Blog - Page 15 Of 44 - Political Economy Journal

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Mar

ceasefire, India, Line of Control, LoC, Pakistan

The punching bag called LoC

BY: Durdana Najam PEJOURNAL - India and Pakistan have resolved to honour the 2003 Line of Control (LoC) ceasefire agreement. It has brought to an end almost six years of uninterrupted skirmishes along the border. In between was a major strike. Both the countries entered into each other’s airspace to avenge attacks on their respective soils. India was the first to take the leap. It targeted “terrorists” hiding in Balakot. Pakistan could not take this lying down and threw payloads on Indian territory as well. In the meantime, the captured Indian pilot was released to endorse Pakistan’s intention to have…

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Mar

China, East, European Union, future, Iran, North Korea, Paolo Mauri, Russia, the United States, vision, West

A vision on the future

Interview with Paolo Mauri BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The dossiers open on Joe Biden's desk are not only those of his newborn administration but also and above all those he inherited from those who preceded him, who is not the only Donald Trump. In fact, there are specific political lines that change little from administration to administration and that reflect the interests of the American establishment and its vision of the world. In the modern era it is the world that is the scene of the action of a Super Power like the United States of America but there…

04

Mar

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What does NATO want in Iraq?

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) plans to increase the number of its forces in Iraq with the intention of expanding the organization's training activities in the area as soon as the Covid19 epidemic subsides. Since World War II, the United States had a leading role within the organization, made up of 30 states, being the one that contributes the most to the budget with 22.1 percent, followed by Germany with 14.70 percent, France with 10, 60 percent and the United Kingdom with 9.8 percent. During the Trump administration, the relationship with NATO was somewhat…

New missions by Washington allies to delay withdrawal from Iraq

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Feb

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New missions by Washington allies to delay withdrawal from Iraq

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Recent developments in Iraq point to a complex scenario in which Joe Biden, as the former director of the new Middle East project in the Barack Obama administration, is working on a project to "divide West and Southwest Asia" to survive in the region. The scenario comes as the United States is required by the Iraqi parliament to withdraw its terrorist forces following the assassination of resistance commanders by Donald Trump. The work plan presented by US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin at the outset. However, it shows that the Pentagon is not serious about…

Is the United States returning to Syria?

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Feb

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Is the United States returning to Syria?

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The United States has entered a new phase of its military operations in the east of the Euphrates by strengthening its military presence in northeastern Syria and building a second military base in the Al-Malikiyah (Derek) area on the outskirts of Hasakah. Less than a month ago, the United States built a new military base near the Tal Alu area in Al-Ya'rubiyah. The Syrian government has reacted to the move, saying the United States' goal is to continue looting Syrian wealth and securing routes used to steal oil extracted from Syria. Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced…

Biden’s reckless Syria bombing is not the diplomacy he promised

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Feb

Biden, bombing, Diplomacy, Iran, Pentagon, Syria

Biden’s reckless Syria bombing is not the diplomacy he promised

BY: Medea Benjamin* and Nicolas J. S. Davies* PEJOURNAL - The February 25 U.S. bombing of Syria immediately puts the policies of the newly-formed Biden administration into sharp relief. Why is this administration bombing the sovereign nation of Syria? Why is it bombing "Iranian-backed militias" who pose absolutely no threat to the United States and are actually involved in fighting ISIS? If this is about getting more leverage vis-à-vis Iran, why hasn’t the Biden administration just done what it said it would do: rejoin the Iran nuclear deal and de-escalate the Middle East conflicts? According to the Pentagon, the US…

A tough and proportionate response awaits the perpetrators of the attack on the Iraqi border guards

28

Feb

Hashd al-Shabi, Iraqi border guards, Iraqi-Syrian border, The Nujaba, US attack

A tough and proportionate response awaits the perpetrators of the attack on the Iraqi border guards

PEJOURNAL - The Nujaba movement strongly condemned the US attack on the Hashd al-Shabi border posts on the Iraqi-Syrian border, and warned the perpetrators and facilitators of this crime that the resistance would respond harshly and proportionately. The Islamic Resistance of Nujaba has issued an official statement condemning the US airstrikes on the Iraqi border and stressed that the Iraqi resistance will not leave this crime unanswered. The statement from Nujaba said: "At a time when this dear country is facing dangerous mazes in all areas, the American occupying forces are expanding their actions in violation of Iraqi sovereignty and,…

ISIS is US’s Secret Army in Syria and Iraq

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Feb

Iraq, ISIS, Syria, US’s Secret Army

ISIS is US’s Secret Army in Syria and Iraq

PEJOURNAL - The ISIS terrorist group’s activities have increased considerably these days. The terrorist group also claimed responsibility for several other operations against Iraqi security forces following a huge blast in the capital Baghdad last week that killed several Iraqi citizens. These actions have once again raised concerns in the Iraqi media and public opinion about the possibility of the terrorist group rebuilding its power. In the meantime, some also raise the involvement of some foreign parties in the management of these developments. Alwaght has talked to the Iranian expert of Arab world affairs Majid Ghanadbashi, asking him to have…

The UAE and smoothing the path for the Zionists in Persian Gulf

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Feb

Abraham Accord, Association of Persian Gulf Jewish Communities, Persian Gulf, The UAE, Zionists

The UAE and smoothing the path for the Zionists in Persian Gulf

Today, some regional media outlets announced the launch of an organization called the "Association of Persian Gulf Jewish Communities" (AGJC) with the participation of six Arab countries led by Rabbi "Elie Abadie" and headed by "Ebrahim Dawood Nonoo". As reported in this news; The association claims to bring together the Jewish communities of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar to provide the necessary infrastructure to serve the Jewish community in the region. This suspicious act, which was carried out after the revelation of the UAE-Bahrain relations with the Zionist regime and specifically with the green light of…

The Yemeni resistance and the defeat of Saudi ignorant policies

17

Feb

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The Yemeni resistance and the defeat of Saudi ignorant policies

PEJOURNAL - Saudi Arabia's regional policy has been one of the main reasons for the escalation of tensions in West and Southwest Asia for at least the past decade. These policies, which intensified after the death of King Abdullah, with King Salman ascending the throne in January 2015 and aligning with the Emirati Mohammed bin Zayed, although they continue to this day, do not meet any of the pre-determined goals. The main goal of these policies, which from the beginning was based on the three pillars of "primitiveness", "ignorance" and "oil dollars", was to achieve the US gendarmerie position in…