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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>
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		<title>The Euro-US War on Libya: Official Lies and Misconceptions of Critics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-euro-us-war-on-libya-official-lies-and-misconceptions-of-critics/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction
	The most common line heard in regard to the current US-Euro war on Libya is that it's all about oil  the goal is the seizure of Libya's oil wells. On the other hand Euro [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Billionaires Flourish, Inequalities Deepen as Economies &#8220;Recover&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/billionaires-flourish-inequalities-deepen-as-economies-recover/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2011 21:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/billionaires-flourish-inequalities-deepen-as-economies-recover/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction
	According to the annual report of the business magazine Forbes there are 1,210 individuals  and in many cases family clans  with a net value of $1 billion dollars (or more). There total net [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Corporations Serve the State: Sanction Policies and the Zionist Power Structure</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/corporations-serve-the-state-sanction-policies-and-the-zionist-power-structure/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Mar 2011 17:14:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
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		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction
	One of the key distinctions between a capitalist and a non-capitalist (socialist, feudal, absolutist state) economy is the separation of state and private enterprise. In a capitalist state, economic enterprises are supposed to operate according [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Conceptual and Theoretical Issues of Interdisciplinary Studies</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/conceptual-and-theoretical-issues-of-interdisciplinary-studies/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/conceptual-and-theoretical-issues-of-interdisciplinary-studies/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction
	 The older tradition of philosophical and theological inspired social studies followed a discursive and reflective style of research. The approach was totalistic and all-encompassing, rejecting empirical and statistical behavioral research.
	 The growth of political [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Velvet Revolution</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-velvet-revolution/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 07:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-velvet-revolution/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Act 1, Scene 1
	(A cafe in upper west side of Manhattan not far from Columbia University. Grovel Havel sits with an editor of N.Y. Review of Books and a professor sympathetic to the New Left&#8230; [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Roots of the Arab Revolts and Premature Celebrations</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/roots-of-the-arab-revolts-and-premature-celebrations/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 06:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/roots-of-the-arab-revolts-and-premature-celebrations/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	They have given most attention to the middle class, young, educated activists, their communication via the internet, (Los Angeles Times, Feb. 16, 2011) and, in the case of Israel and its Zionists conspiracy theorists, the [...]]]></description>

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