Capitol Hill

The specter of Trumpism over America
03
Apr
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The specter of Trumpism over America

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi PEJOURNAL - The 2020 U.S. presidential election was not actually a rejection of Trumpism, but a non-white attempt to reject the use of racist tools to win votes. This is while Biden's coming will not necessarily solve anything inside and in this white conflict with immigrant Americans, but rather lead to temporary ignorance of the pain that this wound will do in every election and occasion in the future. The American Bleaching Project theoretically is what Huntington theorized in his book titled “Who We Are”. This project is the same as WASP: A good American is a…
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Washington; The capital or The barracks?
20
Jan
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Washington; The capital or The barracks?

BY: Pooya Mirzaei PEJOURNAL - Washington DC has become a military barracks on the eve of the inauguration of US President-elect Joe Biden. Thousands of troops are currently stationed in the city, and the Pentagon has confirmed that 25,000 troops (equivalent to the number of troops the United States has deployed in South Korea to defend the country) will be deployed to secure the ceremony. The FBI said there was "alarming evidence" that protesters might clash with police at Biden's inauguration, stressing the need for a large government presence and that it would monitor calls for armed action until the…
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U.S. Capitol siege a ‘wake-up call’ for democracies
11
Jan
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U.S. Capitol siege a ‘wake-up call’ for democracies

PEJOURNAL - The European Union’s top diplomat said on Sunday that last week’s siege of the U.S. Capitol exposed the dangers of allowing the degradation of democratic values to go unchecked and disinformation to spread on social media. “What we saw on Wednesday was only the climax of very worrying developments happening globally in recent years. It must be a wake-up call for all democracy advocates,” EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a blog post. “Everybody needs to understand that if we accept setbacks after setbacks, even if they seem minor, democracy and its values and institutions can…
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Capitol Hill Siege; Western liberal democracy without retouching
08
Jan
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Capitol Hill Siege; Western liberal democracy without retouching

PEJOURNAL - During the Capitol Hill Siege the whole world saw the naked reality of Western liberal democracy through the window of events that took place in the US Congress, and compared the propaganda claims and democratic slogans of the West with its indisputable facts. The 2020 election  in the United States and the events before and after it in the political and social dimensions is undoubtedly an unprecedented period in the political history of this country. Although the Western media is trying to portray the events of the past few months in the United States as not uncommon and…
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