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Foreign Policy: The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad
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Foreign Policy: The Legacy of American Racism at Home and Abroad

Domestic racism has long impacted U.S. foreign policy. It’s time to open up about it. It used to be that Americans had to wait decades to learn how U.S. national security professionals viewed racism within the United States. Only declassified reports and personal memoirs revealed how senior officials and diplomats condemned segregation, inequality, and racial injustice in their own country. Many of them saw the evils of racism as an affront to U.S. values and an impediment to the country’s foreign-policy goals, especially in sub-Saharan Africa. They delivered their points directly or indirectly—in situation rooms, policy debates, and briefings. These…
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Political Economy Journal: The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Announcement Regarding the Anti-Syrian Law ‘Ceasar Act’
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Political Economy Journal: The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Announcement Regarding the Anti-Syrian Law ‘Ceasar Act’

PEJOURNAL - The "Syria Civilian Protection Act" law, known as the "Caesar's Act," will come into force on June 17. Under the law, the US administration will be required to impose comprehensive sanctions on individuals and entities involved in Syria's mining, refinancing and construction industries. These restrictions will also cover the banking and commercial, economic and energy sectors. Regarding Caesar's law, US officials are pleased that the sanctions should prevent oxygen from reaching the Syrian government, deprive the country of foreign aid and prevent Bashar al-Assad from renewing his position as the country's legal leader. Washington, meanwhile, is well aware…
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Press TV: Iran declares France’s test of nuclear-capable ballistic missile inconsistent with NPT obligations
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Press TV: Iran declares France’s test of nuclear-capable ballistic missile inconsistent with NPT obligations

PEJOURNAL - Iran has voiced concern over a recent test-firing of an intercontinental nuclear-capable ballistic missile by France, saying the test is in clear violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and inconsistent with the European country's commitments vis-à-vis nuclear disarmament. "The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran expresses its concern over the move and believes that the French government should not overlook its international obligations enshrined in Article 6 of the NPT and the NPT Review Conferences," Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on Saturday. He added that France must fully comply with its international obligations regarding nuclear disarmament. The…
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Political Economy Journal: The largest data loss in CIA history
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Jun
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Political Economy Journal: The largest data loss in CIA history

PEJOURNAL - A specialized CIA unit that developed hacking tools and cyber weapons didn’t do enough to protect its own operations and wasn't prepared to respond when its secrets were exposed, according to an internal report prepared after the worst data loss in the central intelligence agency’s history. "These shortcomings were emblematic of a culture that evolved over years that too often prioritized creativity and collaboration at the expense of security,” according to the report, which raises questions about cybersecurity practices inside U.S. intelligence agencies. Sen. Ron Wyden, a senior member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, obtained the redacted report…
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The Economist: America rediscovers the joys of vegetable-growing
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The Economist: America rediscovers the joys of vegetable-growing

PEJOURNAL - From a selfish perspective, this hot, quarrelsome month has brought two great joys to your columnist. It gave him his first opportunity to take part in American democracy, in the form of a local election for which his foreign citizenship was no bar. (The contest was also fiery, of which more shortly.) And it was the first June in which he has overseen a vegetable garden ripening at New World pace. Zucchini seedlings planted in late May provided their first sleek squashes to Lexington’s table this week. Tomato seedlings that went in at the same time are now…
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Political Economy Journal: Russia in Libya
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Jun
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Political Economy Journal: Russia in Libya

Recently, new images of the presence of Russian MiG-29 and Sukhoi-24 fighters at the Al-Jafra Air Base in Libya were released, along with images of the P-18 long-range surveillance radar. Russia, along with Arab countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, has recently launched a military intervention in Libya in support of General Khalifa Haftar, while Turkey has also supported the national unity government. Everyone in the world has predicted the decline of the United States, and they are looking to get a bigger part of the global cake in the next world, and in the meantime, the…
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Political Economy Journal: Bitter end of JCPOA
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Jun
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Political Economy Journal: Bitter end of JCPOA

PEJOURNAL - Recently, following the unofficial publication of the US resolution draft on the continuation of Iran's arms embargo after the expiration of the legal deadline set in UN Resolution 2231, Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, warned that if Iran arms embargoes extends by the UN Security Council, and then JCPOA will procced to its "eternal death." the European Troika anti-Iranian resolution proposed in the IAEA Board of Governors, is in fact a new step in increasing the pressure on Iran and will definitely be accompanied by Iran's reaction. The Wall Street Journal…
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Political Economy Journal: Russian FM Spokeswoman’s remarks about the UN Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of Resolution 2231
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Jun
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Political Economy Journal: Russian FM Spokeswoman’s remarks about the UN Secretary-General’s report on the implementation of Resolution 2231

A few days ago, some news agencies, especially the Western Hemisphere, and especially the United States, published a number of points in the UN Secretary-General's six-month report on the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 2231. I would like to remind you that this is exactly the resolution that passed the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action in 2015. Interestingly, the leak took place before the UN member states became acquainted with the text of the report. The organizers of the news campaign were apparently in a hurry and wanted no one to be tempted to read the report themselves and…
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Political Economy Journal: Iran navy test fires cruise missiles resistant to ‘electronic war,
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Jun
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Political Economy Journal: Iran navy test fires cruise missiles resistant to ‘electronic war,

PEJOURNAL - Iran test fired cruise missiles in a naval exercise in the Oman Sea and Northern Indian Ocean, on Thursday, according to our field reporter. The missiles which were designed and produced by the defence ministry and the Iranian navy, destroyed targets at a distance of 280 kilometers (170 miles). The tests took place during a naval drill by Iran’s Navy in the Oman Sea and Northern Indian Ocean. Two kinds of missiles were fired, without elaborating, being launched from both a truck and a ship, hitting a buoyant target in the sea. Iran’s Navy chief, Adm. Hossein Khanzadi,…
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