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United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis2019-05-13T14:44:00Zhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Julian Assange and the Agenda for Global War
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2019-04-15T23:54:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Never has the mass media been so thoroughly discredited by official documents which directly contradict the official propaganda, mouthed by political leaders and parroted by ‘leading’ journalists.
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New book: “Latin America in the Vortex of Social Change”
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2019-04-15T13:43:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Abstract
The first decade of the new millennium opened, and threatened to close, with an involution in the system of global capitalist production—a multiple crisis of global proportions in the first instance and a region-wide crisis [...]New Zealand Mosque Massacre: White Supremacy and Western Wars
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2019-03-19T23:45:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis First and most important, Western countries led by the Anglo-American world has been at war killing and uprooting millions of Muslims with impunity over the past thirty years. Leading media pundits,political spokespeople and ideologues [...]Walls or Roads
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2019-01-12T12:22:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis We will discuss the story behind two walls and one road and the circumstances which surround them and their consequences.
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President Trump’s Losing Strategy: Embracing Brazil And Confronting China
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2019-01-08T22:14:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Washington’s choice of allies and enemies is based on a narrow conception of short-term advantage and strategic losses.
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A World of Multiple Detonators of Global Wars
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2018-12-12T23:59:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis We will proceed to identify ‘great power’ confrontations and then proceed to discuss the stages of ‘proxy’ wars with world war consequences.
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Cultural Imperialism: Linguistic Perversion and Obfuscation of Empire Building
https://petras.lahaine.org/cultural-imperialism-linguistic-perversion-and-obfuscation/
2018-11-12T16:40:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis The use and abuse of the language of politics has served to blame victims and to justify imperial aggressors. The consequences are multiple, both in legitimizing war crimes and economic plunder, as well as neutralizing [...]Trump’s Alliance with Body-Choppers, Death Squads and Child Killers: Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Israel
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2018-10-16T21:46:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis The White House warmly greeted the electoral success of Brazilian Presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro, ardent champion of torturers, military dictators, death squads and free marketers.
President Trump grovels, grunts and glories before Israel, as his spiritual [...]The Lies of our (Financial) Times
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2018-10-04T23:25:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis In this essay we will proceed by outlining the larger political context that sets the framework for the transformation of the FT from a relatively objective purveyor of world news into a propagator of wars [...]Washington’s War on Canada’s Health Plan
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2018-09-01T12:01:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Many are the experts, political leaders and media commentators who have offered a variety of explanations. The most frequent explanation is that the White House is pursuing a nationalist – protectionist policy to weaken [...]Empire Spymongering and Elite Conspiracy Practioners
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2018-08-26T10:52:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis The spy-mania has spread every place and all the time, it has become an essential element in driving national criminal hearings, global economic warfare and military budgets.
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Imperialism and its Accomplices: The Question of Dictatorship And Democracy at Home and Abroad
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2018-08-25T10:54:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis One of the major reasons for the debacle is the unwillingness or incapacity of AIM to confront electoral imperial elites engaged in regional wars against nationalist dictatorial or authoritarian regimes.
In this paper we will [...]Imperialists’ Fear and Loathing. . . of being Colonized
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2018-07-31T21:40:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis With few notable exceptions western leaders and academics promoted unlimited flows of capital (and the outflows of profits). No section of the targeted economies was off-limits – agriculture, mining, manufacturers, utilities, transport and communication [...]Immigration: Western Wars and Imperial Exploitation Uproot Millions
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2018-06-26T10:32:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Namely (1) imperial wars (2) multi-national corporate expansion (3) the decline of the anti-war movements in the US and Western Europe (4) the weakness of the trade union and solidarity movements. We will proceed by [...]Appeasement as Global Policy
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2018-06-07T16:10:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis To understand the underlying source of conflicts it is essential to identify and unmask the underlying political and economic interests which spread and deepen class, regional and global confrontations.
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Reasons Trump Breaks Nuclear-Sanction Agreement with Iran Declares Trade War with China and Meets with North Korea
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2018-05-13T23:21:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Moreover, Trump’s decisions have a political history and background, and follow from a logic and belief in the reason and logic of imperial power. We will examine the reason why Trump has embraced three strategic [...]De-Briefing Academics: Unpaid Intelligence Informants
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2018-05-03T13:46:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis In the course, of my activity I have discovered that many academics are frequently engage in what government officials dub ‘de-briefing’! Academics meet and discuss their field-work, data collection, research finding, observations and [...]Why the UK, the EU and the US Gang-Up on Russia
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2018-03-21T00:03:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis The most recent western propaganda campaign and one of the most virulent is the charge launched by the UK regime of Prime Minister Theresa May. The Brits have claimed that Russian secret agents conspired to [...]Blackouts and Flashpoints in 2018
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2018-01-26T09:56:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis I want to argue from a different perspective, focusing on the increasing subdivision of markets, the deepening autonomy of political action from economic development, the greater threat of military interventions and increasing political accommodation.
Read essay [...]China and the US: Comparing Leadership Selection
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2017-11-11T06:59:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis In both the US and China, the process lacks transparency. The selection of US economic, political and cultural leaders is based on several undemocratic procedures.
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China and the US: Rational Planning and ‘Lumpen’ Capitalism
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2017-11-03T10:27:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Mired down in gossip, idle speculation and petty denigration of its leaders, the Western press has once again failed to take account of the world-historical changes which are currently taking place in China and throughout [...]Independence and Self-Determination: Weapons for Empire Building or National Liberation?
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2017-10-19T11:21:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis With the rise of US unipolar global domination, following the demise of the USSR (1990), the West established hegemony over the East European states. Some were subject to fragmentation and sub-divided into new NATO [...]