:: Analysis
Trends to Barbarism and Prospects for Socialism
07.30.2010The combination of a new phase of the recession, perpetual austerity and mindless imperial wars can turn the current mass malaise and diffuse hostility against the economic and political elite toward socialist movements, parties and trade unions
War crimes in Gaza and the zionist fifth column in America
Clarity Press :: 06.28.2010New book by James Petras, includes the Executive Summary of the GOLDSTONE REPORT
Afghanistan: The Longest Lost War
06.16.2010Introduction: Despite almost a decade of warfare, including an invasion and occupation, the US military and its allies and client state armed forces are losing the war in Afghanistan. Outside of the central districts of a few cities and the military fortresses, the Afghan national resistance forces, in all of their complex local, regional and national alliances, are in control, of territory, people and administration.
Rising and Declining Economic Powers: The Sino-US Conflict Deepens
04.28.2010Will the intensified conflicts between the US and China inevitably lead to a global conflagration? If recent past history is any indication the answer is a resounding yes. The most destructive wars of the 20th century were the result of confrontations between established (EIP) and rising (RIP) imperial powers. The practices and policies of the former serve as guides to the latter.
Philippines: Arrests, Torture and the Presidential Election
James Petras and Robin Eastman-Abaya :: 04.17.2010The run-up to presidential elections is a time of heightened state-sponsored repression as Asias foremost death squad democracy wages war on its progressive rural medical workers.
Greece: The Curse of Three Generations of Papandreous
03.21.2010In each of the three decisive moments of recent history, Greece has been pulled backwards from a chance for social transformation, political independence and freedom from external tutelage by one and another of the Papandreou family.
The US and China: One Side is Losing, the Other is Winning
01.03.2010Asian capitalism, notably China and South Korea are competing with the US for global power. Asian global power is driven by dynamic economic growth, while the US pursues a strategy of military-driven empire building.
Global Imbalances versus Internal Inequalities (Understanding the World Economy)
10.13.2009The deep and ongoing crises of leading capitalist countries, especially the United States, has provoked a debate over the causes, consequences and appropriate policies to remedy it.
New book: “Global Depression & Regional Wars” by James Petras
Clarity Press :: 08.14.2009These 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
The Great Land Giveaway: Neo-Colonialism by Invitation
12.01.2008Colonial style empire-building is making a huge comeback, and most of the colonialists are late-comers, elbowing their way past the established European and US predators.
Western Progressive Opinion: Bring on the Victims! Condemn the Fighters!
11.22.2008We know in some detail of the willing and gratuitous support, which tens of millions of American citizens have bestowed on the White House and Congressional perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
Mass Media and Mass Politics: Conservative, Liberal and Marxist Perspectives
11.05.2008The role of the mass media (MM) in influencing mass and class behavior has been a central concern among critical writers, especially since the turn of the Twentieth century.
A Class Perspective on Ecology and Indian Movements: Diversity with Inequality is Not Social Justice
10.11.2008There are two opposing approaches to the analysis of ecological destruction and the emergence of Indian movements in Latin America: the liberal and the Marxist.
Reflections on Twenty-First Century Socialism
08.17.2008In order to explore the perspectives for socialism in the 21st century, it is essential to recover some of the basic postulates, which inform the socialist project.
Inflation and the Spectre of World Revolution
07.19.2008Inflation and all of its repercussions for wage and salaried workers, fixed income middle classes, as well as manufacturers and transport industries is splashed all over the financial pages of the major newspapers throughout the world.
A Disenchanted James Petras
Efraín Chury Iribarne :: 06.12.2008An interview with James Petras :: It\’s pure Stalinism, to say that an insurgent group with 40 years of struggle is playing imperialism\’s game is pure idiocy; imperialism functions well enough in Venezuela without need for a guerrilla movement
Separatism and Empire Building in the 21st Century
06.08.2008Throughout modern imperial history, Divide and Conquer has been the essential ingredient in allowing relatively small and resource-poor European countries to conquer nations vastly larger in size and populations and richer in natural resources.
President Sarkozys One Man Show: A Very Limited Run
06.07.2008French President Sarkozy has twice appeared in the spotlight of the worlds mass media announcing his determination to free French-Colombian dual citizen, Ingrid Betancourt, held captive by the Colombian guerrilla movement, Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-Peoples Army (FARC-EP).
The Structural Roots of Hunger, Food Crises and Riots
04.29.2008In recent days all the major international banks (IMF, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Asia Development Bank etc), all the major financial newspapers and mass media have been forced to recognize that there is a major food crisis, that hundreds of millions of people face hunger, malnutrition and outright starvation.
China: Is High Growth - High Risk Liberalization the Only Alternative?
09.10.2007Chinas drive toward economic superpower status in the world economy has accelerated in recent years. As Chinas economy becomes globalized, fundamental changes in its financial markets have opened opportunities for overseas expansion as well as increasing risks of financial crisis.
Turkey and Latin America: Reaction and Revolution
08.31.2007Turkey and Latin America have experienced many similar historical and contemporary political processes and socio-economic changes despite significant cultural and historical differences. For example, Turkey is the center of a former empire, an Islamic country and member of NATO Latin America is none of those. For purposes of this article, I want to focus on the contemporary socio-economic and political similarities and differences.
Notes on a Cultural Renaissance in a Time of Barbarism
05.12.2007We live in a time of imperial-driven destructive wars in the name of democracy, savage exploitation in the name of emerging world powers, massive forced population displacement in the name of immigration and large-scale pillage of natural resources in the name of free markets.