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America Against the World

America Against the World

BY: Philip Giraldi PEJOURNAL - There are certainly a number of reasons why American government is now only viewed favorably by the Israelis, but totally tone deaf foreign and economic policies have to be right up there in how the world sees Washington. Rather than conform to how other nations are expected to behave, America has elevated “exceptionalism” and “leader of the free world” nonsense to a dogma where it believes itself allowed to behave without restraint in defense of what it claims to be its interests. As all countries act in support of interests, that would at least be…
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Biden’s Objectives in Escalating Confrontational Policy with China

Biden’s Objectives in Escalating Confrontational Policy with China

PEJOURNAL - One of the most important and enduring facts in the history of international relations has been the rise and fall of great powers. This means that since the formation of the Westphalian system and the modern state, some great powers have always been able to emerge in the position of the supreme power of the international system and take the place of the previous superior states. The United States emerged as a major power after the World War II, leading and dominating the Western bloc. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, based on all objective criteria, the…
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Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming sue Biden administration over oil and gas leasing pause

Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming sue Biden administration over oil and gas leasing pause

PEJOURNAL - Fourteen U.S. states including Louisiana and Wyoming filed lawsuits on Wednesday against President Joe Biden’s administration, challenging his pause on new oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. The legal actions, which seek to restore regular federal drilling auctions, came a day before the administration is set to launch a review of the oil and gas leasing program. Biden, in January signed an executive order putting on hold new leasing pending that review. During his election campaign, he pledged to end new federal leasing as part of a sweeping plan to address climate change. The pause…
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The Biden administration’s AI and cybersecurity plans

The Biden administration’s AI and cybersecurity plans

PEJOURNAL - Major issues on the Biden table include fighting the coronavirus epidemic, providing financial support to Americans, and reversing Trump's policies on climate change, international relations, and immigration, and as expected, cybersecurity still tops the Biden administration's list of priorities and the new US president has shown signs of his government's approach to the technology. First of all, Biden elevated the director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to a cabinet-level position and appointed top geneticist Eric Lander, the founding director of the MIT-Harvard Broad Institute, to the role. The OSTP advises the president on science…
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The entry of political intelligence into American foreign policy

The entry of political intelligence into American foreign policy

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - The Biden administration, unlike former US presidents, who also took over the leadership and hegemony of the United States at the inauguration, is taking over America from Trump that its world power has waned through a weakened foreign policy, its Covid effected economy is struggling to stand on its own two feet and democracy has stopped there. What we are witnessing in the United States these days is a political disgrace and a fundamental weakness in the foundation and structure of American democracy, which in the 2020 election confiscated 160 million American votes in the…
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