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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>ISIS and the USA: Expansion and Resistance by Decapitation</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/isis-and-the-usa-expansion-and-resistance-by-decapitation/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2014 10:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/isis-and-the-usa-expansion-and-resistance-by-decapitation/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	This explains the US Administration's threats of criminal prosecution against the families of Foley and Stoloff when they sought to ransom their captive sons from ISIS.
	With the American mass media repeatedly showing the severed heads [...]]]></description>

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		<title>US Global Power in the 21st Century:  Military or Economic Imperialism?</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-global-power-in-the-21st-century-military-or-economic-imperialism/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 10:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/us-global-power-in-the-21st-century-military-or-economic-imperialism/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In fact the major and minor US imperial wars have more to do with capital dis-accumulation, in the sense that trillion dollar flows have gone out from the US, hundreds of billions of dollars in [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Ukraine  Truce or Trojan Horse: Retreat, Re-Armament and Relaunch</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/ukraine-truce-or-trojan-horse-retreat-re-armament-and-relaunch/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2014 21:48:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/ukraine-truce-or-trojan-horse-retreat-re-armament-and-relaunch/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The result was a junta, composed of neo-liberal puppets, rightist nationalists and fascists, which immediately proceeded to purge the Ukrainian legislature of any politicians opposed to the coup and Kiev's submission to the European Union [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The US and Global Wars: Empire or Vampire?</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-us-and-global-wars-empire-or-vampire/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2014 19:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-us-and-global-wars-empire-or-vampire/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	But the notion that the US is building an empire, by engaging in wars to exploit and plunder countries' markets, resources and labor, defies the realities of the past two decades. US wars, including invasions, [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Latin America and the Paradoxes of Anti-Imperialism and Class Struggle</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/latin-america-and-the-paradoxes-of-anti-imperialism-and-class-struggle/</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/latin-america-and-the-paradoxes-of-anti-imperialism-and-class-struggle/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	For example in the past, anti-imperialist regimes pursued policies which opposed US military aggression and intervention in Latin America and throughout the third world; opposed foreign investment especially in extractive sectors; and, not infrequently, expropriated [...]]]></description>

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