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	<title>The Official James Petras website</title>
	<link>https://petras.lahaine.org</link>
	<description>United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis</description>
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		<title>James Petras, In Memoriam</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Born January 17, 1937, in Lynn, MA, Professor Petras was a Greek American who earned his B.A. from Boston University and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Joining Binghamton University in 1972, he became [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/james-petras-in-memoriam/</link>
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		<title>US Global Power:  The Trump Period:  An Assessment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Assessing the dynamics of US global power is a complex problem which requires examining multiple dimensions.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-global-power-the-trump-period/</link>
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		<title>Shadow Boxing for Empire:  The Mueller Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The US adopted a dual response:  to pursue a policy of reconciliation with regional adversaries – (Iran and Cuba) – and to promote a policy of confrontation toward China and Russia.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/shadow-boxing-for-empire-the-mueller/</link>
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		<title>President Trump and the Democratic Congress:  The Score Sheet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	We will proceed by first analyzing domestic outcomes and then turn to foreign policy.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/president-trump-and-the-democratic-congress/</link>
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		<title>US Negotiations:  Masters of Defeats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	While diplomacy is less subject to military and economic losses it does require making concessions.  Negotiations are only successful if there are reciprocal benefits to both parties.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-negotiations-masters-of-defeats/</link>
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		<title>Laughter for All (Financial) Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	While the political class dismisses the sensational press, they are avid readers of the ‘prize winning’ propaganda newspapers and their columnists.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/laughter-for-all-financial-times/</link>
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		<title>The New Year Past and Future</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Multiple wars, coups, sanctions and trade disputes dominated the US political agenda.  War budgets grew, military sales increased and frictions between the US and Saudi Arabia bubbled to the surface . . . and [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-new-year-past-and-future/</link>
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		<title>US Mass Mobilizations:  Wars and Financial Plunder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This paper will begin by discussing the major wars of our time, namely the two US invasions of Iraq .  We will proceed to analyze the nature of the popular response and the political [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-mass-mobilizations-wars-and-financial/</link>
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		<title>President Trump’s Presidency:  Results and Perspectives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	We will ignore the fly swatting by Trump critics who ply peripheral issues – the state investigation of the fading Russian conspiracy tales&#8212; and focus on strategic issues that purport to transform global economic, political [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/president-trumps-presidency-results-and-perspectives/</link>
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		<title>Big Business Strikes Back:  The Class Struggle from Above</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Big business has weakened or abolished political and social organizations which challenge the distribution of income and profits and influence the rates of workplace output.  In brief the ruling classes have intensified  exploitation [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/big-business-strikes-back-the-class/</link>
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		<title>US War Strategists:  Military Defeats and Political Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The key to this apparent contradiction is to  uncover how and why the  destruction of Israeli adversaries  prolonged costly US military invasions.
	The two  outcomes are inter-related. The same US military strategists [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-war-strategists-military-defeats-and/</link>
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		<title>The US:  The Century of Lost Wars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In this paper we will enumerate the wars and proceed to analyze why, despite the powerful material basis for  wars, it has led to failures.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-us-the-century-of-lost/</link>
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		<title>A Decalogue of American Empire-Building: A Dialogue</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	This paper provides a set of theses which purports to lay-out the basis for a dialogue between and among those who choose to abstain from elections with the intent to engage them in political struggle.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/a-decalogue-of-american-empire-building/</link>
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		<title>President Trump Against the World Order - Teapot in a Tempest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In the United States, legislators, judges and leaders from both parties have accused President Trump of being a traitor for fraternizing and serving as a tool of Russian President Putin.
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		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/president-trump-against-the-world-order/</link>
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		<title>Trump Marches Onward and Downward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Secondly, we will examine the time frame - the shifting direction of the present configuration of forces.
	We will conclude by discussing how the influence and results of foreign policy shape domestic political power.
	Background to President [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/trump-marches-onward-and-downward/</link>
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		<title>Imperial Recovery and Disappearing Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Throughout history rising empires incorporate their population to the task of empire by distributing a portion of their plunder to their masses, by providing them with land, low rents and housing.  Large scale landlords [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/imperial-recovery-and-disappearing-workers/</link>
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		<title>Imperial Road to Conquest:  Peace and Disarmament Agreements</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The means and method are fairly straight forward.  World-wide propaganda campaigns which demonize the adversary; the enlistment and collaboration of European and regional allies (England, France, Saudi Arabia and Israel); the recruitment, contracting, training [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/imperial-road-to-conquest-peace-and/</link>
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		<title>An Empire Built on Fear at Home and Abroad</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Hundreds of prosecuting attorneys look forward to career-enhancing investigations in perpetuity, tracking the complex networks of extended personal and family links, including long forgotten acquaintances and the contents of casual conversations.  Everyone may be [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/an-empire-built-on-fear-at/</link>
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		<title>Trump’s Protectionism:  A Great Leap Backward</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	  President Trump has launched a ‘trade war’, - raising stiff tariffs, especially targeting Chinese exports – designed to pursue a protectionist economic regime. The China-bashers of the western world ignore the developmental experiences [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/trumps-protectionism-a-great-leap-backward/</link>
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		<title>US Technological Transformations and The Narcotic-fueled Genocide of American Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	Trump promised that the Justice Department would develop the most severe penalties for criminal drug traffickers, by which he meant foreigners.  He argued that his proposed “Wall” (between the Mexican- US border) would cut [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-technological-transformations-and-the-narcotic/</link>
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		<title>US Empire: Global Imperialism and Internal Colonialism</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	In this paper we will challenge the notion that overseas economic exploitation has transferred income to &#8216;buy-off&#8217; the domestic working and middle classes, in the course of consolidating imperial hegemony.
	We will argue that the empire [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-empire-global-imperialism-and-internal/</link>
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		<title>United States:  The Political Economy of Massacres</title>
		<description><![CDATA[	The National Rifle Association (NRA), a 3 million-member organization, supports and sponsors free and easy access to military-level weaponry.  The vast majority of US legislators, Presidents and judges support the possession of the very [...]]]></description>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/united-states-the-political-economy-of/</link>
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