COVID19

30

Oct

anti-American-hegemon, Beijing, China, Cold War, COVID19, East Asia, Eurasia, geopolitics, Geostrategy, Joe Biden, Moscow, NATO, Russia, Sino-Russian, South East Asia, Strategic relations, USA, Washington

Washington’s doubts about the new strategic relations between China and Russia

BY: William Holmes PEJOURNAL - The US President Joe Biden is looking at Russia in the conflict with China, and with major coalition-building, bilateral sanctions, he is further restricting the close ties between Beijing and Moscow. For Europeans in Russia's neighborhood too, the question has been raised over the years that it does not make sense for the Western world to impose sanctions on Russia so that Moscow moves farther away from Europe and rushes to Beijing. Looking at the geopolitics of the region and the fiery points of Europe in the Baltic, Balkan and Crimean regions; It is understandable…

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20

Oct

China, COVID19, global insecurity, international responsibilities, NATO, Russia, the United States, USA, war

Traditional American international responsibilities have lost their importance

BY: Mohammad Ghaderi PEJOURNAL - A brief look at the past shows that military solutions have not worked. The United States withdrew from Afghanistan and is scheduled to withdraw from Iraq and then from Syria. The United States' efforts and legacy in the Middle East, despite its heavy costs, have failed to strengthen the foundations of democracy in the region. The result of all this American expense and effort in the Middle East was, unfortunately, the emergence of a hostile discourse that made all countries in the region more hostile to each other; and during the turmoil in the region,…

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23

Jul

Anti-fascism, COVID19, Italy, Liberalism, oligarchism, totalitarianism

Anti-fascism, a vaccine that did not work

BY: Franco Marino Translated BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - The amazement of those who are witnessing the birth of a new totalitarianism in a country [our Italy] that for seventy years has praised anti-fascism in all its guises is understandable. Yet, sixteen months of virus spilled in the media twenty-four hours a day, should have briefly explained how a vaccine works. The principle of which, subject to some possible corrections, should be more or less clear: by inoculating the human body with attenuated or dead viruses, one should stimulate an immune response such as to immunize us against that virus.…

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30

Mar

COVID crisis, COVID-19, COVID19, covidiot, coxxidiot

This is a coxxidiot

Original column BY: Clara Carluccio Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - They write to us with their usual arrogance, of those who despise those who propose alternative versions of the facts. They are the ones who keep in mind the numbers repeated every day, for a year, like a voodoo formula. Those who walk down the street and complain about “too many people around”, because only they can have the right to go shopping, buy the newspaper, walk an hour or two. They are the ones who spy, when they see people too close, or worse, laughing and having fun,…

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30

Mar

2020, 2021, COVID crisis, COVID-19, COVID19, PANDEMIC

Short comic history of a pandemic (2020-2021)

Original column BY: Sergio Flore Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - In a way yes, they are right: it is like a war. But no, no bayonet charges against the enemy. No act of courage or self-denial and certainly a few pats on the back between fellow soldiers. However, there is Manichean thought, the implicit rhetoric of the “with us or against us”. There is the impossibility of stopping, doubting, asking questions, on pain of social exclusion. Here, in this sense, yes, it is like a war. Brief review, in outline, of the stages of the military campaign. I go…

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05

Oct

Capitalism, Corona virus, COVID19, Global Economy, PANDEMIC, post-corona

Capitalism After the Pandemic

BY: Mariana Mazzucato PEJOURNAL - After the 2008 financial crisis which was a challenge to Capitalism, governments across the world injected over $3 trillion into the financial system. The goal was to unfreeze credit markets and get the global economy working again. But instead of supporting the real economy—the part that involves the production of actual goods and services—the bulk of the aid ended up in the financial sector. Governments bailed out the big investment banks that had directly contributed to the crisis, and when the economy got going again, it was those companies that reaped the rewards of the…

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14

Sep

asset market volatility, COVID19, Crisis, demise of small businesses, Food, food insecurity

The next subprime crisis could be in food

BY: Rana Foroohar PEJOURNAL - Of all the many problems caused by Covid-19, three of the most visible have been food insecurity, the demise of small businesses and asset market volatility. All of those things might be poised to get worse, thanks to an unexpected but important financial shift. Big banks, including ABN Amro, ING and BNP Paribas, are either pulling out of commodity trade financing or scaling it back. This will leave a funding hole for some farmers, agricultural producers and distributors, as well as grocery chains and other small and medium-sized companies that represent crucial parts of the…

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05

Sep

COVID19, CUBA, Soberana 01, vaccine

Cuba aspires to vaccinate its entire population

BY: Alexis Bandrich Vega* PEJOURNAL - Soberana 01 has been called the phase I-II clinical trial that will validate the efficacy of the Cuban vaccine candidate against COVID-19, which began to be applied to a group of volunteers on August 24. The works are developed by the Finlay Vaccine Institute, which has more than 30 years of experience in vaccine development and a long history of cooperation with the Pasteur Institute of Iran. Initially, work began with 20 volunteers from two population groups, between 19 and 59 years old and another from 60 to 80, to whom different doses of…

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29

Aug

age increasing, Biotechnology Revolution, COVID19, economic crisis, Francis Fukuyama, Governance, world powers

Covid19’s gift to save the economic crisis of world powers

BY: Seyyed Alireza Behbahani PEJOURNAL - Nearly 20 years before Covid19 pandemic, speaking at a conference entitled "Biotechnology Revolution, Economic Concepts and Governance" in 2001, Francis Fukuyama addressed the implications of the biotechnology revolution, including issues such as the aging of citizens, the effect of age increasing and elderly on politics issues, genetic manipulation, and how management of government and even examines religion and biotechnology. Fukuyama also answers some questions. "The biotechnology revolution is more important in the future, … And I think they have very different concepts of governance. We have been able to find ways to increase human…

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11

Aug

coronavirus, COVID19, Putin, Russia, vaccine

This morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the new coronavirus was registered in Russia

"This morning, for the first time in the world, a vaccine against the new coronavirus was registered in Russia." President Vladimir Putin said Russia's Health Ministry has given regulatory approval for the world's first COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing, President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday. Putin added that the vaccine, developed by Moscow's Gamaleya Institute, has proven efficient during tests and promises to offer "sustainable immunity" against the coronavirus. "I would like to repeat that it has passed all the necessary tests,'' Putin said. "The most important thing is to ensure full safety of using the…

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