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Apr

Avio Kokhawi, CIA, Israel, Meir Ben Shabbat, Mossad, Occident-Orient, security officials, Shin Bet, Washington

Why do security officials of Israel visit Washington?

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - William Holmes is a British analyst. He is an expert on Occident-Orient interconnection and conflict issues, with focus on the Middle East, South East Asia, and Far East. Here, you can read his latest opinion on the new security attempts between the United States and Israel: The security-political members of the Zionist regime's cabinet, including the prime minister and ministers of sensitive positions, the chief of staff of the army, the head of Mossad, the head of Shin Bet and the national security adviser, held their second meeting this week on Iran. Earlier in the…

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27

Apr

Dimona, Israel, missile incident, Syria, Tomer

What does Dimona missile incident mean?

PEJOURNAL - A powerful explosion rocked a sensitive Israeli missile factory named Tomer on Tuesday during a test for advanced weapons, according to reports by Israeli news outlets 22 hours later.  Around 1:30 AM Thursday, it was reported that a missile had hit near the occupying regime’s top-secret military nuclear facility Dimona. The landing of the long-range projectile was a game-changer, thus complicating the situation far beyond any simple analysis.  Although the Zionist regime would either try to downplay the gravity of the situation or take advantage of it to improve its disparate internal and political affairs, it would never…

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24

Apr

banks, Dellas Center for Peace Studies, European banks, Saudi coalition, Yemen

The role of banks in the Yemen bombings

BY: Valeria Rodriguez PEJOURNAL - An investigation published by the Delas Center for Peace Studies revealed that several European banks financed the Saudi and coalition bombings of Yemen. The report is called "Financing the weapons of the Yemen war" and analyzes the period from 2015 to 2019 in which it accounts for the presence of financial capital from banking entities such as BBVA, Santander, the French Bank BNP Paribas, among others. It should be noted that these banks were not sanctioned for financial support to the bombing against Yemen despite demonstrating the violation of international law, but in contrast in…

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21

Apr

Afghanistan, antiwar, Brown University, Pentagon, the United States, war, withdrawal

The War in Afghanistan Has Cost Over $2.26 Trillion

PEJOURNAL - The US government has spent over $2.26 trillion on its failed war in Afghanistan, according to the latest numbers from Brown University’s Costs of War Project. The report also estimates that the war has directly killed 241,000 people in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The $2.26 trillion in spending was broken down into five categories. The single greatest expense was $933 billion, which was covered by the Defense Department’s Overseas Contingency Operations Budget. The second-highest cost is the estimated interest accrued by borrowing money for the war, which accounts for $530 billion. The Pentagon’s base budget saw increases over the…

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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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21

Apr

Election, Energy Security, food insecurity, foreign relations, Iran, Iraq, IRGC, Khatam-al Anbiya Construction Headquarters, Ministry of Oil, Oil, Rostam Ghasemi, SANCTIONS, Syria, the United States, West Asia

Sanctions must be neutralized, and the first step in foreign relations should be taken toward neighbors

PEJOURNAL - We have approached Mr. "Rostam Ghasemi" to ask questions to review the various dimensions of his personality, record and plans as someone who considers himself qualified to accept the responsibility of the President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The details of this conversation are as follows: I think since you have talked less with the media so far, it is better to have a brief introduction of yourself first. In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful. I have been working for a long time in the field of construction in different parts of Iran as…

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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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