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United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis2019-05-13T14:44:00Zhourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Zionist Power: Swindlers and Impunity, Traitors and Pardons
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2015-11-24T15:30:00ZJames PetrasUnited States Admiral Sumner Shapiro, US Navy Rear Admiral who served as Director of the Office of Naval Intelligence (1978-82) Washington Post 6/16/2008
We feel obligated to go on record with the facts regarding Pollard in [...]Democratic Party Primaries: Progressives as Political Contraceptives
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2015-11-22T15:29:00ZJames PetrasUnited States There are good reasons for this: The Democratic Party in power in Congress and the White House presided over (1) the deepening of inequality between labor and capital; (2) the decline of real wages; (3) [...]Wars: US Militarist Factions in Command
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2015-11-18T23:48:00ZJames PetrasUnited States The rise of a military-based empire, however, does not preclude the emergence of competing, conflicting and convergent power configurations within the imperial state. These factions of the Washington elite define the objectives and targets [...]The Demise of Incumbents: Resurgence of the Far Right and the Absence of the Consequential Left
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2015-11-06T01:12:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis The one major exception has been Turkey, where the incumbent Erdogan regime scored a victory on November 1, 2015 by resorting to widespread violence during the general election campaign to intimidate and silence his [...]Western Mainstream Extremism: Distortion, Fabrication and Falsification in the Financial Press
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2015-11-02T23:53:00ZJames PetrasAnalysis Over the past quarter century, the US and EU turned their focus from systemic adversaries (anti-capitalist and anti-imperial states and movements) to attacking capitalist regimes, which (1) had adopted nationalist, re-distributive and Keynesian policies; (2) [...]