Strategy & Policy

17

Aug

America, collapse

America is still headed for a material collapse eventually

BY: Martin Love PEJOURNAL - Some Americans, but far too few, want to know how Barack Obama gets to plan his upcoming 60th birthday bash this month on his 30-acre oceanfront estate on the island of Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts. There are 475 confirmed guests set to show up who will be catered to by a staff of some 200 people at the estate which the Obama family bought for $12 million right after he left the White House. One can imagine then party will cost close to a million bucks. And this for a President who…

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31

Jul

Budapest, malware, NSO, Pegasus, Protests, right-wing

Protests in Budapest to overthrow the right-wing government

PEJOURNAL - At least 1,000 Hungarians have staged a demonstration in the capital, Budapest, demanding that the government respond to the allegations of using Pegasus spy software to secretly monitor journalists, lawyers and business figures. Hungarian demonstrations began in front of a building formerly home to the country's secret police during the Soviet era. The demonstrations came after a global survey conducted by a consortium of various media outlets revealed that the smartphones of about 300 citizens were targeted by Pegasus spy software, of which 10 lawyers and five journalists were among those. "This scandal shows that we can no…

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24

Jul

ASEAN, Australia, China, COVID, India, Japan, Quad, Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, the United States

QUAD; creating an atmosphere of pessimism against China

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - Former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's legacy as the founder of the QUAD in 2007 was supposed to bring "freedom and prosperity" to the Asia-Pacific area, which ran into problems; and the group was able to meet only once in 2007 and ended its work with a military exercise. With the withdrawal of Australia from the group, which was done due to the improvement of its relations with Beijing, the group's activities were interrupted for more than a decade. In 2012, Japan promoted the group's idea as a "QUAD of democratic security" and thus challenged…

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05

May

China, countering US sanctions, Iran, NATO, Russia, SANCTIONS, USA

Necessity of forming the club of countries countering US sanctions

PEJOURNAL - Some 30 countries of the world with more than one and a half billion people are presently under the sanctions of the United States in various forms. Iran, China and Russia are the most significant of these countries. In addition to governments, some economic giants and cartels such as companies involved in the construction of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline as well as Turkey, as a US ally in NATO, have been also exposed to lesser extents to the US sanctions. Even though there are news recently about the formation of a global coalition among the countries…

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02

May

Al-Saud, Iran, Israel, Middle East, mohammad ghaderi, Saudi coalition, Yemen

The change in Al-Saud’s tone towards Iran

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi PEJOURNAL - Recently, some media outlets, citing Iraqi sources, reported on the talks between Iran and Al-Saud in Baghdad, which it seems that the Al-Kazemi government was seeking to exploit it politically and create a special position for itself in this regard. However; Although both Tehran and Riyadh have denied the news, the frequency of the news could raise suspicions of some kind of dialogue, especially since we have recently seen a change in the tone of Saudi officials on Iran, as the Saudi Crown Prince called for the two countries to prevail in a televised interview.…

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21

Apr

Belt and Road Initiative, China, East Asia, Geoeconomics, geopolitics, Iran, Iran-China, mohammad ghaderi, One Belt One Road, Pooya Mirzaei, Strategic Document, West Asia, Xi Jinping

An analytical approach to Iran-China Strategic Document

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi and Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The signing of the 25-year roadmap for comprehensive strategic cooperation between Iran and China, as expected, was met with a wave of marginalization based on distortion of reality by various currents inside and outside the country. The beginning of the drafting of this upstream document, on which Iran and China have agreed as a roadmap for the realization of comprehensive strategic cooperation between the two countries, coincided with the official visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Iran on February 23, 2016. At the time, Tehran and Beijing issued a joint statement…

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15

Apr

China, Deng Xiaoping, Pooya Mirzaei, the United States, Victor Gao, Xi Jinping

From Deng Xiaoping’s China to Xi Jinping’s China

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - “When I was growing up in rural China in the 1970s, cars and trucks were scarce. My friends and I preferred to follow these cars on the dirty rural roads and enjoy the game. Today, however, China has become the largest automaker, with twice the capacity of the United States.” says Victor Gao, a famous Chinese translator. “I never imagined that one day a Chinese family would own a car,” Gao told CNN. “I never believed that China would one day become the largest automaker in the world.” “It was beyond my dreams to see…

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15

Apr

America, Donald Trump, Europe, foreign policy, Joe Biden, leadership, Russia, The decline of the West

America and the lost leadership

BY: Adam Dentor PEJOURNAL - After four years, the Biden administration is trying to regain the lost global position of the United States and restore the leadership role of America. Although the solution to some of the problems in this area can be in the hands of the White House, but due to the fact that today’s world conditions are not comparable to 2016 by any measure, the solution to a large part of these issues is outside Washington access; And it is in the hands of other global players, especially America’s powerful rivals, led by China, Russia and the…

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14

Apr

American Power Crisis, Atlantic, Donald Trump, EU, Europeans, Joe Biden, NATO, The decline of the West, USA

The American Power Crisis: How Europeans See Biden’s America

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - Most Europeans rejoiced in Biden’s victory in the November US presidential election, but did not think he could help the United States return as a leading world leader.Europeans’ attitudes toward the United States have changed. The majority of major member states now think that the US political system is broken and that Europe cannot rely on the United States alone to defend it.They value the systems of the EU and/or their countries much more positively than the United States – and look to Berlin, not Washington, as their most important partner. America’s weakness has geopolitical…

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12

Apr

American political afflictions, Ebola, IDF, Israel, Theodore Herzl, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Zionist

Zionists are the Ebola virus of American political afflictions

BY: Martin Love PEJOURNAL - A Palestinian boy is shot in the eye by a Zionist Israeli sniper with a rubber bullet, and loses the eye, while he is browsing in a food store. A Palestinian grandmother is run over and killed by a “settler” for no reason. A man is released from an Israeli prison after more than a decade of solitary confinement, but when he arrives home his mind has been so scrambled that he does not recognize any of his relatives, including his mother. Every single day one can read of one or more fresh atrocities by…

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