Argentina

Digital ID systems may threaten individual freedoms.

The BRICS consortium (comprising Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) is set to see its share in global GDP jump to 30% in January 2024.

The good news is the crisis could lead to a return to limited constitutional government, a true free-market economy free of corporations and cronyism, a foreign policy based on peace and free trade, and a free-market monetary system.

“We have decided to invite the Argentine Republic, the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to become full members of BRICS.”

There "is no plan as such for a combined BRICS currency," said India's Minister of External Affairs.

"By tracking every financial transaction, they will have access to every detail of our spending, the recipient of our money, and how we allocate our resources. In essence, it replicates George Orwell’s dystopian society depicted in 1984," critics have argued.

Egypt is the latest country applying to join BRICS, an alliance made up of countries pushing to switch to alternative global trade currencies.

Law enforcement is searching for Francisco Oropesa Perez-Torres, a man accused of killing five of his neighbors in Cleveland, Texas, including a 9-year-old boy, on Friday.

The White House awarded a transgender person, who is a biological male named Alba Rueda, with the International Woman of Courage Award.

It’s not just the United States that’s being pulled (or is it pushed?) to the left.