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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>Erdoğan&#8217;s Coup: Purging Domestic Critics, Gaining External Allies</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/erdogans-coup-purging-domestic-critics-gaining/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jul 2016 12:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Middle East</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/erdogans-coup-purging-domestic-critics-gaining/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Introduction
	The coup in Turkey was made to order. A group of military officers and police officials were set-up to seize power by senior intelligence operatives in the Erdoğan regime. They were allowed to drop a [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Polarization and the Powder Keg</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/polarization-and-the-powder-keg/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/polarization-and-the-powder-keg/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The divisions in US society go far beyond the &#8216;opinions&#8217; expressed in polls and surveys.
	The polarization has found expression in mass street protests, &#8216;rejectionist&#8217; votes and violent assaults. Are they heading toward a national uprising? [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Brexit: A Workers&#8217; Response to Oligarchs, Bankers, Flunkies and Scabs</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/brexit-a-workers-response-to-oligarchs/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Analysis</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/brexit-a-workers-response-to-oligarchs/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	EU policies demanding the free immigration of non-unionized workers to compete with native workers have undermined wage and workplace protections, union membership and class solidarity. EU financial policies have enhanced the power of finance capital [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Genocide by Prescription:  The &#8216;Natural History&#8217; of the Declining White Working Class in America</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/genocide-by-prescription-the-natural-history/</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2016 14:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/genocide-by-prescription-the-natural-history/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Indeed this is the first time in the country&#8217;s &#8216;peacetime&#8217; history that its traditional core productive sector has experienced such a dramatic demographic decline - and the epicenter is in the small towns and rural [...]]]></description>

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		<title>Washington&#8217;s &#8216;New Managers&#8217; in Latin America: Oligarchs, Bankers and Swindlers</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/washingtons-new-managers-in-latin-america/</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2016 00:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/washingtons-new-managers-in-latin-america/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The US financial media has once again provided a political cover for the vilest crimes committed by the &#8216;new managers&#8217; as they launch their offensive against labor and in favor of the foreign and domestic [...]]]></description>

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		<title>New book: &#8220;The end of the republic and the delusion of empire&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/new-book-the-end-of-the/</link>

		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 11:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>United States</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/new-book-the-end-of-the/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	ISBN: 978-0-9972870-5-9
$24.95 / 252 pp. / 2016
	EBOOK ISBN: 978-0-9972870-6-6
ORDER E-BOOK: $19.00
SYNOPSIS
	EXISTENTIAL MALAISE COMES TO AMERICA
	Seasoned political analyst James Petras addresses in broad brush the four major upheavals that loom:
	1) For the first time, the goal [...]]]></description>

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		<title>The Class Struggle in Mexico</title>
		<link>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-class-struggle-in-mexico/</link>

		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2016 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>James Petras</dc:creator>
		
	<category>Latin America</category>
		<guid>https://petras.lahaine.org/the-class-struggle-in-mexico/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The correlation of forces shifted dramatically in favor of peasant armies, led by Emilio Zapata and Pancho Vila.  The subsequent counter-revolution, from the 1920&#8217;s to mid-thirties temporarily reversed the process and witnessed the rise [...]]]></description>

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