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	<title>The Official James Petras website</title>
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		<title>Extractive Capitalism and the Divisions in the Latin American Progressive Camp</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1897</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2012 17:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1897</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	It can be argued that the concessions to the extractive MNC and local ‘leading’ classes assures stability, steady revenues and finances the incremental social expenditures which permit the re-election of the center-left regimes. In other [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Capitalism in the Second Decade of the 21st Century: From the “Golden” to the Dark Ages of Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1896</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1896</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Although, even here, their predictions understate the scope and depth of the crises, there are powerful reasons to believe that beginning in the second decade of this century, we are heading toward a steeper decline [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Rise and Demise of Extractive Capitalism</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1895</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	RepE is especially pronounced and embraced by center-left regimes (CLR) resulting from popular movements which overthrew neo-liberal regimes.
	 RepE is promoted under the banners of anti-neoliberalism and even anti-imperialism even as CLR sign long-term large [...]]]></description>

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		<title>US-Israel War on Iran: The Myth of Limited Warfare</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1894</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 14:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction:
	The mounting threat of a US-Israeli military attack against Iran is based on several factors including: (1) the recent military history of both countries in the region, (2) public pronouncements by US and Israeli political [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1893</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 04:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	After the cold-blooded murder of the 17 Afghan villagers in Kandahar Province the US military and the ever-complicit Obama regime constructed an elaborate cover-up, exposing the Administration up to charges of conspiracy to suppress the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Israel’s Willing Executioners: AIPAC Invades Washington</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1892</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2012 06:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1892</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	
	Introduction:  A Week of National Humiliation:
	From March 4th to March 9th, 2012, 13,000 militant Israel Firsters, took over &#8220;political Washington&#8221;[1] and imposed a foreign regime&#8217;s (Israel) political agenda to the rousing applause and appreciation [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Bloody Road to Damascus: The Triple Alliance’s War on a Sovereign State</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1891</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 15:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The outrage expressed by politicians in the West and Gulf State and in the mass media, about the ‘killing of peaceful Syrian citizens protesting injustice’ is cynically designed to cover up the documented reports of [...]]]></description>

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		<title>China: Rise, Fall and Re-Emergence as a Global Power: Some Lessons from the Past</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1890</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1890</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	John Hobson’s[1] brilliant historical survey of the world economy during this period provides an abundance of empirical data making the case for China’s economic and technological superiority over Western civilization for the better part of [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Columbia’s Quest for Peace and Justice: The International and National Context</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1888</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 03:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1888</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	United by a common pledge to seek a political solution to over 60 years of armed social conflict, the meeting will decide on a strategy to defeat past and present narco- para political regimes, recuperate [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The “Global Crises of Capitalism”; Whose Crises, Who Profits?</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1887</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 13:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1887</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	There is no doubt that, between 2008-2009, the capitalist system in Europe and the United States suffered a severe shock that shook the foundations of its financial system and threatened to bankrupt its ‘leading sectors’.
	 [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Imperialism and the “Anti-Imperialism of the Fools”</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1886</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2011 13:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In the modern capitalist era, the ideologies of imperialist rulers vary over time, from the early appeals to “the right” to wealth, power, colonies and grandeur to later claims of a ‘civilizing mission’. More recently [...]]]></description>

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		<title>A Doomsday View of 2012</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1885</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 23:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1885</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	There are powerful reasons to believe that beginning in 2012, we are heading toward a steeper decline than what was experienced during the Great Recession of 2008 – 2009. With fewer resources, greater debt and [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Washington – “Moderate Islam” Alliance: Containing Rebellion Defending Empire</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1884</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1884</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	This essay analyzes the changing contemporary context of imperial domination, especially the demise of longstanding client regimes. It then examines the previous significant ties between western imperial powers and Islamist movements and regimes and the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Obama Raises the Military Stakes: Confrontation on the Frontiers of China and Russia</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1883</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1883</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	After going from defeat to defeat on the periphery of world power and not satisfied with running treasury-busting deficits in pursuit of empire building against economically weak countries, Obama has embraced a policy of encirclement [...]]]></description>

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		<title>New book by James Petras. Coming soon from Ashgate Publishing… &#8220;A World to Win. Beyond Neoliberalism&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1882</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1882</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	These dynamics of forces are traced out in developments across the world—in the Arab Spring of North Africa and the Middle East, in Cuba and elsewhere in Latin America, in the United States and in [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The New Authoritarianism: From Decaying Democracies to Technocratic Dictatorships and Beyond</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1881</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	This essay explores major ongoing regime changes that have a profound impact on governance, the class structures, economic institutions, political freedom and national sovereignty. We delineate a two-stage process of political regression. The first stage [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop “Militants” and Public Intellectuals</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1880</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1880</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction
	The relation of information technology (IT) and more specifically the internet, to politics is a central issue facing contemporary social movements. Like many previous scientific advances the IT innovations have a dual purpose: on the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Obama Doctrine: Making a Virtue of Necessity</title>
		<link>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1879</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Nov 2011 17:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>http://petras.lahaine.org/?p=1879</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In response to major military and political losses as well as new opportunity, the White House is fashioning a new doctrine of imperial conquest based on intensified aerial warfare, greater extra-territorial intervention, and, when circumstances [...]]]></description>

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