BRICS Adds Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Others: Will It Shift World Order?

On The Freedom Side LIVE, Thursday 8/24 at 3pm ET/12pm PT, tune in to discuss The BRICS alliance, which is composed of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, announced that Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia had been invited to join the bloc. The announcement came following the commencement of the 15th BRICS Summit in South Africa, during which world leaders from the Global South countries, called for a more democratic global economic order. Rania Khalek and Eugene Puryear break down the key takeaways from the Summit. Following the US-backed political coup and arrest of Pakistan’s elected Prime Minister, Imran Khan, the coup regime has arrested thousands of members of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, or PTI, Khan’s political party. A guest from Pakistan discusses the extreme repression facing Pakistanis and the political crisis unfolding in the country. Hundreds of students staged a walkout at the University of West Virginia in protest against the p