http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php The James Petras Website Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:28:22 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 petras.james@gmail.com petras.james@gmail.com es President Obama has publicly met with and openly backed these separatist and secessionists groups, flaunting Washington’s refusal to recognize China’s existing borders. This is part of the US strategy of encouraging the physical break-up of independent nations, which are viewed as ‘obstacles’ to its program of global military empire ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1799&c=1 In the face of world-wide governmental condemnation (except from the Zionist-occupied White House and US Congress), the PMAJO slavishly backs any brutal murder committed by the Israeli secret police anywhere in the world and at anytime. The recent assassination of Hamas leader, Mahmoud Mabhouh, in Dubai is a case in ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1798&c=1 The evidence is overwhelming: The Dubai police presentation of detailed security videos of the assassins was corroborated by the testimony of Israeli security experts and applauded by Israel’s leading newspapers and columnists. The Mossad openly stated that Mabhouh was a high priority target who had survived three previous assassination ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1797&c=1 Throughout most of the 20th century the US could rely on the vote of its client regimes in the United Nations (UN), the Organization of American States (OAS) and in the international financial institution (IMF, WB, IDB) to back its efforts to sustain its global political and economic expansion. In the ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1796&c=1 Even a cursory read of a single issue of the Financial Times (December 28, 2009) illustrates the divergent strategies toward empire building. On page one, the lead article on the US is on its expanding military conflicts and its ‘war on terror’, entitled “Obama Demands Review of Terror List”. ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1795&c=1 We do not privilege the statements by Jews, whether they are critics or supporters of the State of Israel, as most “progressive” writers do. The pursuit of truth is not an “ethnic science”, an approach that smacks of Nazi and Zionist racial theories. Indeed, nothing reveals the extreme ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1794&c=1 This is certainly the case in Latin America where the Left has focused its concern almost exclusively on the bankruptcy of “neoliberalism”, with reference to the agenda pursued and package of policy reforms implemented by virtually every government in the region by the dint of ideology if not the demands ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1793&c=1 It offers a critical study of the collapse of the empire and a profound indictment of the respectable and prestigious personalities either responsible for the debacle, or for its continuance. Petras provides clear insight into how the ramifications of the world depression and regional wars that originated in Washington and ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1792&c=1 Introduction The unimpeded growth of Euro-American capitalism following the collapse of Soviet and European communism, the conversion of China and Indochina to state capitalism, and the rise of US backed, free market military dictatorships in Latin America give new impetus to Western empire building, labeled “globalization”. The process of globalization ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1791&c=1 The debate has revealed a deep division over the causes and remedies, with Anglo-Franco American (AFA) politicians, columnists and economists on one side and their Asian-German (AG) counterparts on the other. In general terms the AFA spokespeople put the blame for the crises on external factors, or more specifically ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1790&c=1 Prominent writers, academics and regime spokespeople celebrated a totally new variant of socialism, as completely at odds with what they dubbed as the failed 20th century, Soviet-style socialism. The advocates and publicists of 21cs claims of a novel political-economic model rested on what they ascribed as a radical break ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1789&c=1 A deeper look at the internal dynamics of regional conflicts and external imperial strategies unravels the ‘paradox’ – by revealing the inter-relationships between competing empire building strategies and national fragmentation and regional conflicts. Several points of reference highlight the underlying dynamic of regional and global politics. Read essay [PDF] http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1788&c=1 The current world recession and the potential recovery of some countries reveals all the weaknesses of the traditional “export market” – free trade - comparative advantage doctrines. Nowhere is this more evident than in the recent experience of Latin America. Despite recent popular upheavals and the ascent of center-left regimes ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1787&c=1 The range of political forces contributing to the making of the war and the subsequent US occupation include the following (in order of importance): The most important political force was also the least openly discussed. The Zionist Power Configuration (ZPC), which includes the prominent role of long-time, hard-line unconditional Jewish ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1786&c=1 GLOBAL DEPRESSION AND REGIONAL WARS BY James Petras ISBN: 0-932863-68-X ISBN13: 978-0-932863-68-3 $16.95 / 234 pp. / 2009 Related books by Petras The Power of Israel in the United States Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire: Bankers, Zionists, Militants Zionism, Militarism and the Decline of US Power SYNOPSIS These extraordinary times--unprecedented in modern history--are marked by ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1785&c=1 Never in the history of the 20-21st Century has an economic crisis caused so much loss to so many workers, employees, small businesses, farmers and professionals with so little large-scale public protest. To explore some tentative hypotheses of why there is little organized protest, we need to examine the historical-structural ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1784&c=1 The ‘situation of the energy sector’ refers to several variants in terms of ownership, weight in the economy and distribution of oil revenues within the class structure. Internal and External Correlation of Forces The correlation of forces between capitalists and workers in the energy sector in Latin America varies greatly: ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1783&c=1 In a manner reminiscent of Ronald Reagan’s New Cold War policies, Obama has vastly increased the military budget, increased the number of combat troops, targeted new regions for military intervention and backed military coups in regions traditionally controlled by the US . However Obama’s rollback strategy occurs in a ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1782&c=1 “Change for the poor means food and jobs, not a relaxed dress code or mixed recreation…Politics in Iran is a lot more about class war than religion.” Financial Times Editorial, June 15 2009 Introduction There is hardly any election, in which the White House has a significant stake, where the electoral defeat of ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1781&c=1 Dozens of Indians were killed or are missing, scores have been injured and arrested and a number of Peruvian police, held hostage by the indigenous protestors were killed in the assault. President García declared martial law in the region in order to enforce his unilateral and unconstitutional fiat granting ... http://www.lahaine.org/petras/index.php?p=1780&c=1