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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>Don&#8217;t cry for Lula: the politics of a decaying workers regime</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2005 01:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/dont-cry-for-lula-the-politics-of-a-decaying-workers-regime/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	&#8216;Nobody has the moral authority to discuss ethics with me&#8217;
President Lula da Silva
July 2005
	 All of Lula&#8217;s closest and most important advisers, congressional leaders and party bosses have been forced to resign and are under [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The AFL-CIO and the Iraq war</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-afl-cio-and-the-iraq-war/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jul 2005 01:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	The crisis of the AFL-CIO is the result of politics, including the politics of collaboration with employers and opposition to militant ?grass-root? organizing. Over the past 50 years the AFL-CIO trade union bureaucrats have intervened [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Baghdad: Barbarism and civilization</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/baghdad-barbarism-and-civilization/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jul 2005 01:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Given the summer heat - over 48 degrees Celsius - he decided to interview a municipal garbage man having lunch just outside the &#8216;Bunker&#8217;.
	&#8216;Hello, would you mind if I ask you a few questions&#8217;? Andy [...]]]></description>

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