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Puppets in Revolt: Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and the United States
07.22.2011Introduction
Empires are built through the promotion and backing of local collaborators who act at the behest of imperial rulers. They are rewarded with the outward symbols of authority and financial handouts, even as it is understood that they hold their position only at the tolerance of their imperial superiors.
Multi-Billion Dollar Terrorists and the Disappearing Middle Class
07.07.2011The US government (White House and Congress) spends $10 billion dollars a month, or $120 billion a year, to fight an estimated 50 -75 Al Qaeda types in Afghanistan, according to the CIA and quoted in the Financial Times of London (6/25 -26/11, p. 5). During the past 30 months of the Obama presidency, Washington has spent $300 billion dollars in Afghanistan, which adds up to $4 billion dollars for each alleged Al Queda type.
US Working and Middle Class: Solidarity or Competition in the Face of Crisis?
06.25.2011The near extinction of private sector unionism and the moribund millionaire leadership provides an opportunity to start anew with a horizontal leadership, accountable to the membership and integrated with community based co-op, ecologist, immigrant, consumer based organizations.
Empire or Republic: from Joplin, Missouri to Kabul, Afghanistan
06.04.2011Introduction: On May 29, 2011, President Obama visited Joplin, Missouri, the site of a devastating tornado that killed 140 and pronounced it a terrible tragedy. But were the deaths the inevitable result of natural events beyond the human intervention?
Washingtons Long War Against Africa
04.13.2011The US bombing of Libya in support of rebel clients in the spring of 2011 is part and parcel of a sustained policy of military intervention in Africa since at least the mid 1950s.
The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya :: 03.25.2011Many critics of the ongoing Euro-US wars in the Middle East and, now, North Africa, have based their arguments on clichés and generalizations devoid of fact.
Corporations Serve the State: Sanction Policies and the Zionist Power Structure
03.20.2011One of the key distinctions between a capitalist and a non-capitalist (socialist, feudal, absolutist state) economy is the separation of state and private enterprise.
The Empire Loses a Publicist: The Epitaph of an Ideologue
02.22.2011The recent death of one of the United States most prominent sociologists, Harvard Professor Daniel Bell, and the effusive eulogies that have accompanied his obituaries highlight the importance of ideological utility over scientific rigor.
Networks of Empire and Realignments of World Power
01.02.2011Imperial states build networks which link economic, military and political activities into a coherent mutually reinforcing system. This task is largely performed by the various institutions of the imperial state.
Cutting the Deficit: Sacrificing Workers to Save the Rich
11.28.2010The most important and popular social and tax programs in the United States are threatened by a self-styled Bipartisan National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.
The Democratic Party Debacle and the Demise of the Left-Center Left: A Worldwide Trend
11.05.2010Introduction: The November 2, 2010 electoral debacle of the Democratic Party in the US cannot be solely ascribed to the failed policies of President Obama, the Congressional leadership or their senior economic advisers.
James Petras, War Crimes in Gaza and the Zionist Fifth Column in America
Frederick Clairmonte :: 09.05.2010James Petras, teacher and humanist of a rare , encyclopedic, analytical intelligence, author of this compact masterwork, has long been recognized as the foremost social scientist of the United States
The State and Local Bases of Zionist Power in America
08.31.2010Any serious effort to understand the extraordinary influence of the Zionist power configuration over US foreign policy must examine the presence of key operatives in strategic positions in the government and the activities of local Zionist organizations affiliated with mainstream Jewish organizations and religious orders.
Crisis. What Crisis? Profits Soar!
08.14.2010While progressives and leftists write about the crises of capitalism, manufacturers, petroleum companies, bankers and most other major corporations on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific coast are chuckling all the way to the bank.
Twenty-Two Reasons Why American Working People Hate the State
06.17.2010Introduction. Why does the rightwing attack on Big Government increasingly resonates with working people? Liberals claim wage and salaried workers are acting against their self-interest, citing government welfare programs like social security and unemployment payments.
Elena Kagan and the Supreme Court: A Barnyard Smell in Chicago, Harvard and Washington
05.13.2010President Obama has nominated Elena Kagan for Justice of the United States Supreme Court on the basis of an academic publication record, which might give her a fighting chance for tenure at a first rate correspondence law school in the Texas Panhandle.
The Major Jewish American Organizations Defend Israels Humiliation of America
04.07.2010When Israel announced a major new Jews-only building project of 1600 homes in occupied East Jerusalem, it was not only spitting in the face of visiting Vice President Biden, it was demonstrating its power to humiliate America and Americans
US China: Provoking the Creditor, Hugging the Holy man (Washingtons Road to Ruin)
03.07.2010The Obama Administration has heightened tensions with China through a series of measures which can only be characterized as major provocations designed to undermine relations between the two countries. These provocations include political support for separatist movements, such as the US-funded theocratic-monk led Tibetan secessionists and the Washington-based Uyghur secessionists, as well as through the $6.4 billion-dollar advanced arms sales to Taiwan, a virtual protectorate of the US Navy.
Mossad Comes to America: Death Squads by Invitation
03.03.2010The principle propaganda mouthpiece of the Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations (PMAJO), the Daily Alert (DA), has come out in full support for Israels practice of extra-judicial, extra-territorial assassination.
Bended Knees: Zionist Power in American Politics
12.20.2009The case against the Zionist Power Configuration is based on the open record of publications, speeches, articles, interviews and sources available to the general public (and any interested reader). Many facts and data are drawn from Zionist and Israeli sources as well as mainstream publications and writings by critical journalists and analysts.
Neoliberalism and the Dynamics of Capitalist Development in Latin America
James Petras and Henry Veltmeyer :: 11.18.2009An analysis of the dynamics of capitalist development over the last two decades has been overshadowed by an all too prevalent globalization discourse. It appears that much of the Left has bought into this discourse, tacitly accepting globalization as an irresistible fact and that in many ways it is progressive, needing only for the corporate agenda to be derailed and an abandonment of neoliberalism.
James Petras aclaimed latest book: Global Depression & Regional Wars
Clarity Press :: 10.20.2009SYNOPSIS: These extraordinary times –unprecedented in modern history– are marked by a worldwide depression and regional wars involving all the major imperial powers. This book exposes the roots of the crisis in the unsustainability of the United States’ military-driven empire building based on a volatile speculative economy, and influenced by Zionist policy makers committed to the colonialist state of Israel.