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	<title>The Official James Petras website</title>
	<link>http://petras.lahaine.org</link>
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		<title>[Video in Spanish] James Petras: &#8220;La Huelga General es el Parlamento de la calle&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1937</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 03:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1937</guid>
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		<title>Boston and Venezuela: Terrorism There and Here</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1936</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 01 May 2013 15:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1936</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In the case of Boston, the terrorist spree resulted in one further fatality - one of the perpetrators; in Venezuela, some of the terrorists are under arrest but their political mentors are still free and [...]]]></description>

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		<title>How the Boston Bombings May Change the World for the Worse!</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1935</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1935</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The FBI, at first, claimed no knowledge of the bombing suspects but later was forced to admit having received at least two sets of intelligence reports, one from Russian officials and another from the CIA, [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Two Faces of Class Struggle: The Motor Force for Historical Regression or Advance</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1934</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1934</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In this essay we will analyze the central role of class struggle, its impact and reflection in economic decisions and, most especially, the different methods and forms, according to the particular classes engaged in class [...]]]></description>

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		<title>President Obama’s Second Term: Selling Death and Buying Assassins In the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1933</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 13:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1933</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	We will proceed by examining the accomplishments and failures of the Obama-Clinton regime. We will then turn to the ongoing policy efforts to sustain the empire-building project. We will take account of the constraints and [...]]]></description>

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		<title>President Chavez: A 21st Century Renaissance Man</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1932</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 04:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1932</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Many writers have noted one or another of his historic contributions highlighting his anti-poverty legislation, his success in winning popular elections with resounding majorities and his promotion of universal free public education and health coverage [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Greek Catastrophe: Three Generations of Greek Workers</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1931</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Mar 2013 12:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1931</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Family and inter-generational relations are deeply impacted; previous certainties evaporate. Uncertainties, fear and anger evoke daily mass protests. Over a dozen general strikes have drawn Greeks from middle school pupils to octogenarians in a desperate [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Interview: James Petras on The Latin American Economy</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1930</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1930</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	We talk about the region’s links to the emerging Asian markets, internal trade, and deepening regional ties in bodies like MERCOSUR and UNASUR. We also discuss the issue of international law and Petras’ concept of [...]]]></description>

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		<title>An Argument in Defense of Haredim Jews and Against Secular Zionist Militarism</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1929</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Haredim and the Zionist Colonial State
	 Even before the forcible imposition(‘founding’) of the Israeli state, the Haredim were opposed to Zionism. Today the vast majority of Haredim in Israel remain staunchly opposed to the Zionist [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Twenty-First Century Imperialism: Militarism, Collaborators And Popular Resistance</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1928</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1928</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Imperialism is about political domination, economic exploitation, cultural penetration via military conquest, economic coercion, political destabilization, separatist movements and via domestic collaborators. Imperial aims, today as in the past, are about securing markets, seizing raw [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Los medios neoliberales criminalizan la lucha de las FARC</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1927</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2013 05:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	rpaSUR hizo contacto vía telefónica con James Petras sociólogo estadounidense y profesor de la Universidad Binghamton en Nueva York. Quien acepto una breve entrevista acerca del acontecimiento político mas importante en Colombia actualmente, nos referimos [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Ecuador: Left-Center Political Regimes versus Radical Social Movements</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1926</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2013 03:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1926</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Since he was first elected in 2006, Correa has won a string of elections, including presidential elections (2009), a constitutional referendum, a constituent assembly and a ballot on constitutional amendments. Correa’s electoral successes occur despite [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Religious and Social Crises and Political Consequences</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1925</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 15:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1925</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Great Social Security Robbery</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1924</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1924</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>

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		<title>“Legal Imperialism” and International Law: Legal Foundations for War Crimes, Debt Collection and Colonization</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1923</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 16:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1923</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	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 [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Israeli Terror: The “Final Solution” to the Palestine Question</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1921</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1921</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The process of Israeli territorial expansion throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem has greatly accelerated in recent years, converting Palestinian-held territory into non-viable isolated enclaves – like South Africa’s Bantustans – surrounded by the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Elite Intrigues: It’s Not About Sex, Stupid!</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1920</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:46:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1920</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	We are told that a ‘hard-charging’ local FBI agent, Frederick Humphries, Jr., had uncovered amorous e-mails sent by General Petraeus to his girlfriend-biographer in the course of investigating a complaint of ‘cyber-stalking’. Out of concern [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Israel continúa matando palestinos en Gaza</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1919</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Nov 2012 17:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1919</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Entra la noche en la Franja de Gaza con la sombra del dolor y la muerte. Entre lágrimas y gritos, se eleva a 46 la cifra de los palestinos muertos y centenares más de heridos [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Battleground Gaza</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1918</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1918</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
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		<title>Entrevista en el programa &#8220;Voces del periodista&#8221; de ABC Radio, México</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1917</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Primera parte: 
(La entrevista comienza en el minuto 2:20)
	Segunda parte: 
	Tercera parte: 

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		<title>Tropical Storm Sandy: Natural or Political Disaster?</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1916</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1916</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	“Homes still lack power a week on”
Financial Times 11/5/12, p. 3
	“Households suffer without power as temperatures fall and storm looms”.
Financial Times 11/6//12, p. 3
	“Climate change needs action but it has a cost”
Financial Times 11/5/12, p. [...]]]></description>

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		<title>US Elections:  From the “Lesser to the Greater Evil”and the Demise of Critical Liberalism</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1915</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Nov 2012 16:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1915</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Moreover, the Obama Presidency has laid the groundwork for the immediate future promising a further extension of regressive policies following the presidential elections: cuts in Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare.  Incumbents and their opposition [...]]]></description>

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