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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>Palestine: The Political Ecology of Disaster</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/palestine-the-political-ecology-of-disaster/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Mar 2007 22:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/palestine-the-political-ecology-of-disaster/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The New York Times, Washington Post and the television media blamed shoddy infrastructure.  The Daily Alert (the house organ of the Presidents of the Major American Jewish Organizations) blamed the Palestinians who they claimed [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Philippines: Death Squad Democracy. The Arrest of Congressman Satur Ocampo</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/philippines-death-squad-democracy-the-arrest-of-congressman-satur-ocampo/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:52:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/philippines-death-squad-democracy-the-arrest-of-congressman-satur-ocampo/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Nearly a thousand union leaders, clergy members, lawyers, human rights activists, peasants and elected officials of the social action party lists led by Representative Ocampo have been victimized.
		While the Philippine government, headed by President Gloria [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Global Ruling Class: Billionaires and How They Made It'</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/global-ruling-class-billionaires-and-how-they-made-it/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 18:53:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/global-ruling-class-billionaires-and-how-they-made-it/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In India, which has the highest number of billionaires (36) in Asia with total wealth of $191 billion USD, Prime Minister Singh declared that the greatest single threat to India's security' were the Maoist led [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Between Insurrection and Reaction: Evo Morales' Pursuit of Normal Capitalism</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/between-insurrection-and-reaction-evo-morales-pursuit-of-normal-capitalism/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/between-insurrection-and-reaction-evo-morales-pursuit-of-normal-capitalism/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Academics as diverse as Noam Chomsky, Ignacio Ramonet, Emir Sader, Heinz Dietrich, Marta Hanecker and Immanuel Wallerstein have described Evo Morales as part of a new leftist wave sweeping Latin America.  What is striking [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Open Letter to General Petraeus</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/open-letter-to-general-petraeus/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2007 11:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/open-letter-to-general-petraeus/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	You are nearly my namesake  having a Romanized version of my Hellenized name (Petraeus/Petras). You are dubbed a warrior' or counter-insurgency intellectual'. I hold credentials as an insurgency intellectual' or as Alex Cockburn calls [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The First Line of Defense of the Empire is the Local Client President</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-first-line-of-defense-of-the-empire-is-the-local-client-president/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Mar 2007 15:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-first-line-of-defense-of-the-empire-is-the-local-client-president/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	President Bush&#8217;s visit to Uruguay, Brazil ,Colombia, Peru and Mexico reflects the &#8216;two tracks&#8217; of US empire-building - military intervention and political-diplomatic instruments. 
		Bush&#8217;s visit to Latin America at this time is an attempt to [...]]]></description>

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