noted that BRICS had succeeded in creating the first truly transcontinental club outside the weal... Read more→ Follow @ThinkBRICS