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United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis2019-05-13T14:44:00Zhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00The Fifty-Two Major Jewish American Organizations and Israel Celebrate Passover with the Slaughter of Twenty-five Muslim, Christian and Secular Palestinians
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2018-04-08T16:41:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East The Israeli government praised the ‘restraint and morality’ of the IDF, as did the fifty-two Major Jewish American Organizations (MJAO) who largely control the US Congress. These grotesque massacres began during the Christian Holy Week [...]President Trump’s Jerusalem Decision: The End of Hegemony?
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2018-01-01T12:34:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Both President Trump and his bombastic UN Ambassador Nikki Haley threatened that all decisions and agreements regarding alliances, loans, aid and diplomatic relations were at stake.
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China, Saudi Arabia and the US: Shake Up and Shake Down
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2017-12-05T00:37:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Saudi Arabia is transferring a trillion dollars of pillage from princes to princes, from old business parasites to up-to-date versions, from austere desert mirages to fantasies of new mega-cities. The United States is emptying the [...]Saudi Arabia Regional and Global Linkages
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2017-11-15T13:56:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East To understand the dynamics and projections of Saudi power it is important to identify and analyze how it uses its use military, religious and economic weapons.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Leads US President Trump to War with Iran
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2017-10-26T13:47:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Presidents of the 52 Major Jewish American Organizations are leading President Trump, like a puppy on a leash, into a major war with Iran. The hysterical ’52 Presidents’ [...]The Middle East Pivot: Erdogan’s Turkey Seven Deadly Sins
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2017-10-13T14:11:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East In this paper we will discuss Turkey’s domestic and foreign policies and behavior over the past decade. We will conclude with lessons for middle range powers, which might help in future decisions.
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The United States and Iran: Two Tracks to Establish Hegemony
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2017-06-10T10:39:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East 1) US Imperialism is the force of global domination
2) US imperial policy in the Middle East focuses on encircling, destroying and dismantling Iran’s allies (Syria, Lebanon (Hezbollah), Iraq (Shi’a Militia), Qatar and Yemen with the [...]US and Turkey: The Balkanization of the Middle East
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2017-05-15T23:11:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Frustrated at its inability to control national policy of various independent nation-states, Washington used direct and indirect military force to destroy the central governments in the targeted nations and create patchworks of tribal-ethno-mini-states amenable to [...]ISIS: Not by Terrorism Alone
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2017-01-07T15:45:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East We understand ‘ISIS’ as the organized, militant, violent Salafist movement sometimes funded by the royal family of Saudi Arabia. Those generally opposed to ISIS, in many cases, have pursued a dual and contradictory approach. [...]Portrait of an Assassin: Obama’s Revenge
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2016-12-30T12:56:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Obama proceeded to organize Turkey, the EU, Saudi Arabia, Israel and vassal regimes in the Baltic and Balkan countries to dispatch arms, Special Forces and finances to terrorists mercenaries invading Syria, in order to [...]The Politics of Bombing: Wholesale, Retail and Improvised
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2016-09-28T13:55:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East ‘Wholesale bombers’ are state actors, who engage in large-scale, long-term bombing designed to destroy adversary governments or movements. ‘Retail bombers’ are groups or individuals engaging in small-scale, sporadic bombings, designed to provoked fear and [...]Washington’s Strategic Defeat: Erdogan Trumps Gulenist Coup
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2016-08-08T00:42:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East They adopted flexible tactics, supporting and shedding different allies to eliminate rivals.
In 2010 in support of Erdogan, they played a major role in arresting and purging 300 Kemalist - military officials. Subsequently the Gulenists [...]Erdoğan’s Coup: Purging Domestic Critics, Gaining External Allies
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2016-07-23T12:24:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Introduction
The coup in Turkey was made to order. A group of military officers and police officials were set-up to seize power by senior intelligence operatives in the Erdoğan regime. They were allowed to drop a [...]Terror Bombing in Brussels and Paris: Europe’s Islamist Legionnaires Come Home to Fight
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2016-04-08T15:38:00ZJames PetrasMiddle EastAnalysis Few have examined the long-term, large-scale policies of the EU, US and NATO, which have been associated with the development and growth of the worldwide terror networks. This essay will discuss the historical links [...]Past and Present Islamic, Democratic and Nazi International Brigades
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2016-01-07T16:41:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East The bulk of the internationalists are paid a salary to fight and engage in police functions in the IS occupied regions.
We will proceed to identify the principle sources of recruitment and the reasons underlying their [...]Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha
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2015-12-14T23:56:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East With political power and economic connections, he amasses personal wealth through illicit business transactions.
With political power and personal wealth, he seeks prestige and status among the Western elites by serving imperial interests: He shoots down [...]Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Terrorist Unleashed
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2015-10-19T22:25:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East The Erdogan regimes hypothesis is that ISIS or the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK) was responsible for the terrorist attack, a position echoed by all of the NATO governments and dutifully repeated by all of the [...]The Doctrine of Superior People: The Bond between Israel and World Zionism
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2015-09-03T23:15:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Apart from small extremist rightwing sects who exhibit visceral anti-Semitism and denigrate everything Jewish, there are very few academics and politicians willing to question this supremacist doctrine. On the contrary, there is an incurable tendency [...]Erodoğan and Netanyahu Declare War
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2015-07-31T10:10:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East The purpose of this two-pronged propaganda blitz is to defeat the recently signed US-Iranian agreement and start another major Middle East war. Ultimately, Netanyahu intends to take care of his Palestinian Problem for good: complete [...]Yemen: Economically repressed country
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2015-05-08T17:03:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East Yemen’s economy has been battered by war and dictatorial rule, although the country possesses an immense economic potential.
Aside from its oil and gas reserves, although dwindling, the country possesses honey, coffee, and a vast fishing [...]Techno-Financial Capital and Genocide of the Poorest of the Poor
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2015-05-01T16:36:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East The war and its results have turned Yemen back a hundred years, due to
the destruction of infrastructure . . . especially in the provinces of Oden,
Dhalea and Taiz.
Izzedine al-Asbali
Yemeni Human Rights Minister
Yemen is devastated. There [...]The Roots of Netanyahus Electoral Victory: Colonial Expansion and Fascist Ideology
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2015-03-24T17:04:00ZJames PetrasMiddle East It is always a meritorious deed to get hold of a
Palestinians possessions
The code of Jewish Law revised and updatedby Benjamin Netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahus re-election makes him the longest serving prime minister in Israels history. His 20% [...]