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United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis2019-05-13T14:44:00Zhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00The Religious and Social Crises and Political Consequences
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2012-12-20T15:10:00ZJames PetrasUnited States No large scale, long term, socio-political movements have emerged to challenge the bi-partisan dominent classes. For a brief moment the Occupy Wall Street movement provided a platform to denounce the 1% super-rich but then faded [...]The Great Social Security Robbery
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2012-12-13T12:26:00ZJames PetrasUnited States An important aspect of this elite propaganda campaign is the perverse manipulation of the nature of those two programs. They are dubbed entitlement programs, implying some sort of government handout or individual privilege. In fact [...]Legal Imperialism and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization
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2012-12-03T16:07:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Financial critics have provided abundant data on the ways in which imperial creditors have extracted onerous rents, royalties and debt payments from indebted countries and their taxpayers, workers, employees and productive sectors.
What has not [...]