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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>International Monetary Fund's Rogues Gallery. Crooks, Rapists and Swindlers</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/international-monetary-funds-rogues-gallery-crooks-rapists-and-swindlers/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2015 13:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/international-monetary-funds-rogues-gallery-crooks-rapists-and-swindlers/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In fact, the IMF has been under the control of the US and Western European states and its policies have been designed to further the expansion, domination and profits of their leading multi-national corporations and [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Imperialism and Capitalism: Rethinking an Intimate Relationship</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/imperialism-and-capitalism-rethinking-an-intimate-relationship/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2015 00:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/imperialism-and-capitalism-rethinking-an-intimate-relationship/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The paper is organised in three parts. In Part I we state our own position of the capitalism-imperialism relation. In part II we discuss some major points at issue in the Marxist debate on imperialism. [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Recep Tayyip Erdogan: Portrait of a Backstabbing Pasha</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/recep-tayyip-erdogan-portrait-of-a-backstabbing-pasha/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 23:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/recep-tayyip-erdogan-portrait-of-a-backstabbing-pasha/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	With political power and economic connections, he amasses personal wealth through illicit business transactions.
	With political power and personal wealth, he seeks prestige and status among the Western elites by serving imperial interests: He shoots down [...]]]></description>

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		<title>New book: &#8220;Power and Resistance: US Imperialism in Latin America&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/new-book-power-and-resistance-us-imperialism-in-latin-america/</link>

		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2015 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/new-book-power-and-resistance-us-imperialism-in-latin-america/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	 James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer, Power and Resistance: US Imperialism in Latin America  2015 &#166; ISBN-10: 9004306838 &#166; 232 pages &#166; PDF &#166; 1 MB
	This book concerns the form taken today by US imperialism [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Latin America: The Aborted Neo-Liberal Offensive</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/latin-america-the-aborted-neo-liberal-offensive/</link>

		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2015 13:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/latin-america-the-aborted-neo-liberal-offensive/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	1. Argentina, where hard-right Mauricio Macri was elected;
	2. Brazil, where President Dilma Rousseff has appointed a neo-liberal Chicago Boy' economist, Joaquin Levy, as Finance Minister and launched an IMF-style regressive structural adjustment policy designed to [...]]]></description>

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