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United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis2019-05-13T14:44:00Zhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Dominique Strauss-Kahn: The Colonial Predator Legacy
https://petras.lahaine.org/dominique-strauss-kahn-the-colonial-predator-legacy/
2011-05-23T15:32:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Efforts to portray this criminal act as an individual obsession or a personal failing or a Latin idiosyncrasy fail to take account of the deep history in which these psychological pathologies are embedded.
The first [...]Imperialism: Bankers, Drug Wars and Genocide
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2011-05-18T14:57:00ZJames PetrasLatin America Backed by advisers, agents and arms, the White House has been the principal promotor of a war that has totally decimated Mexicos society and economy.
If Washington has been the driving force for the regimes [...]James Petras New Book: The Arab Revolt and the Imperialist Counterattack
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2011-05-05T17:46:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis As the Arab revolt spreads from North Africa to the Gulf and deepens its demands to include socio-economic as well as political demands, the Empire is striking back. The ruling military junta in Egypt has [...]The Assassination of bin Laden: Its Use and Abuse
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2011-05-05T01:18:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Contrary to this immense propaganda campaign and despite whatever symbolic value the killing may have in the eyes of his executioners, there is no evidence that the death will have any impact on the deteriorating [...]Skyrocketing Crime Rates and Imperial Wars
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2011-05-04T00:22:00ZJames PetrasLatin America Violence increased far beyond what existed prior to imperial wars in such countries as Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. In the period prior to imperial intervention in Central America, during times of revolutionary ferment, high levels [...]