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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 Most Radical Conservative Regime: Bolivia under Evo Morales</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-most-radical-conservative-regime-bolivia-under-evo-morales/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-most-radical-conservative-regime-bolivia-under-evo-morales/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	A brief survey of his ideological pronouncements, foreign policy declarations and economic policies highlights a very astute political regime which successfully manipulates radical rhetoric and applies orthodox economic policies with a populist style of politics [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Oligarchs, Demagogues and Mass Revolts . . . Against Democracy</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/oligarchs-demagogues-and-mass-revolts-against-democracy/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2013 00:47:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/oligarchs-demagogues-and-mass-revolts-against-democracy/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	While neither the ruling or opposing factions represented the interests of the plebeians, wage workers, small farmers or slaves, the use of the mob' against the elected Senate, the principle of representative government and the [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Christmas versus Xmas: A Political Reading</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/christmas-versus-xmas-a-political-reading/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Dec 2013 00:32:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/christmas-versus-xmas-a-political-reading/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Taking Christ out of Christmas
	 The fundamental change', engineered by the capitalist class in pursuit of profits, was to take the Christ Story' out of Christmas and to convert the weeks before and after into [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Changing Contours of US Imperial Intervention in World Conflicts</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-changing-contours-of-us-imperial-intervention-in-world-conflicts/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-changing-contours-of-us-imperial-intervention-in-world-conflicts/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Slowly, under President Gerald Ford and, especially President Jimmy' Carter, an imperial revival emerged in the form of clandestine support for armed surrogates in Southern Africa  Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau&#8212; and neo-liberal military dictatorships [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Iran-US Interim Agreement: Historic Breakthrough or Historic Sellout?</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/iran-us-interim-agreement-historic-breakthrough-or-historic-sellout/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2013 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/iran-us-interim-agreement-historic-breakthrough-or-historic-sellout/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	What constitutes this historic breakthrough? Who got what? Did the agreement provide for symmetrical concessions? Does the interim agreement strengthen or weaken the prospects for peace and prosperity in the Gulf and the Middle East? [...]]]></description>

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