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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>US Working and Middle Class: Solidarity or Competition in the Face of Crisis?</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-working-and-middle-class-solidarity-or-competition-in-the-face-of-crisis/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 06:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-working-and-middle-class-solidarity-or-competition-in-the-face-of-crisis/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	I don't think you realize how hard it is for the oppressed to become united. Their misery unites them () But otherwise their misery is liable to cut them off from one another, for they [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Chavez's Right Turn: State Realism versus International Solidarity</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/chavezs-right-turn-state-realism-versus-international-solidarity/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 04:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/chavezs-right-turn-state-realism-versus-international-solidarity/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The close on-going collaboration between a leftist President with a regime with a notorious history of human rights violations, torture and disappearance of political prisoners has led to widespread protests among civil liberty advocates, leftists [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Rethinking imperialist theory and US imperialism in Latin America</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/rethinking-imperialist-theory-and-us-imperialism-in-latin-america/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 13:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/rethinking-imperialist-theory-and-us-imperialism-in-latin-america/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Abstract:
	In this paper we criticize contemporary theorizing about imperialism for its economic reductionism and a lack of class analysis and institutional specificity regarding the imperial state. In the context of this argument we establish the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Afghanistan:  Why Civilians are Killed</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/afghanistan-why-civilians-are-killed/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2011 04:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/afghanistan-why-civilians-are-killed/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	 Why have the number of civilians killed, increased in the course of the conflict? Why do NATO-US airplanes continue to bomb civilian housing and village gatherings and ground troops indiscriminately assault homes and workshops? [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Empire or Republic: from Joplin, Missouri to Kabul, Afghanistan</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/empire-or-republic-from-joplin-missouri-to-kabul-afghanistan/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/empire-or-republic-from-joplin-missouri-to-kabul-afghanistan/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Coincidentally the same week Afghan President Karzai condemned the killing of a family of 14 by a NATO fighter bomber, running the total to several hundred civilians killed so far this year and thousands over [...]]]></description>

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