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	<title>The Official James Petras website</title>
	<link>https://petras.lahaine.org</link>
	<description>United States, Latin America, Middle East, Analysis</description>
	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 12:27:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Brazil and Lula: Year zero</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Jan 2004 15:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/brazil-and-lula-year-zero/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Noted progressive religious figures, like Leonardo Boff, announced imminent change which would challenge U.S. hegemony and lead to great popular participation. Frei Betto, a close associate of Lula, launched a vitriolic attack on critics who [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Social Democracy</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/social-democracy/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jan 2004 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/social-democracy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	He was a staunch advocate of social democracy against the tyranny of Communism and the heartlessness of capitalism. For those of us who grew up and lived in a grimy industrial city, just north of [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Bush&#8217;s State of the Empire speech</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/bushs-state-of-the-empire-speech/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2004 19:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/bushs-state-of-the-empire-speech/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	It was a speech in praise of conquests of Third World countries (Afghanistan and Iraq), the celebration of force as an instrument of political blackmail (Libya) and a declaration of new imperial impositions in the [...]]]></description>

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