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Political Economy Journal: Netanyahu’s Economic Corruption Coverage; Occupying the West Bank

Political Economy Journal: Netanyahu’s Economic Corruption Coverage; Occupying the West Bank

PEJOURNAL - On Wednesday, July 7, the Zionist regime's plan to occupy parts of the West Bank will be presented to parliament by the regime's government. Although the plan is not new and its main content was agreed upon in the 1991 Oslo Accords, the Palestinian resistance has never agreed to it. Palestinian resistance groups have threatened to launch a new war in the occupied territories. Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen), the head of the Palestinian Authority, also reacted to the Zionist regime's move, saying that the US government had advised Netanyahu that the time was not right and that it…
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Political Economy Journal: Gas explosion or destruction of missile facilities; What is the facts around recent blast in Tehran?

Political Economy Journal: Gas explosion or destruction of missile facilities; What is the facts around recent blast in Tehran?

PEJOURNAL - An explosion took place in a gas tank in the east of Tehran on the outskirts of one of the military bases last Friday morning. Following the incident in the early hours of the morning, there were speculations that some of these questions and speculations were answered with the explanation of Ministry of Defense spokesman regarding the cause of the accident. He said the blast was caused by an accident at a gas tank in the Parchin area, which was immediately stopped by firefighters, and the fire was contained without any casualties. But from the other side, this…
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Asia Times: Why Iran won’t be broken

Asia Times: Why Iran won’t be broken

BY:  PEPE ESCOBAR PEJOURNAL - So what’s going on in Iran? How did the Islamic Republic really respond to Covid-19? How is it coping with Washington’s relentless “maximum pressure”? These questions were the subject of a long phone call I placed to Prof. Mohammad Marandi of the University of Tehran – one of Iran’s premier, globally recognized analysts. As Marandi explains, “Iran after the revolution was all about social justice. It set up a very elaborate health care network, similar to Cuba’s, but with more funding. A large hospital network. When the coronavirus hit, the US was even preventing Iran…
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Video: Trump says Chicago is worse than Afghanistan

Video: Trump says Chicago is worse than Afghanistan

PEJOURNAL - President Donald Trump went on a rant about the violence in Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit, and Oakland during a town hall with Sean Hannity. The town hall was aired on Fox News where the president ripped into the four, majority-Black, Democratic-run cities. “Chicago is an example, it is worse than Afghanistan,” Trump told Hannity. “These cities, it’s like living in hell.”
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DER SPIEGEL: The Italian Resort of Rimini Opens Carefully to Summer Tourists

DER SPIEGEL: The Italian Resort of Rimini Opens Carefully to Summer Tourists

PEJOURNAL - Germans are finally able to travel to their favorite holiday destination again: Italy. In the tourist city of Rimini, hosts are setting up lounge chairs and putting out the umbrellas, but even so, this summer won't be the same. Italy's borders have been open again since June 3 and the German government's blanket travel warning has been lifted as well, including for Italy, a country that was especially hard-hit by the coronavirus. Germans will once again be permitted to travel south - if they dare. But will they? That's the question people along the Adriatic coast want to…
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DER SPIEGEL: Merkel and Von Der Leyen The Two Women Who Could Transform Europe

DER SPIEGEL: Merkel and Von Der Leyen The Two Women Who Could Transform Europe

PEJOURNAL - Generally speaking, home for Ursula von der Leyen is Brussels. This is where she spent the first 13 years of her life. "For me, the journey to Brussels very much represents the feeling of coming home," she says. More narrowly speaking, Von der Leyen's home is a 25-square-meter (270-square-foot) space in the Brussels headquarters of the European Commission, of which she is the president. Von der Leyen sleeps in a small apartment connected to her office via an unremarkable door next to a sideboard. She sometimes spends the weekend in Burgdorf, near Hanover, where her family lives --…
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RAND: Why the United States Will Need a New Foreign Policy in 2020

RAND: Why the United States Will Need a New Foreign Policy in 2020

BY: Raphael S. Cohen PEJOURNAL - Voting may still be months away, but already the 2020 election cycle is in full swing, and the traditional presidential tropes—pledging a new and better future—are out in force. And yet, for all the campaign promises to the contrary, a disconcerting truth remains. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, the country faced a growing strategic predicament: The United States' challenges are mounting, and its international commitments increasingly outstrip its means to fulfill them. Since the pandemic, these problems have only multiplied. Consequently, no matter who wins in 2020, big changes in America's foreign policy could be…
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